Science trivia
Name a famous physicist
“Name a famous physicist” is one of 69 science prompts in Icillion. Of its 190 accepted answers, 12 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.
- Albert Einstein
- Isaac Newton
- Stephen Hawking
- Marie Curie
- Niels Bohr
- Richard Feynman
- Galileo Galilei
- Nikola Tesla
- Max Planck
- Werner Heisenberg
- Erwin Schrödinger
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
One step down
A step further down, worth 25 points each:
- Michael Faraday
- James Clerk Maxwell
- Ernest Rutherford
- Enrico Fermi
- Paul Dirac
- Lise Meitner
- Brian Cox
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Michio Kaku
- Peter Higgs
- Lord Kelvin
- Pierre Curie
- J. J. Thomson
- Wolfgang Pauli
- Max Born
- Archimedes
- Blaise Pascal
- Robert Boyle
- Christiaan Huygens
- Wilhelm Röntgen
- Heinrich Hertz
- Alessandro Volta
- André-Marie Ampère
- Georg Ohm
- James Joule
- Henri Becquerel
- Roger Penrose
- Kip Thorne
- Hans Bethe
- Murray Gell-Mann
- Robert Hooke
Answers by level
- The Tip12 answers · 10 ptsAlbert Einstein · Isaac Newton · Stephen Hawking
- Below the Surface31 answers · 25 ptsMichael Faraday · James Clerk Maxwell · Ernest Rutherford …
- The Deep68 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss78 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 68 answers starting with A, B, C, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, O, P, R, S, T, W and Y. The Abyss has 78 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
By the numbers
- 190 answers in total, 189 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Max Born”. Longest: “Charles-Augustin de Coulomb”.
- J, A and E are the most common first letters; together they start 31% of the answers.
- 113 answers can be typed more than one way: “Bardeen” counts as John Bardeen.
Tips for a rarer answer
- Start with J: 25 of the answers begin with it.
- Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton and Stephen Hawking are safe but shallow. Aim past them.
- Units of measurement go far beyond metres and grams.
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People also ask
- What do most people say for “Name a famous physicist”?
- The usual first answers are Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, Stephen Hawking, Marie Curie and Niels Bohr. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name a famous physicist”?
- 190 in all: 12 on The Tip, 31 Below the Surface, 68 in The Deep, 78 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name a famous physicist” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Max Born” and the longest is “Charles-Augustin de Coulomb”.
- How hard is “Name a famous physicist”?
- Medium. It takes some general knowledge. It comes up in Free play on Medium and Mixed.
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