Wildcard trivia
Name something very old
“Name something very old” is one of 274 wildcard prompts in Icillion. Of its 143 accepted answers, 7 are the ones nearly everyone says first; the rest sink deeper the rarer they are.
The tip of the iceberg
These are the answers most people give first. They count, but they barely move you: 10 points each.
- Pyramids
- Dinosaur
- Grandparent
- Stonehenge
- Fossil
- Oak tree
- Castle
One step down
A step further down, worth 25 points each:
- Mummy
- Colosseum
- Great Wall of China
- Parthenon
- Acropolis
- Moon
- Earth
- Rock
- Antique
- Cave painting
- Wine
- Whisky
- Cheese
- Coin
- Methuselah
- Greenland shark
- Giant tortoise
- Jonathan the tortoise
- Bristlecone pine
- Olive tree
- Redwood
- Yew tree
- Library of Alexandria
- Bible
- Dead Sea Scrolls
- Rosetta Stone
- Epic of Gilgamesh
- Sphinx
- Machu Picchu
- Petra
- Pompeii
- Troy
- Jericho
- Göbekli Tepe
- Skara Brae
- Newgrange
- Çatalhöyük
- Lascaux
- Altamira
- Chauvet Cave
- Ötzi
- Lucy
- Neanderthal
- Mammoth
- Trilobite
- Amber
- Coelacanth
- Horseshoe crab
- Ginkgo
- Cockroach
- Crocodile
- Jellyfish
- Stromatolite
- Shark
- Nautilus
- Tuatara
- Sturgeon
Answers by level
- The Tip7 answers · 10 ptsPyramids · Dinosaur · Grandparent
- Below the Surface57 answers · 25 ptsMummy · Colosseum · Great Wall of China …
- The Deep55 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss23 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 55 answers starting with A, B, C, D, G, H, J, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T, U and V. The Abyss has 23 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
By the numbers
- 143 answers in total, 73 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Ur”. Longest: “Calcium-aluminium-rich inclusions”.
- C, S and M are the most common first letters; together they start 31% of the answers.
- 22 answers can be typed more than one way: “Catalhoyuk” counts as Çatalhöyük.
Tips for a rarer answer
- Start with C: 18 of the answers begin with it.
- Pyramids, Dinosaur and Grandparent 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 very old”?
- The usual first answers are Pyramids, Dinosaur, Grandparent, Stonehenge and Fossil. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name something very old”?
- 143 in all: 7 on The Tip, 57 Below the Surface, 55 in The Deep, 23 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name something very old” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Ur” and the longest is “Calcium-aluminium-rich inclusions”.
- How hard is “Name something very old”?
- 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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