I know it will. 
Thanks for doing the work, all the same.
- John Jay
- Seattle Slew
- William Faulkner
- shoveling the Aegean stables
- Iowa
- Taft
- Manasseh
- Saskatchewan
- Neil Armstrong
No prob (eerie though). I forgot to add a 
This was way hard but good practice – and fun!
- Salmon P. Chase
- Omaha
- Isaac Singer
- The Stymphalian Birds
- Gene Hackman
- Purdue
- Chester A. Arthur
- Gad
- Prince Edward Island
10.Harrison Schmitt
Thanks astorian! This one’s a hoot to play.
- John Rutledge
- Sir Barton
- Pearl Buck
- Capturing the Cretan Bull
- Jack Lemmon
- Purdue
- Chester Arthur
- Gad
- Prince Edward Island
- James Irwin
- Berger…mmm, Berger (thank you Homer Simpson)
- Mr Ed
- O’Neill
- Cleaning the shit out of the giant stable
- Denzel Washington
- Notre Dame
- Taft
- Levi
- Ontario
- Aldrin
- Roger Taney
- Citation
- Sinclair Lewis
- Cleaning the stables
- ?
- Penn State
- James Garfield
- Asher
- British Columbia
- Edgar D. Mitchell
even the google didn’t help me with #5
Great minds think alike!
- John Jay
- Secretariat
- Ernest Hemingway
- Killing the Nemean Lion
- Jack Nicholson
- University of Wisconsin
- Garfield
- Levi
- Quebec
- Neil Armstrong
I really like the idea of an anti-Feud, but I don’t know enough about most of these topics. I hope you do another one some time.
There’s one in my Feud queue scheduled for next weekend.
- Morrison Waite
- Citation
- John Steinbeck
- Labor Four, Erymanthian Boar
- Meryl Streep
- Illinois
- Rutherford B. Hayes
- Gad
- Alberta
- Buzz Aldrin
The only answer of mine that I thought was clever was Buzz Aldrin, splitting the difference between the people who’d pick from the most obscure names on the list and those who’d pick the super-obvious answer (Armstrong). Looking over the results, a few other people seem to have had the same idea, but the obscure names got at least as many hits, so I think I did ok.
- Sandra Day O’Connor
- Seattle Slew
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
- The Cretin Bulls
- Gene Hackman
- Michigan State
- Grant
- Reuven
- Winnipeg
- Alan Shepard
#8 - that IS an acceptable spelling of the name, more frequently spelled Reuben
So how many of you sang thru the lyrics of “Jacob and Sons” to get an answer to 8?
I did, when I was writing the game! (“Reuben was the eldest of the children of Israel, with Simeon and Levi the next in line. Napthali with Issachar, then Asher and Dan, Zebulon and Gad brought the total to nine…”)
We didn’t get 50 players, but time is up now.I’ll post scores as soon as they’re available.
ANSWERS GIVEN:
CHIEF JUSTICES:
100 points:
Oliver Ellsworth 1
John Marshall 1
William Rehnquist 1
Harlan Stone 1
Edward White 1
Frederick Vinson 1
50 points:
Salmon P. Chase 2
John Rutledge 2
Morrison Waite 2
Earl Warren 2
Warren Burger 3
Melville Fuller 3
John Jay 4
John Roberts 4
Roger B. Taney 5
25 points:
William Howard Taft 6
Wrong Answers (-100) 2
Nobody guessed: Charles Evans Hughes or William Cushing
TRIPLE CROWN:
50 points:
Affirmed 2
Citation 3
Gallant Fox 3
War Admiral 3
Whirlaway 3
Assault 3
Count Fleet 4
Omaha 4
Seattle Slew 4
Sir Barton 4
Secretariat 5
No answer (0 points) 1
Wrong Answer (-100) 2
AMERICAN NOBEL-WINNING AUTHORS
I said I’d be generous, up to a point, in my definition of “American.” By that, I meant I’d accept T.S. Eliot (born in the U.S., though thought of as British), as well as Saul Bellow, Joseph Brodsky, Czeslaw Milosz and Isaac Bashevis Singer (all of whom were born elsewhere but lived and worked for many years in the U.S.).
Rudyard Kipling lived in Vermont for several years, but I can’t accept him as an American. And Asturias, I’m afraid, is too blatant an effort to get by on a technicality.
100 points
Joseph Brodsky 1
T.S. Eliot 1
50 points
William Faulkner 2
Ernest Hemingway 2
Isaac Bashevis Singer 3
Sinclair Lewis 4
Eugene O’Neill 4
Saul Bellow 4
Toni Morrison 5
Pearl Buck 5
John Steinbeck 5
Wrong Answer that I won’t penalize 1
(Asturias won’t get any points, but I won’t penalize an attempt at cleverness)
Wrong Answers (-100) 4
LABORS OF HERCULES
100 points
Ceryneian Hind 1
50 points
Apples of the Hesperides 2
Erymanthian Boar 2
Girdle of Hippolyta 2
Mares of Diomedes 2
Nemean Lion 2
Cerberus 3
Stymphalian Birds 3
Cretan Bull 5
Hydra 5
5 points
Augean Stables 13
Wrong Answer (-100) 1
Nobody guessed: Capturing Geryon’s Cattle
OSCAR WINNER IN LEAD & SUPPORTING ROLES
50 points:
Robert DeNiro 2
Helen Hayes 2
Kevin Spacey 2
Denzel Washington 3
Jack Lemmon 3
Ingrid Bergman 3
Gene Hackman 3
Jessica Lange 4
Maggie Smith 4
Jack Nicholson 4
Meryl Streep 5
Wrong Answers (-100) 3
BIG TEN COLLEGES
100 points
Ohio State 1
(Sometimes the most obvious answer is a winner!)
50 points
Illinois 2
Iowa 2
Michigan 2
Michigan State 2
Northwestern 2
Indiana 3
Purdue 4
Minnesota 5
Penn State 5
25 points
Wisconsin 9
Wrong Answers (-100) 3
PRESIDENTS WITH FACIAL HAIR
I DID specify a beard or mustache, so muttonchops and sideburns don’t count!
100 points
Benjamin Harrison 1
Teddy Roosevelt 1
50 points
Ulysses S. Grant 3
James Garfield 4
Grover Cleveland 5
Rutherford B. Hayes 5
William Howard Taft 5
25 points
Abraham Lincoln 7
Chester Alan Arthur 7
Wrong Answers (-100) 2
TWELVE TRIBES OF ISRAEL
100 points
Issachar 1
50 points
Benjamin 3
Napthali 3
Reuben 3
Asher 4
Joseph/Menasseh 4
Judah 4
Dan 5
25 points
Levi 6
Gad 7
Wrong Answers (-100) 1
Nobody guessed: Zebulon or Simeon
PROVINCES OF CANADA
50 points
Newfoundland 2
Quebec 2
Saskatchewan 2
British Columbia 3
Manitoba 3
Nova Scotia 3
Alberta 4
Prince Edward Island 5
25 points
New Brunswick 7
Ontario 7
ASTRONAUTS WHO WALKED ON MOON
100 points
Pete Conrad 1
Alan Shepard 1
50 points
Alan Bean 2
Gene Cernan 2
Charles Duke 2
Edgar Mitchell 2
David Scott 2
John Young 2
Buzz Aldrin 4
James Irwin 5
25 points
Harrison Schmitt 6
5 points
Neil Armstrong 11
And the winner is…
HoopyFrood, who came up with not one but TWO unique answers
hoopy frood 575
Biotop 525
rachelchristine 505
delphica 500
Pravnik 500
Bryan Ekers 500
Sternvogel 500
KGS 480
TerminusEst 475
Dolores Reborn 475
VarlosZ 475
Grumman 455
Bibliophage 450
GaryGnu 450
5-4-Fighting 450
Spoons 430
Zsofia 425
SwampBear 425
CMKELLER 410
Justin Credible 410
Zebra 405
Tarragon918 405
KayElCee 405
ZamboniRacer 405
ducktail 405
NDP 400
sigmagirl 400
Little Nemo 400
Governor Quinn 400
Elendil’s heir 380
scarlett67 380
42fish 380
OtakuLoki 380
THingFish 360
5 time champ 305
Gonzomax 255
anyrose 250
Cunctator 180
Fusoya 150
Omniscient 130
AHunter3 -1000
AHunter3 was masterful at coming up with creatively wrong answers- if only those powers could be turned away from the Dark Side, who knows what that brain could accomplish?
Thanks for playing- hope it was fun. And rest assured, after 90 minutes of score tabulations, I will NOT be volunteering to do this again any time soon!
Arrgh! So close…
I just knew I shoulda gone with the cattle…
You got me. 
Thank you, Astorian for a fun game!