# A New "Feud" Game For Folks Who DON'T Follow the Herd

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-feud-game-for-folks-who-dont-follow-the-herd/459130>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [August 7, 2008, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-feud-game-for-folks-who-dont-follow-the-herd/459130 "2008-08-07T04:01:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-feud-game-for-folks-who-dont-follow-the-herd/459130/1 "2008-08-07T04:01:23Z")

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This is a rip-off of the existing series of Feud games, but with a twist: for a change of pace, we’re turning the whole “Family Feud” concept on its head. Instead of trying to give the same answers as everyone else, you will be rewarded for UNIQUE thinking.

**DO NOT READ THIS THREAD BEFORE YOU POST YOUR ANSWERS**

Usually, you’d try to think of the most popular answer, to get the most people matching you. Not this time. This time, each question will have a finite number of correct answers. Try to give a correct answer that nobody else will think of.

Scoring - Any answer that is perfectly unique, duplicated by nobody, gets 100 points. Any answer that is given by 2 to 5 people will get 50 points. Any answer given by 6 to 10 people will get 25 points. Any answer given by more than 10 people will get 5 points. And, since I insist on correct answers, there will be a 100 point penalty for any incorrect response.

This one could drive you nuts, if you think about it too long! For instance, if I asked you “Name an Ivy League college,” you might think Harvard and Yale are just too obvious, and say “Cornell.” Of course, the SDMB regulars are a very smart bunch of people… so maybe MOST of them will say Cornell, meaning Harvard will turn out to be a great answer! But remember, incorrect answers are costly. If you say that Rutgers is an Ivy League school, you will lose 100 points. Playing it safe or leaving ans answer blank is better than getting one wrong.

_ **FORMATTING OF ANSWERS IS IMPORTANT!** _

**Write your answers like this** ; Do not repeat the questions, no periods at the end of answers, no spaces between lines, no comments, no fancy list coding. If you need to comment or clarify your answers, do it AFTER the list of answers. Thanks.  
JUST LIKE THIS:

**1. answer \<\<—There is a space after the period!  
2. response  
3. rejoinder**

The game will end either when we have 50 entrants, or at **10:00 PM Central** on Friday, 8/09/08 whichever comes first.

Good luck!

1. Name someone who has served as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
2. Name a thoroughbred race horse that has won the Triple Crown (Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes)
3. Name an American author who has won the Nobel Prize for Literature (I will be generous, up to a point, in my interpretation of who counts as an American)
4. Name one of the 12 Labors of Hercules.
5. Name a movie star who has earned Oscars in both the lead and supporting categories (both Best Actor AND Best Supporting Actor, or Best Actress AND Best Supporting Actress).
6. Name one of the colleges in the Big Ten.
7. Name a U.S. President who wore facial hair (beard, mustache, or both).
8. Name one of the 12 Tribes of Israel (or, if you prefer, one of the 12 sons of Jacob)
9. Name a province of Canada.
10. Name an astronaut who has walked on the moon

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**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-feud-game-for-folks-who-dont-follow-the-herd/459130/2 "2008-08-07T04:11:40Z")

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1. Taney
2. Citation
3. John Steinbeck
4. Cleaning the stables
5. Meryl Streep
6. Indiana
7. Grover Cleveland
8. Naphtali
9. Prince Edward Island
10. Neil Armstrong

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-feud-game-for-folks-who-dont-follow-the-herd/459130/3 "2008-08-07T04:22:18Z")

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1. Morrison Waite
2. Omaha (1935)
3. John Steinbeck
4. Cleaning the Augean Stables
5. Jack Nicholson
6. Wisconsin
7. James Garfield
8. Gad
9. British Columbia
10. Harrison Schmitt

(Nitpick: It’s Chief Justice of the United States, not of the Supreme Court. See 28 U.S.C. 1).

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**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-feud-game-for-folks-who-dont-follow-the-herd/459130/4 "2008-08-07T05:14:48Z")

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1. William Howard Taft
2. Seattle Slew
3. Saul Bellow
4. Fetching the Apples of Hesperides.
5. Jack Lemmon
6. University of Minnesota
7. Chester A. Arthur
8. Levi
9. New Brunswick  
10.Buzz Aldrin

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**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-feud-game-for-folks-who-dont-follow-the-herd/459130/5 "2008-08-07T05:19:30Z")

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1. Earl Warren
2. No idea
3. William Faulkner
4. Lernean Hydra
5. Meryl Streep
6. Harvard?
7. Lincoln
8. Levi
9. Ontario
10. Armstrong

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**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-feud-game-for-folks-who-dont-follow-the-herd/459130/6 "2008-08-07T05:59:13Z")

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1. William Howard Taft
2. Secretariat
3. Pearl S. Buck
4. Capture Cerberus
5. Maggie Smith
6. Penn State
7. William Howard Taft
8. Judah
9. Nova Scotia
10. Gene Cernan

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**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-feud-game-for-folks-who-dont-follow-the-herd/459130/7 "2008-08-07T06:05:03Z")

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My strategy was to guess the _most_ popular answers, hoping few others will choose them. We’ll see how it works out. 🆒

1. William Rehnquist
2. Secretariat
3. Ernest Hemingway
4. Slay the Lernaean Hydra
5. Denzel Washington
6. Penn State
7. Abraham Lincoln
8. Joseph
9. Quebec
10. Neil Armstrong

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**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-feud-game-for-folks-who-dont-follow-the-herd/459130/8 "2008-08-07T06:09:02Z")

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1, Edward White  
2. Sir Barton  
3. Eugene O’neill  
4. Capture the Cretan Bull  
5. Jessica Lange  
6. Wisconsin  
7. Garfield  
8. Judah  
9. Alberta  
10. Edgar Mitchell

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**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-feud-game-for-folks-who-dont-follow-the-herd/459130/9 "2008-08-07T06:31:14Z")

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1. John Roberts
2. Sir Barton
3. Toni Morrison
4. Slaying the hydra
5. Jack Nicholson
6. Ohio State University
7. Abraham Lincoln
8. Reuben
9. Ontario
10. Neil Armstrong

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**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-feud-game-for-folks-who-dont-follow-the-herd/459130/10 "2008-08-07T07:19:48Z")

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1. John Roberts
2. Whirlaway
3. Rudyard Kipling
4. Clean the Augean stables in a single day
5. Robert De Niro
6. Minnesota
7. Martin Van Buren
8. Benjamin
9. Nova Scotia
10. Jack Schmitt

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**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-feud-game-for-folks-who-dont-follow-the-herd/459130/11 "2008-08-07T11:05:38Z")

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1. Ellsworth
2. Whirlaway
3. Eugene O’Neill
4. Capture the Erymanthian Boar
5. Ingrid Bergman
6. University of Wisconsin
7. Grover Cleveland
8. Asher
9. Ontario
10. Charles Duke

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**Author:** ![Walkabout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/46a35a/32.png) [@Walkabout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walkabout)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-feud-game-for-folks-who-dont-follow-the-herd/459130/12 "2008-08-07T11:29:35Z")

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I started to play this, but then realized that I couldn’t come up with more than one or two answers to any of them without Googling, and I was afraid that was cheating. Is it cheating to google the answers? For the other feuds it doesn’t seem like as big of a deal, but with this one, it’s the easiest way to find the most obscure answer.

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**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-feud-game-for-folks-who-dont-follow-the-herd/459130/13 "2008-08-07T12:11:58Z")

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1. Harlan Fiske Stone
2. Assault
3. Joseph Brodsky
4. Steal the Hesperides’ Apples
5. Helen Hayes
6. Northwestern
7. Chester Arthur
8. Dan
9. Alberta
10. John W. Young

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**Author:** ![RachelChristine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7ab992/32.png) [@RachelChristine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RachelChristine)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-feud-game-for-folks-who-dont-follow-the-herd/459130/14 "2008-08-07T13:05:52Z")

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1. John Marshall
2. Omaha
3. Toni Morrison
4. Clean the stables in a day
5. Jessica Lange
6. Indiana University
7. Grover Cleveland
8. Asher
9. Newfoundland
10. Alan Bean

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**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-feud-game-for-folks-who-dont-follow-the-herd/459130/15 "2008-08-07T13:32:14Z")

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1. John Jay
2. Whirlaway
3. Sinclair Lewis
4. Capturing Cerberus
5. Shirley MacLaine
6. Penn State
7. Ulysses S. Grant
8. Benjamin
9. Manitoba
10. Pete Conrad

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**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-feud-game-for-folks-who-dont-follow-the-herd/459130/16 "2008-08-07T13:42:59Z")

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1. John Roberts
2. Secretariat
3. Toni Morrison
4. Hydra
5. Robert DeNiro
6. University of Wisconsin
7. Lincoln
8. Joseph
9. Ontario
10. Neil Armstrong

Before you accuse me of being a dumb shit and not understanding the rules . . . I’m curious to see whether in this feud, everyone will be so busy finding obscure answers that the common answers will actually be the most obscure.

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**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-feud-game-for-folks-who-dont-follow-the-herd/459130/17 "2008-08-07T13:44:48Z")

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[QUOTE=KGS]  
My strategy was to guess the _most_ popular answers, hoping few others will choose them. We’ll see how it works out. 🆒  
[/QUOTE]

CURSE you!!!

> [@WVmom](#):
>
> I started to play this, but then realized that I couldn’t come up with more than one or two answers to any of them without Googling, and I was afraid that was cheating. Is it cheating to google the answers? For the other feuds it doesn’t seem like as big of a deal, but with this one, it’s the easiest way to find the most obscure answer.

Googling is fine, at least in the other feuds. You still have to try to figure out which answer is the best one. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Justin\_Credible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a8b319/32.png) [@Justin\_Credible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Credible)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-feud-game-for-folks-who-dont-follow-the-herd/459130/18 "2008-08-07T14:05:52Z")

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1. Earl Warren
2. War Admiral
3. Saul Bellow
4. Cleaning the poop out of the stables
5. Gene Hackman
6. University of Minnesota
7. Grover Cleveland
8. Dan
9. Manitoba
10. Neal Armstrong

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**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-feud-game-for-folks-who-dont-follow-the-herd/459130/19 "2008-08-07T14:27:39Z")

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1. Taft
2. Affirmed
3. Pearl S. Buck
4. Cleaning the Augean stables
5. Maggie Smith
6. Michigan State
7. Rutherford B Hayes
8. Levi
9. Prince Edward Island
10. Harrison Schmitt

Notes:  
10. The anti-Buzz Aldrin: second-to-last man on the moon (so far)

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-feud-game-for-folks-who-dont-follow-the-herd/459130/20 "2008-08-07T14:52:01Z")

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1. Melville Fuller
2. Assault
3. Miguel Angel Asturias (He’s an American - a Central American)
4. Capture of the Cretan Bull
5. Helen Hayes
6. University of Illinois
7. Benjamin Harrison
8. Tribe of Gad
9. New Brunswick
10. James Irwin

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