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.

[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]

Originally Posted by 5 time champ

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]

Originally Posted by 5 time champ

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
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