# "Life During Wartime" Feud by want2know \[Closed\]

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-during-wartime-feud-by-want2know-closed/457849>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [July 26, 2008, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-during-wartime-feud-by-want2know-closed/457849 "2008-07-26T15:46:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2008, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-during-wartime-feud-by-want2know-closed/457849/1 "2008-07-26T15:46:57Z")

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If any of you have ideas for Feuds -_and would like me to score them_- PM me and I’ll get you on The List.

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

Try to think of the most popular answer, to get the most people matching you. Scoring - Any answer duplicated by anyone else is worth 100 points divided by the number of entrants. For example: 50 entrant game = 2 pts per answer. If 4 people match that means they each get 8 pts for that answer. No matches = 0 points.

_ **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 between the period and the word!!!  
2. response  
3. rejoinder**  
The game will end either when we have 50 entrants, or at **4:30 PM Central** on Sunday, 7/27/08 whichever comes first.

Good luck!

1. Name a famous American general, past or present.
2. Name a non-American military leader, past or present.
3. Name a weapon of war before the invention of guns.
4. Name a wartime motto or slogan.
5. Name a wartime US president.
6. Name a war movie.
7. Name a war novel.
8. What’s the average time a person serves in the US military?
9. Name a famous female associated with a war.
10. Name a TV show in a military setting.

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**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2008, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-during-wartime-feud-by-want2know-closed/457849/2 "2008-07-26T15:53:13Z")

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I left my PM list at work - I went by memory. Sorry if I left anyone out.

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**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2008, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-during-wartime-feud-by-want2know-closed/457849/3 "2008-07-26T15:59:49Z")

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1. Eisenhower
2. Hitler
3. Bows and Arrows
4. Uncle Sam Wants You!
5. Eisenhower
6. Apocalypse Now
7. The Red Badge of Courage
8. Two years
9. Jessica Lynch
10. M_A_S\*H

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**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2008, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-during-wartime-feud-by-want2know-closed/457849/4 "2008-07-26T16:02:16Z")

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1. Douglas MacArthur
2. Alexander the Great
3. Bows & arrows
4. Loose Lips Sink Ships
5. Abraham Lincoln
6. Apocalypse Now
7. The Winds of War
8. 4 years
9. Joan of Arc
10. MASH

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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:** [July 26, 2008, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-during-wartime-feud-by-want2know-closed/457849/5 "2008-07-26T16:08:33Z")

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1. Schwarzkopf

2. Hitler

3. Bow and arrow

4. Loose lips sink ships

5. FDR

6. Tora! Tora! Tora!

7. Catch-22

8. 2 years

9. Rosie the Riveter

10. MASH

11. Not really a motto, I don’t think, but it’s all I could come up with.

12. Toss-up for me between this and All Quiet on the Western Front.

13. Tough; are we talking tour of duty, or career military-type people?

14. You didn’t say they couldn’t be fictional. 🙂

15. I’ll go with what seemed to be popular in the classic TV feud we just did.

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**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2008, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-during-wartime-feud-by-want2know-closed/457849/6 "2008-07-26T16:10:39Z")

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1. Patton
2. Napoleon
3. Sword
4. Don’t fire 'til you see the whites of their eyes!
5. Roosevelt
6. Apocolypse Now
7. Catch-22
8. 2 years
9. Rosie The Riveter
10. M_A_S\*H

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**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2008, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-during-wartime-feud-by-want2know-closed/457849/7 "2008-07-26T16:11:53Z")

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Obviously I meant FDR and not Teddy

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**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2008, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-during-wartime-feud-by-want2know-closed/457849/8 "2008-07-26T16:12:46Z")

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1. Patton
2. Napoleon
3. Sword
4. “Remember the Maine, to hell with Spain!”
5. FDR
6. “Saving Private Ryan”
7. The Red Badge of Courage
8. Four years
9. Florence Nightingale
10. M_A_S\*H

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**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2008, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-during-wartime-feud-by-want2know-closed/457849/9 "2008-07-26T16:15:16Z")

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1. General Douglas MacArthur

2. Alexander the Great

3. Catapult

4. Uncle Sam Wants You

5. George W. Bush

6. Saving Private Ryan

7. Gone With the Wind

8. Four years

9. Joan of Arc

10. M_A_S\*H

11. Eisenhower will proably be more popular but MacArthur is more iconic

12. Trojan horse keeps tugging at me though

13. _GWTH_ will be popular but I’ll be mad if _All’s Quiet on the Western Front_ gets it

Good thread, once again. This one could be all over the place.

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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2008, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-during-wartime-feud-by-want2know-closed/457849/10 "2008-07-26T16:15:58Z")

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1. Patton
2. Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery (British)
3. Catapult
4. Careless Talk Costs Lives
5. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
6. Apocalypse Now
7. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
8. Five years
9. Tokyo Rose
10. MASH

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**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2008, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-during-wartime-feud-by-want2know-closed/457849/11 "2008-07-26T16:20:24Z")

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1. Dwight D. Eisenhower
2. Erwin Rommel
3. Trebuchet
4. “Loose Lips Sink Ships”
5. Abraham Lincoln
6. Patton
7. Catch-22
8. Four years
9. Tokyo Rose
10. JAG

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**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2008, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-during-wartime-feud-by-want2know-closed/457849/12 "2008-07-26T16:21:09Z")

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I predict “10. M_A_S\*H” will be this feud’s “conch”

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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:** [July 26, 2008, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-during-wartime-feud-by-want2know-closed/457849/13 "2008-07-26T16:22:40Z")

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1. Patton
2. Alexander
3. Trebuchet
4. Don’t Tread On Me
5. George W. Bush
6. Platoon
7. All Quiet on the Western Front
8. 4 years
9. Rosie the Riveter
10. M_A_S\*H

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**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2008, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-during-wartime-feud-by-want2know-closed/457849/14 "2008-07-26T16:27:45Z")

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1. Douglas MacArthur
2. Alexander the Great
3. Sword
4. Remember the Alamo!
5. Franklin Roosevelt
6. Saving Private Ryan
7. The Dogs of War
8. 4 years
9. Tokyo Rose
10. M_A_S\*H

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**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2008, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-during-wartime-feud-by-want2know-closed/457849/15 "2008-07-26T16:29:47Z")

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[QUOTE=Scarlett67]  
7. Toss-up for me between this and All Quiet on the Western Front.  
[/QUOTE]  
Once again I second guess myself and possbily throw away some serious points.

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**Author:** ![Queen\_Tonya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2008, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-during-wartime-feud-by-want2know-closed/457849/16 "2008-07-26T16:31:53Z")

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1. MacArthur
2. Rommel
3. sword
4. Loose lips sink ships
5. Roosevelt
6. Apocalypse Now
7. The Naked and the Dead
8. 4 years
9. Rosie the Riveter
10. M_A_S\*H

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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2008, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-during-wartime-feud-by-want2know-closed/457849/17 "2008-07-26T16:32:01Z")

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1. Robert E. Lee
2. Napoleon
3. Spear
4. Loose lips sink ships
5. FDR
6. Saving Private Ryan
7. For Whom the Bell Tolls
8. 2 years
9. Rosie the Riveter
10. MASH  
Note: I am a Quaker. This is why I will end up in the bottom 10 on this one. Robert E Lee? :smack:

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**Author:** ![HongKongFooey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c4cdca/32.png) [@HongKongFooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HongKongFooey)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2008, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-during-wartime-feud-by-want2know-closed/457849/18 "2008-07-26T16:35:18Z")

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1. Eisenhower
2. Napoleon
3. Catapult
4. Kilroy was here
5. Roosevelt
6. Saving Private Ryan
7. The Red Badge of Courage
8. 3 years
9. Florence Nightingale
10. MASH

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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:** [July 26, 2008, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-during-wartime-feud-by-want2know-closed/457849/19 "2008-07-26T16:35:39Z")

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1. Patton
2. Rommel
3. Sword
4. I Want You
5. Lincoln
6. Saving Private Ryan
7. From Here To Eternity
8. Three years
9. Molly Pitcher
10. MASH

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**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2008, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-during-wartime-feud-by-want2know-closed/457849/20 "2008-07-26T16:42:08Z")

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1. Patton
2. Rommel
3. Bow and arrow
4. “We can do it!”
5. Lincoln
6. _Saving Private Ryan_
7. _Catch-22_
8. Three years
9. Rosie the Riveter
10. _M.A.S.H._

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