# The Daily Feud: All Things Icelandic by WormtheRed \[Game Over\] **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [January 26, 2009, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-all-things-icelandic-by-wormthered-game-over/482986 "2009-01-26T00:31:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-all-things-icelandic-by-wormthered-game-over/482986/41 "2009-01-26T08:05:34Z")
FTR, I knew that there weren’t many people there, but wasn’t sure how few. I figured half a million was a nice guess, and not too insulting. My state, Florida, has about 60 times your population and is not quite twice the landmass. We also have a dearth of yaks and polar bears, so we are similar in many ways. Come visit some time. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-all-things-icelandic-by-wormthered-game-over/482986/42 "2009-01-26T08:13:47Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > FTR, I knew that there weren’t many people there, but wasn’t sure how few. I figured half a million was a nice guess, and not too insulting. My state, Florida, has about 60 times your population and is not quite twice the landmass. We also have a dearth of yaks and polar bears, so we are similar in many ways. Come visit some time. > > 🙂 The main difference being that Florida isn’t 90% inhospitable lava fields and sand 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-all-things-icelandic-by-wormthered-game-over/482986/43 "2009-01-26T08:55:44Z")
> [@WormTheRed](#): > > _::goes off to bake the pies::_ [lava pies](http://www.finedinings.com/chocolate_molten_lava_cake_recip.htm)? ---
**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-all-things-icelandic-by-wormthered-game-over/482986/44 "2009-01-26T08:58:34Z")
> [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](#): > > [lava pies](http://www.finedinings.com/chocolate_molten_lava_cake_recip.htm)? Nah, [lava\* chocolate](http://images.google.is/imgres?imgurl=http://en.goa.is/assets/shop/i_29.jpg&imgrefurl=http://en.goa.is/%3Fitem%3D34%26v%3Ditem&usg=__uNKwSGGVQlUSC21TC9K2HL7VhY4=&h=600&w=671&sz=58&hl=is&start=12&um=1&tbnid=E3N0Ax3k1uStcM:&tbnh=123&tbnw=138&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dhraun%2Bs%25C3%25BAkkula%25C3%25B0i%26um%3D1%26hl%3Dis%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DG) 🙂 \*Hraun means lava in icelandic ---
**Author:** ![Claptree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@Claptree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claptree)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-all-things-icelandic-by-wormthered-game-over/482986/45 "2009-01-26T09:04:24Z")
Yay, my first feud! 1: 0.3 2: 970 3: Tundra 4: Sheep 5: Denmark 6: 1905 7: Björk 8: Vulcanism 9: Reykjavik 10: No ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-all-things-icelandic-by-wormthered-game-over/482986/46 "2009-01-26T09:12:31Z")
> [@WormTheRed](#): > > 1: 0,3 > 2: 850 > 3: Lavafields > 4: Sheep > 5: Denmark > 6: 1944 > 7: Bjork > 8: Earthquakes > 9: Reykjavik > 10: No > > And these are the correct factual answers 😛 > > I’ll be damned if I don’t place well in this one. _Earthquakes_ are a cool natural phenomenon? Nobody else is going to get that one. ---
**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-all-things-icelandic-by-wormthered-game-over/482986/47 "2009-01-26T09:18:12Z")
> [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](#): > > _Earthquakes_ are a cool natural phenomenon? Nobody else is going to get that one. That was the only one I tried to think like everyone else, since earthquakes happen in many more places than just here. I guess my thinking was wrong ☹ Now I just hope I manage to hit rock bottom like **Illuminatiprimus** did in the UK Feud 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![criminey.jicket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@criminey.jicket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/criminey.jicket)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-all-things-icelandic-by-wormthered-game-over/482986/48 "2009-01-26T09:41:13Z")
1:.5 2: 900 3: volcanic rock 4: sheep 5: Denmark 6: 1945 7: Bjork 8: hotsprings 9: Reyjkavik 10: No #5. I’m pretty sure #4-Denmark is right, but I’m sorta guessing on the year. I know it was right around WW2. #9. I knew I was misspelling Reyjkavik, so I googled it. ---
**Author:** ![criminey.jicket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@criminey.jicket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/criminey.jicket)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-all-things-icelandic-by-wormthered-game-over/482986/49 "2009-01-26T09:43:20Z")
Hah! I still ended up misspelling “Reykjavik”. :smack: ---
**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:** [January 26, 2009, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-all-things-icelandic-by-wormthered-game-over/482986/50 "2009-01-26T09:49:26Z")
1: 1.8 2: 1250 3: Grassland 4: Sheep 5: Denmark 6: 1950 7: Bjork 8: Volcanoes 9: Reykjavik 10: No ---
**Author:** ![bluecanary](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bluecanary/32/3614_2.png) [@bluecanary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bluecanary)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-all-things-icelandic-by-wormthered-game-over/482986/51 "2009-01-26T09:52:58Z")
1: 4.0 2: 1450 3: Volcanic 4: Sheep 5: Denmark 6: 1850 7: Bjork 8: Aurora Borealis (Northern lights) 9: Rekyjavik 10: No 1. Is this going to be scored as normal? If yes I expect a lot of 1pts! 2. and 6. = Total guesses ---
**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-all-things-icelandic-by-wormthered-game-over/482986/52 "2009-01-26T09:53:57Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > Wait, volcanic heat is not a cool phenomenon. It is a hot one. And I still haven’t seen one ☹ We have three volcanoes that are due any time now, so I’m keeping my fingers crossed for some action 🙂 > [@gonzomax](#): > > How about the annual snow up the wazoo festival. You probably have plenty more snow than I do. The ground is gray and the twilight is booooring ☹ > [@gonzomax](#): > > The yearly eating of absurd food that a cat would bury ,is a famous one. It just started this weekend. I won’t eat the stuff until the weekend after next though. > [@gonzomax](#): > > Then the annual spelling bee that in 2 centuries has yet to have a winner. They only spell cities and names. Always the funny guy 😃 ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-all-things-icelandic-by-wormthered-game-over/482986/53 "2009-01-26T14:09:25Z")
1: 13.2 2: 1410 3: mountains 4: sheep 5: England 6: 1850 7: Haldor Laxness 8: hot springs 9: Reykavik 10: no Jeebus, I’ll be lucky to get one of these right. Maybe two or three. ETA: Kicking myself on #5 and #6, because it hasn’t been that long since I read the Laxness book and they were all over Denmark, and 1944. ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-all-things-icelandic-by-wormthered-game-over/482986/54 "2009-01-26T14:24:06Z")
> [@WormTheRed](#): > > 1: 0,3 > > And these are the correct factual answers 😛 > > I’ll be damned if I don’t place well in this one. You define earthquakes as “cool natural phenomenons”? :eek: That must be by opposition to “hot natural phenomenons”, like volcanoes erupting or something. Or else, I wouldn’t want to live through an “uncool natural phenomenon” in Iceland! ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-all-things-icelandic-by-wormthered-game-over/482986/55 "2009-01-26T14:34:40Z")
The latest Icelandic news: [Icelandic government falls; asked to stay on - CNN.com](http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/01/26/iceland.government/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-all-things-icelandic-by-wormthered-game-over/482986/56 "2009-01-26T14:48:40Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > The latest Icelandic news: [Icelandic government falls; asked to stay on - CNN.com](http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/01/26/iceland.government/index.html) Let´s keep this thread Feud-related, since there’s another one on the situation right [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=503177). (hey, I don’t want people to miss out on the fun stuff we have happening over here :D) **clairobscur** : Volcanic eruptions are also cool! Since they usually aren’t that big and are really funky to watch 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-all-things-icelandic-by-wormthered-game-over/482986/57 "2009-01-26T15:05:49Z")
Only 33 contestants so far (including the cheaters)… damn, that’s a lot of chatting going on 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Walkabout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/46a35a/32.png) [@Walkabout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walkabout)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-all-things-icelandic-by-wormthered-game-over/482986/58 "2009-01-26T15:45:19Z")
Nope, can’t do this one. I just can’t think of enough reasonable answers. And I know the answer to 9, but I have no clue how to spell it without Google! ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-all-things-icelandic-by-wormthered-game-over/482986/59 "2009-01-26T16:16:12Z")
1. 1 2. 880 3. grassland 4. sheep 5. Sweden 6. 1850 7. Bjork 8. hot springs 9. Reykavik 10. no 2,4,5,6 total guesses ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-all-things-icelandic-by-wormthered-game-over/482986/60 "2009-01-26T16:22:08Z")
Wow, no Googling, huh? Let’s see how much I don’t know! 1: 1 2: 870 3: Grassland 4: Sheep 5: Denmark 6: 1675 7: Bjork 8: Volcanos a-splodin’ 9: Reykavik 10: No [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-all-things-icelandic-by-wormthered-game-over/482986.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-all-things-icelandic-by-wormthered-game-over/482986.md?page=4)