Screen trivia
Name a comedy movie
“Name a comedy movie” is one of 80 screen prompts in Icillion. Of its 295 accepted answers, 12 are the ones nearly everyone says first; the rest sink deeper the rarer they are.
The tip of the iceberg
Right, but shallow: 12 answers nearly everyone thinks of, worth 10 points each.
- Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
- Superbad
- Step Brothers
- The Hangover
- Bridesmaids
- Dumb and Dumber
- Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- Airplane!
- Ghostbusters
- Mean Girls
- Elf
One step down
These 80 are known, but not the first thing people say. 25 points each:
- Home Alone
- Mrs. Doubtfire
- Groundhog Day
- Ferris Bueller's Day Off
- Caddyshack
- The Big Lebowski
- Meet the Parents
- Shaun of the Dead
- Hot Fuzz
- Wedding Crashers
- Zoolander
- Old School
- Borat
- Tropic Thunder
- Napoleon Dynamite
- Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
- Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
- Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
- Blades of Glory
- Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
- The 40-Year-Old Virgin
- Knocked Up
- Pineapple Express
- Horrible Bosses
- Bad Moms
- Game Night
- Neighbors
- 21 Jump Street
- Ted
- Pitch Perfect
- The Mask
- Liar Liar
- Bruce Almighty
- The Nutty Professor
- Coming to America
- Beverly Hills Cop
- Trading Places
- Planes, Trains and Automobiles
- National Lampoon's Vacation
- Animal House
- Blazing Saddles
- Young Frankenstein
- Spaceballs
- Life of Brian
- A Fish Called Wanda
- The Naked Gun
- Wayne's World
- Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
- Dazed and Confused
- American Pie
- Scary Movie
- This Is the End
- Happy Gilmore
- Billy Madison
- The Waterboy
- The Wedding Singer
- Big Daddy
- Grown Ups
- Tommy Boy
- Rush Hour
- Friday
- Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
- Dude, Where's My Car?
- Super Troopers
- Office Space
- Galaxy Quest
- Men in Black
- Beetlejuice
- Kindergarten Cop
- Sister Act
- Legally Blonde
- Little Miss Sunshine
- Deadpool
- Barbie
- Knives Out
- The Grand Budapest Hotel
- In Bruges
- The Full Monty
- Bean
- Johnny English
Answers by level
- The Tip12 answers · 10 ptsAnchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy · Superbad · Step Brothers
- Below the Surface80 answers · 25 ptsHome Alone · Mrs. Doubtfire · Groundhog Day …
- The Deep137 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss65 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 137 answers starting with A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T, U, V, W and Z. The Abyss has 65 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
By the numbers
- 295 answers in total, 242 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Big”. Longest: “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby”.
- T, B and C are the most common first letters; together they start 36% of the answers.
- 12 answers can be typed more than one way: “Walk Hard” counts as Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.
Tips for a rarer answer
- Start with T: 52 of the answers begin with it.
- Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Superbad and Step Brothers are safe but shallow. Aim past them.
- Background characters score much higher than heroes.
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People also ask
- What do most people say for “Name a comedy movie”?
- The usual first answers are Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Superbad, Step Brothers, The Hangover and Bridesmaids. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name a comedy movie”?
- 295 in all: 12 on The Tip, 80 Below the Surface, 137 in The Deep, 65 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name a comedy movie” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Big” and the longest is “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby”.
- How hard is “Name a comedy movie”?
- Easy. Nearly everyone can name something here, so prompts like this one can appear in the daily iceberg.
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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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