# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![brownie55](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f14d63/32.png) [@brownie55](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brownie55)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2008, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-trivial-feud/436206/61 "2008-02-05T17:07:22Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] I believe that **Spoons** is number 50. So let me crunch some numbers. Good game I hope everyone found it interesting and a little more challenging than earlier games. [/QUOTE] It was fun, thanks for hosting. ---
**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 5, 2008, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-trivial-feud/436206/62 "2008-02-05T23:24:48Z")
Sorry for the delay, third of four games now that the only half-way decent product that Microsoft puts out [Excel :mad: :mad:] has crashed on me. So I had to use the worst product Apple has ever put out [Numbers] :mad: to do the scoring for this round. 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. admiral 2 alchemy 1 alcohol 2 algebra 16 algorithm 1 Allah 1 assassin 5 burqa 1 Derka Derka 1 Fakir 1 Fatwa 3 Genie 3 halal 1 harem 1 Hummus 1 Koran 1 lollypop 1 Martyr 1 Mummy 1 Orange 1 Ramadan 1 Sheik 2 zero 2 2. Other than Waterloo, name a set-piece battle of the Napoleonic Wars. [Note this also rules out anything related to Moscow] Marengo 1 2. ? 4 Aubergine 1 Austerlitz 12 Badajos. 1 Battle of Aldenhoven 1 Battle of Aspern-Essling 1 Battle of the Nations 1 Battle of the Nile 1 Battle of the Pyramids 2 Borodino 5 Cairo 1 Cyprus 1 Jena 1 Jesus, I have no idea. 1 Montmarte 1 New Orleans 1 Paris? 1 Salamanca 1 Siege of Cadiz 1 Talavera 2 The Battle of Auerstaedt 1 The Battle of Battles McBattle 1 Trafalgar 7 1. Other than helium, name a noble gas. Argon 14 Hydrogen 3 Krypton 1 neon 27 Radon 2 Xenon 3 2. Other than John Kennedy, name an American president that served for a very short time Benjamin Harrison 1 Ford 6 Harding 1 Harrison 3 James Garfield 8 Lincoln(?) 1 McKinley 3 Warren Harding 3 Wm Henry Harrison 22 Zachary Taylor 2 3. Name a disease that humans used to die a lot from, but no longer do. 1 Influenza 2 cholera 1 Consumption 1 Leprosy 1 Measles 10 Plague 3 Polio 27 Smallpox 4 tuberculosis 6. Type out for us a common phrase in Latin [at least 3 words] ad astra per aspera 2 Arma virumque cano 1 Carthago delenda est 1 cave canem 1 Cogito ergo sum 4 Consensus ad idem (meeting of the minds) 1 E Pluribus Unum 13 ex post facto 1 In Vino Veritas 2 Persona non grata 1 Post hoc ergo prompter hoc 2 quid pro quo 5 Quis custodiet ipsos custodes 1 Quod Erat Demonstratum 3 Res Ipsa Loquitor 1 Semper ubi sub ubi 1 sic transit gloria mundi 1 Veni, vedi, vici. 9 1. Name a nonfictional high school Exeter 1 Beverly Hills High 8 Bronx High School of Science 1 Central High School of Little Rock, Arkansas 1 Columbine 16 Dalton 1 DeMatha H.S. 1 Great Falls High 1 Hollywood High 3 JFK High School 2 Kwajalein Jr./Sr. High 1 Lincoln High School 1 Little Rock Central High School 1 Lord Tweedsmuir High School 1 Madison 1 Mater Dei 1 Mount Saint Mary’s 1 Nashoba Regional High School 1 New York City High School of the Performing Arts 1 Petaluma High 1 Power Memorial 1 Sidwell Friends School 1 Stephen Austin High School 1 Stuyvesant, in New York 2 2. Name one of those weird Bob Dylan songs whose title is not prominently mentioned in the song 3. Star 1 All Along the Watchtower 1 Ballad of a Thin Man 1 Billy 7 1 Blowin’ in the Wind 2 Bob Dylan’s blues 1 Highway 61 Revisited 1 Hurricane? 1 It’s Alright, Ma 1 Just Like Tom Thumb Blues 1 Man Gave Names to All the Animals 1 Man on the Street 1 Motorpsycho Nightmare 1 North Country Blues 1 pass 4 Positively Fourth Street 7 Rainy Day Woman #12 and 35 11 Subterranean Homesick Blues 12 You have an odd idea of when I went to high school. 1 4. Name an ancient coin 5. ?? 2 as 1 Aureus 1 Denarius 7 Dinar 1 Doubloon 7 Drachma 9 ducat 1 Florin 3 lepta 1 obol 1 pieces of eight 1 Sesterce 2 sextans 1 Shekel 9 Talent 3 6. Name an ancient historian Socrates 1 Tacitus 1 7. Cassius Dio 1 Bede 1 Cicero 1 Herodotus 21 Homer 1 Josephus 5 no idea 1 Pliny 9 Plutarch 4 Tacitus 2 The guy who wrote the Dead Sea scrolls 1 Thucydides 1 ---
**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 5, 2008, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-trivial-feud/436206/63 "2008-02-05T23:27:24Z")
And congratulations to the winner of Tough Trivial Feud: **Interrobang!?** With 292 points 1 Interrobang!? 292 2 Bayard 286 3 Max Torque 286 4 Nurobath 282 5 brownie55 278 6 Little Nemo 278 7 fretfulporpenttine 262 8 3acresandatruck 254 9 bibliophage 248 10 5 time champ 244 11 spoons 244 12 Cluricaun 242 13 kyla 234 14 Sternvogel 232 15 Mullinator 232 16 The Cocky Watchman 228 17 Enginerd 220 18 Wargamer 220 19 DfrntBreign 216 20 TheMerchandise 210 21 OtakuLoki 206 22 RealityChuck 202 23 ShibbOleth 196 24 KayElCee 194 25 Labdad 194 26 elucidator 192 27 mmouse9799 192 28 Darth Sensitive 186 29 Chanteuse 184 30 DaphneBlack 172 31 MsWhatsit 172 32 garygnu 170 33 Hugh Jass 162 34 Subway Prophet 162 35 El\_Kabong 162 36 SmartAleq 160 37 tesseract 154 38 pulykamell 150 39 brewha 148 40 cmkeller 140 41 Justin Credible 138 42 Das Glasperlenspiel 132 43 control-z 124 44 Hostile Dialect 122 45 zamboniracer 112 46 jali 98 47 Gangster Octopus 96 48 Purgatory Creek 88 49 vison 86 50 Zebra 70 Alpha 3acresandatruck 254 5 time champ 244 Bayard 286 bibliophage 248 brewha 148 brownie55 278 Chanteuse 184 Cluricaun 242 cmkeller 140 control-z 124 DaphneBlack 172 Darth Sensitive 186 Das Glasperlenspiel 132 DfrntBreign 216 El\_Kabong 162 elucidator 192 Enginerd 220 fretfulporpenttine 262 Gangster Octopus 96 garygnu 170 Hostile Dialect 122 Hugh Jass 162 Interrobang!? 292 jali 98 Justin Credible 138 KayElCee 194 kyla 234 Labdad 194 Little Nemo 278 Max Torque 286 mmouse9799 192 MsWhatsit 172 Mullinator 232 Nurobath 282 OtakuLoki 206 pulykamell 150 Purgatory Creek 88 RealityChuck 202 ShibbOleth 196 SmartAleq 160 spoons 244 Sternvogel 232 Subway Prophet 162 tesseract 154 The Cocky Watchman 228 TheMerchandise 210 vison 86 Wargamer 220 zamboniracer 112 Zebra 70 ---
**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 5, 2008, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-trivial-feud/436206/64 "2008-02-05T23:47:57Z")
Wow! I’m amazed, given that googling for a Napoleonic battle turned up a one-point answer and my lousy guess at an ancient coin was, indeed, lousy. ---
**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2008, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-trivial-feud/436206/65 "2008-02-06T00:05:59Z")
1. Alcohol 2. No idea 3. Neon 4. William Henry Harrison 5. Bubonic plague 6. Vini vidi vici 7. Hollywood High 8. Positively Fourth Street 9. Shekel 10. Euripides Did I make it in the first 50? ---
**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 6, 2008, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-trivial-feud/436206/66 "2008-02-06T00:43:11Z")
Sorry **Gala** you are 51. ---
**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 6, 2008, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-trivial-feud/436206/67 "2008-02-06T00:50:44Z")
[QUOTE=Interrobang!?] Wow! I’m amazed, given that googling for a Napoleonic battle turned up a one-point answer and my lousy guess at an ancient coin was, indeed, lousy. [/QUOTE] Yeah, it is a little odd to win with two zeros- but you got the two zeros in the lowest overall scoring categories. Good job. ---
**Author:** ![brownie55](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f14d63/32.png) [@brownie55](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brownie55)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2008, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-trivial-feud/436206/68 "2008-02-06T01:20:27Z")
My first forray into a top 5. Way to go **Interrobang!?.** ---
**Author:** ![3acresandatruck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/e79b87/32.png) [@3acresandatruck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3acresandatruck)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2008, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-trivial-feud/436206/69 "2008-02-06T01:25:10Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] 1. Name a nonfictional high school… Central High School of Little Rock, Arkansas 1 . . . Little Rock Central High School 1 [/QUOTE] I’d like to contend that these are the same high school. What do the judges say? (Not that it would change the standings…) Thanks for the game, **5 time champ**! ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2008, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-trivial-feud/436206/70 "2008-02-06T01:37:43Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] I hope everyone found it interesting and a little more challenging than earlier games. [/QUOTE] It certainly was challenging! I got hung up a bit on the Latin phrase, but it all seemed OK in the end–I placed better than I thought I would. Thanks for the game! ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2008, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-trivial-feud/436206/71 "2008-02-06T03:21:08Z")
DEAD LAST! Egads, I think I’ll do the next round. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2008, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-trivial-feud/436206/72 "2008-02-06T03:49:20Z")
Woo-hoo! I scored a silver! I started smacking myself for answering QED for the Latin phrase almost as soon as I posted it. If not for that… Congrats, **Interrobang!?** Many thanks for the game, **5 time champ**! ---
**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 6, 2008, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-trivial-feud/436206/73 "2008-02-06T04:39:14Z")
[QUOTE=3acresandatruck] I’d like to contend that these are the same high school. What do the judges say? (Not that it would change the standings…) Thanks for the game, **5 time champ**! [/QUOTE] :smack: Sorry, yes add 2 points to yours and **sternvogel’s** score as well. ---
**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 6, 2008, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-trivial-feud/436206/74 "2008-02-06T05:18:52Z")
Sixth place. Not bad for a guy who had his Harrisons mixed up. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2008, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-trivial-feud/436206/75 "2008-02-06T23:14:36Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] :smack: Sorry, yes add 2 points to yours and **sternvogel’s** score as well. [/QUOTE] Actually four points each, as **3acresandatruck** and I each go from scoring 0 points to (2 x 2) on that question. I thus not only break the tie with **Mullinator** , but move ahead of **kyla** to boot. To be fair, tuberculosis and consumption are the same disease, so the people who put down those answers should also have their scores adjusted accordingly. ---
**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 6, 2008, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-trivial-feud/436206/76 "2008-02-06T23:34:32Z")
Good points and so noted, and good thing we aren’t playing for money! ---
**Author:** ![Taber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac91a4/32.png) [@Taber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taber)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2008, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-trivial-feud/436206/77 "2008-02-07T20:46:31Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] 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 [/QUOTE] don’t know if there’s still time, but here goes 1. khat 2. Napolean vs godzilla, rumble in the bronx 3. xenon 4. Benjamin Harrison 5. smallpox 6. e plurbis unum 7. Bishop’s 8. the wickerman 9. Rupee 10. Indiana Jones ---
**Author:** ![Taber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac91a4/32.png) [@Taber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taber)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2008, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-trivial-feud/436206/78 "2008-02-07T20:49:23Z")
[QUOTE=Zebra] DEAD LAST! Egads, I think I’ll do the next round. [/QUOTE] you beat my score. 44, whoo ---
**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 7, 2008, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-trivial-feud/436206/79 "2008-02-07T21:42:58Z")
Wow - can’t believe I’m the only one who said Krypton, I thought that would come to more peoples’ minds, being the name of Superman’s world of origin. ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2008, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-trivial-feud/436206/80 "2008-02-28T01:20:52Z")
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