Nature trivia
Name a venomous or poisonous animal
170 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
Say one of these and you stay near the surface, with 10 points.
- Snake
- Spider
- Scorpion
- Jellyfish
- Poison Dart Frog
- Cobra
- Rattlesnake
- Black Widow
- Box Jellyfish
- Pufferfish
- Stingray
- Black Mamba
Below the waterline
These 51 are known, but not the first thing people say. 25 points each:
- King Cobra
- Taipan
- Inland Taipan
- Coastal Taipan
- Eastern Brown Snake
- Tiger Snake
- Viper
- Adder
- Copperhead
- Cottonmouth
- Coral Snake
- Sea Snake
- Gila Monster
- Komodo Dragon
- Funnel-web Spider
- Redback Spider
- Brown Recluse
- Tarantula
- Bee
- Wasp
- Hornet
- Fire Ant
- Bullet Ant
- Lionfish
- Stonefish
- Blue-ringed Octopus
- Portuguese Man o' War
- Cone Snail
- Platypus
- Irukandji Jellyfish
- Golden Poison Frog
- Cane Toad
- Boomslang
- Puff Adder
- Gaboon Viper
- Green Mamba
- Death Adder
- Spitting Cobra
- Centipede
- Sea Urchin
- Wolf Spider
- Bumblebee
- Yellowjacket
- Killer Bee
- Murder Hornet
- Diamondback Rattlesnake
- Sidewinder
- Pit Viper
- Brazilian Wandering Spider
- Slow Loris
- Shrew
The iceberg for “Name a venomous or poisonous animal”
- The Tip12 answers · 10 ptsSnake · Spider · Scorpion
- Below the Surface51 answers · 25 ptsKing Cobra · Taipan · Inland Taipan …
- The Deep67 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss39 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 67 answers starting with A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, K, L, M, P, R, S, T, V, W and Y. The Abyss has 39 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Inside the answer list
- 170 answers in total, 130 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Bee”. Longest: “Western Diamondback Rattlesnake”.
- S, B and C are the most common first letters; together they start 38% of the answers.
- 28 answers can be typed more than one way: “Diamondback” counts as Diamondback Rattlesnake.
How to go deeper
- More answers begin with S than with any other letter (27). Run through it first.
- Skip Snake, Spider and Scorpion; everybody says them.
- Extinct and prehistoric animals count wherever the prompt allows them.
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Quick answers
- What are the most common answers to “Name a venomous or poisonous animal”?
- Most people start with Snake, Spider, Scorpion, Jellyfish and Poison Dart Frog. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers does Icillion accept for “Name a venomous or poisonous animal”?
- 170 in all: 12 on The Tip, 51 Below the Surface, 67 in The Deep, 39 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- What is the shortest answer to “Name a venomous or poisonous animal”?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Bee” and the longest is “Western Diamondback Rattlesnake”.
- Is “Name a venomous or poisonous animal” 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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