# Religious Feud by 5 time champ \[Closed\] **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [July 29, 2008, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-feud-by-5-time-champ-closed/458136 "2008-07-29T20:09:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-feud-by-5-time-champ-closed/458136/61 "2008-07-30T02:05:01Z")
[QUOTE=Avarie537] No way! I was born in 1980!! 😃 [/QUOTE] It’s a miracle! ---
**Author:** ![RachelChristine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7ab992/32.png) [@RachelChristine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RachelChristine)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-feud-by-5-time-champ-closed/458136/62 "2008-07-30T02:11:35Z")
I’m really bummed that I didn’t say Exodus as my book of the Bible. It was my first thought, then I changed it. Same with Jerry Fallwell, but then that pic of Jim Bakker crying came into my head. And why on earth didn’t I think of Scientology!! Oh well, the rest of my answers are pretty good I think. ---
**Author:** ![Monstera\_deliciosa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monstera_deliciosa/32/109_2.png) [@Monstera\_deliciosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstera_deliciosa)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-feud-by-5-time-champ-closed/458136/63 "2008-07-30T02:12:16Z")
1. Exodus 2. Medina 3. Abraham 4. Peter 5. There is no god but Allah, and Mohammed is his prophet 6. Sinai 7. Water into wine 8. Pat Robertson 9. Buddhism 10. Scientology ---
**Author:** ![Taber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac91a4/32.png) [@Taber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taber)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-feud-by-5-time-champ-closed/458136/64 "2008-07-30T03:59:41Z")
[QUOTE=anyrose] not to hijack, but under what circumstnces would the Dvorak configuration be advantageous over the Qwerty one? [/QUOTE] Well, for me, I was a terrible touch typist, so using Dvorak forces me to not hunt and peck. I like the improved usefulness of the home row, the easier access to vowels and punctuation. I dislike the placement of R, and dislike how some letters only moved one spot which made them harder to learn (y,h,b). I also dislike how the ancillary punctuation like =/- all moved, since they are used so infrequently that it doesn’t matter where they are speedwise. ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-feud-by-5-time-champ-closed/458136/65 "2008-07-30T04:33:06Z")
Here are the results; possible perfect score of 592. 1. Other than Genesis, name a Book of the Old Testament? Deuteronomy 1 Exodus 43 Leviticus 2 Psalms 3 Proverbs 1 2. Other than Mecca, name a Muslim holy city. Istanbul 1 Jerusalem 17 Karbala 1 Medina 31 3. Name one of the Patriarchs of the OT Abraham 42 Issac 1 Jacob 1 Joshua 1 Levi 1 Moses 4 4. Name one of the Twelve Apostles Bartholomew 1 John 6 Judas 2 Matthew 4 Paul 7 Peter 30 5. Name one of the 5 tenets of Islam Fasting during Ramadan 4 Giving of alms 5 Haji to Mecca 15 Only one God, Allah 15 Pray five times 8 Surrender of the will to Allah 1 umm…death to America? 1 Allah is merciful 1 6. Name a holy mountain Ararat 9 Moriah 1 Mt Zion 1 Mt Carmel 1 Mt Sinai 33 Mt Olympus 3 Tai Shan 1 Fuji 1 7. Name a miracle performed by Jesus Healing lepers 2 Lazarus 9 Loaves & fishes 11 Making a bedridden man walk 1 Walk on water 6 Water into wine 21 8. Name a famous or infamous televangelist Benny Hinn 1 Billy Graham 6 Jerry Falwell 17 Jim Bakker 8 Jimmy Swaggart 6 Joel Osteen 1 Oral Roberts 4 Pat Robertson 6 Tammy Fae 1 9. Name a non-Abrahamic religion i.e. not Christian, Muslim, Jewish Buddhism 25 Hinduism 22 Sikhism 1 Zoroastrianism 2 10. Name a ‘cult’ religion Branch Davidians 2 Falun Gong 1 Moonies 5 Scientology 39 Satamism 1 Raelians 1 Hare Krishnas 1 ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-feud-by-5-time-champ-closed/458136/66 "2008-07-30T04:39:14Z")
And we have a winner, er I mean there is a tie for first place. With two perfect scores:\*\* silenus & 5-4-fighting\*\* are our winners. Your rosaries are in the mail. 🙂 And I hope **DtC** can find it in his heart to forgive my confusion of 5 Pillars of Islam. 1 silenus 592 1 5-4-Fighting 592 3 Thudlow Boink 570 4 cmkeller 566 5 Sternvogel 564 6 drm 546 6 Ace309 546 8 bibliophage 542 9 5 time champ 534 10 Diogenes the Cynic 532 11 MHaye 528 12 Biffy the Elephant Shrew 524 13 42fish 522 14 Hoopy Frood 520 15 Avarie537 518 16 robardin 512 17 Fretful Porpentine 506 18 astorian 498 19 winterhawk11 494 20 Dolores Reborn 488 20 swampbear 488 22 mshar253 484 23 OtakuLoki 482 24 IvoryTowerDenizen 478 25 anyrose 474 25 delphica 474 27 HongKongFooey 468 28 bmoak 466 29 Mtgman 464 30 Beadalin 456 31 Taber 454 32 Baker 446 33 KGS 444 34 3acresandatruck 440 35 adhemar 434 36 RachelChristine 414 37 Gala Matrix Fire 400 38 jali 398 39 USCDiver 392 40 Cunctator 390 40 Hockey Monkey 390 42 El\_Kabong 374 42 tarragon918 374 44 DfrntBreign 368 45 photopat 366 46 twickster 354 47 gonzomax 322 48 Sampiro 312 49 Kolga 280 50 mswas 128 alpha 3acresandatruck 440 42fish 522 5 time champ 534 5-4-Fighting 592 Ace309 546 adhemar 434 anyrose 474 astorian 498 Avarie537 518 Baker 446 Beadalin 456 bibliophage 542 Biffy the Elephant Shrew 524 bmoak 466 cmkeller 566 Cunctator 390 delphica 474 DfrntBreign 368 Diogenes the Cynic 532 Dolores Reborn 488 drm 546 El\_Kabong 374 Fretful Porpentine 506 Gala Matrix Fire 400 gonzomax 322 Hockey Monkey 390 HongKongFooey 468 Hoopy Frood 520 IvoryTowerDenizen 478 jali 398 KGS 444 Kolga 280 MHaye 528 mshar253 484 mswas 128 Mtgman 464 OtakuLoki 482 photopat 366 RachelChristine 414 robardin 512 Sampiro 312 silenus 592 Sternvogel 564 swampbear 488 Taber 454 tarragon918 374 Thudlow Boink 570 twickster 354 USCDiver 392 winterhawk11 494 omega ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-feud-by-5-time-champ-closed/458136/67 "2008-07-30T05:04:48Z")
Fun feud! I didn’t do so hot, because I missed a couple of obviously better responses. But what the heck, it’s supposed to be just fun. I hope you don’t mind **5 timd champ** but on a smaller board I frequent I’ve started a couple feuds, and now I’ve borrowed this idea for use there. But I changed some of the statements and the one I posted goes like this. 1. Other than Genesis, name a Book of the Old Testament. 2. Name a primary god in a religion which existed prior to Christianity. 3. Name one of the gods dwelling on Mt. Olympus(careful with the names here!) 4. Name one of the twelve original apostles of Jesus 5. Name one of the 5 Pillars of Islam 6. Name a city regarded as holy. 7. Other than His resurrection, name a miracle performed by Jesus 8. Name a televangelist 9. Name the founder of a non-Abrahamic religion, i.e. not Christian, Muslim, Jewish 10. Name a ‘cult’ religion(you can use whatever definition of ‘cult’ you want!) It will be interesting to compare the results to the items which are the same. And I’m not sending rosaries 😛 as a prize, I’m sending freshly baked cookies. I am a baker professionally IRL. ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-feud-by-5-time-champ-closed/458136/68 "2008-07-30T05:17:53Z")
Sure, go ahead- just send me a chocolate chip cookie. Which gets me to thinking- we have accumulated an awful lot of data in these Feuds. It sure would be nice if someone loaded the data into a game that we could play in real tiime. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-feud-by-5-time-champ-closed/458136/69 "2008-07-30T05:25:10Z")
Heh somehow I think I didn’t understand the rules of the game. I thought that we got less points by picking what everyone else picked, so I didn’t pick Exodus because I knew everyone else would. I thought if I picked something more obscure I’d have to split the score with fewer people. Ahh well. ---
**Author:** ![tesseract](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bb73d2/32.png) [@tesseract](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tesseract)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-feud-by-5-time-champ-closed/458136/70 "2008-07-30T06:52:55Z")
whoops! too late ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-feud-by-5-time-champ-closed/458136/71 "2008-07-30T11:34:20Z")
F\*ck. I have a PhD in religion and I came in 46th? In my defense, all that schoolin’, and I’ve never had a class on the Bible… ---
**Author:** ![Petrobey\_Mavromihalis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bcef8e/32.png) [@Petrobey\_Mavromihalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Petrobey_Mavromihalis)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-feud-by-5-time-champ-closed/458136/72 "2008-07-30T11:49:43Z")
Argg, too late. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-feud-by-5-time-champ-closed/458136/73 "2008-07-30T13:27:31Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] 3 Thudlow Boink 570 [/QUOTE] Woo hoo! Thanks for the feud! ---
**Author:** ![Walkabout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/46a35a/32.png) [@Walkabout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walkabout)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-feud-by-5-time-champ-closed/458136/74 "2008-07-30T13:37:54Z")
1. Exodus 2. Jerusalem 3. Abraham 4. Peter 5. oneness of Allah 6. Ararat 7. Walking on water 8. Billy Graham 9. Hinduism 10. Scientology I’m probably too late, but I’ll give it a shot anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-feud-by-5-time-champ-closed/458136/75 "2008-07-30T13:42:19Z")
1. Leviticus 2. Medina? 3. Abraham 4. Peter 5. Don’t blow shit up in my name 6. Sinai 7. Turn water into wine 8. Jim Baker 9. Budhism 10. Jim Jones, what ever his deal was called. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-feud-by-5-time-champ-closed/458136/76 "2008-07-30T13:44:13Z")
Thanks again, **Sternvogel**. That was a fun feud, and I am comfortably out of the basement. This is good for me. Umm… **twicks**? What religions did you study for your Ph.D.? ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-feud-by-5-time-champ-closed/458136/77 "2008-07-30T15:15:59Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] F\*ck. I have a PhD in religion and I came in 46th? In my defense, all that schoolin’, and I’ve never had a class on the Bible… [/QUOTE] Well, at 45th that makes me feel a little better. ---
**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 30, 2008, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-feud-by-5-time-champ-closed/458136/78 "2008-07-30T15:22:34Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] F\*ck. I have a PhD in religion and I came in 46th? In my defense, all that schoolin’, and I’ve never had a class on the Bible… [/QUOTE] I always find that I do worse at these things when I know a lot about the topic (because unconventional answers keep springing to mind, and I don’t realize they’re not the ones that the average person would think of). But then I suck at Feud, in general. (Woo hoo for being in 17th place this time, though!) ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-feud-by-5-time-champ-closed/458136/79 "2008-07-30T15:55:05Z")
middle of the pack… AGAIN. I guess that’s my lot in [feud] life. ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-feud-by-5-time-champ-closed/458136/80 "2008-07-30T16:09:52Z")
[QUOTE=OtakuLoki] Thanks again, **Sternvogel**. That was a fun feud, and I am comfortably out of the basement. This is good for me. Umm… **twicks**? What religions did you study for your Ph.D.? [/QUOTE] You’re welcome- and it’s **5 time champ**. But anyone can make a mistake. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-feud-by-5-time-champ-closed/458136.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-feud-by-5-time-champ-closed/458136.md?page=5)