Wildcard trivia
Name something you find at a football match
Can you get past the obvious ones? Icillion accepts 143 answers to “Name something you find at a football match”, and only 7 of them float on the tip of the iceberg.
What everyone says first
Say one of these and you stay near the surface, with 10 points.
- Ball
- Goals
- Referee
- Fans
- Pitch
- Players
- Stadium
Just below the surface
Second thoughts land here, at 25 points:
- Scarves
- Shirts
- Flags
- Banners
- Songs
- Chants
- Drums
- Horns
- Flares
- Smoke
- Programme
- Pies
- Pie and Bovril
- Bovril
- Tea
- Chips
- Burgers
- Hot dogs
- Pasties
- Pint
- Beer
- Turnstiles
- Terraces
- Stands
- Seats
- Floodlights
- Scoreboard
- Big screen
- Half-time
- Substitutes
- Subs bench
- Dugout
- Manager
- Linesman
- Assistant referee
- VAR
- Yellow card
- Red card
- Whistle
- Penalty
- Free kick
- Corner
- Throw-in
- Offside
- Own goal
- Hat-trick
- Mascot
- Cheerleaders
- Stewards
- Police
- Horses
- Mounted police
- Touts
- Ticket touts
- Away fans
- Home fans
How the answers sink
- The Tip7 answers · 10 ptsBall · Goals · Referee
- Below the Surface56 answers · 25 ptsScarves · Shirts · Flags …
- The Deep59 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 59 answers starting with B, C, D, E, F, H, J, L, M, O, P, R, S, T, U and W. The Abyss has 20 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Facts about this list
- 143 answers in total, 60 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Oxo”. Longest: “Half-time entertainment”.
- S, P and C are the most common first letters; together they start 39% of the answers.
Tips for a rarer answer
- More answers begin with S than with any other letter (21). Run through it first.
- Skip Ball, Goals and Referee; everybody says them.
- Change category: if everyone names food, name a planet, a film character or a flag.
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Questions about this prompt
- What are the most common answers to “Name something you find at a football match”?
- Most people start with Ball, Goals, Referee, Fans and Pitch. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers does Icillion accept for “Name something you find at a football match”?
- 143 in all: 7 on The Tip, 56 Below the Surface, 59 in The Deep, 20 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- What is the shortest answer to “Name something you find at a football match”?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Oxo” and the longest is “Half-time entertainment”.
- Is “Name something you find at a football match” 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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