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Name a science fiction movie
257 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
Right, but shallow: 12 answers nearly everyone thinks of, worth 10 points each.
- Star Wars
- The Matrix
- Back to the Future
- Blade Runner
- Alien
- The Terminator
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day
- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
- Jurassic Park
- Interstellar
- Inception
- Avatar
Below the waterline
A step further down, worth 25 points each:
- Star Trek
- Aliens
- Predator
- Total Recall
- RoboCop
- Men in Black
- The Fifth Element
- Independence Day
- Minority Report
- Blade Runner 2049
- Arrival
- Gravity
- The Martian
- Ex Machina
- Her
- Dune
- Dune: Part Two
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Planet of the Apes
- Tron
- The Day the Earth Stood Still
- War of the Worlds
- Back to the Future Part II
- Jurassic World
- The Hunger Games
- Edge of Tomorrow
- District 9
- Pacific Rim
- A Quiet Place
- Moon
- Children of Men
- Gattaca
- Contact
- Starship Troopers
- Ready Player One
- The Thing
- Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope
- The Empire Strikes Back
- Return of the Jedi
- The Phantom Menace
- The Force Awakens
- Rogue One
- Prometheus
- Avatar: The Way of Water
The iceberg for “Name a science fiction movie”
- The Tip12 answers · 10 ptsStar Wars · The Matrix · Back to the Future
- Below the Surface45 answers · 25 ptsStar Trek · Aliens · Predator …
- The Deep120 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss79 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 120 answers starting with A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T, U, V and W. The Abyss has 79 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Facts about this list
- 257 answers in total, 173 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Pi”. Longest: “Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets”.
- T, S and A are the most common first letters; together they start 44% of the answers.
- 8 answers can be typed more than one way: “A New Hope” counts as Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope.
Tips for a rarer answer
- More answers begin with T than with any other letter (54). Run through it first.
- Skip Star Wars, The Matrix and Back to the Future; everybody says them.
- Older entries in a long series are often forgotten.
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People also ask
- What are the most common answers to “Name a science fiction movie”?
- Most people start with Star Wars, The Matrix, Back to the Future, Blade Runner and Alien. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers does Icillion accept for “Name a science fiction movie”?
- 257 in all: 12 on The Tip, 45 Below the Surface, 120 in The Deep, 79 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- What is the shortest answer to “Name a science fiction movie”?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Pi” and the longest is “Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets”.
- Is “Name a science fiction 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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