Screen trivia
Name a Best Picture Oscar winner
“Name a Best Picture Oscar winner” is one of 80 screen prompts in Icillion. Of its 97 accepted answers, 12 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.
- Titanic
- The Godfather
- Forrest Gump
- Gladiator
- Schindler's List
- The Silence of the Lambs
- Braveheart
- Parasite
- Oppenheimer
- Gone with the Wind
- Casablanca
- Rocky
One step down
Second thoughts land here, at 25 points:
- Everything Everywhere All at Once
- Slumdog Millionaire
- Chicago
- Moonlight
- Anora
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
- The Sound of Music
- Ben-Hur
- The Sting
- Rain Man
- Driving Miss Daisy
- Dances with Wolves
- Unforgiven
- American Beauty
- Shakespeare in Love
- A Beautiful Mind
- The Departed
- No Country for Old Men
- The King's Speech
- Argo
- 12 Years a Slave
- Birdman
- Spotlight
- The Shape of Water
- Green Book
- Nomadland
- CODA
- The Hurt Locker
- Million Dollar Baby
- Crash
- The Artist
- The English Patient
- Amadeus
- Gandhi
- Platoon
- Chariots of Fire
- Kramer vs. Kramer
- The Deer Hunter
- Annie Hall
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- The French Connection
- Patton
- Midnight Cowboy
- Oliver!
- In the Heat of the Night
- Lawrence of Arabia
- West Side Story
- My Fair Lady
- Out of Africa
- Terms of Endearment
- Ordinary People
- The Godfather Part II
- The Last Emperor
- The Apartment
- On the Waterfront
- From Here to Eternity
- All About Eve
- Around the World in 80 Days
- The Bridge on the River Kwai
Answers by level
- The Tip12 answers · 10 ptsTitanic · The Godfather · Forrest Gump
- Below the Surface59 answers · 25 ptsEverything Everywhere All at Once · Slumdog Millionaire · Chicago …
- The Deep22 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss3 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 22 answers starting with A, G, H, I, M, R, T, W and Y. The Abyss has 3 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Inside the answer list
- 97 answers in total, 67 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Argo”. Longest: “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King”.
- T, A and G are the most common first letters; together they start 47% of the answers.
- 5 answers can be typed more than one way: “Twelve Years a Slave” counts as 12 Years a Slave.
Getting below the surface
- Start with T: 26 of the answers begin with it.
- Titanic, The Godfather and Forrest Gump are safe but shallow. Aim past them.
- For games, think of the items, mobs and bosses, not only the heroes.
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Questions about this prompt
- What do most people say for “Name a Best Picture Oscar winner”?
- The usual first answers are Titanic, The Godfather, Forrest Gump, Gladiator and Schindler's List. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name a Best Picture Oscar winner”?
- 97 in all: 12 on The Tip, 59 Below the Surface, 22 in The Deep, 3 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name a Best Picture Oscar winner” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Argo” and the longest is “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King”.
- How hard is “Name a Best Picture Oscar winner”?
- Medium. It takes some general knowledge. It comes up in Free play on Medium and Mixed.
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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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