Geography trivia
Name a famous place in New York City
Everyone has a first answer to “Name a famous place in New York City”. The game is about the second, the third and the tenth: 274 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.
- Times Square
- Central Park
- Statue of Liberty
- Empire State Building
- Brooklyn Bridge
- Manhattan
- Brooklyn
- Queens
- Bronx
- Staten Island
- Wall Street
- Broadway
The next answers people reach for
A step further down, worth 25 points each:
- Harlem
- Greenwich Village
- SoHo
- Chinatown
- Little Italy
- Tribeca
- Chelsea
- Midtown
- Upper East Side
- Upper West Side
- Lower East Side
- East Village
- West Village
- Hell's Kitchen
- Williamsburg
- DUMBO
- Coney Island
- Ellis Island
- Rockefeller Center
- Grand Central Terminal
- Madison Square Garden
- Radio City Music Hall
- Fifth Avenue
- Park Avenue
- Madison Avenue
- Yankee Stadium
- Citi Field
- Prospect Park
- Bryant Park
- Washington Square Park
- Battery Park
- High Line
- One World Trade Center
- 9/11 Memorial
- Chrysler Building
- Flatiron Building
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- MoMA
- Guggenheim
- Lincoln Center
- Carnegie Hall
- Staten Island Ferry
- Manhattan Bridge
- Williamsburg Bridge
- Queensboro Bridge
- George Washington Bridge
- Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge
- Financial District
- Union Square
- Herald Square
- Penn Station
- Hudson Yards
- Bronx Zoo
- Flushing Meadows
- Brooklyn Heights
- Astoria
- Long Island City
How deep does “Name a famous place in New York City” go?
- The Tip12 answers · 10 ptsTimes Square · Central Park · Statue of Liberty
- Below the Surface57 answers · 25 ptsHarlem · Greenwich Village · SoHo …
- The Deep113 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss91 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 113 answers starting with A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T, V, W and Y. The Abyss has 91 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Inside the answer list
- 274 answers in total, 225 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “MoMA”. Longest: “American Museum of Natural History”.
- B, C and S are the most common first letters; together they start 31% of the answers.
- 14 answers can be typed more than one way: “East Harlem” counts as Spanish Harlem.
Getting below the surface
- Start with B: 31 of the answers begin with it.
- Times Square, Central Park and Statue of Liberty 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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Quick answers
- What do most people say for “Name a famous place in New York City”?
- The usual first answers are Times Square, Central Park, Statue of Liberty, Empire State Building and Brooklyn Bridge. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name a famous place in New York City”?
- 274 in all: 12 on The Tip, 57 Below the Surface, 113 in The Deep, 91 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name a famous place in New York City” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “MoMA” and the longest is “American Museum of Natural History”.
- How hard is “Name a famous place in New York City”?
- Easy. Nearly everyone can name something here, so prompts like this one can appear in the daily iceberg.
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