Geography trivia
Name a famous landmark in the United States
Can you get past the obvious ones? Icillion accepts 339 answers to “Name a famous landmark in the United States”, and only 12 of them float on the tip of the iceberg.
What everyone says first
These are the answers most people give first. They count, but they barely move you: 10 points each.
- Statue of Liberty
- Golden Gate Bridge
- Mount Rushmore
- Empire State Building
- White House
- Grand Canyon
- Hollywood Sign
- Lincoln Memorial
- Washington Monument
- Times Square
- Brooklyn Bridge
- Space Needle
Just below the surface
A step further down, worth 25 points each:
- Niagara Falls
- Alcatraz
- Gateway Arch
- Liberty Bell
- US Capitol
- Pentagon
- Old Faithful
- Yellowstone
- Yosemite
- Las Vegas Strip
- Hoover Dam
- Central Park
- Pearl Harbor
- Alamo
- Graceland
- Disneyland
- Walt Disney World
- Chrysler Building
- One World Trade Center
- 9/11 Memorial
- Rockefeller Center
- Grand Central Terminal
- Ellis Island
- Wall Street
- Independence Hall
- Kennedy Space Center
- Willis Tower
- Cloud Gate
- Vietnam Veterans Memorial
- Jefferson Memorial
- Arlington National Cemetery
- Monument Valley
- Devils Tower
- Half Dome
- Route 66
- Mount Vernon
- Monticello
- French Quarter
- Lombard Street
- Fisherman's Wharf
- Hollywood Walk of Fame
- Santa Monica Pier
- Griffith Observatory
- Fenway Park
- Wrigley Field
- Madison Square Garden
- Coney Island
- Radio City Music Hall
- Flatiron Building
- Smithsonian
- Navy Pier
- Denali
- Delicate Arch
- Plymouth Rock
- Lake Tahoe
- Death Valley
How the answers sink
- The Tip12 answers · 10 ptsStatue of Liberty · Golden Gate Bridge · Mount Rushmore
- Below the Surface56 answers · 25 ptsNiagara Falls · Alcatraz · Gateway Arch …
- The Deep149 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss121 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 149 answers starting with A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, Y and Z. The Abyss has 121 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Inside the answer list
- 339 answers in total, 298 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “MoMA”. Longest: “Golden Spike National Historic Site”.
- C, S and M are the most common first letters; together they start 28% of the answers.
- 42 answers can be typed more than one way: “Death Valley National Park” counts as Death Valley.
How to go deeper
- More answers begin with C than with any other letter (32). Run through it first.
- Skip Statue of Liberty, Golden Gate Bridge and Mount Rushmore; everybody says them.
- Small states score well: microstates, island nations and landlocked countries are rarely the first answer anyone gives.
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People also ask
- What are the most common answers to “Name a famous landmark in the United States”?
- Most people start with Statue of Liberty, Golden Gate Bridge, Mount Rushmore, Empire State Building and White House. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers does Icillion accept for “Name a famous landmark in the United States”?
- 339 in all: 12 on The Tip, 56 Below the Surface, 149 in The Deep, 121 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- What is the shortest answer to “Name a famous landmark in the United States”?
- The shortest accepted answer is “MoMA” and the longest is “Golden Spike National Historic Site”.
- Is “Name a famous landmark in the United States” an easy or a hard prompt?
- Easy. Nearly everyone can name something here, so prompts like this one can appear in the daily iceberg.
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