Geography trivia
Name a river
Everyone has a first answer to “Name a river”. The game is about the second, the third and the tenth: 111 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.
- Nile
- Amazon
- Mississippi
- Thames
- Danube
The next answers people reach for
A step further down, worth 25 points each:
- Rhine
- Seine
- Yangtze
- Ganges
- Mekong
- Volga
- Missouri
- Colorado
- Hudson
- Tiber
- Jordan
- Euphrates
- Tigris
- Congo
- Zambezi
- Rio Grande
- Yellow River
How deep does “Name a river” go?
| Level | Accepted answers | Points |
|---|---|---|
| The Tip | 5 | 10 |
| Below the Surface | 17 | 25 |
| The Deep | 42 | 50 |
| The Abyss | 46 | 85 |
| Below the Iceberg | 1 | 100 |
The Deep holds 42 answers starting with A, B, C, D, E, I, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T, V and Y. The Abyss has 46 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Facts about this list
- 111 answers in total, 10 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Ob”. Longest: “Saint Lawrence”.
- S, M and D are the most common first letters; together they start 29% of the answers.
- 4 answers can be typed more than one way: “Tajo” counts as Tagus.
How to go deeper
- Start with S: 12 of the answers begin with it.
- Nile, Amazon and Mississippi 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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People also ask
- What do most people say for “Name a river”?
- The usual first answers are Nile, Amazon, Mississippi, Thames and Danube. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name a river”?
- 111 in all: 5 on The Tip, 17 Below the Surface, 42 in The Deep, 46 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name a river” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Ob” and the longest is “Saint Lawrence”.
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