The All-American Feud by MsWhatsit (closed)

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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.

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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
2. response
3. rejoinder

If this format is ignored, our resident bouncer Brujaja will come in and kick your ass!

The game will end either when we have 50 entrants, or at 4:30 PM Central on Thursday, 6/3/08 whichever comes first. Good luck!

  1. Name an American composer.
  2. Name a type of food that is stereotypically American.
  3. Name a battle of the American Revolutionary War.
  4. Name a particular accent that an American might speak with.
  5. Name something people might do on July 4.
  6. Besides July 4, name a holiday celebrated only in America.
  7. Name a state tree. (Just the tree; you don’t need to name the state.)
  8. Name a current senator or representative in the US Congress.
  9. Name a famous American criminal.
  10. Name a famous fictional American.
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  1. Aaron Copeland
  2. Turkey
  3. Bunker Hill
  4. Southern
  5. Watch fireworks
  6. President’s Day
  7. Oak
  8. Hillary Clinton
  9. Ted Bundy
  10. Paul Bunyan
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  1. Gershwin
  2. Apple pie
  3. Battle of Bunker Hill
  4. Southern
  5. Watch fireworks
  6. Memorial Day
  7. Oak
  8. Hillary Clinton
  9. Al Capone
  10. Captain America

(#10 is going to be all over the map, methinks–so many choices!)

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  1. Aaron Copland
  2. Hot dogs
  3. Bunker Hill
  4. Southern drawl
  5. Watch fireworks
  6. Thanksgiving
  7. Ohio buckeye
  8. Nancy Pelosi
  9. Pretty Boy Floyd
  10. Uncle Sam
    How many people will be tempted to answer #9 by repeating their answer for #8?
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  1. Aaron Copland
  2. Hotdog
  3. Bunker Hill
  4. Southern*
  5. Watch/set off fireworks
  6. President’s Day
  7. Oak
  8. Barack Obama
  9. Al Capone
  10. Paul Bunyan
  • for those of us blessed with bein’ born with it. :smiley:
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  1. Aaron Copland
  2. apple pie
  3. Lexington and Concord
  4. Southern
  5. light fireworks
  6. Thanksgiving
  7. dogwood
  8. Barack Obama
  9. Al Capone
  10. Ichabod Crane
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  1. John Williams
  2. Hot Dog
  3. Concord
  4. Southern
  5. Fireworks
  6. Memorial Day
  7. Fir
  8. Obama
  9. Capone
  10. Paul Bunyon
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  1. Rodgers
  2. American pie
  3. Bunker Hill
  4. Southern
  5. Have a barbeque
  6. Thanksgiving
  7. Elm tree
  8. Obama
  9. O. J. Simpson
  10. Tom Sawyer
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  1. George Gershwin
  2. Apple Pie
  3. Bunker Hill
  4. Southern drawl
  5. Set off fireworks
  6. Martin Luther King Jr Day
  7. Pine
  8. Hillary Rodham Clinton
  9. Al Capone
  10. Huck Finn

Note:
6. On the grounds that I know Canada has Thanksgiving (even if they celebrate it a month ahead of schedule) and I’m sure other countries have Presidents Day (albeit for different presidents)
7. Since I doubt too many people actually know any state trees, I’m treating as just “Name a tree, any tree”

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  1. Name an American composer.

  2. Name a type of food that is stereotypically American.

  3. Name a battle of the American Revolutionary War.

  4. Name a particular accent that an American might speak with.

  5. Name something people might do on July 4.

  6. Besides July 4, name a holiday celebrated only in America.

  7. Name a state tree. (Just the tree; you don’t need to name the state.)

  8. Name a current senator or representative in the US Congress.

  9. Name a famous American criminal.

  10. Name a famous fictional American.
    [/QUOTE]

  11. Aaron Copeland

  12. Hamburger

  13. Bunker Hill

  14. Southern

  15. Fireworks

  16. Thanksgiving

  17. Buckeye

  18. Russ Feingold

  19. Manson

  20. Tom Sawyer

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Sorry about repeating the questions. :o

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  1. George Gershwin
  2. Apple pie
  3. Bunker Hill
  4. Brooklyn
  5. Shoot off firecrackers
  6. Presidents Day
  7. Buckeye
  8. Barack Obama
  9. Al Capone
  10. Paul Bunyan
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  1. Aaron Copland
  2. Hot dogs
  3. Breed’s Hill
  4. Southern
  5. Picnic/BBQ
  6. Thanksgiving
  7. Redwood
  8. Nancy Pelosi
  9. Al Capone
  10. Paul Bunyan
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  1. Gershwin
  2. Hort dog
  3. Bunker Hill
  4. Southern
  5. Shoot fireworks
  6. Thanksgiving
  7. Oak
  8. Barack Obama
  9. Al Capone
  10. Uncle Sam
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It’s ok! That format is ok, it’s when you write it like this that it’s bad:

  1. Name an American composer.
    Aaron Copeland
  2. Name a type of food that is stereotypically American.
    Hamburger

I just want a list that I can cut and paste easily.

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  1. Copland
  2. Cheeseburgers
  3. Yorktown
  4. New York
  5. BBQ
  6. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
  7. Sequoya
  8. Barack Obama
  9. Al Capone
  10. Clark Kent
  11. I sure hope that’s the state tree of California. If not, I’m going to be very embarassed.
  12. I predict a three-way tie, here: Obama, Clinton, and McCain
  13. And who’s more American than Clark Kent? ETA: That advertising shill Paul Bunyan?!?!?!? :eek:
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  1. Stephen Foster
  2. Hamburger
  3. Lexington
  4. Southern
  5. Grill out
  6. Labor Day
  7. Redwood (?)
  8. Senator Barack Obama
  9. Ted Bundy
  10. Paul Bunyan

Good Feud!

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  1. John Williams
  2. Hamburgers
  3. Yorktown
  4. Southern
  5. Light fireworks
  6. Thanksgiving
  7. Oak
  8. Hillary Clinton
  9. Al Capone
  10. John Henry
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Yes, sequoia = California redwood. But there’s no “y” in it.

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  1. Copeland
  2. Apple pie
  3. Bunker Hill
  4. Southern
  5. Fireworks
  6. Thanksgiving
  7. Redwood
  8. Barack Obama
  9. Al Capone
  10. Superman
  11. I know Canadians have Canadian Thanksgiving, but it’s a different date.
  12. Is he a naturalized citizen? Can he vote?