Screen trivia
Name a famous robot from a film, show or book
“Name a famous robot from a film, show or book” is one of 48 screen prompts in Icillion. Of its 191 accepted answers, 5 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.
- R2-D2
- C-3PO
- WALL-E
- Terminator
- Optimus Prime
One step down
A step further down, worth 25 points each:
- Bumblebee
- Megatron
- RoboCop
- Baymax
- Data
- K-9
- Johnny 5
- BB-8
- Iron Giant
- Bender
- Rosie
- Marvin
- Robby the Robot
- EVE
- Astro Boy
- Mega Man
- Ultron
- T-1000
- Sonny
- Ava
- Chappie
- Gort
- Kryten
- Maria
- Robot B-9
- Doraemon
- Voltron
- Mechagodzilla
- Clank
- K-2SO
- Vision
Answers by level
- The Tip5 answers · 10 ptsR2-D2 · C-3PO · WALL-E
- Below the Surface31 answers · 25 ptsBumblebee · Megatron · RoboCop …
- The Deep50 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss104 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 50 answers starting with A, B, C, D, E, G, I, J, K, L, M, R, S, T and W. The Abyss has 104 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Facts about this list
- 191 answers in total, 47 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “2B”. Longest: “Steam Man of the Prairies”.
- R, M and B are the most common first letters; together they start 27% of the answers.
- 64 answers can be typed more than one way: “V.I.N.CENT.” counts as VINCENT.
How to go deeper
- Start with R: 21 of the answers begin with it.
- R2-D2, C-3PO and WALL-E are safe but shallow. Aim past them.
- Older entries in a long series are often forgotten.
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Quick answers
- What do most people say for “Name a famous robot from a film, show or book”?
- The usual first answers are R2-D2, C-3PO, WALL-E, Terminator and Optimus Prime. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name a famous robot from a film, show or book”?
- 191 in all: 5 on The Tip, 31 Below the Surface, 50 in The Deep, 104 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name a famous robot from a film, show or book” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “2B” and the longest is “Steam Man of the Prairies”.
- How hard is “Name a famous robot from a film, show or book”?
- 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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