# Tough Trivial Feud

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-trivial-feud/436206>\
**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:** 4\
**Page:** 5

<div class="post-metadata">

**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, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-trivial-feud/436206/81 "2008-02-28T01:26:15Z")

</div>

Sorry. I was following the rules and not reading ahead ! 🙂 Next time.

(Also, nickel? Derf. I thought it said “actual coin”.)

Aaaaand I just realized I zombiefied this from a search result. Lord, I fail.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Amblydoper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@Amblydoper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amblydoper)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2008, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-trivial-feud/436206/82 "2008-02-28T01:38:27Z")

</div>

I don’t know if I am too late, because I followed the rules!  
This was “Tough” but entertaining.

1. Qur’an
2. Battle of Ligny
3. Neon
4. Nixon
5. Plague
6. Veni Vidi Vicci
7. Jefferson High
8. Positively 4th Street
9. Gold De Bloom
10. Caeser

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Amblydoper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@Amblydoper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amblydoper)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2008, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-trivial-feud/436206/83 "2008-02-28T01:40:19Z")

</div>

Well crap.  
I guess I am not going to win.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2008, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-trivial-feud/436206/84 "2008-02-28T06:08:13Z")

</div>

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.

Algebra

1. Other than Waterloo, name a set-piece battle of the Napoleonic Wars. [Note this also rules out anything related to Moscow]

Austerlitz

1. Other than helium, name a noble gas.

Neon

1. Other than John Kennedy, name an American president that served for a very short time

Gerald Ford

1. Name a disease that humans used to die a lot from, but no longer do.

smallpox

1. Type out for us a phrase from the Latin [at least 3 words]

E pluribus unum

1. Name a nonfictional high school

Beverly Hills High School  
8. Name one of those weird Bob Dylan songs whose title is not prominently mentioned in the song

Rainy Day Women #12 & 35?

1. Name an ancient coin

Denarius

1. Name an ancient historian

Herodotus

[Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tough-trivial-feud/436206.md?page=4)