Nature trivia
Name a type of gull
89 answers count for this nature 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: 7 answers nearly everyone thinks of, worth 10 points each.
- Herring gull
- Black-headed gull
- Common gull
- Great black-backed gull
- Lesser black-backed gull
- Kittiwake
- Seagull
Below the waterline
A step further down, worth 25 points each:
- Mediterranean gull
- Little gull
- Glaucous gull
- Iceland gull
- Yellow-legged gull
- Caspian gull
- Ring-billed gull
- California gull
- Franklin's gull
- Laughing gull
- Bonaparte's gull
- Sabine's gull
- Ross's gull
- Slender-billed gull
- Audouin's gull
- Sooty gull
- White-eyed gull
- Heermann's gull
- Western gull
- Glaucous-winged gull
- Slaty-backed gull
- Kelp gull
- Pacific gull
- Silver gull
- Red-billed gull
- Black-billed gull
- Dolphin gull
- Olrog's gull
- Swallow-tailed gull
- Lava gull
- Relict gull
- Saunders's gull
- Brown-headed gull
- Pallas's gull
- Great black-headed gull
- Armenian gull
- Vega gull
- Siberian gull
- Mongolian gull
- Thayer's gull
- Kumlien's gull
- Nelson's gull
- Hartlaub's gull
- Grey-headed gull
- Brown-hooded gull
- Andean gull
- Belcher's gull
- Grey gull
- Band-tailed gull
The iceberg for “Name a type of gull”
- The Tip7 answers · 10 ptsHerring gull · Black-headed gull · Common gull
- Below the Surface49 answers · 25 ptsMediterranean gull · Little gull · Glaucous gull …
- The Deep22 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss10 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 22 answers starting with A, C, G, H, I, L, P, R, S and X. The Abyss has 10 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Facts about this list
- 89 answers in total, 75 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Booby”. Longest: “Chroicocephalus ridibundus”.
- S, L and B are the most common first letters; together they start 37% of the answers.
Tips for a rarer answer
- More answers begin with S than with any other letter (13). Run through it first.
- Skip Herring gull, Black-headed gull and Common gull; everybody says them.
- Breeds and varieties are a goldmine for rare answers.
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People also ask
- What are the most common answers to “Name a type of gull”?
- Most people start with Herring gull, Black-headed gull, Common gull, Great black-backed gull and Lesser black-backed gull. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers does Icillion accept for “Name a type of gull”?
- 89 in all: 7 on The Tip, 49 Below the Surface, 22 in The Deep, 10 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- What is the shortest answer to “Name a type of gull”?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Booby” and the longest is “Chroicocephalus ridibundus”.
- Is “Name a type of gull” 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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