Screen trivia
Name a silent film
114 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.
- Metropolis
- Nosferatu
- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
- The Gold Rush
- The General
Below the waterline
Second thoughts land here, at 25 points:
- The Kid
- Safety Last!
- Sherlock Jr.
- Battleship Potemkin
- A Trip to the Moon
- The Phantom of the Opera
- The Great Train Robbery
- Intolerance
- Wings
- The Passion of Joan of Arc
- Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Napoleon
The iceberg for “Name a silent film”
- The Tip5 answers · 10 ptsMetropolis · Nosferatu · The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
- Below the Surface13 answers · 25 ptsThe Kid · Safety Last! · Sherlock Jr. …
- The Deep35 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss60 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 35 answers starting with B, D, F, G, H, M, N, O, P, S, T, U and W. The Abyss has 60 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Inside the answer list
- 114 answers in total, 84 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Cops”. Longest: “Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis”.
- T, S and B are the most common first letters; together they start 53% of the answers.
- 13 answers can be typed more than one way: “Le Voyage dans la Lune” counts as A Trip to the Moon.
How to go deeper
- More answers begin with T than with any other letter (43). Run through it first.
- Skip Metropolis, Nosferatu and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari; everybody says them.
- For games, think of the items, mobs and bosses, not only the heroes.
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Quick answers
- What are the most common answers to “Name a silent film”?
- Most people start with Metropolis, Nosferatu, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Gold Rush and The General. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers does Icillion accept for “Name a silent film”?
- 114 in all: 5 on The Tip, 13 Below the Surface, 35 in The Deep, 60 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- What is the shortest answer to “Name a silent film”?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Cops” and the longest is “Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis”.
- Is “Name a silent film” an easy or a hard prompt?
- Hard. It rewards people who know the subject well. It comes up in Free play on Hard and Mixed.
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