Nature trivia
Name a seabird
“Name a seabird” is one of 58 nature prompts in Icillion. Of its 128 accepted answers, 5 are the ones nearly everyone says first; the rest sink deeper the rarer they are.
The tip of the iceberg
These are the answers most people give first. They count, but they barely move you: 10 points each.
- Puffin
- Albatross
- Gannet
- Arctic Tern
- Cormorant
One step down
A step further down, worth 25 points each:
- Herring Gull
- Black-headed Gull
- Kittiwake
- Guillemot
- Razorbill
- Fulmar
- Manx Shearwater
- Shag
- Frigatebird
- Great Skua
- Blue-footed Booby
- European Storm Petrel
- Little Auk
- Black Guillemot
- Sandwich Tern
Answers by level
- The Tip5 answers · 10 ptsPuffin · Albatross · Gannet
- Below the Surface15 answers · 25 ptsHerring Gull · Black-headed Gull · Kittiwake …
- The Deep46 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss61 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 46 answers starting with A, B, C, F, G, H, I, L, M, P, R, S, T and W. The Abyss has 61 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Inside the answer list
- 128 answers in total, 118 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Shag”. Longest: “Christmas Island Frigatebird”.
- B, S and C are the most common first letters; together they start 34% of the answers.
- 17 answers can be typed more than one way: “Storm Petrel” counts as European Storm Petrel.
Getting below the surface
- Start with B: 17 of the answers begin with it.
- Puffin, Albatross and Gannet are safe but shallow. Aim past them.
- Extinct and prehistoric animals count wherever the prompt allows them.
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Questions about this prompt
- What do most people say for “Name a seabird”?
- The usual first answers are Puffin, Albatross, Gannet, Arctic Tern and Cormorant. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name a seabird”?
- 128 in all: 5 on The Tip, 15 Below the Surface, 46 in The Deep, 61 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name a seabird” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Shag” and the longest is “Christmas Island Frigatebird”.
- How hard is “Name a seabird”?
- Hard. It rewards people who know the subject well. It comes up in Free play on Hard and Mixed.
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Seven prompts a day, twenty seconds each. Obvious answers float on the tip of the iceberg; rare ones sink all the way to the trench.
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