Wildcard trivia
Name something people find annoying
Everyone has a first answer to “Name something people find annoying”. The game is about the second, the third and the tenth: 69 answers are accepted, ranked by how rarely people think of them.
The obvious answers
These are the answers most people give first. They count, but they barely move you: 10 points each.
- Traffic
- Slow internet
- Mosquitoes
- Loud chewing
- Queues
- Spam
- Alarm clock
The next answers people reach for
These 17 are known, but not the first thing people say. 25 points each:
- Being late
- Low battery
- Pop-up ads
- Slow walkers
- Snoring
- Interruptions
- Crying babies
- Loud neighbours
- Tangled headphones
- Stubbing your toe
- Paper cuts
- Hiccups
- Rain
- Car alarms
- Buffering
- Bad drivers
- Mondays
How deep does “Name something people find annoying” go?
- The Tip7 answers · 10 ptsTraffic · Slow internet · Mosquitoes
- Below the Surface17 answers · 25 ptsBeing late · Low battery · Pop-up ads …
- The Deep24 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss20 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 24 answers starting with A, B, C, D, E, H, I, J, L, N, P, R, S and W. The Abyss has 20 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Facts about this list
- 69 answers in total, 48 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Rain”. Longest: “People who are always on their phones”.
- S, L and P are the most common first letters; together they start 46% of the answers.
- 33 answers can be typed more than one way: “Spam calls” counts as Spam.
How to go deeper
- Start with S: 17 of the answers begin with it.
- Traffic, Slow internet and Mosquitoes are safe but shallow. Aim past them.
- Think of things, then of words: keys can be on a piano, on a map or off the coast of Florida.
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People also ask
- What do most people say for “Name something people find annoying”?
- The usual first answers are Traffic, Slow internet, Mosquitoes, Loud chewing and Queues. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name something people find annoying”?
- 69 in all: 7 on The Tip, 17 Below the Surface, 24 in The Deep, 20 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name something people find annoying” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Rain” and the longest is “People who are always on their phones”.
- How hard is “Name something people find annoying”?
- 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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