Wildcard trivia
Name something magnetic
Can you get past the obvious ones? Icillion accepts 86 answers to “Name something magnetic”, and only 7 of them float on the tip of the iceberg.
What everyone says first
These are the answers most people give first. They count, but they barely move you: 10 points each.
- Magnet
- Fridge magnet
- Compass
- Earth
- Iron
- Metal
- Paperclip
Just below the surface
A step further down, worth 25 points each:
- Nail
- Needle
- Steel
- Nickel
- Cobalt
- Fridge door
- Whiteboard
- Magnetic strip
- Credit card
- Bank card
- Hotel key card
- Cassette tape
- Videotape
- Floppy disk
- Hard drive
- Speaker
- Headphones
- Microphone
- Electric motor
- Generator
- Dynamo
- Transformer
- MRI scanner
- Maglev train
- Magnetic tape
- Magnetic stripe
- Magnetic levitation
- Magnetic poles
- North Pole
- South Pole
- Magnetic north
- Aurora
- Northern lights
- Sun
- Jupiter
- Mars
- Moon
How the answers sink
- The Tip7 answers · 10 ptsMagnet · Fridge magnet · Compass
- Below the Surface37 answers · 25 ptsNail · Needle · Steel …
- The Deep24 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss17 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 24 answers starting with A, C, D, E, F, G, H, L, M, N, P, R, S and T. The Abyss has 17 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Facts about this list
- 86 answers in total, 38 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Eel”. Longest: “Interstellar magnetic field”.
- M, S and C are the most common first letters; together they start 43% of the answers.
Tips for a rarer answer
- More answers begin with M than with any other letter (19). Run through it first.
- Skip Magnet, Fridge magnet and Compass; 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 magnetic”?
- Most people start with Magnet, Fridge magnet, Compass, Earth and Iron. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers does Icillion accept for “Name something magnetic”?
- 86 in all: 7 on The Tip, 37 Below the Surface, 24 in The Deep, 17 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- What is the shortest answer to “Name something magnetic”?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Eel” and the longest is “Interstellar magnetic field”.
- Is “Name something magnetic” 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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