Tough Trivial Feud

[5 time champ]

Rules, in case you are new to this: DON'T READ THE THREAD BEFORE YOU POST!

This may crash and burn like the Hindenburg, but here goes.

The questions are perhaps a little arcane [there is only one question about music that you may have listened to in high school :) ] don't forget that you can Google for material if needs be.

Post your responses to the questions. I’ll take the first 50 players or players through midnight CST Tuesday Feb 5, 2008 whichever comes first. I will tabulate the results, declare the winner, post the scoreboard and declare the frontrunner in the Democratic nomination for President. There are 10 questions and a maximum of 1000 possible points. If we don’t get 50 answers I will pro rate the points accordingly.

A quick reminder the object of the game is to give an answer that you think will match the most number of other Doper's answers.

Format for your answers: You don't need to repeat the questions, but please number the answers.

If you don't know an answer, guess! If you pass, you're guaranteed to get zero points -- but if you guess and someone else matches your answer, you'll get points, whether the answer is "right" or not!

Tough Trivial Feud
1. Other than jihad, name a English word from the Arabic. Jihad may not have quite made it to English yet, but you know what I mean.
2. Other than Waterloo, name a set-piece battle of the Napoleonic Wars. [Note this also rules out anything related to Moscow]
3. Other than helium, name a noble gas.
4. Other than John Kennedy, name an American president that served for a very short time
5. Name a disease that humans used to die a lot from, but no longer do.
6. Type out for us a phrase from the Latin [at least 3 words]
7. Name a nonfictional high school
8. Name one of those weird Bob Dylan songs whose title is not prominently mentioned in the song
9. Name an ancient coin
10. Name an ancient historian

[5 time champ]

1. Zero
2. Austerlitz
3. Radon
4. Wm Henry Harrison
5. Smallpox
6. Cogito ergo sum
7. Columbine HS
8. Positively Fourth Street
9. Shekel
10. Herodotus

[Das Glasperlenspiel]

1. Fakir
2. Talavera
3. Hydrogen
4. James Garfield
5. Smallpox
6. Carthago delenda est
7. Beverly Hills
8. Positively 4th Street
9. Sesterce
10. Pliny

[mmouse9799]

Tough Trivial Feud
1. Ramadan
2. Battle of the Nations (?)
3. neon
4. William Harrison
5. Cholera
6. E pluribus unum
7. JFK High School ;)
8. "Blowin' in the Wind" (??)
9. denarius (Roman silver)
10. Herodotus, Greek Father of History

Wow, this was hard!!

[bibliophage]

1. jinni
2. Austerlitz
3. neon
4. William Henry Harrison
5. cholera
6. Veni, vedi, vici.
7. Beverly Hills High
8. "Rainy Day Woman #12 and 35"
9. shekel
10. Herodotus

[Zebra]

1. Derka Derka
2. The Battle of Battles McBattle
3. Hydrogen
4. Ford
5. Plague
6. Vendi Vidi Vici
7. Mount Saint Mary's
8. Positivly 4th Street
9. Dinar
10. Cicero

[Cluricaun]

1.Halal.
2. Battle of Aspern-Essling
3. Neon
4. William Henry Harrison
5. Smallpox
6. Semper ubi sub ubi
7. Hollywood High
8. Subterranean Homesick Blues
9. Drachma?
10. Herodotus

[Busy Scissors]

1. algebra
2. Austerlitz
3. neon
4. Gerald ford
5. TB
6. veni vidi vici
7. Columbine
8. Subterranean homesick blues
9. florin
10. pliny

[Max Torque]

1. harem
2. Austerlitz
3. neon
4. William Henry Harrison
5. smallpox
6. veni, vidi, vici
7. Columbine
8. Subterranean Homesick Blues
9. shekel
10. Pliny the Elder

[RealityChuck]

Tough Trivial Feud
1. Orange
2. Austerlitz
3. Argon
4. William Henry Harrison
5. Plague
6. Post hoc ergo prompter hoc
7. New York City High School of the Performing Arts
8. Rainy Day Woman #12 and 35
9. Drachma
10. Herodotus

[Chanteuse]

1. Other than jihad, name a English word from the Arabic.

Koran


2. Other than Waterloo, name a set-piece battle of the Napoleonic Wars. [Note this also rules out anything related to Moscow]

The Battle of Auerstaedt


3. Other than helium, name a noble gas.

Neon


4. Other than John Kennedy, name an American president that served for a very short time.

James Garfield


5. Name a disease that humans used to die a lot from, but no longer do.

Smallpox


6. Type out for us a phrase from the Latin [at least 3 words]

Persona non grata


7. Name a nonfictional high school.

Columbine


8. Name one of those weird Bob Dylan songs whose title is not prominently mentioned in the song.

Man on the Street


9. Name an ancient coin.

Drachma


10. Name an ancient historian.

Josephus

[Bayard]

Thanks for running the game, 5 time champ! I love these things!

1. Algebra
2. Trafalgar
3. Neon
4. William H. Harrison
5. Smallpox
6. quod erat demonstrandum
7. Columbine HS
8. Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
9. Shekel
10. Josephus

[control-z]

1. Martyr
2. ?
3. Neon
4. Lincoln(?)
5. Polio
6. quid pro quo
7. Columbine
8. ??
9. Doubloon
10. Plutarch

[Labdad]

Tough Trivial Feud
1. Sheik
2. Austerlitz
3. Neon
4. Zachary Taylor
5. Smallpox
6. E Pluribus Unum
7. Hollywood High School
8. Ballad of a Thin Man
9. Doubloon
10. Plutarch

[elucidator]

1. assassin
2. Borodino
3. Argon
4. Garfield
5. Smallpox
6. Cogito ergo sum
7. Hollywood High
8. Just Like Tom Thumb Blues
9. Shekel
10. Herodotus (duh!)

[TheMerchandise]

1. Assassin
2. Battle of the Pyramids
3. Neon
4. Zachsry Taylor
5. Small pox
6. veni, vedi, veci
7. Great Falls High
8. Subterranean Homesick Blues
9. ??
10. Herodotus

[jali]

1. lollypop
2. Aubergine

3. Neon

4. Ford

5. Influenza

6. E Pluribus Unum

7. Bronx High School of Science

8. Star

9. Florin?

10. Homer

My answers are terrible.

[3acresandatruck]

1. alcohol
2. Borodino
3. neon
4. Wm H Harrison
5. smallpox
6. ad astra per aspera
7. Little Rock Central High School
8. Subterranean Homesick Blues
9. drachma
10. Herodotus

[Gangster Octopus]

1. Other than jihad, name a English word from the Arabic. Jihad may not have quite made it to English yet, but you know what I mean. Fatwa
2. Other than Waterloo, name a set-piece battle of the Napoleonic Wars. [Note this also rules out anything related to Moscow] Cyprus (total guess, just sound familiar)
3. Other than helium, name a noble gas. Xenon
4. Other than John Kennedy, name an American president that served for a very short time Ford
5. Name a disease that humans used to die a lot from, but no longer do. Bubonic Plague
6. Type out for us a phrase from the Latin [at least 3 words] In Vino Veritas
7. Name a nonfictional high school Mater Dei
8. Name one of those weird Bob Dylan songs whose title is not prominently mentioned in the song Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
9. Name an ancient coin Sheckel
10. Name an ancient historian [b]Plutarch[\b]

[OtakuLoki]

1. Other than jihad, name a English word from the Arabic. Jihad may not have quite made it to English yet, but you know what I mean. Algebra
2. Other than Waterloo, name a set-piece battle of the Napoleonic Wars. [Note this also rules out anything related to Moscow] Salamanca
3. Other than helium, name a noble gas. Argon
4. Other than John Kennedy, name an American president that served for a very short time William Henry Harrison
5. Name a disease that humans used to die a lot from, but no longer do. Smallpox
6. Type out for us a phrase from the Latin [at least 3 words] Quod Erat Demonstratum
7. Name a nonfictional high school Nashoba Regional High School
8. Name one of those weird Bob Dylan songs whose title is not prominently mentioned in the song Hurricane?
9. Name an ancient coin as
10. Name an ancient historian Herotodus

[Little Nemo]

1. Algebra
2. Borodino
3. Neon
4. Benjamin Harrison
5. Smallpox
6. E pluribus unum
7. Columbine (the only well known non-fictional high school I could think of)
8. Rainy Day something something (not a big Dylan fan)
9. Florin
10. Herodotus

eta: Oops. Wrong Harrison.

[Justin Credible]

Tough Trivial Feud
1. Other than jihad, name a English word from the Arabic. Jihad may not have quite made it to English yet, but you know what I mean.
2. Other than Waterloo, name a set-piece battle of the Napoleonic Wars. [Note this also rules out anything related to Moscow]
3. Other than helium, name a noble gas.
4. Other than John Kennedy, name an American president that served for a very short time
5. Name a disease that humans used to die a lot from, but no longer do.
6. Type out for us a phrase from the Latin [at least 3 words]
7. Name a nonfictional high school
8. Name one of those weird Bob Dylan songs whose title is not prominently mentioned in the song
9. Name an ancient coin
10. Name an ancient historian

1. Genie
2. Battle of Trafalgar?
3. Neon
4. Harrison
5. Tuberculosis
6. Veni, vidi, vici
7. Columbine
8. Man Gave Names to All the Animals
9. sextans
10. Cassius Dio

[Enginerd]

1. algorithm
2. not a chance
3. neon
4. Garfield
5. smallpox
6. cogito ergo sum
7. Columbine
8. Subterranean Homesick Blues
9. doubloon
10. Pliny

[Wargamer]

1. Other than jihad, name a English word from the Arabic. Jihad may not have quite made it to English yet, but you know what I mean.
2. Other than Waterloo, name a set-piece battle of the Napoleonic Wars. [Note this also rules out anything related to Moscow]
3. Other than helium, name a noble gas.
4. Other than John Kennedy, name an American president that served for a very short time
5. Name a disease that humans used to die a lot from, but no longer do.
6. Type out for us a phrase from the Latin [at least 3 words]
7. Name a nonfictional high school
8. Name one of those weird Bob Dylan songs whose title is not prominently mentioned in the song
9. Name an ancient coin
10. Name an ancient historian


1. Algebra
2. Austerlitz
3. Neon
4. William Henry Harrison
5. Bubonic Plague (aka The Black Death)
6. E Pluribus Unum
7. DeMatha H.S.
8. Subterranean Homesick Blues
9. Talent
10. Pliny the Elder

[Das Glasperlenspiel]

Noble gas = not hydrogen. I know I shouldn't have gone with gut instinct on that one. :o

[Mullinator]

Time to be a champion again. Oh wait, these answers are guaranteed to put me in last place.


1. Algebra
2. Austerlitz
3. Neon
4. William Henry Harrison
5. Leprosy
6. E Pluribus Unum
7. Beverly Hills High School
8. Rainy Day Women #12 and #35
9. Denarius
10. Socrates

[SmartAleq]

1. Other than jihad, name a English word from the Arabic. -- Sheikh
2. Other than Waterloo, name a set-piece battle of the Napoleonic Wars. -- Trafalgar?
3. Other than helium, name a noble gas.-- Neon
4. Other than John Kennedy, name an American president that served for a very short time-- Warren Harding
5. Name a disease that humans used to die a lot from, but no longer do. -- Bubonic Plague
6. Type out for us a phrase from the Latin -- Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
7. Name a nonfictional high school -- Beverly Hills High
8. Name one of those weird Bob Dylan songs whose title is not prominently mentioned in the song--Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
9. Name an ancient coin -- Denarius
10. Name an ancient historian -- Josephus

[zamboniracer]

1. Allah
2. New Orleans
3. Neon
4. James Garfield
5. Bubonic Plague
6. Res Ipsa Loquitor
7. John F. Kennedy High School
8. The answer is blowing in the wind somewhere, but I don't know any other Bob Dylan songs and that one doesn't qualify, so I'll say it even though its wrong: Blowin' In the Wind.
9. Dubloon
10. The guy who wrote the Dead Sea scrolls

[ShibbOleth]

1. Algebra
2. Siege of Cadiz
3. Argon
4. MCKinley
5. Smallpox
6. In vino veritas
7. Beverly Hills High School
8. It's Alright, Ma
9. Dubloon (not really ancient, but at least old)
10. Herodotus ( Did you mean an historian from antiquity, or one who studies it?)

[garygnu]

Tough Trivial Feud
1. Alcohol
2. pass
3. Argon
4. Garfield
5. Small Pox
6. Cogito Ergo Sum (I Think Therefore I Am)
7. Lincoln High School
8. pass
9. Drachma
10. Herodotus

[5 time champ]

garygnu makes 28 players, this is going better than I thought it would. But where is love for radon? & zero?

[cmkeller]

1. Other than jihad, name a English word from the Arabic. Jihad may not have quite made it to English yet, but you know what I mean. - Genie (from djinn)
2. Other than Waterloo, name a set-piece battle of the Napoleonic Wars. [Note this also rules out anything related to Moscow] - Paris?
3. Other than helium, name a noble gas. - Krypton
4. Other than John Kennedy, name an American president that served for a very short time - William Henry Harrison (I died in thirty days!)
5. Name a disease that humans used to die a lot from, but no longer do. - Measles
6. Type out for us a phrase from the Latin [at least 3 words] - E Pluribus Unum
7. Name a nonfictional high school - Stuyvesant, in New York
8. Name one of those weird Bob Dylan songs whose title is not prominently mentioned in the song - pass
9. Name an ancient coin - Shekel
10. Name an ancient historian - Herodotus

[Monstera deliciosa]

1. Algebra
2. Austerlitz
3. Argon.
4. William Henry Harrison
5. Bubonic plague
6. Quid pro quo
7. Stuyvesant Hight School
8. Subterranean Homesick blues
9. Talent
10. Tacitus

[OtakuLoki]

garygnu makes 28 players, this is going better than I thought it would. But where is love for radon? & zero?


Radon doesn't last long enough for me to think of it as being truly noble. Soon enough it's Radium, then Lead, then other stuff.

And I'm stuck breathing it. Yuck. ;)

[Purgatory Creek]

Tough Trivial Feud
1. Hummus
2. Borodino
3. Radon
4. McKinley
5. Consumption
6. Quid pro quo
7. Columbine
8. Highway 61 Revisited
9. Tetradrachm
10. Plutarch

Gad, now I need a drink...and it's only noon.

[brewha]

1. Other than jihad, name a English word from the Arabic. Jihad may not have quite made it to English yet, but you know what I mean.
Mummy
2. Other than Waterloo, name a set-piece battle of the Napoleonic Wars. [Note this also rules out anything related to Moscow]
Battle of Aldenhoven
3. Other than helium, name a noble gas.
Neon
4. Other than John Kennedy, name an American president that served for a very short time
Warren Harding
5. Name a disease that humans used to die a lot from, but no longer do.
Polio
6. Type out for us a phrase from the Latin [at least 3 words]
Veni, Vidi, Vici
7. Name a nonfictional high school
Columbine High School
8. Name one of those weird Bob Dylan songs whose title is not prominently mentioned in the song
Billy 7
9. Name an ancient coin
Denarius
10. Name an ancient historian
Pliny

[DaphneBlack]

Tough Trivial Feud
1. Other than jihad, name a English word from the Arabic.
Algebra
2. Other than Waterloo, name a set-piece battle of the Napoleonic Wars.
Trafalgar
3. Other than helium, name a noble gas.
Argon
4. Other than John Kennedy, name an American president that served for a very short time
Warren G Harding
5. Name a disease that humans used to die a lot from, but no longer do.
Smallpox
6. Type out for us a phrase from the Latin [at least 3 words]
ex post facto
7. Name a nonfictional high school
Sidwell Friends School
8. Name one of those weird Bob Dylan songs whose title is not prominently mentioned in the song
Subterranean Homesick Blues?
9. Name an ancient coin
denarius
10. Name an ancient historian
Thucydides

[Enginerd]

garygnu makes 28 players, this is going better than I thought it would. But where is love for radon? & zero?
While the mathematical concept of zero has its origin in the middle east, the word itself comes from French. The Arabic equivalent is cipher.

[Interrobang!?]

1. algebra
2. Battle of the Nile
3. neon
4. William Henry Harrison
5. smallpox
6. e pluribus unum
7. Beverly Hills High School
8. Subterranean Homesick Blues
9. ducat
10. Herodotus

[5 time champ]

From Merriam-Webster (http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/zero)
Etymology:
French or Italian; French zéro, from Italian zero, from Medieval Latin zephirum, from Arabic ṣifr

[Hugh Jass]

Tough Trivial Feud
1. admiral
2. Trafalgar
3. xenon
4. william henry harrison
5. small pox
6. E Pluribus Unum
7. Stephen Austin High School
8. Positively 4th Street
9. ?
10. Bede

[DfrntBreign]

1> fatwah (spelling?)
2> Battle of Montmarte
3> neon
4> James Garfield
5> tuberculosis
6> E PLVRIBVS VNVM (e pluribus unum)
7> Columbine High School
8> Positively 4th Street
9> drachma
10> Herodotus

[El_Kabong]

Ha! I have answers for all your your puny questions. Now, do I have the right answers?

1. Assassin
2. Austerlitz
3. Argon
4. William McKinley
5. Bubonic Plague
6. Ad astra, per aspera
7. Bevery Hills High School
8. Rainy Day Women Number 12 and 69
9. Doubloon
10. Pliny the Elder

[El_Kabong]

I mean 35! 12 and 35! Sheesh.

[pulykamell]

1. Fatwah
2. No clue
3. Argon
4. Harrison
5. The plague
6. e pluribus unum
7. Dalton
8. Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
9. lepta
10. Herodotus

[Hostile Dialect]

Tough Trivial Feud...jeez, you weren't kidding. (It doesn't help that whenever I try to think of an English word from Arabic, I come up with a Spanish word from Arabic. The worst part? I was actually ready to answer #1 with "carpet" or "pillow" in English.)

1. algebra
2. Jena
3. hydrogen?
4. Ford?
5. smallpox
6. sic transit gloria mundi
7. Madison
8. You have an odd idea of when I went to high school.
9. (old) shekel?
10. no idea

[Darth Sensitive]

1. Assassin
2. Battle of Talavera
3. Neon
4. William Henry Harrison
5. Polio
6. Veni, vidi, vici
7. Columbine (My first thought was Southlake Carrol, of HS football dominance, but that had no shot of scoring tops)
8. Motorpsycho Nightmare (No clue at all)
9. Aureus
10. Pliny the Elder

[Darth Sensitive]

Where's the love for the Assassins! Come on people!

[MsWhatsit]

1. zero
2. Battle of the Pyramids
3. argon
4. William Henry Harrison
5. smallpox
6. post hoc ergo propter hoc
7. Beverly Hills High
8. All Along the Watchtower (kinda?)
9. Spanish doubloon
10. Tacitus

[vison]

Tough Trivial Feud
1. Other than jihad, name a English word from the Arabic. Jihad may not have quite made it to English yet, but you know what I mean.

assassin
2. Other than Waterloo, name a set-piece battle of the Napoleonic Wars. [Note this also rules out anything related to Moscow] Badajos.

3. Other than helium, name a noble gas.
Argon.
4. Other than John Kennedy, name an American president that served for a very short time
Harding
5. Name a disease that humans used to die a lot from, but no longer do.
Bubonic plague
6. Type out for us a phrase from the Latin [at least 3 words]

cave canem (yeah, I know it's only 2 words, but I don't know any Latin)
7. Name a nonfictional high school
Lord Tweedsmuir High School
8. Name one of those weird Bob Dylan songs whose title is not prominently mentioned in the song
?
9. Name an ancient coin

shekel
10. Name an ancient historian[/QUOTE]

Josephus

[Subway Prophet]

1. algebra

2. Cairo

3. xenon

4. Ford

5. smallpox

6. e pluribus unum

7. Kwajalein Jr./Sr. High

8. Positively 49th Street

9. pieces of eight (Spanish dollar)

10. Pliny the Elder

[Nurobath]

1. Other than jihad, name a English word from the Arabic. Jihad may not have quite made it to English yet, but you know what I mean. - alchemy
2. Other than Waterloo, name a set-piece battle of the Napoleonic Wars. [Note this also rules out anything related to Moscow] - Battle of Austerlitz
3. Other than helium, name a noble gas. - Neon
4. Other than John Kennedy, name an American president that served for a very short time. - William Henry Harrison
5. Name a disease that humans used to die a lot from, but no longer do. - Small Pox
6. Type out for us a phrase from the Latin [at least 3 words] - Veni, vidi, vici
7. Name a nonfictional high school. - Columbine
8. Name one of those weird Bob Dylan songs whose title is not prominently mentioned in the song. - North Country Blues
9. Name an ancient coin. - Denarius
10. Name an ancient historian. - Herodotus

[Sternvogel]

1. Admiral
2. Marengo
3. Neon
4. William Henry Harrison (who served the shortest term, one month)
5. Smallpox
6. quid pro quo
7. Central High School of Little Rock, Arkansas
8. Subterranean Homesick Blues
9. That crossword favorite, the Greek obol
10. Herodotus

[brownie55]

Tough Trivial Feud
1. Algebra
2. Borodino
3. Argon
4. William Henry Harrison
5. Smallpox
6. E Pluribus Unum
7. Power Memorial
8. Subterranean Homesick Blues
9. Drachma
10. Herodotus

Heck, I just hope I got some right.

[5 time champ]

You answered them all correctly.

[Fretful Porpentine]

1. Algebra
2. Um, Trafalgar?
3. Neon
4. William Henry Harrison
5. Smallpox
6. Arma virumque cano
7. Columbine High School
8. "Positively 4th Street"
9. Drachma
10. Tacitus

[tesseract]

1. burqa
2. Battle of Trafalgar
3. neon
4. Harrison
5. TB
6. quid pro quo
7. Exeter
8. Bob Dylan’s blues
9. denarius
10. Josephus

[Kyla]

1. Other than jihad, name a English word from the Arabic. Jihad may not have quite made it to English yet, but you know what I mean.

Algebra.

2. Other than Waterloo, name a set-piece battle of the Napoleonic Wars. [Note this also rules out anything related to Moscow]

Jesus, I have no idea.

3. Other than helium, name a noble gas.

Argon.

4. Other than John Kennedy, name an American president that served for a very short time

William Henry Harrison

5. Name a disease that humans used to die a lot from, but no longer do.

Smallpox.

6. Type out for us a phrase from the Latin [at least 3 words]

Quod Erat Demonstratum

7. Name a nonfictional high school

nonfictional high school? Ummm...okay, Petaluma High, my alma mater.

8. Name one of those weird Bob Dylan songs whose title is not prominently mentioned in the song

Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 (are those the right numbers?)

9. Name an ancient coin

Talent

10. Name an ancient historian

Herodotus

[Spoons]

1. Algebra
2. Austerlitz
3. Argon
4. Harrison
5. Smallpox
6. Consensus ad idem (meeting of the minds)
7. Columbine High
8. Rainy Day Woman No. 12 and No. 35
9. Sesterces
10. Herodotus

[5 time champ]

I believe that Spoons is number 50. So let me crunch some numbers. Good game I hope everyone found it interesting and a little more challenging than earlier games.

[brownie55]

I believe that Spoons is number 50. So let me crunch some numbers. Good game I hope everyone found it interesting and a little more challenging than earlier games.
It was fun, thanks for hosting.

[5 time champ]

Sorry for the delay, third of four games now that the only half-way decent product that Microsoft puts out [Excel :mad: :mad: ] has crashed on me. So I had to use the worst product Apple has ever put out [Numbers] :mad: to do the scoring for this round.


1. Other than jihad, name a English word from the Arabic. Jihad may not have quite made it to English yet, but you know what I mean.

admiral 2
alchemy 1
alcohol 2
algebra 16
algorithm 1
Allah 1
assassin 5
burqa 1
Derka Derka 1
Fakir 1
Fatwa 3
Genie 3
halal 1
harem 1
Hummus 1
Koran 1
lollypop 1
Martyr 1
Mummy 1
Orange 1
Ramadan 1
Sheik 2
zero 2


2. Other than Waterloo, name a set-piece battle of the Napoleonic Wars. [Note this also rules out anything related to Moscow]
Marengo 1
2. ? 4
Aubergine 1
Austerlitz 12
Badajos. 1
Battle of Aldenhoven 1
Battle of Aspern-Essling 1
Battle of the Nations 1
Battle of the Nile 1
Battle of the Pyramids 2
Borodino 5
Cairo 1
Cyprus 1
Jena 1
Jesus, I have no idea. 1
Montmarte 1
New Orleans 1
Paris? 1
Salamanca 1
Siege of Cadiz 1
Talavera 2
The Battle of Auerstaedt 1
The Battle of Battles McBattle 1
Trafalgar 7

3. Other than helium, name a noble gas.
Argon 14
Hydrogen 3
Krypton 1
neon 27
Radon 2
Xenon 3

4. Other than John Kennedy, name an American president that served for a very short time
Benjamin Harrison 1
Ford 6
Harding 1
Harrison 3
James Garfield 8
Lincoln(?) 1
McKinley 3
Warren Harding 3
Wm Henry Harrison 22
Zachary Taylor 2

5. Name a disease that humans used to die a lot from, but no longer do.

1 Influenza
2 cholera
1 Consumption
1 Leprosy
1 Measles
10 Plague
3 Polio
27 Smallpox
4 tuberculosis


6. Type out for us a common phrase in Latin [at least 3 words]

ad astra per aspera 2
Arma virumque cano 1
Carthago delenda est 1
cave canem 1
Cogito ergo sum 4
Consensus ad idem (meeting of the minds) 1
E Pluribus Unum 13
ex post facto 1
In Vino Veritas 2
Persona non grata 1
Post hoc ergo prompter hoc 2
quid pro quo 5
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes 1
Quod Erat Demonstratum 3
Res Ipsa Loquitor 1
Semper ubi sub ubi 1
sic transit gloria mundi 1
Veni, vedi, vici. 9

7. Name a nonfictional high school
Exeter 1
Beverly Hills High 8
Bronx High School of Science 1
Central High School of Little Rock, Arkansas 1
Columbine 16
Dalton 1
DeMatha H.S. 1
Great Falls High 1
Hollywood High 3
JFK High School 2
Kwajalein Jr./Sr. High 1
Lincoln High School 1
Little Rock Central High School 1
Lord Tweedsmuir High School 1
Madison 1
Mater Dei 1
Mount Saint Mary's 1
Nashoba Regional High School 1
New York City High School of the Performing Arts 1
Petaluma High 1
Power Memorial 1
Sidwell Friends School 1
Stephen Austin High School 1
Stuyvesant, in New York 2

8. Name one of those weird Bob Dylan songs whose title is not prominently mentioned in the song
8. Star 1
All Along the Watchtower 1
Ballad of a Thin Man 1
Billy 7 1
Blowin' in the Wind 2
Bob Dylan’s blues 1
Highway 61 Revisited 1
Hurricane? 1
It's Alright, Ma 1
Just Like Tom Thumb Blues 1
Man Gave Names to All the Animals 1
Man on the Street 1
Motorpsycho Nightmare 1
North Country Blues 1
pass 4
Positively Fourth Street 7
Rainy Day Woman #12 and 35 11
Subterranean Homesick Blues 12
You have an odd idea of when I went to high school. 1

9. Name an ancient coin
9. ?? 2
as 1
Aureus 1
Denarius 7
Dinar 1
Doubloon 7
Drachma 9
ducat 1
Florin 3
lepta 1
obol 1
pieces of eight 1
Sesterce 2
sextans 1
Shekel 9
Talent 3

10. Name an ancient historian
Socrates 1
Tacitus 1
10. Cassius Dio 1
Bede 1
Cicero 1
Herodotus 21
Homer 1
Josephus 5
no idea 1
Pliny 9
Plutarch 4
Tacitus 2
The guy who wrote the Dead Sea scrolls 1
Thucydides 1

[5 time champ]

And congratulations to the winner of Tough Trivial Feud:



Interrobang!? With 292 points

1 Interrobang!? 292
2 Bayard 286
3 Max Torque 286
4 Nurobath 282
5 brownie55 278
6 Little Nemo 278
7 fretfulporpenttine 262
8 3acresandatruck 254
9 bibliophage 248
10 5 time champ 244
11 spoons 244
12 Cluricaun 242
13 kyla 234
14 Sternvogel 232
15 Mullinator 232
16 The Cocky Watchman 228
17 Enginerd 220
18 Wargamer 220
19 DfrntBreign 216
20 TheMerchandise 210
21 OtakuLoki 206
22 RealityChuck 202
23 ShibbOleth 196
24 KayElCee 194
25 Labdad 194
26 elucidator 192
27 mmouse9799 192
28 Darth Sensitive 186
29 Chanteuse 184
30 DaphneBlack 172
31 MsWhatsit 172
32 garygnu 170
33 Hugh Jass 162
34 Subway Prophet 162
35 El_Kabong 162
36 SmartAleq 160
37 tesseract 154
38 pulykamell 150
39 brewha 148
40 cmkeller 140
41 Justin Credible 138
42 Das Glasperlenspiel 132
43 control-z 124
44 Hostile Dialect 122
45 zamboniracer 112
46 jali 98
47 Gangster Octopus 96
48 Purgatory Creek 88
49 vison 86
50 Zebra 70

Alpha
3acresandatruck 254
5 time champ 244
Bayard 286
bibliophage 248
brewha 148
brownie55 278
Chanteuse 184
Cluricaun 242
cmkeller 140
control-z 124
DaphneBlack 172
Darth Sensitive 186
Das Glasperlenspiel 132
DfrntBreign 216
El_Kabong 162
elucidator 192
Enginerd 220
fretfulporpenttine 262
Gangster Octopus 96
garygnu 170
Hostile Dialect 122
Hugh Jass 162
Interrobang!? 292
jali 98
Justin Credible 138
KayElCee 194
kyla 234
Labdad 194
Little Nemo 278
Max Torque 286
mmouse9799 192
MsWhatsit 172
Mullinator 232
Nurobath 282
OtakuLoki 206
pulykamell 150
Purgatory Creek 88
RealityChuck 202
ShibbOleth 196
SmartAleq 160
spoons 244
Sternvogel 232
Subway Prophet 162
tesseract 154
The Cocky Watchman 228
TheMerchandise 210
vison 86
Wargamer 220
zamboniracer 112
Zebra 70

[Interrobang!?]

Wow! I'm amazed, given that googling for a Napoleonic battle turned up a one-point answer and my lousy guess at an ancient coin was, indeed, lousy.

[Gala Matrix Fire]

1. Alcohol
2. No idea
3. Neon
4. William Henry Harrison
5. Bubonic plague
6. Vini vidi vici
7. Hollywood High
8. Positively Fourth Street
9. Shekel
10. Euripides

Did I make it in the first 50?

[5 time champ]

Sorry Gala you are 51.

[5 time champ]

Wow! I'm amazed, given that googling for a Napoleonic battle turned up a one-point answer and my lousy guess at an ancient coin was, indeed, lousy.
Yeah, it is a little odd to win with two zeros- but you got the two zeros in the lowest overall scoring categories. Good job.

[brownie55]

My first forray into a top 5. Way to go Interrobang!?.

[3acresandatruck]

7. Name a nonfictional high school...

Central High School of Little Rock, Arkansas 1
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Little Rock Central High School 1
I'd like to contend that these are the same high school. What do the judges say? (Not that it would change the standings...) Thanks for the game, 5 time champ!

[Spoons]

I hope everyone found it interesting and a little more challenging than earlier games.It certainly was challenging! I got hung up a bit on the Latin phrase, but it all seemed OK in the end--I placed better than I thought I would. Thanks for the game!

[Zebra]

DEAD LAST!

Egads, I think I'll do the next round.

[Bayard]

Woo-hoo! I scored a silver! I started smacking myself for answering QED for the Latin phrase almost as soon as I posted it. If not for that...

Congrats, Interrobang!?

Many thanks for the game, 5 time champ!

[5 time champ]

I'd like to contend that these are the same high school. What do the judges say? (Not that it would change the standings...) Thanks for the game, 5 time champ!
:smack: Sorry, yes add 2 points to yours and sternvogel's score as well.

[Little Nemo]

Sixth place. Not bad for a guy who had his Harrisons mixed up.

[Sternvogel]

:smack: Sorry, yes add 2 points to yours and sternvogel's score as well.

Actually four points each, as 3acresandatruck and I each go from scoring 0 points to (2 x 2) on that question. I thus not only break the tie with Mullinator, but move ahead of kyla to boot. To be fair, tuberculosis and consumption are the same disease, so the people who put down those answers should also have their scores adjusted accordingly.

[5 time champ]

Good points and so noted, and good thing we aren't playing for money!

[Taber]

Tough Trivial Feud
1. Other than jihad, name a English word from the Arabic. Jihad may not have quite made it to English yet, but you know what I mean.
2. Other than Waterloo, name a set-piece battle of the Napoleonic Wars. [Note this also rules out anything related to Moscow]
3. Other than helium, name a noble gas.
4. Other than John Kennedy, name an American president that served for a very short time
5. Name a disease that humans used to die a lot from, but no longer do.
6. Type out for us a phrase from the Latin [at least 3 words]
7. Name a nonfictional high school
8. Name one of those weird Bob Dylan songs whose title is not prominently mentioned in the song
9. Name an ancient coin
10. Name an ancient historian

don't know if there's still time, but here goes
1. khat
2. Napolean vs godzilla, rumble in the bronx
3. xenon
4. Benjamin Harrison
5. smallpox
6. e plurbis unum
7. Bishop's
8. the wickerman
9. Rupee
10. Indiana Jones

[Taber]

DEAD LAST!

Egads, I think I'll do the next round.

you beat my score. 44, whoo

[cmkeller]

Wow - can't believe I'm the only one who said Krypton, I thought that would come to more peoples' minds, being the name of Superman's world of origin.

[JSexton]

1. Sheik
2. Trafalgar
3. Neon
4. Harrison
5. Polio
6. quo erat demonstradum
7. Central High
8. Rainy Day Women #12
9. Nickel
10. Livy

[JSexton]

Sorry. I was following the rules and not reading ahead ! :) Next time.

(Also, nickel? Derf. I thought it said "actual coin".)

Aaaaand I just realized I zombiefied this from a search result. Lord, I fail.

[Amblydoper]

I don't know if I am too late, because I followed the rules!
This was "Tough" but entertaining.

1. Qur'an
2. Battle of Ligny
3. Neon
4. Nixon
5. Plague
6. Veni Vidi Vicci
7. Jefferson High
8. Positively 4th Street
9. Gold De Bloom
10. Caeser

[Amblydoper]

Well crap.
I guess I am not going to win.

[astorian]

1. Other than jihad, name a English word from the Arabic. Jihad may not have quite made it to English yet, but you know what I mean.

Algebra

2. Other than Waterloo, name a set-piece battle of the Napoleonic Wars. [Note this also rules out anything related to Moscow]

Austerlitz

3. Other than helium, name a noble gas.

Neon

4. Other than John Kennedy, name an American president that served for a very short time

Gerald Ford

5. Name a disease that humans used to die a lot from, but no longer do.

smallpox

6. Type out for us a phrase from the Latin [at least 3 words]

E pluribus unum

7. Name a nonfictional high school

Beverly Hills High School


8. Name one of those weird Bob Dylan songs whose title is not prominently mentioned in the song

Rainy Day Women #12 & 35?

9. Name an ancient coin

Denarius

10. Name an ancient historian

Herodotus