History trivia
Name a civil rights leader or activist
180 answers count for this history prompt. Here is what floats on top, what sits just below the waterline, and how far down the rest go.
Floating on top
Right, but shallow: 11 answers nearly everyone thinks of, worth 10 points each.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Rosa Parks
- Malcolm X
- Nelson Mandela
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Harriet Tubman
- Frederick Douglass
- Jesse Jackson
- John Lewis
- Desmond Tutu
- Cesar Chavez
Below the waterline
A step further down, worth 25 points each:
- Sojourner Truth
- W. E. B. Du Bois
- Booker T. Washington
- Thurgood Marshall
- Ruby Bridges
- Angela Davis
- Al Sharpton
- Stokely Carmichael
- Huey P. Newton
- Coretta Scott King
- Ralph Abernathy
- Bayard Rustin
- Fannie Lou Hamer
- Medgar Evers
- Susan B. Anthony
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Emmeline Pankhurst
- Malala Yousafzai
- Steve Biko
- Gloria Steinem
- Dolores Huerta
- Greta Thunberg
- William Wilberforce
- Bobby Seale
- Ella Baker
- Marcus Garvey
- Harvey Milk
The iceberg for “Name a civil rights leader or activist”
- The Tip11 answers · 10 ptsMartin Luther King Jr. · Rosa Parks · Malcolm X
- Below the Surface27 answers · 25 ptsSojourner Truth · W. E. B. Du Bois · Booker T. Washington …
- The Deep53 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss88 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 53 answers starting with A, B, C, D, E, F, H, I, J, L, M, O, P, R, S, T, V and W. The Abyss has 88 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Inside the answer list
- 180 answers in total, 180 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Ai Weiwei”. Longest: “Elizabeth Jennings Graham”.
- A, M and J are the most common first letters; together they start 28% of the answers.
- 33 answers can be typed more than one way: “Sharpton” counts as Al Sharpton.
How to go deeper
- More answers begin with A than with any other letter (17). Run through it first.
- Skip Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks and Malcolm X; everybody says them.
- Treaties and trade routes are less crowded than battles.
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Quick answers
- What are the most common answers to “Name a civil rights leader or activist”?
- Most people start with Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers does Icillion accept for “Name a civil rights leader or activist”?
- 180 in all: 11 on The Tip, 27 Below the Surface, 53 in The Deep, 88 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- What is the shortest answer to “Name a civil rights leader or activist”?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Ai Weiwei” and the longest is “Elizabeth Jennings Graham”.
- Is “Name a civil rights leader or activist” an easy or a hard prompt?
- Medium. It takes some general knowledge. It comes up in Free play on Medium and Mixed.
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