What do most people say for “Name a particle in physics”?

The usual first answers are Electron, Proton and Neutron. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.

How many answers are there to “Name a particle in physics”?

27 in all: 3 on The Tip, 5 Below the Surface, 8 in The Deep, 10 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.

Which answers to “Name a particle in physics” are the shortest and the longest?

The shortest accepted answer is “Tau” and the longest is “Strange quark”.

Science trivia

Name a particle in physics

“Name a particle in physics” is one of 31 science prompts in Icillion. Of its 27 accepted answers, 3 are the ones nearly everyone says first; the rest sink deeper the rarer they are.

The tip of the iceberg

Say one of these and you stay near the surface, with 10 points.

Electron
Proton
Neutron

One step down

Second thoughts land here, at 25 points:

Photon
Quark
Neutrino
Positron
Higgs boson

Answers by level

Level	Accepted answers	Points
The Tip	3	10
Below the Surface	5	25
The Deep	8	50
The Abyss	10	85
Below the Iceberg	1	100

The Deep holds 8 answers starting with A, G, K, M, P, T, W and Z. The Abyss has 10 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.

Inside the answer list

27 answers in total, 12 of them longer than one word.
Shortest: “Tau”. Longest: “Strange quark”.
P, A and N are the most common first letters; together they start 33% of the answers.

Getting below the surface

Start with P: 4 of the answers begin with it.
Electron, Proton and Neutron are safe but shallow. Aim past them.
Units of measurement go far beyond metres and grams.

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What the words mean

Particle

Questions about this prompt

What do most people say for “Name a particle in physics”?: The usual first answers are Electron, Proton and Neutron. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
How many answers are there to “Name a particle in physics”?: 27 in all: 3 on The Tip, 5 Below the Surface, 8 in The Deep, 10 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
Which answers to “Name a particle in physics” are the shortest and the longest?: The shortest accepted answer is “Tau” and the longest is “Strange quark”.

All 31 science prompts

How deep does your knowledge go?

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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