What do most people say for “Name a famous landmark or monument anywhere in the world”?

The usual first answers are Eiffel Tower, Statue of Liberty, Great Wall of China, Taj Mahal and Pyramids of Giza. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.

How many answers are there to “Name a famous landmark or monument anywhere in the world”?

104 in all: 5 on The Tip, 18 Below the Surface, 36 in The Deep, 44 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.

Which answers to “Name a famous landmark or monument anywhere in the world” are the shortest and the longest?

The shortest accepted answer is “Moai” and the longest is “Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque”.

Geography trivia

Name a famous landmark or monument anywhere in the world

Everyone has a first answer to “Name a famous landmark or monument anywhere in the world”. The game is about the second, the third and the tenth: 104 answers are accepted, ranked by how rarely people think of them.

The obvious answers

Say one of these and you stay near the surface, with 10 points.

Eiffel Tower
Statue of Liberty
Great Wall of China
Taj Mahal
Pyramids of Giza

The next answers people reach for

A step further down, worth 25 points each:

Colosseum
Big Ben
Leaning Tower of Pisa
Machu Picchu
Stonehenge
Sydney Opera House
Christ the Redeemer
Golden Gate Bridge
Mount Rushmore
Buckingham Palace
Tower Bridge
Empire State Building
Parthenon
Arc de Triomphe
Petra
Angkor Wat
Burj Khalifa
Sphinx

How deep does “Name a famous landmark or monument anywhere in the world” go?

Level	Accepted answers	Points
The Tip	5	10
Below the Surface	18	25
The Deep	36	50
The Abyss	44	85
Below the Iceberg	1	100

The Deep holds 36 answers starting with A, B, C, F, G, H, K, L, M, N, P, R, S, T, U and W. The Abyss has 44 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.

By the numbers

104 answers in total, 84 of them longer than one word.
Shortest: “Moai”. Longest: “Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque”.
S, T and A are the most common first letters; together they start 33% of the answers.
20 answers can be typed more than one way: “Easter Island statues” counts as Moai.

Tips for a rarer answer

Start with S: 15 of the answers begin with it.
Eiffel Tower, Statue of Liberty and Great Wall of China are safe but shallow. Aim past them.
Think regionally: after the famous capital, try the second and third city of the same country.

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Questions about this prompt

What do most people say for “Name a famous landmark or monument anywhere in the world”?: The usual first answers are Eiffel Tower, Statue of Liberty, Great Wall of China, Taj Mahal and Pyramids of Giza. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
How many answers are there to “Name a famous landmark or monument anywhere in the world”?: 104 in all: 5 on The Tip, 18 Below the Surface, 36 in The Deep, 44 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
Which answers to “Name a famous landmark or monument anywhere in the world” are the shortest and the longest?: The shortest accepted answer is “Moai” and the longest is “Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque”.
How hard is “Name a famous landmark or monument anywhere in the world”?: Easy. Nearly everyone can name something here, so prompts like this one can appear in the daily iceberg.

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