Tough Trivial Feud

[Little_Nemo]

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.

[Justin_Credible]

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

[Enginerd]

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

[Wargamer]

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

[Das_Glasperlenspiel]

Noble gas = not hydrogen. I know I shouldn’t have gone with gut instinct on that one. :o

[Mullinator]

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

[SmartAleq]

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

[zamboniracer]

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

[ShibbOleth]

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?)

[garygnu]

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

[5_time_champ]

garygnu makes 28 players, this is going better than I thought it would. But where is love for radon? & zero?

[cmkeller]

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

[Monstera_deliciosa]

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

[OtakuLoki]

@5 time champ

garygnu makes 28 players, this is going better than I thought it would. But where is love for radon? & zero?

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.

[Purgatory_Creek]

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.

[brewha]

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

[DaphneBlack]

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

[Enginerd]

@5 time champ

garygnu makes 28 players, this is going better than I thought it would. But where is love for radon? & zero?

While the mathematical concept of zero has its origin in the middle east, the word itself comes from French. The Arabic equivalent is cipher.

[Interrobang]

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

[5_time_champ]

From Merriam-Webster
Etymology:
French or Italian; French zéro, from Italian zero, from Medieval Latin zephirum, from Arabic ṣifr