# the Daily Feud: The Old College Try by astorian \[Game Over\] **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [December 3, 2008, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-the-old-college-try-by-astorian-game-over/475578 "2008-12-03T22:32:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**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:** [December 4, 2008, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-the-old-college-try-by-astorian-game-over/475578/41 "2008-12-04T02:13:01Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > 1. Economics 1. Name a subject that dumb college students tend to major in. Trying to make some kind of joke- or did an Econ major break your heart in college? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-the-old-college-try-by-astorian-game-over/475578/42 "2008-12-04T02:16:48Z")
1. Notre Dame 2. Duke 3. Radcliffe 4. Moorehouse 5. Oxford 6. Columbia 7. Animal House 8. Lincoln 9. Communications 10. Stanford ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-the-old-college-try-by-astorian-game-over/475578/43 "2008-12-04T02:30:02Z")
1. Notre Dame 2. Duke 3. Wellesley 4. Howard 5. Oxford 6. Cambridge 7. Revenge of the Nerds 8. Abraham Lincoln 9. Communications 10. Stanford ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-the-old-college-try-by-astorian-game-over/475578/44 "2008-12-04T02:36:56Z")
1. Notre Dame 2. Kansas 3. Vassar 4. Howard 5. Paris 6. Clemson 7. Animal House 8. Truman 9. Phys Ed 10. UCLA ---
**Author:** ![Apex\_Rogers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@Apex\_Rogers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apex_Rogers)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-the-old-college-try-by-astorian-game-over/475578/45 "2008-12-04T02:42:40Z")
1. Notre Dame 2. Duke 3. Radcliffe 4. Moorehouse 5. London 6. Cambridge 7. Animal House 8. George Washington 9. Communications 10. Stanford ---
**Author:** ![kenner116](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@kenner116](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenner116)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-the-old-college-try-by-astorian-game-over/475578/46 "2008-12-04T03:03:37Z")
1. University of Notre Dame 2. University of North Carolina 3. Smith College 4. Howard University 5. Oxford University 6. Cambridge University 7. Animal House 8. Washington 9. Communications 10. Stanford University ---
**Author:** ![tarragon918](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d26b3c/32.png) [@tarragon918](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tarragon918)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-the-old-college-try-by-astorian-game-over/475578/47 "2008-12-04T03:07:28Z")
1. Name a college or university in the U.S. affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church. 2. Name a college or university that’s a perennial NCAA basketball powerhouse. 3. Name a college or university in the U.S. that has, or used to have, a 100% female student body. 4. Name a predominantly African-American college or university. 5. Name a European city that’s home to a famous, world-class university. 6. Name a college or university whose name begins with the letter “C.” 7. Name a movie set primarily at a college or university. 8. Name a U.S. President who never attended college. 9. Name a subject that dumb college students tend to major in. 10. Name a highly prestigious American college or university located West of the Mississippi River 11. Notre Dame 12. UCLA 13. Vassar 14. Howard University 15. Paris - the Sorbonne 16. Columbia 17. Animal House 18. Washington 19. basket weaving 20. Stanford oooh boy. I’m not sure what to think. Hope I do better than 45th place, though! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![tarragon918](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d26b3c/32.png) [@tarragon918](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tarragon918)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-the-old-college-try-by-astorian-game-over/475578/48 "2008-12-04T03:17:04Z")
Damn, of course I really meant to put P.E. for #9, really. 🙂 bah. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-the-old-college-try-by-astorian-game-over/475578/49 "2008-12-04T03:54:15Z")
1. Notre Dame 2. Duke 3. Vassar 4. Howard 5. Oxford 6. Cornell 7. Animal House 8. Lincoln 9. Communications 10. Stanford I’m not related to #2. Since I attended #5, I couldn’t well put C-------- (home of the Tabs) for #6. ---
**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:** [December 4, 2008, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-the-old-college-try-by-astorian-game-over/475578/50 "2008-12-04T04:05:39Z")
1. Notre Dame 2. Univ. of North Carolina 3. Vassar 4. Howard Univ. 5. Oxford, England 6. Columbia Univ. 7. _Legally Blonde_ 8. George Washington 9. Physical Education 10. Stanford Univ. Hey, I never had the chance to mention my alma mater, Oberlin College! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-the-old-college-try-by-astorian-game-over/475578/51 "2008-12-04T04:07:14Z")
1. Villanova University 2. Oklahoma State University 3. Radcliffe 4. Tuskegee University 5. Oxford 6. Colorado State University 7. Animal House 8. Abraham Lincoln 9. General Studies 10. Berkeley Notes: 11. Notre Dame will probably win it, but I accidentally saw that in another post, so I’ll go with my undergrad alma mater to be fair. 12. I admit that I had to look up a list of historically black colleges, and picked the one that looked most familiar. 13. Or whatever the equivalent major is called (University Studies, Liberal Arts, etc.) ---
**Author:** ![RetroVertigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@RetroVertigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RetroVertigo)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-the-old-college-try-by-astorian-game-over/475578/52 "2008-12-04T04:23:15Z")
1. St. Louis University 2. Duke 3. Vassar 4. Grambling 5. Oxford 6. Columbia 7. P.C.U. 8. Washington 9. Psychology 10. Washington University ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-the-old-college-try-by-astorian-game-over/475578/53 "2008-12-04T04:39:08Z")
1. Notre Dame 2. Duke 3. Vassar 4. Howard 5. Paris 6. Cornell 7. Animal House 8. Andrew Jackson 9. Phys Ed 10. Stanford ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Sensitive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Darth\_Sensitive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Sensitive)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-the-old-college-try-by-astorian-game-over/475578/54 "2008-12-04T05:44:28Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > 1. Villanova University > \*\*2. Oklahoma State University > \*\*3. Radcliffe > 2. Tuskegee University > 3. Oxford > 4. Colorado State University > 5. Animal House > 6. Abraham Lincoln > 7. General Studies > 8. Berkeley > Notes: > 9. Notre Dame will probably win it, but I accidentally saw that in another post, so I’ll go with my undergrad alma mater to be fair. > 10. I admit that I had to look up a list of historically black colleges, and picked the one that looked most familiar. > 11. Or whatever the equivalent major is called (University Studies, Liberal Arts, etc.) I like the cut of your jib sir. ---
**Author:** ![bmoak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@bmoak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmoak)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-the-old-college-try-by-astorian-game-over/475578/55 "2008-12-04T06:38:53Z")
1. Notre Dame 2. Duke 3. Bryn Mawr 4. Howard 5. Oxford 6. Cambridge 7. The Paper Chase 8. Harry Truman. 9. Communications 10. Stanford ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-the-old-college-try-by-astorian-game-over/475578/56 "2008-12-04T06:57:55Z")
1. Notre Dame 2. Duke 3. Vassar 4. Howard 5. London 6. Cornell 7. Animal House 8. Lincoln? 9. Communications 10. Stanford Joe ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tof](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@The\_Tof](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tof)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-the-old-college-try-by-astorian-game-over/475578/57 "2008-12-04T09:16:55Z")
1. Notre Dame 2. Duke University 3. Wellsley 4. pass 5. Oxford 6. Cambridge 7. Revenge of the Nerds 8. George Washington 9. Communications 10. Stanford ---
**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:** [December 4, 2008, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-the-old-college-try-by-astorian-game-over/475578/58 "2008-12-04T11:13:13Z")
1. Catholic University of America 2. Kentucky 3. Radcliffe 4. Howard 5. Oxford 6. Columbia 7. Animal House 8. George Washington 9. physical education 10. Stanord Note 9: now generally offered by colleges under the name “kinesiology” ---
**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-the-old-college-try-by-astorian-game-over/475578/59 "2008-12-04T12:22:12Z")
1. Notre Dame 2. Duke 3. Bryn Mawr (sp?) 4. Tuskeegee 5. Oxford 6. Cambridge 7. Legally Blond 8. George Washington 9. Physical Ed 10.Stanford ---
**Author:** ![Walkabout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/46a35a/32.png) [@Walkabout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walkabout)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-the-old-college-try-by-astorian-game-over/475578/60 "2008-12-04T12:26:58Z")
1. Notre Dame 2. Duke 3. Wellesley 4. Grambling 5. Oxford 6. Columbia 7. Legally Blonde 8. Lincoln 9. Business 10. Stanford [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-the-old-college-try-by-astorian-game-over/475578.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-the-old-college-try-by-astorian-game-over/475578.md?page=4)