Screen trivia
Name an action movie
299 answers count for this screen prompt. Here is what floats on top, what sits just below the waterline, and how far down the rest go.
Floating on top
These are the answers most people give first. They count, but they barely move you: 10 points each.
- Die Hard
- Mad Max: Fury Road
- John Wick
- The Matrix
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day
- Lethal Weapon
- First Blood
- Mission: Impossible
- The Fast and the Furious
- Speed
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Top Gun
Below the waterline
Second thoughts land here, at 25 points:
- The Terminator
- Predator
- Commando
- Total Recall
- RoboCop
- Rambo: First Blood Part II
- Rambo III
- Rambo
- Rambo: Last Blood
- Die Hard 2
- Die Hard with a Vengeance
- Live Free or Die Hard
- A Good Day to Die Hard
- Lethal Weapon 2
- Lethal Weapon 3
- Lethal Weapon 4
- Bad Boys
- Bad Boys II
- Bad Boys for Life
- Top Gun: Maverick
- Con Air
- The Rock
- Face/Off
- Armageddon
- Independence Day
- True Lies
- Under Siege
- Cliffhanger
- Demolition Man
- Point Break
- Heat
- Gladiator
- Braveheart
- 300
- Kill Bill: Vol. 1
- Kill Bill: Vol. 2
- Casino Royale
- Skyfall
- Goldfinger
- The Bourne Identity
- The Bourne Supremacy
- The Bourne Ultimatum
- Taken
- The Expendables
- Mad Max
- Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
- Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
- Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
- Mission: Impossible – Fallout
- Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
- Fast Five
- Furious 7
- The Matrix Reloaded
- The Matrix Revolutions
- John Wick: Chapter 2
- John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
- John Wick: Chapter 4
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
- Enter the Dragon
- Rush Hour
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- Escape from New York
- Big Trouble in Little China
- 48 Hrs.
- Beverly Hills Cop
- Aliens
- Starship Troopers
- Minority Report
- Mr. & Mrs. Smith
- Kingsman: The Secret Service
- Baby Driver
- The Equalizer
- Nobody
- Sicario
- Léon: The Professional
- The Fifth Element
- The Transporter
- Crank
- Atomic Blonde
The iceberg for “Name an action movie”
- The Tip12 answers · 10 ptsDie Hard · Mad Max: Fury Road · John Wick
- Below the Surface80 answers · 25 ptsThe Terminator · Predator · Commando …
- The Deep129 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss77 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 129 answers starting with A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, W, X and Y. The Abyss has 77 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
By the numbers
- 299 answers in total, 226 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “F9”. Longest: “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning”.
- T, M and R are the most common first letters; together they start 34% of the answers.
- 12 answers can be typed more than one way: “Fast and Furious 6” counts as Fast & Furious 6.
Getting below the surface
- More answers begin with T than with any other letter (59). Run through it first.
- Skip Die Hard, Mad Max: Fury Road and John Wick; everybody says them.
- Older entries in a long series are often forgotten.
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Questions about this prompt
- What are the most common answers to “Name an action movie”?
- Most people start with Die Hard, Mad Max: Fury Road, John Wick, The Matrix and Terminator 2: Judgment Day. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers does Icillion accept for “Name an action movie”?
- 299 in all: 12 on The Tip, 80 Below the Surface, 129 in The Deep, 77 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- What is the shortest answer to “Name an action movie”?
- The shortest accepted answer is “F9” and the longest is “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning”.
- Is “Name an action movie” 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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