# Tough Trivial Feud **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [February 4, 2008, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-trivial-feud/436206 "2008-02-04T13:41:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**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 4, 2008, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-trivial-feud/436206/21 "2008-02-04T16:26:18Z")
1. Algebra 2. Borodino 3. Neon 4. Benjamin Harrison 5. Smallpox 6. E pluribus unum 7. Columbine (the only well known non-fictional high school I could think of) 8. Rainy Day something something (not a big Dylan fan) 9. Florin 10. Herodotus eta: Oops. Wrong Harrison. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Credible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a8b319/32.png) [@Justin\_Credible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Credible)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2008, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-trivial-feud/436206/22 "2008-02-04T16:34:24Z")
Tough Trivial Feud 1. Other than _jihad_, name a English word from the Arabic. _Jihad_ may not have quite made it to English yet, but you know what I mean. 2. Other than Waterloo, name a \*\*set-piece battle \*\*of the Napoleonic Wars. [Note this also rules out anything related to Moscow] 3. Other than helium, name a noble gas. 4. Other than John Kennedy, name an American president that served for a very short time 5. Name a disease that humans used to die a lot from, but no longer do. 6. Type out for us a phrase from the Latin [at least 3 words] 7. Name a nonfictional high school 8. Name one of those weird Bob Dylan songs whose title is not prominently mentioned in the song 9. Name an ancient coin 10. Name an ancient historian 11. Genie 12. Battle of Trafalgar? 13. Neon 14. Harrison 15. Tuberculosis 16. Veni, vidi, vici 17. Columbine 18. Man Gave Names to All the Animals 19. sextans 20. Cassius Dio ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2008, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-trivial-feud/436206/23 "2008-02-04T16:38:12Z")
1. algorithm 2. not a chance 3. neon 4. Garfield 5. smallpox 6. _cogito ergo sum_ 7. Columbine 8. _Subterranean Homesick Blues_ 9. doubloon 10. Pliny ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2008, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-trivial-feud/436206/24 "2008-02-04T16:44:03Z")
1. Other than jihad, name a English word from the Arabic. Jihad may not have quite made it to English yet, but you know what I mean. 2. Other than Waterloo, name a set-piece battle of the Napoleonic Wars. [Note this also rules out anything related to Moscow] 3. Other than helium, name a noble gas. 4. Other than John Kennedy, name an American president that served for a very short time 5. Name a disease that humans used to die a lot from, but no longer do. 6. Type out for us a phrase from the Latin [at least 3 words] 7. Name a nonfictional high school 8. Name one of those weird Bob Dylan songs whose title is not prominently mentioned in the song 9. Name an ancient coin 10. Name an ancient historian 11. Algebra 12. Austerlitz 13. Neon 14. William Henry Harrison 15. Bubonic Plague (aka The Black Death) 16. E Pluribus Unum 17. DeMatha H.S. 18. Subterranean Homesick Blues 19. Talent 20. Pliny the Elder ---
**Author:** ![Das\_Glasperlenspiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/das_glasperlenspiel/32/2944_2.png) [@Das\_Glasperlenspiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Das_Glasperlenspiel)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2008, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-trivial-feud/436206/25 "2008-02-04T16:49:39Z")
Noble gas = not hydrogen. I know I shouldn’t have gone with gut instinct on that one. :o ---
**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2008, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-trivial-feud/436206/26 "2008-02-04T16:58:51Z")
Time to be a champion again. Oh wait, these answers are guaranteed to put me in last place. 1. Algebra 2. Austerlitz 3. Neon 4. William Henry Harrison 5. Leprosy 6. E Pluribus Unum 7. Beverly Hills High School 8. Rainy Day Women #12 and #35 9. Denarius 10. Socrates ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2008, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-trivial-feud/436206/27 "2008-02-04T16:58:58Z")
1. Other than jihad, name a English word from the Arabic. – Sheikh 2. Other than Waterloo, name a set-piece battle of the Napoleonic Wars. – Trafalgar? 3. Other than helium, name a noble gas.-- Neon 4. Other than John Kennedy, name an American president that served for a very short time-- Warren Harding 5. Name a disease that humans used to die a lot from, but no longer do. – Bubonic Plague 6. Type out for us a phrase from the Latin – Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? 7. Name a nonfictional high school – Beverly Hills High 8. Name one of those weird Bob Dylan songs whose title is not prominently mentioned in the song–Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 9. Name an ancient coin – Denarius 10. Name an ancient historian – Josephus ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2008, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-trivial-feud/436206/28 "2008-02-04T17:24:38Z")
1. Allah 2. New Orleans 3. Neon 4. James Garfield 5. Bubonic Plague 6. Res Ipsa Loquitor 7. John F. Kennedy High School 8. The answer is blowing in the wind somewhere, but I don’t know any other Bob Dylan songs and that one doesn’t qualify, so I’ll say it even though its wrong: Blowin’ In the Wind. 9. Dubloon 10. The guy who wrote the Dead Sea scrolls ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2008, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-trivial-feud/436206/29 "2008-02-04T17:28:18Z")
1. Algebra 2. Siege of Cadiz 3. Argon 4. MCKinley 5. Smallpox 6. In vino veritas 7. Beverly Hills High School 8. It’s Alright, Ma 9. Dubloon (not really ancient, but at least old) 10. Herodotus ( Did you mean an historian from antiquity, or one who studies it?) ---
**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:** [February 4, 2008, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-trivial-feud/436206/30 "2008-02-04T17:53:57Z")
Tough Trivial Feud 1. Alcohol 2. pass 3. Argon 4. Garfield 5. Small Pox 6. _Cogito Ergo Sum_ (I Think Therefore I Am) 7. Lincoln High School 8. pass 9. Drachma 10. Herodotus ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2008, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-trivial-feud/436206/31 "2008-02-04T17:58:16Z")
garygnu makes 28 players, this is going better than I thought it would. But where is love for radon? & zero? ---
**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:** [February 4, 2008, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-trivial-feud/436206/32 "2008-02-04T18:00:08Z")
1. Other than jihad, name a English word from the Arabic. Jihad may not have quite made it to English yet, but you know what I mean. - Genie (from djinn) 2. Other than Waterloo, name a set-piece battle of the Napoleonic Wars. [Note this also rules out anything related to Moscow] - Paris? 3. Other than helium, name a noble gas. - Krypton 4. Other than John Kennedy, name an American president that served for a very short time - William Henry Harrison (I died in thirty days!) 5. Name a disease that humans used to die a lot from, but no longer do. - Measles 6. Type out for us a phrase from the Latin [at least 3 words] - E Pluribus Unum 7. Name a nonfictional high school - Stuyvesant, in New York 8. Name one of those weird Bob Dylan songs whose title is not prominently mentioned in the song - pass 9. Name an ancient coin - Shekel 10. Name an ancient historian - Herodotus ---
**Author:** ![Monstera\_deliciosa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monstera_deliciosa/32/109_2.png) [@Monstera\_deliciosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstera_deliciosa)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2008, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-trivial-feud/436206/33 "2008-02-04T18:00:57Z")
1. Algebra 2. Austerlitz 3. Argon. 4. William Henry Harrison 5. Bubonic plague 6. Quid pro quo 7. Stuyvesant Hight School 8. Subterranean Homesick blues 9. Talent 10. Tacitus ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2008, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-trivial-feud/436206/34 "2008-02-04T18:03:23Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] garygnu makes 28 players, this is going better than I thought it would. But where is love for radon? & zero? [/QUOTE] Radon doesn’t last long enough for me to think of it as being truly noble. Soon enough it’s Radium, then Lead, then other stuff. And I’m stuck breathing it. Yuck. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Purgatory\_Creek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/74df32/32.png) [@Purgatory\_Creek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purgatory_Creek)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2008, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-trivial-feud/436206/35 "2008-02-04T18:21:45Z")
Tough Trivial Feud 1. Hummus 2. Borodino 3. Radon 4. McKinley 5. Consumption 6. Quid pro quo 7. Columbine 8. Highway 61 Revisited 9. Tetradrachm 10. Plutarch Gad, now I need a drink…and it’s only noon. ---
**Author:** ![brewha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@brewha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brewha)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2008, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-trivial-feud/436206/36 "2008-02-04T18:27:39Z")
1. Other than _jihad_, name a English word from the Arabic. _Jihad_ may not have quite made it to English yet, but you know what I mean. Mummy 2. Other than Waterloo, name a \*\*set-piece battle \*\*of the Napoleonic Wars. [Note this also rules out anything related to Moscow] Battle of Aldenhoven 3. Other than helium, name a noble gas. Neon 4. Other than John Kennedy, name an American president that served for a very short time Warren Harding 5. Name a disease that humans used to die a lot from, but no longer do. Polio 6. Type out for us a phrase from the Latin [at least 3 words] Veni, Vidi, Vici 7. Name a nonfictional high school Columbine High School 8. Name one of those weird Bob Dylan songs whose title is not prominently mentioned in the song Billy 7 9. Name an ancient coin Denarius 10. Name an ancient historian Pliny ---
**Author:** ![DaphneBlack](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daphneblack/32/5389_2.png) [@DaphneBlack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaphneBlack)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2008, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-trivial-feud/436206/37 "2008-02-04T18:30:09Z")
Tough Trivial Feud 1. Other than _jihad_, name a English word from the Arabic. Algebra 2. Other than Waterloo, name a \*\*set-piece battle \*\*of the Napoleonic Wars. Trafalgar 3. Other than helium, name a noble gas. Argon 4. Other than John Kennedy, name an American president that served for a very short time Warren G Harding 5. Name a disease that humans used to die a lot from, but no longer do. Smallpox 6. Type out for us a phrase from the Latin [at least 3 words] ex post facto 7. Name a nonfictional high school Sidwell Friends School 8. Name one of those weird Bob Dylan songs whose title is not prominently mentioned in the song Subterranean Homesick Blues? 9. Name an ancient coin denarius 10. Name an ancient historian Thucydides ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2008, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-trivial-feud/436206/38 "2008-02-04T18:36:00Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] garygnu makes 28 players, this is going better than I thought it would. But where is love for radon? & zero? [/QUOTE] While the mathematical concept of zero has its origin in the middle east, the word itself comes from French. The Arabic equivalent is _cipher_. ---
**Author:** ![Interrobang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/interrobang/32/17463_2.png) [@Interrobang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Interrobang)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2008, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-trivial-feud/436206/39 "2008-02-04T18:43:32Z")
1. algebra 2. Battle of the Nile 3. neon 4. William Henry Harrison 5. smallpox 6. e pluribus unum 7. Beverly Hills High School 8. Subterranean Homesick Blues 9. ducat 10. Herodotus ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2008, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-trivial-feud/436206/40 "2008-02-04T18:47:54Z")
From [Merriam-Webster](http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/zero) Etymology: French or Italian; French zéro, from Italian zero, from Medieval Latin zephirum, from Arabic ṣifr [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-trivial-feud/436206.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-trivial-feud/436206.md?page=3)