History trivia
Name a world leader, past or present
“Name a world leader, past or present” is one of 50 history prompts in Icillion. Of its 571 accepted answers, 12 are the ones nearly everyone says first; the rest sink deeper the rarer they are.
The tip of the iceberg
Right, but shallow: 12 answers nearly everyone thinks of, worth 10 points each.
- Donald Trump
- Joe Biden
- Barack Obama
- Vladimir Putin
- Xi Jinping
- Winston Churchill
- Adolf Hitler
- Abraham Lincoln
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- Nelson Mandela
- Queen Elizabeth II
- Angela Merkel
One step down
These 45 are known, but not the first thing people say. 25 points each:
- George Washington
- John F. Kennedy
- Margaret Thatcher
- Ronald Reagan
- Joseph Stalin
- Vladimir Lenin
- Mao Zedong
- Fidel Castro
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Julius Caesar
- Alexander the Great
- Cleopatra
- Genghis Khan
- Queen Victoria
- Henry VIII
- Elizabeth I
- Charles III
- Emmanuel Macron
- Boris Johnson
- Tony Blair
- Justin Trudeau
- Kim Jong-un
- Saddam Hussein
- Muammar Gaddafi
- Benito Mussolini
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Bill Clinton
- George W. Bush
- Jimmy Carter
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Thomas Jefferson
- Richard Nixon
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Narendra Modi
- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
- Volodymyr Zelensky
- Benjamin Netanyahu
- Charles de Gaulle
- Pope Francis
- Theresa May
- David Cameron
- Gordon Brown
- Jacinda Ardern
- Jair Bolsonaro
Answers by level
- The Tip12 answers · 10 ptsDonald Trump · Joe Biden · Barack Obama
- Below the Surface45 answers · 25 ptsGeorge Washington · John F. Kennedy · Margaret Thatcher …
- The Deep163 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss350 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 163 answers starting with A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T, U, V, W, Y and Z. The Abyss has 350 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Facts about this list
- 571 answers in total, 536 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Cixi”. Longest: “Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner”.
- M, A and J are the most common first letters; together they start 28% of the answers.
- 323 answers can be typed more than one way: “Ramses II” counts as Ramesses II.
How to go deeper
- Start with M: 57 of the answers begin with it.
- Donald Trump, Joe Biden and Barack Obama are safe but shallow. Aim past them.
- Walk a dynasty in order: the rulers in the middle are rarely named.
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Quick answers
- What do most people say for “Name a world leader, past or present”?
- The usual first answers are Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name a world leader, past or present”?
- 571 in all: 12 on The Tip, 45 Below the Surface, 163 in The Deep, 350 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name a world leader, past or present” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Cixi” and the longest is “Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner”.
- How hard is “Name a world leader, past or present”?
- Easy. Nearly everyone can name something here, so prompts like this one can appear in the daily iceberg.
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