Nature trivia
Name a type of pigeon
Can you get past the obvious ones? Icillion accepts 78 answers to “Name a type of pigeon”, and only 7 of them float on the tip of the iceberg.
What everyone says first
These are the answers most people give first. They count, but they barely move you: 10 points each.
- Feral pigeon
- Wood pigeon
- Collared dove
- Turtle dove
- Homing pigeon
- Carrier pigeon
- Rock dove
Just below the surface
A step further down, worth 25 points each:
- Stock dove
- Rock pigeon
- Mourning dove
- Dodo
- Passenger pigeon
- Fantail pigeon
- Pouter pigeon
- Tumbler pigeon
- Roller pigeon
- Jacobin pigeon
- Racing pigeon
- Racing homer
- Barb pigeon
- Carneau
- King pigeon
- Modena
- Frillback
- Trumpeter pigeon
- Crowned pigeon
- Victoria crowned pigeon
- Goura
- Fruit dove
- Fruit pigeon
- Imperial pigeon
- Green pigeon
- Bruce's green pigeon
- Wompoo fruit dove
- Superb fruit dove
- Rose-crowned fruit dove
- Diamond dove
- Zebra dove
- Peaceful dove
- Spotted dove
- Laughing dove
- Namaqua dove
- Inca dove
- Ruddy ground dove
- Common ground dove
How the answers sink
- The Tip7 answers · 10 ptsFeral pigeon · Wood pigeon · Collared dove
- Below the Surface38 answers · 25 ptsStock dove · Rock pigeon · Mourning dove …
- 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, B, D, E, M, N, O, P, R, S, T and W. The Abyss has 10 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
By the numbers
- 78 answers in total, 71 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Dodo”. Longest: “Scheepmaker's crowned pigeon”.
- R, S and T are the most common first letters; together they start 33% of the answers.
- 1 answers can be typed more than one way: “City pigeon” counts as Feral pigeon.
Getting below the surface
- More answers begin with R than with any other letter (11). Run through it first.
- Skip Feral pigeon, Wood pigeon and Collared dove; everybody says them.
- Breeds and varieties are a goldmine for rare answers.
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Quick answers
- What are the most common answers to “Name a type of pigeon”?
- Most people start with Feral pigeon, Wood pigeon, Collared dove, Turtle dove and Homing pigeon. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers does Icillion accept for “Name a type of pigeon”?
- 78 in all: 7 on The Tip, 38 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 pigeon”?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Dodo” and the longest is “Scheepmaker's crowned pigeon”.
- Is “Name a type of pigeon” 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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How deep does your knowledge go?
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