History trivia
Name a battle or major campaign of the Second World War
Can you get past the obvious ones? Icillion accepts 238 answers to “Name a battle or major campaign of the Second World War”, and only 12 of them float on the tip of the iceberg.
What everyone says first
Right, but shallow: 12 answers nearly everyone thinks of, worth 10 points each.
- Battle of Britain
- Stalingrad
- D-Day
- Pearl Harbor
- Midway
- Battle of the Bulge
- El Alamein
- Dunkirk
- Iwo Jima
- Okinawa
- Kursk
- Battle of Berlin
Just below the surface
These 30 are known, but not the first thing people say. 25 points each:
- Leningrad
- Guadalcanal
- Monte Cassino
- Anzio
- Market Garden
- Operation Barbarossa
- The Blitz
- Battle of the Atlantic
- Coral Sea
- Leyte Gulf
- Singapore
- Bataan
- Corregidor
- Tobruk
- Operation Torch
- North African Campaign
- Battle of France
- Moscow
- Sicily
- Tarawa
- Saipan
- Crete
- Malta
- Sinking of the Bismarck
- Bastogne
- Invasion of Poland
- Dieppe Raid
- Warsaw Uprising
- Philippine Sea
- Salerno
How the answers sink
- The Tip12 answers · 10 ptsBattle of Britain · Stalingrad · D-Day
- Below the Surface30 answers · 25 ptsLeningrad · Guadalcanal · Monte Cassino …
- The Deep57 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss138 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 57 answers starting with A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T, V and W. The Abyss has 138 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Facts about this list
- 238 answers in total, 118 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Hel”. Longest: “Naval Battle of Guadalcanal”.
- B, S and M are the most common first letters; together they start 33% of the answers.
- 222 answers can be typed more than one way: “Blitz” counts as The Blitz.
Tips for a rarer answer
- More answers begin with B than with any other letter (32). Run through it first.
- Skip Battle of Britain, Stalingrad and D-Day; everybody says them.
- Treaties and trade routes are less crowded than battles.
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Questions about this prompt
- What are the most common answers to “Name a battle or major campaign of the Second World War”?
- Most people start with Battle of Britain, Stalingrad, D-Day, Pearl Harbor and Midway. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers does Icillion accept for “Name a battle or major campaign of the Second World War”?
- 238 in all: 12 on The Tip, 30 Below the Surface, 57 in The Deep, 138 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- What is the shortest answer to “Name a battle or major campaign of the Second World War”?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Hel” and the longest is “Naval Battle of Guadalcanal”.
- Is “Name a battle or major campaign of the Second World War” 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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