# The Feud: It's a Disaster! by MsWhatsit (game over) **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [June 11, 2010, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-its-a-disaster-by-mswhatsit-game-over/542804 "2010-06-11T15:20:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 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:** [June 11, 2010, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-its-a-disaster-by-mswhatsit-game-over/542804/1 "2010-06-11T15:20:34Z")
**Object of the game:** Give the most popular answer for each category. **Rules:** 1. No reading the thread before answering. This is on the honor system. 2. Formatting rules must be followed (see below). 3. Joke answers will not be considered, as it is not fair to other players. 4. Google (etc.) is allowed, if you desire. 5. The game will end with 50 entrants, or when I get time to score it. 6. There is no Rule 6. 7. Special Rules for this particular Feud: None **Formatting rules:** To make semi-automated scoring possible, and my job easier, make you post look exactly like this: 1. answer 2. answer 3. answer 4. answer No double spacing, do not use the “list” function, no smilies, no urls, no periods, no quote marks, and no punctuation if it is not necessary. Put “pass” if you want to leave an answer blank. If you feel you must qualify your answer, do it AFTER THE LIST! If you don’t format like this, your answers might be DISQUALIFIED. **Scoring:** With 50 entrants, an answer with a match is worth 2x the number of people matching it. If 4 people match, they each get 8 points for that answer. No matches = 0 points. Formula: Score = 100 / (# of entrants) x (# of matches) Good luck! If any of you have ideas for Feuds -and would like me to score them- PM me. If anyone wants to run their own Feud, feel free. I will help any way I can. **Read the rules! Special Rules for this particular Feud: None** 1. Name a specific famous \*natural \*disaster. 2. Name a specific famous man-made disaster, besides the Gulf Coast oil spill. 3. Name a disaster movie released pre-1990. 4. Name a disaster movie released in 1990 or later. 5. Name a person known for being a hero in a disaster. 6. Name a famous air disaster. 7. Name a real-life disaster that has had a lot of movies made about it. 8. Name a famous fictional disaster (from any work of fiction, e.g. books, movies, etc.) 9. Name a famous epidemic disease. (Just the disease; don’t need a specific year or outbreak.) 10. Name an infamous act of terrorism, besides 9/11. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2010, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-its-a-disaster-by-mswhatsit-game-over/542804/2 "2010-06-11T15:25:13Z")
1. Hurricane Katrina 2. Bhopal gas leak 3. The Poseidon Adventure 4. Armageddon 5. Sully Sullenberger 6. Hindenburg 7. Titanic 8. Capsizing of the Poseidon 9. Flu 10. Oklahoma City / Murrah Building bombing ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2010, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-its-a-disaster-by-mswhatsit-game-over/542804/3 "2010-06-11T15:28:20Z")
1. Hurricane Katrina 2. 9/11 3. _Earthquake!_ 4. _Volcano_ 5. Sully Sullenberger 6. TWA Flight 800 7. 9/11 8. _Dante’s Peak_ 9. Ebola 10. 7/7 ---
**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:** [June 11, 2010, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-its-a-disaster-by-mswhatsit-game-over/542804/4 "2010-06-11T15:32:25Z")
1. 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami 2. Chernobyl 3. The Towering Inferno 4. Titanic 5. (The Unsinkable) Molly Brown 6. The Hindenberg 7. Sinking of the Titanic 8. Noah’s flood 9. Smallpox 10. 1968 Munich Olympics killings (I changed 4 from Armageddon to Titanic at the last minute. Hope I don’t regret that). … and within 3 submissions, we have 0 conches. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2010, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-its-a-disaster-by-mswhatsit-game-over/542804/5 "2010-06-11T15:32:51Z")
1. the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami 2. Chernobyl 3. The Poseidon Adventure 4. 2012 5. Sully Sullenberger 6. the Hindenburg 7. Titanic 8. the Great Flood 9. black plague 10. the July 7 London bombings 11. from the Bible ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2010, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-its-a-disaster-by-mswhatsit-game-over/542804/6 "2010-06-11T15:32:54Z")
1. Hurricane Katrina 2. Exxon Valdez 3. Towering Inferno 4. 2012 5. Todd Beamer 6. Lockerbie bombing 7. The Titanic 8. Poseiden 9. Flu 10. Oklahoma City bombing Edited #5 before reading other answers – I had forgotten to answer it ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2010, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-its-a-disaster-by-mswhatsit-game-over/542804/7 "2010-06-11T15:35:04Z")
1. San Fransisco earthquake 2. Chernobyl 3. The Poseidon Adventure 4. 2012 5. Sullenberger 6. Hindenburg 7. Titanic 8. Poseidon sinking 9. Bubonic plague 10. Munich massacre 9: Aka Black Death ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2010, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-its-a-disaster-by-mswhatsit-game-over/542804/8 "2010-06-11T15:35:56Z")
Re: Sullenberger – I object that it’s not a disaster if no one gets hurt! ---
**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:** [June 11, 2010, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-its-a-disaster-by-mswhatsit-game-over/542804/9 "2010-06-11T15:37:19Z")
Meh, I wavered between flu and smallpox. I R DUM. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2010, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-its-a-disaster-by-mswhatsit-game-over/542804/10 "2010-06-11T15:39:17Z")
1. Hurricane Katrina 2. Exxon Valdez 3. The Towering Inferno 4. Armageddon 5. Captain Sullenberger 6. Pan Am 103 7. Titantic 8. War of the Worlds 9. Bubonic Plague 10. Oklahoma City ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2010, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-its-a-disaster-by-mswhatsit-game-over/542804/11 "2010-06-11T15:39:41Z")
> [@Skammer](#): > > Re: Sullenberger – I object that it’s not a disaster if no one gets hurt! It’s the Feud, man. If five people all put “Captain Kangaroo” then we all get points. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2010, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-its-a-disaster-by-mswhatsit-game-over/542804/12 "2010-06-11T15:40:14Z")
1. Katrina 2. Exxon Valdez 3. _The Poseidon Adventure_ 4. _Titanic_ 5. “Sully” 6. Hindenberg 7. Titanic 8. Poseidon 9. Flu 10. Lockerbie ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2010, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-its-a-disaster-by-mswhatsit-game-over/542804/13 "2010-06-11T15:40:45Z")
1. 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami 2. Exxon Valdez oil spill 3. The Towering Inferno 4. 2012 5. Captain “Sully” Sullenberger 6. the Hindenburg 7. the Titanic 8. Captain Trips, from Stephen King’s The Stand 9. the Black Plague 10. Iran hostage crisis ---
**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:** [June 11, 2010, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-its-a-disaster-by-mswhatsit-game-over/542804/14 "2010-06-11T15:42:03Z")
1. Hurricane Katrina 2. Exxon Valdez 3. The Towering Inferno 4. The Day After Tomorrow 5. Mayor Bill White 6. The Hindenburg 7. The Titanic 8. The Stand 9. The Black Plague 10. Oklahoma City bombing 11. He opened the Astrodome for Katrina victims, and welcomed them to Houston. 12. Stephen King’s apocalyptic novel of a deadly strain of flu and the aftermath. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2010, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-its-a-disaster-by-mswhatsit-game-over/542804/15 "2010-06-11T15:43:18Z")
1. San Francisco earthquake 2. 9/11 3. _The Towering Inferno_ 4. _Titanic_ 5. Sully Sullenberger 6. Hindenberg 7. Titanic 8. War of the Worlds 9. Ebola 10. Oklahoma City bombing ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2010, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-its-a-disaster-by-mswhatsit-game-over/542804/16 "2010-06-11T15:46:08Z")
1. Hurricane Katrina 2. Exxon Valdez 3. Poseidon Adventure 4. Titanic 5. Todd Beamer 6. Hindenburg 7. Titanic 8. Poseidon 9. Black Death 10. Oklahoma City federal building bombing Notes: 2. Hoping the mention of one oil spill in the question will inspire memories of another 8. From ‘The Poseidon Adventure,’ natch ---
**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:** [June 11, 2010, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-its-a-disaster-by-mswhatsit-game-over/542804/17 "2010-06-11T15:48:43Z")
1. Hurricane Katrina 2. Exxon Valdez 3. Towering Inferno 4. Titanic 5. Capn Sully 6. Lockerbie. 7. Titanic 8. End of the world 9. Bubonic plague 10. Oklahoma City ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2010, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-its-a-disaster-by-mswhatsit-game-over/542804/18 "2010-06-11T15:51:10Z")
1. Hurricane Katrina 2. Exxon Valdez 3. Poseidon Adventure 4. Day After Tomorrow 5. Capt. Sullenberger 6. Hindenberg 7. Titanic 8. War of the Worlds 9. Ebola virus 10. Oklahoma City bombing 11. I am _mortified_ that I didn’t even _think_ of Pan Am 103, even though there is a memorial on the campus of my alma mater. Bad alumna, bad! ---
**Author:** ![Walkabout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/46a35a/32.png) [@Walkabout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walkabout)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2010, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-its-a-disaster-by-mswhatsit-game-over/542804/19 "2010-06-11T16:00:11Z")
1. Hurricane Katrina 2. 9/11 3. Towering Inferno 4. Titanic 5. Captain Sullenberger 6. Hindenberg 7. Titanic 8. Alien Invasion 9. Bubonic Plaque 10. Lockerbie plane crash 11. I was thinking of _War of the Worlds_, should I have put the title there? ---
**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:** [June 11, 2010, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-its-a-disaster-by-mswhatsit-game-over/542804/20 "2010-06-11T16:02:05Z")
Wow. No love at all for Molly Brown. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-its-a-disaster-by-mswhatsit-game-over/542804.md?page=2)