Wildcard trivia
Name something green
Everyone has a first answer to “Name something green”. The game is about the second, the third and the tenth: 210 answers are accepted, ranked by how rarely people think of them.
The obvious answers
Right, but shallow: 5 answers nearly everyone thinks of, worth 10 points each.
- Grass
- Leaf
- Frog
- Broccoli
- Traffic light
The next answers people reach for
Second thoughts land here, at 25 points:
- Lime
- Cucumber
- Peas
- Lettuce
- Apple
- Avocado
- Kiwi
- Spinach
- Celery
- Cactus
- Tree
- Money
- Emerald
- Hulk
- Shrek
- Grinch
- Kermit
- Yoda
- St Patrick's Day
- Irish flag
- Moss
- Pickle
- Mint
- Olive
- Grapes
- Turtle
- Crocodile
- Alligator
How deep does “Name something green” go?
- The Tip5 answers · 10 ptsGrass · Leaf · Frog
- Below the Surface28 answers · 25 ptsLime · Cucumber · Peas …
- The Deep88 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss88 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 88 answers starting with A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, O, P, R, S, T, W, X, Y and Z. The Abyss has 88 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Facts about this list
- 210 answers in total, 76 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Oz”. Longest: “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles”.
- G, S and M are the most common first letters; together they start 39% of the answers.
- 62 answers can be typed more than one way: “Pond” counts as Pond scum.
How to go deeper
- Start with G: 33 of the answers begin with it.
- Grass, Leaf and Frog 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 green”?
- The usual first answers are Grass, Leaf, Frog, Broccoli and Traffic light. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name something green”?
- 210 in all: 5 on The Tip, 28 Below the Surface, 88 in The Deep, 88 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name something green” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Oz” and the longest is “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles”.
- How hard is “Name something green”?
- 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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