Screen trivia
Name a famous wizard or witch
226 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: 5 answers nearly everyone thinks of, worth 10 points each.
- Merlin
- Gandalf
- Harry Potter
- Dumbledore
- Hermione Granger
Below the waterline
A step further down, worth 25 points each:
- Voldemort
- Wicked Witch of the West
- Glinda
- Saruman
- Snape
- Ron Weasley
- Sabrina Spellman
- Baba Yaga
- Morgan le Fay
- Doctor Strange
- Hagrid
- Wizard of Oz
- Maleficent
- Ursula
- White Witch
- Jafar
- Circe
- Scarlet Witch
- Rincewind
- Winifred Sanderson
- McGonagall
- Samantha Stephens
- Mildred Hubble
- Sorcerer Mickey
- Radagast
- Gargamel
- Willow Rosenberg
- Medea
- Prospero
- Draco Malfoy
- Neville Longbottom
- Kiki
- Howl
- Grand High Witch
- Bellatrix Lestrange
The iceberg for “Name a famous wizard or witch”
- The Tip5 answers · 10 ptsMerlin · Gandalf · Harry Potter
- Below the Surface35 answers · 25 ptsVoldemort · Wicked Witch of the West · Glinda …
- The Deep76 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss109 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 76 answers starting with A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, P, Q, R, S, T, W, Y and Z. The Abyss has 109 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Inside the answer list
- 226 answers in total, 135 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Ged”. Longest: “Wendy the Good Little Witch”.
- M, S and B are the most common first letters; together they start 28% of the answers.
- 103 answers can be typed more than one way: “Lupin” counts as Remus Lupin.
How to go deeper
- More answers begin with M than with any other letter (29). Run through it first.
- Skip Merlin, Gandalf and Harry Potter; 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 famous wizard or witch”?
- Most people start with Merlin, Gandalf, Harry Potter, Dumbledore and Hermione Granger. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers does Icillion accept for “Name a famous wizard or witch”?
- 226 in all: 5 on The Tip, 35 Below the Surface, 76 in The Deep, 109 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- What is the shortest answer to “Name a famous wizard or witch”?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Ged” and the longest is “Wendy the Good Little Witch”.
- Is “Name a famous wizard or witch” 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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