Wildcard trivia
Name something that makes people cry
111 answers count for this wildcard 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: 7 answers nearly everyone thinks of, worth 10 points each.
- Onions
- Sad film
- Funeral
- Goodbye
- Breakup
- Pain
- Laughing
Below the waterline
A step further down, worth 25 points each:
- Wedding
- Baby being born
- Proud parents
- Graduation
- Sad song
- Sad book
- Dog dying
- Death of a pet
- The Lion King
- Titanic
- Up
- Toy Story 3
- Bambi
- Old Yeller
- Marley & Me
- Hachi: A Dog's Tale
- The Notebook
- Schindler's List
- Forrest Gump
- Charlotte's Web
- Where the Red Fern Grows
- Grave of the Fireflies
- Inside Out
- Coco
- Chopping onions
- Wasabi
- Chilli
- Smoke
- Wind
- Cold air
- Yawning
- Stubbed toe
- Paper cut
- Funny bone
- Shampoo in the eyes
- Eyelash in your eye
- Grief
- Loss
- Heartbreak
- Rejection
- Loneliness
- Homesickness
- Nostalgia
- National anthem
- Olympic medal ceremony
- Last day of school
- First day of school
The iceberg for “Name something that makes people cry”
- The Tip7 answers · 10 ptsOnions · Sad film · Funeral
- Below the Surface47 answers · 25 ptsWedding · Baby being born · Proud parents …
- The Deep43 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss13 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 43 answers starting with A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, R, S, T and W. The Abyss has 13 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Inside the answer list
- 111 answers in total, 69 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Up”. Longest: “Dropping your child at school”.
- C, S and F are the most common first letters; together they start 27% of the answers.
- 17 answers can be typed more than one way: “Mufasa dying” counts as Mufasa's death.
How to go deeper
- More answers begin with C than with any other letter (12). Run through it first.
- Skip Onions, Sad film and Funeral; everybody says 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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Quick answers
- What are the most common answers to “Name something that makes people cry”?
- Most people start with Onions, Sad film, Funeral, Goodbye and Breakup. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers does Icillion accept for “Name something that makes people cry”?
- 111 in all: 7 on The Tip, 47 Below the Surface, 43 in The Deep, 13 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- What is the shortest answer to “Name something that makes people cry”?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Up” and the longest is “Dropping your child at school”.
- Is “Name something that makes people cry” 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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