# The Feud of Randomness \[Closed\] **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [March 13, 2008, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-of-randomness-closed/441269 "2008-03-13T19:31:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![tarragon918](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d26b3c/32.png) [@tarragon918](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tarragon918)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-of-randomness-closed/441269/61 "2008-03-14T11:31:01Z")
1. R 2. 18 3. Maryland 4. Mars 5. Panda 6. Paris 7. Lake 8. Oak 9. Swiss 10. Time ---
**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-of-randomness-closed/441269/62 "2008-03-14T11:59:21Z")
brujaja was the 50th entry. Sorry to those that missed the deadline. I ended up throwing out #7 since there was a fairly even split between those that read it as a specifically named body of water (which was my intention) and a general type of body of water (which is completely understandable based on how I worded it). So, I kind of sucked that one up and decided to penalize myself 10% for being an idiot. Question 10 had the most different answers. Question 6 only had 5 different answers, which surprised me a bit. Mars was the most popular answer. 1. A 24 2. Q 6 3. E 5 4. S 4 5. Z 3 6. C 2 7. J 2 8. B 1 9. F 1 10. M 1 11. R 1 12. 7 16 13. 10 10 14. 17 7 15. 13 6 16. 1 4 17. 19 2 18. 11 1 19. 15 1 20. 16 1 21. 5 1 22. 6 1 23. California 22 24. New York 14 25. Texas 5 26. Alabama 2 27. Ohio 2 28. Alaska 1 29. Montana 1 30. New Jersey 1 31. Oregon 1 32. West Virginia 1 33. Mars 43 34. Mercury 2 35. Eris 1 36. Jupiter 1 37. Neptune 1 38. Saturn 1 39. Venus 1 40. Elephant 14 41. Lion 11 42. Monkey 9 43. tiger 7 44. Bear 4 45. Giraffe 3 46. ZEBRA 2 47. Paris 34 48. London 11 49. Prague 3 50. Berlin 1 51. Lisbon 1 52. Oak 27 53. Maple 5 54. Elm 4 55. Pine 4 56. larch 3 57. Alder 1 58. Apple 1 59. Ash 1 60. Beech 1 61. Deciduous 1 62. Redwood 1 63. Sycamore 1 64. Cheddar 37 65. American 4 66. Swiss 4 67. Mozzarella 2 68. Brie 1 69. Feta 1 70. Parmesan 1 71. Time 23 72. People 5 73. Playboy 4 74. National Geographic 3 75. Newsweek 3 76. Readers Digest 3 77. Wired 3 78. Discover 1 79. FHM 1 80. Men’s Health 1 81. Rolling Stone 1 82. Sports Illustrated 1 83. US News and World Report 1 ---
**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-of-randomness-closed/441269/63 "2008-03-14T12:01:31Z")
Kid\_A was unable to keep up his mind meld with the SDMB community and his 2 Feud winning streak is kaput. We ended up with dual winners who matched each other perfectly which is kinda surprising based on the questions. Congrats to Jas09 and Suburbun Plankton, truly gods among men. 1 Jas09 468.00 2 Suburban Plankton 468.00 3 Hal Briston 442.00 4 twickster 438.00 5 maggenpye 428.00 6 Happy Lendervedder 422.00 7 anyrose 418.00 8 El\_Kabong 412.00 9 robardin 410.00 10 MadTheSwine 402.00 11 sinjin 400.00 12 Green Bean 400.00 13 brujaja 398.00 14 woodstockbirdybird 396.00 15 peekercpa 384.00 16 brownie55 384.00 17 silenus 384.00 18 Kid\_A 374.00 19 amarinth 372.00 20 OneCentStamp 368.00 21 cmkeller 366.00 22 iamthewalrus 362.00 23 ShibbOleth 362.00 24 Silver Fire 358.00 25 Thudlow Boink 352.00 26 IvoryTowerDenizen 348.00 27 Deep Fried 348.00 28 Sir Dirx 346.00 29 Darth Sensitive 342.00 30 atomicbadgerrace 342.00 31 Mullinator 380.00 32 Justin\_Bailey 338.00 33 KSO 334.00 34 UncaStuart 328.00 35 Hawkeyeop 324.00 36 Omniscient 322.00 37 garygnu 320.00 38 bibliophage 318.00 39 Zebra 306.00 40 Redwing 300.00 41 delphica 268.00 42 KGS 264.00 43 Justin Credible 230.00 44 Silver Tyger Girl 196.00 45 Fretful Propentine 176.00 46 Sitnam 164.00 47 winterhawk11 104.00 48 Mosier 58.00 49 Crown Prince of Irony 54.00 50 SylverOne 52.00 ---
**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:** [March 14, 2008, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-of-randomness-closed/441269/64 "2008-03-14T12:04:46Z")
Man, I thought I did better. Damn the Maple tree and number 11 (and Newsweek too, while we are at it). ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-of-randomness-closed/441269/65 "2008-03-14T12:08:18Z")
Another Top Ten! ::raises fists in air:: I. Am. Spartacus! ---
**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:** [March 14, 2008, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-of-randomness-closed/441269/66 "2008-03-14T12:08:50Z")
[QUOTE=anyrose] Another Top Ten! ::raises fists in air:: I. Am. Spartacus! [/QUOTE] Apparently I am unique… ---
**Author:** ![Panurge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@Panurge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Panurge)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-of-randomness-closed/441269/67 "2008-03-14T13:19:21Z")
Darn it, I answered 51st, but I can see that all of my answers apart from #2 were the most popular ones. This could have been good ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-of-randomness-closed/441269/68 "2008-03-14T13:36:17Z")
Looks like I’ve fallen back to my steady spot at the middle of the pack. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-of-randomness-closed/441269/69 "2008-03-14T14:16:11Z")
Wow. I did way better than I expected to. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-of-randomness-closed/441269/70 "2008-03-14T14:34:45Z")
Swiss cheese and the letter Z kicked my ass. But according to CNN Headline news this morning, Gruyere just won the World Cheese Championships in Wisconsin, so I feel somewhat vindicated (even if the Swiss I was thinking of was more like Emmenthaler). ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-of-randomness-closed/441269/71 "2008-03-14T14:35:31Z")
Tied for #15. Better than last time, but not good enough. I will not rest until I am #1! Ok, I’ll rest a little. But I shall prevail! ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-of-randomness-closed/441269/72 "2008-03-14T14:41:22Z")
_I’m #6! I’m #6! I’m #6!_ ---
**Author:** ![TommyTutone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@TommyTutone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TommyTutone)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-of-randomness-closed/441269/73 "2008-03-14T14:42:13Z")
grrr ---
**Author:** ![\_Deep\_F\_ied](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/7cd45c/32.png) [@\_Deep\_F\_ied](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_Deep_F_ied)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-of-randomness-closed/441269/74 "2008-03-14T15:09:17Z")
hmm, 27th…worst one for me so far. An oak tree killed me. Somehow that seems appropriate. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-of-randomness-closed/441269/75 "2008-03-14T15:11:27Z")
[QUOTE=Happy Lendervedder] _I’m #6! I’m #6! I’m #6!_ [/QUOTE] Who is Number One? SF reference… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Jas09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-of-randomness-closed/441269/76 "2008-03-14T15:25:56Z")
Woohoo! First time player… first time winner… good times. Also, good thing the body of water question got mucked up - I don’t think “Gulf of Mexico” would have done well for me. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-of-randomness-closed/441269/77 "2008-03-14T15:59:21Z")
WOW! I always did poorly in these things before! Oddly enough, I had a song called, “13 questions” stuck in my head last night. Thanks for the game, and for scoring it so quickly, **Mullinator**. Pssssst! Anyrose! I’m not a number, I’m a free man! ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-of-randomness-closed/441269/78 "2008-03-14T16:39:57Z")
Interesting how “A” was far and away the top answer for Question #1, because I would have thought the phrasing “American version of the alphabet” would have caused people to think, “When is the alphabet ever different for Americans vs. anyone else? – Oh yeah, those Brits and Anglophiles say ZED for Z.” ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-of-randomness-closed/441269/79 "2008-03-14T16:44:29Z")
[QUOTE=robardin] Interesting how “A” was far and away the top answer for Question #1, because I would have thought the phrasing “American version of the alphabet” would have caused people to think, “When is the alphabet ever different for Americans vs. anyone else? – Oh yeah, those Brits and Anglophiles say ZED for Z.” [/QUOTE] That was exactly my thought process! And I’m still cursing myself for changing my cheese from cheddar to Swiss. I think Question 7 should have been scored, even with the ambiguity. It’d just be a matter of what was the most popular interpretation of the question. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-of-randomness-closed/441269/80 "2008-03-14T16:57:09Z")
[QUOTE=Thudlow Boink] …And I’m still cursing myself for changing my cheese from cheddar to Swiss… [/QUOTE] Well, even though cheddar is the single most popular cheese in the world, there’s not much call for it 'round here. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-of-randomness-closed/441269.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-of-randomness-closed/441269.md?page=5)