# The All-American Feud by MsWhatsit (closed)
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-all-american-feud-by-mswhatsit-closed/455087
**Category:** The Game Room
**Created:** [July 2, 2008, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-all-american-feud-by-mswhatsit-closed/455087 "2008-07-02T19:40:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2008, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-all-american-feud-by-mswhatsit-closed/455087/1 "2008-07-02T19:40:43Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#):
>
> In honor of the upcoming July 4 holiday… it’s the All-American Feud!
(_ **Read all the Rules!** _
_ **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.
_ **READ THIS!!!** _
**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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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2008, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-all-american-feud-by-mswhatsit-closed/455087/2 "2008-07-02T19:53:35Z")
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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### Author:  [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2008, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-all-american-feud-by-mswhatsit-closed/455087/3 "2008-07-02T19:53:43Z")
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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### Author:  [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2008, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-all-american-feud-by-mswhatsit-closed/455087/4 "2008-07-02T19:58:18Z")
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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### Author:  [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2008, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-all-american-feud-by-mswhatsit-closed/455087/5 "2008-07-02T19:59:11Z")
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. 😃
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### Author:  [@3acresandatruck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3acresandatruck)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2008, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-all-american-feud-by-mswhatsit-closed/455087/6 "2008-07-02T20:02:12Z")
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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### Author:  [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2008, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-all-american-feud-by-mswhatsit-closed/455087/7 "2008-07-02T20:02:42Z")
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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### Author:  [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2008, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-all-american-feud-by-mswhatsit-closed/455087/8 "2008-07-02T20:03:57Z")
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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### Author:  [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2008, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-all-american-feud-by-mswhatsit-closed/455087/9 "2008-07-02T20:04:10Z")
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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### Author:  [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2008, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-all-american-feud-by-mswhatsit-closed/455087/10 "2008-07-02T20:04:59Z")
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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### Author:  [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2008, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-all-american-feud-by-mswhatsit-closed/455087/11 "2008-07-02T20:06:02Z")
Sorry about repeating the questions. :o
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### Author:  [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2008, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-all-american-feud-by-mswhatsit-closed/455087/12 "2008-07-02T20:11:59Z")
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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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2008, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-all-american-feud-by-mswhatsit-closed/455087/13 "2008-07-02T20:12:16Z")
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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### Author:  [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2008, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-all-american-feud-by-mswhatsit-closed/455087/14 "2008-07-02T20:21:23Z")
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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### Author:  [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2008, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-all-american-feud-by-mswhatsit-closed/455087/15 "2008-07-02T20:23:25Z")
[QUOTE=Hoopy Frood]
Sorry about repeating the questions. :o
[/QUOTE]
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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### Author:  [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2008, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-all-american-feud-by-mswhatsit-closed/455087/16 "2008-07-02T20:24:18Z")
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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### Author:  [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2008, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-all-american-feud-by-mswhatsit-closed/455087/17 "2008-07-02T20:26:31Z")
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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### Author:  [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2008, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-all-american-feud-by-mswhatsit-closed/455087/18 "2008-07-02T20:30:23Z")
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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### Author:  [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2008, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-all-american-feud-by-mswhatsit-closed/455087/19 "2008-07-02T20:30:55Z")
[QUOTE=OtakuLoki]
7. I sure hope that’s the state tree of California. If not, I’m going to be very embarassed.
[/QUOTE]
Yes, sequoia = California redwood. But there’s no “y” in it.
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### Author:  [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2008, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-all-american-feud-by-mswhatsit-closed/455087/20 "2008-07-02T20:34:10Z")
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?
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