Wildcard trivia
Name something extinct
Everyone has a first answer to “Name something extinct”. The game is about the second, the third and the tenth: 109 answers are accepted, ranked by how rarely people think of them.
The obvious answers
Say one of these and you stay near the surface, with 10 points.
- Dinosaur
- Dodo
- Mammoth
- Sabre-toothed tiger
- Tyrannosaurus rex
- Neanderthal
- Pterodactyl
The next answers people reach for
A step further down, worth 25 points each:
- Triceratops
- Stegosaurus
- Velociraptor
- Brachiosaurus
- Diplodocus
- Ankylosaurus
- Spinosaurus
- Megalodon
- Woolly rhino
- Giant sloth
- Aurochs
- Irish elk
- Cave bear
- Cave lion
- Dire wolf
- Thylacine
- Great auk
- Passenger pigeon
- Steller's sea cow
- Moa
- Haast's eagle
- Elephant bird
- Carolina parakeet
- Golden toad
- Pinta Island tortoise
- Western black rhino
- Baiji
- Caribbean monk seal
- Heath hen
- Labrador duck
- Bali tiger
- Javan tiger
- Caspian tiger
- Barbary lion
- Cape lion
How deep does “Name something extinct” go?
- The Tip7 answers · 10 ptsDinosaur · Dodo · Mammoth
- Below the Surface35 answers · 25 ptsTriceratops · Stegosaurus · Velociraptor …
- The Deep41 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss25 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 41 answers starting with A, B, C, D, E, G, H, I, L, M, O, P, Q, S and T. The Abyss has 25 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Inside the answer list
- 109 answers in total, 45 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Moa”. Longest: “Ivory-billed woodpecker”.
- P, D and G are the most common first letters; together they start 30% of the answers.
- 5 answers can be typed more than one way: “Woolly rhinoceros” counts as Woolly rhino.
Getting below the surface
- Start with P: 13 of the answers begin with it.
- Dinosaur, Dodo and Mammoth 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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Quick answers
- What do most people say for “Name something extinct”?
- The usual first answers are Dinosaur, Dodo, Mammoth, Sabre-toothed tiger and Tyrannosaurus rex. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name something extinct”?
- 109 in all: 7 on The Tip, 35 Below the Surface, 41 in The Deep, 25 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name something extinct” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Moa” and the longest is “Ivory-billed woodpecker”.
- How hard is “Name something extinct”?
- Easy. Nearly everyone can name something here, so prompts like this one can appear in the daily iceberg.
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