# The Feud: The Middle East by Tom Scud \[game over\] **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [November 22, 2010, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-the-middle-east-by-tom-scud-game-over/561588 "2010-11-22T21:52:09Z")\ **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:** [November 22, 2010, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-the-middle-east-by-tom-scud-game-over/561588/1 "2010-11-22T21:52:09Z")
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. Maximum 50 entrants, and I’ll score it when I have time. 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 your post look exactly like this: 1. answer 2. answer 3. answer 4. answer No double spacing, 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) Anyone who responds to a question with two answers will only have the first one counted as their answer. 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 an Arabic-speaking Middle Eastern country. 2. Name a country in the Middle East whose primary language is not Arabic. 3. Name a city in the Middle East. 4. Name a 20th-century war fought in the Middle East. 5. Name a film set in the Middle East (excluding Lawrence of Arabia.) 6. Name an ancient empire that existed in the Middle East. 7. Name a river in the Middle East (besides the Nile.) 8. Name a political leader from the Middle East (living or dead.) 9. Name a famous person from the Middle East who is or was not a political leader (living or dead.) 10. How is the last name of the leader of Libya spelled? ---
**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:** [November 22, 2010, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-the-middle-east-by-tom-scud-game-over/561588/2 "2010-11-22T21:59:44Z")
1. Egypt 2. Israel 3. Jerusalem 4. The Gulf War 5. Kingdom of Heaven 6. Egypt 7. Tigris 8. Yasser Arafat 9. Omar Sharif 10. Gaddafi This is obviously Dolores’s call, but I would say that double letters and whether you use “al” or not should count as different spellings for #10, but variations on Al should not - that is, al-Gaddafi should be the same as Al Gaddafi etc. but neither of them should be the same as Gaddafi. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-the-middle-east-by-tom-scud-game-over/561588/3 "2010-11-22T22:03:46Z")
1. Saudi Arabia 2. Israel 3. Baghdad 4. Six-Day War 5. The Hurt Locker 6. Babylon 7. Euphrates 8. Saddam Hussein 9. Yuri Geller 10. Gaddhafi ---
**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:** [November 22, 2010, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-the-middle-east-by-tom-scud-game-over/561588/4 "2010-11-22T22:14:35Z")
1. Saudi Arabia 2. Iran 3. Cairo 4. Gulf War I 5. Raiders of the Lost Ark 6. Egypt 7. Jordan 8. Anwar Sadat 9. Jesus 10. Khadafi ---
**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:** [November 22, 2010, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-the-middle-east-by-tom-scud-game-over/561588/5 "2010-11-22T22:17:06Z")
1. Saudi Arabia 2. Iran 3. Mecca 4. Iran-Iraq war 5. _Cleopatra_ 6. Egyptian 7. Euphrates 8. Saddam Hussein 9. Osama Bin Laden 10. Khadafy 11. aka Gulf War 12. I’m probably going to get dinged for this one. I consider a “political leader” to be someone who’s actually the leader of a country. But it looks like everyone else has picked totally non-political types so far. Ah, well. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-the-middle-east-by-tom-scud-game-over/561588/6 "2010-11-22T22:19:15Z")
1. Saudi Arabia 2. Israel 3. Jerusalem 4. Six Day War 5. Death on The Nile 6. Byzantine 7. Tigris 8. Golde Meier 9. Yuri Geller 10. Qaddafi ---
**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:** [November 22, 2010, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-the-middle-east-by-tom-scud-game-over/561588/7 "2010-11-22T22:22:43Z")
Awesome. Five posts, five different spellings. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-the-middle-east-by-tom-scud-game-over/561588/8 "2010-11-22T22:23:55Z")
1. Saudi Arabia 2. Israel 3. Jerusalem 4. Yom Kippur War 5. Kingdom of Heaven 6. Mesopotamia 7. Tigris 8. Anwar Sadat 9. Jesus 10. Khadafi ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-the-middle-east-by-tom-scud-game-over/561588/9 "2010-11-22T22:26:58Z")
1. Saudi Arabia 2. Israel 3. Mecca 4. The Gulf War 5. Ali Baba and the 40 Theives 6. Persian 7. Tigris 8. Saddam Hussien 9. Omar Sharif 10. Khadaffi ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-the-middle-east-by-tom-scud-game-over/561588/10 "2010-11-22T22:30:55Z")
**Tom Scud** , great topic and great questions! I am very interested to see how many different spellings of Libyan ruler will be. I am guessing that there will be more than 15 if we get a full feud. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-the-middle-east-by-tom-scud-game-over/561588/11 "2010-11-22T22:31:34Z")
1. Saudi Arabia 2. Israel 3. Jerusalem 4. Six-Day War 5. Life of Brian 6. Persian Empire 7. Jordan 8. Benjamin Netanyahu 9. Jesus 10. Qaddafi 9 - Being Jewish, I hate saying that, but it’s probably the most popular answer for this question. It’s definitely a major stretch to consider him political. ---
**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:** [November 22, 2010, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-the-middle-east-by-tom-scud-game-over/561588/12 "2010-11-22T22:33:29Z")
1. Saudi Arabia 2. Israel 3. Bagdad 4. Gulf War I 5. The Hurt Locker 6. Babylon 7. Tigris 8. Saddam Hussein 9. Jesus 10. Khadafi Notes: 1: Conch, and I’m surprised it wasn’t excluded 4: The one where Iraq invaded Kuwait, and Bush _pere_ got involved. I pity **Dolo** ; there are going to be a lot of ways of saying this one. 10: That seems to be the most common spelling, at least, though it looks like the “official” one starts with G. ---
**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:** [November 22, 2010, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-the-middle-east-by-tom-scud-game-over/561588/13 "2010-11-22T22:34:47Z")
I thought about excluding jesus, or having a religious leader subcategory, but it looks like that question will be relatively conch-free. Surprised by how much of a conch Saudi Arabia is. I (obviously) thought more people would think of Egypt or Iraq. Also, the KH spellings look like they’ll win the day, but they’re still wrong wrong wrong. ---
**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:** [November 22, 2010, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-the-middle-east-by-tom-scud-game-over/561588/14 "2010-11-22T22:37:58Z")
1. Egypt 2. Israel 3. Jerusalem 4. First Gulf war 5. Three Kings 6. Persian 7. Euphrates 8. Golda Meir 9. Salman Rushdie 10. Qaddafi 11. Instinct was to say the 6 Days War A Middle Eastern Feud by someone who’s username is Scud? Coincidence?😉 ETA: No such thing as a conch when I’m playing! Jesus didn’t even occur to me! And, I’ve been a fan of the Euphrates half of that river pair. Gonna hurt me today! ---
**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:** [November 22, 2010, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-the-middle-east-by-tom-scud-game-over/561588/15 "2010-11-22T22:41:03Z")
BTW: [The Perfect Master on the spelling question](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/513/how-are-you-supposed-to-spell-muammar-gaddafi-khadafy-qadhafi) ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-the-middle-east-by-tom-scud-game-over/561588/16 "2010-11-22T22:44:55Z")
I’m guessing the answer to 2 will be a conch ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-the-middle-east-by-tom-scud-game-over/561588/17 "2010-11-22T22:59:10Z")
1. Saudi Arabia 2. Israel 3. Beirut 4. Desert Storm 5. Exodus 6. Mesopotamia 7. Euphrates 8. Anwar Sadat 9. Omar Shariff 10. Qaddafi ---
**Author:** ![GuiriEnEspana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc79bd/32.png) [@GuiriEnEspana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuiriEnEspana)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-the-middle-east-by-tom-scud-game-over/561588/18 "2010-11-22T22:59:35Z")
1. Saudi Arabia 2. Israel 3. Baghdad 4. Gulf War 5. Kingdom of Heaven 6. Persia 7. Euphrates 8. Yasser Arafat 9. Jesus 10. Gaddafi ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-the-middle-east-by-tom-scud-game-over/561588/19 "2010-11-22T23:18:13Z")
1. Kuwait 2. Iran 3. Bagdad 4. Six Day War 5. Life of Brian 6. Babylonian 7. Tigris 8. Yitzhak Rabin 9. Zahi Hawass 10. Khaddafi ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-the-middle-east-by-tom-scud-game-over/561588/20 "2010-11-22T23:18:26Z")
1. Saudi Arabia 2. Israel 3. Jerusalem 4. Gulf War 5. The Hurt Locker 6. Roman Empire 7. Jordan 8. Saddam Hussein 9. Jesus 10. Khadafi [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-the-middle-east-by-tom-scud-game-over/561588.md?page=2)