The Daily Feud: Words and Names by RickJay [Game Over]

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This was a great feud and one of the toughest for me.

The Apartheid answer for number 7 is the best!

62

Wow. I completely misunderstood question #2.

Not like I’m a perrenial top-scorer here, but damn, is my face red.

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  1. the

  2. premier/premiere

  3. electricity

  4. principle/principal

  5. Smokin’

  6. Truck/lorry

  7. rendezvous

  8. Paris, Texas

  9. Denzel Washington

  10. premier/premiere

  11. Often just “'lectric” around here.

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Elendil’s Heir is #50.

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  1. Name a word that is frequently typed incorrectly in Internet usage.
    1. The/Teh 47

  2. its 1

  3. Their 1

  4. You 1

  5. Name a different word that is frequently misspelled, on or off the Internet.
    2. their/there/they’re 10

  6. misspell 7

  7. lose/loose 5

  8. Definite/definitely 3

  9. accommodate 2

  10. Atheist 2

  11. its 2

  12. Weird 2

  13. and/adn 1

  14. February 1

  15. friend 1

  16. like 1

  17. Necessary 1

  18. occasion 1

  19. personnel 1

  20. Pique 1

  21. Potato 1

  22. premier/premiere 1

  23. restaurant 1

  24. Restaurateur 1

  25. Ridiculous 1

  26. separate 1

  27. supersede 1

  28. You/U 1

  29. your/you’re 1

  30. Besides nuke-yoo-lar, name a word that that you think is often mispronounced, whether or not it is an accepted regional difference. (Sounds wrong to your ears.)
    3. Library 9

  31. February 6

  32. Jewelry 4

  33. Aluminum 3

  34. espresso 2

  35. Foliage 2

  36. Iraq 2

  37. Mischievous 2

  38. often 2

  39. Arab 1

  40. ask 1

  41. Aunt 1

  42. cement 1

  43. coupon 1

  44. Diphtheria 1

  45. electricity 1

  46. Harrass 1

  47. Italian 1

  48. karaoke 1

  49. Moscow 1

  50. pass1 1

  51. pass2 1

  52. pen 1

  53. Picture 1

  54. Supposedly 1

  55. terror 1

  56. Wash 1

  57. Name a homophone (two words that sound the same but have different meanings.)
    4. their/there/they’re 16

  58. too/to/two 9

  59. Bare/bear 4

  60. I/eye 2

  61. ate/eight 1

  62. Bass/Bass 1

  63. Deer/dear 1

  64. eight/ate 1

  65. Flee/ Flea 1

  66. here/hear 1

  67. Lead, led 1

  68. loan/lone 1

  69. Lose/Loose 1

  70. principle/principal 1

  71. pussy 1

  72. raze/raise 1

  73. red/read 1

  74. Sale/Sail 1

  75. Sea/see 1

  76. Sole/soul 1

  77. sun/son 1

  78. sweet/suite 1

  79. wear/where 1

  80. Name a synonym for hot.
    5. Warm 10

  81. Smokin’ 7

  82. Sweltering 5

  83. Sexy 4

  84. boiling 3

  85. Spicy 3

  86. Torrid 3

  87. blazing 2

  88. fiery 2

  89. Scalding 2

  90. Steamy 2

  91. Baking 1

  92. blistering 1

  93. Radioactive 1

  94. roasting 1

  95. Scorching 1

  96. Stolen 1

  97. Toasty 1

  98. Name two English words meaning the same thing that are different in the United States and United Kingdom.
    6. Elevator/lift 18

  99. Trunk/boot 11

  100. truck/lorry 7

  101. gasoline/petrol 2

  102. hood/bonnet 2

  103. Sidewalk/pavement 2

  104. Biscuit 1

  105. Eggplant/aubergine 1

  106. Fag/Cigarette 1

  107. french fries/chips 1

  108. sweater/jumper 1

  109. toilet/loo 1

  110. Trash/Rubbish 1

  111. Trousers/Pants 1

  112. Name a non-English word or phrase that is used in English because English has no exact synonym.
    7. schadenfreude 25

  113. Deja vu 9

  114. Je ne sais quoi 5

  115. Apartheid 1

  116. chutzpah 1

  117. croissant 1

  118. Doppelganger 1

  119. hors d’oeuvres 1

  120. Ombudsman 1

  121. rendezvous 1

  122. Sabotage 1

  123. Umami 1

  124. voila 1

  125. Yo! 1

  126. Name a city in the Americas that is named after a city in Europe.
    8. Paris, TX 23

  127. New York 19

  128. Athens, Georgia 2

  129. Boston, Massachusetts 1

  130. Ithaca 1

  131. London, Ontario 1

  132. Moscow, Idaho 1

  133. Naples, Florida 1

  134. New London 1

  135. Name a movie star that has the same (first or last) name as a place.
    9. Paris Hilton 12

  136. River Phoenix 7

  137. Dakota Fanning 6

  138. John Denver 5

  139. America Ferrera 3

  140. Bob Denver 2

  141. Denzel Washington 2

  142. Joaquin Phoenix 2

  143. Orlando Bloom 2

  144. Brittany Murphy 1

  145. Chevy Chase 1

  146. Jack London 1

  147. Jill Ireland 1

  148. John Wayne 1

  149. Johnny Knoxville 1

  150. Michael York 1

  151. Rock Hudson 1

  152. Whitney Houston 1

  153. Name an English word that is frequently used in a way that demostrates the user doesn’t know the word’s correct definition.
    10. Literally 13

  154. Ironic 7

  155. Inconceivable 4

  156. Penultimate 4

  157. bemused 3

  158. Decimate 3

  159. Comprise 2

  160. enormity 2

  161. Inflammable 2

  162. affect/effect 1

  163. arguably 1

  164. disabuse 1

  165. Disinterested 1

  166. ennui 1

  167. irregardless 1

  168. liberal 1

  169. Nonplussed 1

  170. premier/premiere 1

  171. Vagina 1

66

Hmph. Warm is not a synonym for hot – hot is significantly hotter than warm. :mad:
prepares to come in somewhere in the bottom half

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And the winner is ~drumroll~ 42fish!!! Good job! ::flings Scrabble letters:: 42fish got 6/10 top answers. Very good! Perfect score was 366.00.

Thanks for playing, everyone! This one was lots of fun, RickJay!

New one up before long.
**1. 42fish 336.00 **
2. Cunctator 324.00
3. swampbear 318.00
4. ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness 310.00
5. Mahaloth 308.00
6. Hoopy Frood 296.00
7. NDP 286.00
8. pulykamell 282.00
9. Klif 280.00
10. twickster 276.00
10. Sublight 276.00
12. Hilarity N. Suze 272.00
13. astorian 268.00
14. Beadalin 264.00
14. Sigmagirl 264.00
16. This’ll Do 262.00
17. Gala Matrix Fire 260.00
17. Aspidistra 260.00
19. pravnik 258.00
19. Silver Tyger Girl 258.00
21. Dolores Reborn 250.00
22. Tom Scud 246.00
23. ShibbOleth 240.00
23. bluecanary 240.00
25. Freudian Slit 238.00
25. Scarlett67 238.00
27. El_Kabong 230.00
27. Key Lime Guy 230.00
29. MsWhatsit 228.00
29. criminey.jicket 228.00
31. Jack Batty 226.00
31. RickJay 226.00
33. Tengu 224.00
34. kenner116 220.00
35. Fretful Porpentine 216.00
36. Švejk 214.00
37. SiXSwordS 210.00
37. gonzomax 210.00
39. Miller 202.00
40. bibliophage 200.00
41. notfrommensa 198.00
42. susan 186.00
43. jali 176.00
44. WormTheRed 174.00
45. Elendil’s Heir 172.00
46. Scuba_Ben 166.00
47. madmonk28 158.00
48. hocow 132.00
49. Kilvert’s Pagan 102.00
50. Baker 62.00

68

#6. I haven’t been in the top 10 in a while now.

69

Ahem.

ETA: 3 unique answers (once this one gets cleaned up) and 4 first-place answers. Very hit-or-miss for me.

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Oh, baby, you look so warm tonight! It’s getting warm in here, so take off all your clothes. I get warm just thinking about you. In fact, I burned my hand on this warm stove because I was distracted. I had it on to heat up that really warm food we got at the Thai take-out last night. Everyone is going there, in fact, it may be the warmest restaurant in town.

You’re right, there are a lot of people who don’t get the concept of a synonym.

:slight_smile:

71

The Worm eats more dirt and expels the gas of losing. 37 is about right for me. I get woozy when I break above the 30s.
This was a tough one. You come up with about 6 answers and have to pick one. I did not choose wisely.

72

Heh – top ten. Who’da thunk?

Very fun feud, RickJay – I liked the wide-open nature of the questions, though it made it a lot harder to try to play with strategery.

73

Paris Hilton, movie star. :rolleyes:

I will be posting no more, as my fingers just fell off from the hypocrisy of typing the above. Goodbye.

74

Hey, she thinks she is. That’s all that matters.

It didn’t say she had to be a good or even credible movie star, it just said name a movie star.

75

Thanks. A fun Feud, despite my falling off a cliff compared to my Obama inauguration score. :wink:

76

When do we ever choose wisely? You get a lucky hit every once in a while, but I call that chance :smiley:

77

OMG, I knew I wasn’t going to do well, but dead last? I hang my head in shame!

78

Has Paris Hilton ever actually been in a movie?

79

Nothing worth remembering, but yeah, she has.

80

She’s up for a Razzie this year, so she must have been.