Wildcard trivia
Name something you find in a junk drawer
158 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
Say one of these and you stay near the surface, with 10 points.
- Batteries
- Scissors
- Tape
- Pens
- Keys
- Rubber bands
- String
Below the waterline
These 70 are known, but not the first thing people say. 25 points each:
- Takeaway menus
- Matches
- Candles
- Birthday candles
- Lighter
- Torch
- Screwdriver
- Glue
- Super glue
- Stapler
- Staples
- Paper clips
- Drawing pins
- Safety pins
- Needles
- Thread
- Buttons
- Tape measure
- Ruler
- Pencils
- Pencil sharpener
- Eraser
- Sticky notes
- Notepad
- Coupons
- Receipts
- Instruction manuals
- Warranty cards
- Spare keys
- Old keys
- Chopsticks
- Soy sauce sachets
- Ketchup sachets
- Plastic cutlery
- Straws
- Bottle opener
- Corkscrew
- Tin opener
- Twist ties
- Loose change
- Foreign coins
- Stamps
- Envelopes
- Postcards
- Photos
- Business cards
- Phone chargers
- Cables
- USB sticks
- SIM cards
- Earbuds
- Adapters
- Plugs
- Fuses
- Lightbulbs
- Wire
- Duct tape
- Masking tape
- Washers
- Nails
- Screws
- Allen key
- Pliers
- Tweezers
- Magnet
- Compass
- Marbles
- Dice
- Playing cards
- Poker chips
The iceberg for “Name something you find in a junk drawer”
- The Tip7 answers · 10 ptsBatteries · Scissors · Tape
- Below the Surface70 answers · 25 ptsTakeaway menus · Matches · Candles …
- The Deep50 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss30 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 50 answers starting with A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T and W. The Abyss has 30 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
By the numbers
- 158 answers in total, 102 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Fob”. Longest: “Menus from closed restaurants”.
- P, S and C are the most common first letters; together they start 37% of the answers.
- 23 answers can be typed more than one way: “Rubber” counts as Eraser.
Getting below the surface
- More answers begin with P than with any other letter (22). Run through it first.
- Skip Batteries, Scissors and Tape; 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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Questions about this prompt
- What are the most common answers to “Name something you find in a junk drawer”?
- Most people start with Batteries, Scissors, Tape, Pens and Keys. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers does Icillion accept for “Name something you find in a junk drawer”?
- 158 in all: 7 on The Tip, 70 Below the Surface, 50 in The Deep, 30 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- What is the shortest answer to “Name something you find in a junk drawer”?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Fob” and the longest is “Menus from closed restaurants”.
- Is “Name something you find in a junk drawer” 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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