# The Daily Feud: Avast! A Seagoing Feud by El\_Kabong \[Game Over\]

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-avast-a-seagoing-feud-by-el_kabong-game-over/468935>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [October 21, 2008, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-avast-a-seagoing-feud-by-el_kabong-game-over/468935 "2008-10-21T20:11:04Z")\
**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:** [October 21, 2008, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-avast-a-seagoing-feud-by-el_kabong-game-over/468935/1 "2008-10-21T20:11:04Z")

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

**Object of the game: Try to think of the most popular answer,** to get the most people matching you. Only answers that are “serious” will be scored. Joke answers will not be considered, as it is not fair to other players.

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.

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.

_ **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 after the period!  
2. response  
3. rejoinder**

The game will end either when we have 50 entrants, or at **4:00 PM Central** on Wednesday, 10/22/08 whichever comes first.

Good luck!

This one looks a wee bit harder!

1. Name a famous naval battle from before 1940.
2. Name a type of sailing vessel.
3. Name a South American country that has its own navy.
4. Name a naval officer of the World War II era.
5. Name a type of cargo often carried by ship.
6. Name a navigable inland waterway.
7. Other than Somalia, name a country off which modern-day piracy has been reported.
8. Name a European port city.
9. Name a fictional vessel from literature or the movies.
10. Other than the Titanic, name a famous vessel that sank.

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**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-avast-a-seagoing-feud-by-el_kabong-game-over/468935/2 "2008-10-21T20:25:10Z")

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1. Battle of Trafalgar
2. Clipper ship
3. Bolivia
4. Hyman G. Rickover
5. Oil
6. Mississippi River
7. Yemen
8. Hamburg
9. USS _Caine_
10. RMS _Lusitania_

After being the last entrant to qualify for the previous **Feud** , I’m one of the (if not _the_) first to hit “submit” for this survey!

1. Although the country is landlocked, it’s very serious about its [Naval Force](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolivian_Navy)
2. As in _The Caine Mutiny_
3. Went with it in the previous nautical feud, and see no reason to change horses in midstream, so to speak

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**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-avast-a-seagoing-feud-by-el_kabong-game-over/468935/3 "2008-10-21T20:25:17Z")

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1. Trafalgar

2. schooner

3. Brazil

4. Nimitz

5. bananas

6. Mississippi River

7. Indonesia

8. Antwerp

9. Nautilus

10. Bismarck

11. or Malaysia, lots of piracy in the Strait of Malacca

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**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-avast-a-seagoing-feud-by-el_kabong-game-over/468935/4 "2008-10-21T20:32:05Z")

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1. Trafalgar
2. Schooner
3. Argentina
4. Chester Nimitz
5. Petroleum
6. St. Lawrence Seaway
7. Indonesia
8. Hamburg, Germany
9. The Flying Dutchman
10. Lusitania

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**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-avast-a-seagoing-feud-by-el_kabong-game-over/468935/5 "2008-10-21T20:37:13Z")

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1. Spanish Armada vs England in the Channel- you know the one
2. Sailboat
3. Peru
4. 
5. cars
6. St. Lawrence Seaway
7. 
8. Liverpool
9. The Pearl (Pirates of the Caribbean)
10. The Maine  
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man I suck.

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**Author:** ![Walkabout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/46a35a/32.png) [@Walkabout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walkabout)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-avast-a-seagoing-feud-by-el_kabong-game-over/468935/6 "2008-10-21T20:41:47Z")

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1. Battle of Trafalgar
2. Sloop
3. Brazil
4. John F. Kennedy
5. oil
6. Mississippi River
7. Brazil
8. Rome
9. Black Pearl
10. Lusitania

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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:** [October 21, 2008, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-avast-a-seagoing-feud-by-el_kabong-game-over/468935/7 "2008-10-21T20:46:09Z")

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1. Battle of Jutland

2. Frigate

3. Brazil

4. Nimitz

5. Oil

6. Mississippi river

7. Indonesia

8. Antwerp

9. Pequod

10. Lusitania

11. Whoops. I should have changed this question.

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**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-avast-a-seagoing-feud-by-el_kabong-game-over/468935/8 "2008-10-21T20:47:15Z")

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1. Battle of Trafalgar
2. Sloop
3. Brazil
4. Captain
5. Oil
6. Mississippi River
7. Indonesia
8. London
9. The Argo
10. Lusitania  
ETA: A _specific_ officer, not a rank! :smack: Crap, I’d have said Nimitz if I’d read it right.

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**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-avast-a-seagoing-feud-by-el_kabong-game-over/468935/9 "2008-10-21T20:49:03Z")

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1. Trafalgar
2. Schooner
3. Argentina
4. John F. Kennedy
5. Oil
6. Mississippi River
7. Spain
8. Marseilles
9. Nautilus
10. Maine

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**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-avast-a-seagoing-feud-by-el_kabong-game-over/468935/10 "2008-10-21T20:53:35Z")

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1. Battle of The Spanish Armada
2. Schooner
3. Argentina
4. Nimitz
5. Oil
6. Mississippi River
7. Indonesia
8. Amsterdam
9. Caine
10. Lusitania

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**Author:** ![kenner116](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@kenner116](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenner116)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-avast-a-seagoing-feud-by-el_kabong-game-over/468935/11 "2008-10-21T20:58:46Z")

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1. Battle of Trafalgar
2. Yacht
3. Brazil
4. Nimitz
5. Oil
6. Mississippi River
7. Yemen
8. London
9. Nautilus
10. Lusitania

My first thought for #1 was the Battle of Tsushima (1905). I was also thinking about the battleship Potemkin for some reason.  
For #2 I originally had “sloop”, but that’s going to be ranked #3 or so.  
My answer for #8 would be Rotterdam, but I bet London wins this feud easily.  
#6 might be the Panama Canal, but I’m hoping for a middle-USA-centric response.

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**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-avast-a-seagoing-feud-by-el_kabong-game-over/468935/12 "2008-10-21T21:01:01Z")

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1. Trafalgar
2. Sloop
3. Argentina
4. Nimitz
5. crude oil
6. St. Lawrence River
7. Indonesia
8. London
9. H.M.S. Surprise
10. Andrea Doria

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**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-avast-a-seagoing-feud-by-el_kabong-game-over/468935/13 "2008-10-21T21:01:37Z")

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I pass, maties! I can’t answer any of these! :eek:

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**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-avast-a-seagoing-feud-by-el_kabong-game-over/468935/14 "2008-10-21T21:14:56Z")

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1. Trafalgar
2. yacht
3. Brazil
4. Chester Nimitz
5. petroleum
6. St. Lawrence Seaway
7. Indonesia
8. Rotterdam
9. USS Caine
10. Lusitania

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**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-avast-a-seagoing-feud-by-el_kabong-game-over/468935/15 "2008-10-21T21:19:45Z")

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1. Battle of the Nile
2. Schooner
3. Argentina
4. Halsey
5. Grain
6. Chesapeake Bay
7. China
8. Portsmouth
9. Pequod
10. Andrea Doria

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**Author:** ![3acresandatruck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/e79b87/32.png) [@3acresandatruck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3acresandatruck)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-avast-a-seagoing-feud-by-el_kabong-game-over/468935/16 "2008-10-21T21:28:49Z")

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1. Monitor vs Merrimack
2. schooner
3. Argentina
4. Nimitz
5. oil
6. St. Lawrence Seaway
7. Malaysia
8. Amsterdam
9. the Argo
10. Lusitania

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**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-avast-a-seagoing-feud-by-el_kabong-game-over/468935/17 "2008-10-21T21:34:53Z")

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1. Trafalgar
2. Cutter
3. Argentina
4. Mountbatten
5. Oil
6. Panama canal
7. Indonesia
8. London
9. Dawn Treader
10. Lusitania

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**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-avast-a-seagoing-feud-by-el_kabong-game-over/468935/18 "2008-10-21T21:40:58Z")

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1. Trafalgar
2. Schooner
3. Argentina
4. Nimitz
5. Oil
6. Intercoastal Waterway
7. Panama
8. London
9. The Bounty
10. The Maine

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**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-avast-a-seagoing-feud-by-el_kabong-game-over/468935/19 "2008-10-21T21:44:02Z")

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1. The Monitor and the Merrimack
2. Sloop
3. Argentina
4. Yamamoto
5. Copra
6. St. Lawrence
7. Vietnam
8. Porto
9. Good Ship Lollipop
10. USS Maine

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**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-avast-a-seagoing-feud-by-el_kabong-game-over/468935/20 "2008-10-21T22:12:38Z")

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1. Lepanto
2. Sloop
3. Argentina
4. Yamamoto
5. Ore
6. St Lawrence Seaway
7. Philippines
8. Madeira
9. The Argo
10. Lusitania

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