# The Feud: Government by Two Guys with long names \[game over\] **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [January 31, 2012, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-government-by-two-guys-with-long-names-game-over/611324 "2012-01-31T18:27:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-government-by-two-guys-with-long-names-game-over/611324/61 "2012-02-01T22:06:51Z")
> [@Rebo](#): > > 1. Name a Democrat who ran for president in the last 100 years but lost. > 2. Name a Republican who ran for president in the last 100 years but lost. > 3. Name a President who did not graduate from college. > 4. Name one current Supreme Court Justice. > 5. Name a President with a Law degree. > 6. Name a blue state. > 7. Name a red state. > 8. Other than the Speaker of the House, or Minority Leader Pelosi, name a current congressman. > 9. Other than Majority Leader Reid or Minority Leader McConnell, name a current senator. > 10. Name a non Democratic/Republican presidential candidate from the last 100 years. 1. Al Gore 2. John McCain 3. Harry S Truman 4. Clarence Thomas 5. Bill Clinton 6. California 7. Texas 8. Barney Frank 9. Joe Lieberman 10. Ralph Nader ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-government-by-two-guys-with-long-names-game-over/611324/62 "2012-02-01T22:07:35Z")
room for one more. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-government-by-two-guys-with-long-names-game-over/611324/63 "2012-02-01T22:24:12Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > room for one more. I always hear that in the voice of [Bullwinkle J. Moose](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65t-OzhlmvE#t=1m5s). ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2012, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-government-by-two-guys-with-long-names-game-over/611324/64 "2012-02-02T03:27:57Z")
1. Michael Dukakis 2. John McCain 3. Andrew Johnson 4. Ruth Bader Ginsburg 5. Richard Nixon 6. Massachusetts 7. Utah 8. Dennis Kucinich 9. John McCain 10. Ross Perot 11. Indeed, he had no formal education 12. Surprisingly, only six men fit the requirement 13. And yet Mitt Romney governed it 14. Represented me before I moved to Indiana ---
**Author:** ![emulsified](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emulsified/32/2915_2.png) [@emulsified](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emulsified)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2012, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-government-by-two-guys-with-long-names-game-over/611324/65 "2012-02-02T03:52:48Z")
1. John Kerry 2. John McCain 3. Harry S Truman 4. Antonin Scalia 5. Bill Clinton 6. Massachusetts 7. Texas 8. Ron Paul 9. Charles Schumer 10. H. Ross Perot Did I make it in time? Oops I guess not… ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2012, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-government-by-two-guys-with-long-names-game-over/611324/66 "2012-02-02T06:16:49Z")
So, what’s the scientific name for “Government by two guys with long names”? ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2012, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-government-by-two-guys-with-long-names-game-over/611324/67 "2012-02-02T12:42:08Z")
“longnomcrocity”? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2012, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-government-by-two-guys-with-long-names-game-over/611324/68 "2012-02-02T15:04:43Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > 1. Al Gore > 2. John McCain > 3. Name a President who did not graduate from college. > 4. John Roberts > 5. Bill Clinton > 6. Massachusetts > 7. Texas > 8. Michele Bachman > 9. John McCain > 10. Ralph Nader I just noticed I didn’t post my answer for the third question. It was Harry Truman. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2012, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-government-by-two-guys-with-long-names-game-over/611324/69 "2012-02-03T16:21:35Z")
Has anyone told **Rebo** the game is over? ---
**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:** [February 4, 2012, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-government-by-two-guys-with-long-names-game-over/611324/70 "2012-02-04T05:17:18Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Has anyone told **Rebo** the game is over? Yes, but I’m sure she knows. ---
**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:** [February 4, 2012, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-government-by-two-guys-with-long-names-game-over/611324/71 "2012-02-04T15:43:15Z")
Sorry it took me so long! 1. Name a Democrat who ran for president in the last 100 years but lost. **1. Al Gore 30** 2. John Kerry 13 3. Adlai Stevenson 2 4. Michael Dukakis 2 5. Jimmy Carter 1 6. Teddy Kennedy 1 7. Walter Mondale 1 8. Name a Republican who ran for president in the last 100 years but lost. **2. John McCain 42** 9. Bob Dole 3 10. Thomas Dewey 2 11. Barry Goldwater 1 12. George H. W. Bush 1 13. George W. Bush 1 14. Name a President who did not graduate from college. **3. Abraham Lincoln 24** 15. George Washington 11 16. Harry S. Truman 10 17. Andrew Johnson 2 18. Andrew Jackson 1 19. Millard Fillmore 1 20. William Henry Harrison 1 21. Name one current Supreme Court Justice. **4. Antonin Scalia 20** 22. John Roberts 14 23. Clarence Thomas 8 24. Ruth Bader Ginsburg 4 25. Elena Kagan 1 26. Paul de Muniz 1 27. Sonia Sotomayor 1 28. William Howard Taft 1 29. Name a President with a Law degree. **5. Barack Obama 31** 30. Bill Clinton 15 31. Richard Nixon 3 32. Gerald Ford 1 33. Name a blue state. **6. California 21** 34. Massachusetts 18 35. New York 6 36. Illinois 3 37. Texas 1 38. Washington 1 39. Name a red state. **7. Texas 40** 40. Georgia 2 41. North Carolina 2 42. Utah 2 43. Alabama 1 44. California 1 45. Kansas 1 46. Mississippi 1 47. Other than the Speaker of the House, or Minority Leader Pelosi, name a current congressman. **8. Barney Frank 18** 48. Michele Bachmann 10 49. Ron Paul 8 50. Eric Cantor 3 51. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz 2 52. Dennis Kucinich 2 53. Charles Rangel 1 54. John Boehner 1 55. Mary Bono 1 56. Paul Ryan 1 57. Peter King 1 58. Rand Paul 1 59. Sue Myrick 1 60. Other than Majority Leader Reid or Minority Leader McConnell, name a current senator. **9. Al Franken 11** 61. John McCain 10 62. John Kerry 6 63. Barbara Boxer 4 64. Charles Schumer 3 65. Joe Lieberman 3 66. Rick Santorum 2 67. Dianne Feinstein 1 68. Dick Durbin 1 69. Harry Reid 1 70. Kay Bailey Hutchinson 1 71. Kay Hagan 1 72. Marco Rubio 1 73. Mark Kirk 1 74. Orrin Hatch 1 75. Patty Murray 1 76. Ron Paul 1 77. Sherrod Brown 1 78. Name a non Democratic/Republican presidential candidate from the last 100 years. **10. H. Ross Perot 34** 79. Ralph Nader 10 80. Theodore Roosevelt 3 81. Gary Johnson 1 82. George Wallace 1 83. John Anderson 1 ---
**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:** [February 4, 2012, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-government-by-two-guys-with-long-names-game-over/611324/72 "2012-02-04T15:49:58Z")
And the winner is… **ReticulatingSplines**! Nicely done! ::flings confetti:: **ReticulatingSplines** got all the top ten answers! Excellent! Thanks, everybody! **1. ReticulatingSplines 542.00** 2. swampbear 536.00 3. Hal Briston 526.00 4. Munch 504.00 5. MsWhatsit 502.00 6. Tom Scud 486.00 7. kenobi 65 482.00 7. Intergalactic Gladiator 482.00 9. Giles 480.00 10. Thudlow Boink 478.00 11. Chronos 476.00 12. kaylasdad99 474.00 13. UncaStuart 472.00 14. Labtrash 470.00 15. ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness 460.00 16. notfrommensa 458.00 17. mkecane 446.00 18. markdash 434.00 18. Terr 434.00 20. Elendil’s Heir 428.00 21. NDP 426.00 21. cmkeller 426.00 23. The Other Jeffrey Lebowski 422.00 24. AuntiePam 418.00 25. twickster 410.00 26. Larry Borgia 408.00 27. Barkis is Willin’ 402.00 28. Lord Feldon 400.00 29. Little Nemo 398.00 30. Miller 396.00 31. 42fish 394.00 32. astorian 382.00 33. needscoffee 376.00 33. Wheelz 376.00 35. Fretful Porpentine 372.00 36. Really Not All That Bright 370.00 37. Omniscient 368.00 38. JohnT 358.00 38. YogSosoth 358.00 40. Bryan Ekers 336.00 41. wevets 330.00 42. Sailboat 316.00 43. ShibbOleth 312.00 44. Saint Cad 288.00 45. Ulf the Unwashed 282.00 46. KneadToKnow 246.00 47. Sternvogel 238.00 48. zamboniracer 232.00 49. anyrose 220.00 50. That Don Guy 196.00 ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2012, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-government-by-two-guys-with-long-names-game-over/611324/73 "2012-02-04T16:07:08Z")
Top 16. Woot Woot. Thanks **Rebo**! ---
**Author:** ![ReticulatingSplines](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@ReticulatingSplines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReticulatingSplines)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2012, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-government-by-two-guys-with-long-names-game-over/611324/74 "2012-02-04T17:30:19Z")
Holy crap, I won?! I thought Al Franken and Scalia would do me in. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2012, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-government-by-two-guys-with-long-names-game-over/611324/75 "2012-02-04T17:45:49Z")
Dammit. My first thought was Perot, but since I went for most recent on Dem and Rep, I chose Nader instead. And I tanked on current rep/sen. So I’m smack dab in the middle – not where I’m used to being when it comes to politics. 😉 ---
**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:** [February 4, 2012, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-government-by-two-guys-with-long-names-game-over/611324/76 "2012-02-04T17:48:13Z")
20th is the best I’ve done in a looooooooong time. Thanks for the Feud! ---
**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:** [February 4, 2012, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-government-by-two-guys-with-long-names-game-over/611324/77 "2012-02-04T20:53:11Z")
Wow, that’s a lot better than I usually do. I anticipated that Perot would be a contender (though obviously I thought he’d be _second_), but I’m not sure why Barney Frank is so high in the hivemind consciousness. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-government-by-two-guys-with-long-names-game-over/611324/78 "2012-02-05T15:35:04Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Wow, that’s a lot better than I usually do. I anticipated that Perot would be a contender (though obviously I thought he’d be _second_), but I’m not sure why Barney Frank is so high in the hivemind consciousness. Maybe the recent news that he just got engaged? For me, I could never remember if he was a House Rep or Senator. Bleh, failed in my sorta own feud! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-government-by-two-guys-with-long-names-game-over/611324.md?page=3)