What do most people say for “Name a canal”?

The usual first answers are Suez Canal, Panama Canal and Erie Canal. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.

How many answers are there to “Name a canal”?

23 in all: 3 on The Tip, 5 Below the Surface, 6 in The Deep, 8 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.

Which answers to “Name a canal” are the shortest and the longest?

The shortest accepted answer is “Erie Canal” and the longest is “White Sea Baltic Canal”.

Geography trivia

Name a canal

Everyone has a first answer to “Name a canal”. The game is about the second, the third and the tenth: 23 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.

Suez Canal
Panama Canal
Erie Canal

The next answers people reach for

A step further down, worth 25 points each:

Grand Canal
Kiel Canal
Corinth Canal
Manchester Ship Canal
Rideau Canal

How deep does “Name a canal” go?

Level	Accepted answers	Points
The Tip	3	10
Below the Surface	5	25
The Deep	6	50
The Abyss	8	85
Below the Iceberg	1	100

The Deep holds 6 answers starting with A, C, G, R, S and W. The Abyss has 8 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.

Inside the answer list

23 answers in total, 23 of them longer than one word.
Shortest: “Erie Canal”. Longest: “White Sea Baltic Canal”.
C, S and G are the most common first letters; together they start 39% of the answers.
23 answers can be typed more than one way: “Trent and Mersey” counts as Trent and Mersey Canal.

Getting below the surface

Start with C: 4 of the answers begin with it.
Suez Canal, Panama Canal and Erie Canal are safe but shallow. Aim past them.
Small states score well: microstates, island nations and landlocked countries are rarely the first answer anyone gives.

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Words in this prompt

Canal

Quick answers

What do most people say for “Name a canal”?: The usual first answers are Suez Canal, Panama Canal and Erie Canal. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
How many answers are there to “Name a canal”?: 23 in all: 3 on The Tip, 5 Below the Surface, 6 in The Deep, 8 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
Which answers to “Name a canal” are the shortest and the longest?: The shortest accepted answer is “Erie Canal” and the longest is “White Sea Baltic Canal”.

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