Tough Trivial Feud
- admiral
- Trafalgar
- xenon
- william henry harrison
- small pox
- E Pluribus Unum
- Stephen Austin High School
- Positively 4th Street
- ?
- Bede
1> fatwah (spelling?)
2> Battle of Montmarte
3> neon
4> James Garfield
5> tuberculosis
6> E PLVRIBVS VNVM (e pluribus unum)
7> Columbine High School
8> Positively 4th Street
9> drachma
10> Herodotus
Ha! I have answers for all your your puny questions. Now, do I have the right answers?
- Assassin
- Austerlitz
- Argon
- William McKinley
- Bubonic Plague
- Ad astra, per aspera
- Bevery Hills High School
- Rainy Day Women Number 12 and 69
- Doubloon
- Pliny the Elder
I mean 35! 12 and 35! Sheesh.
- Fatwah
- No clue
- Argon
- Harrison
- The plague
- e pluribus unum
- Dalton
- Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
- lepta
- Herodotus
Tough Trivial Feud…jeez, you weren’t kidding. (It doesn’t help that whenever I try to think of an English word from Arabic, I come up with a Spanish word from Arabic. The worst part? I was actually ready to answer #1 with “carpet” or “pillow” in English.)
- algebra
- Jena
- hydrogen?
- Ford?
- smallpox
- sic transit gloria mundi
- Madison
- You have an odd idea of when I went to high school.
- (old) shekel?
- no idea
- Assassin
- Battle of Talavera
- Neon
- William Henry Harrison
- Polio
- Veni, vidi, vici
- Columbine (My first thought was Southlake Carrol, of HS football dominance, but that had no shot of scoring tops)
- Motorpsycho Nightmare (No clue at all)
- Aureus
- Pliny the Elder
Where’s the love for the Assassins! Come on people!
- zero
- Battle of the Pyramids
- argon
- William Henry Harrison
- smallpox
- post hoc ergo propter hoc
- Beverly Hills High
- All Along the Watchtower (kinda?)
- Spanish doubloon
- Tacitus
Tough Trivial Feud
- 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.
assassin
2. Other than Waterloo, name a **set-piece battle **of the Napoleonic Wars. [Note this also rules out anything related to Moscow] Badajos.
- Other than helium, name a noble gas.
Argon. - Other than John Kennedy, name an American president that served for a very short time
Harding - Name a disease that humans used to die a lot from, but no longer do.
Bubonic plague - Type out for us a phrase from the Latin [at least 3 words]
cave canem (yeah, I know it’s only 2 words, but I don’t know any Latin)
7. Name a nonfictional high school
Lord Tweedsmuir 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
shekel
10. Name an ancient historian
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Josephus
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algebra
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Cairo
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xenon
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Ford
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smallpox
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e pluribus unum
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Kwajalein Jr./Sr. High
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Positively 49th Street
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pieces of eight (Spanish dollar)
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Pliny the Elder
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. - alchemy
2. Other than Waterloo, name a set-piece battle of the Napoleonic Wars. [Note this also rules out anything related to Moscow] - Battle of Austerlitz
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. - William Henry Harrison
5. Name a disease that humans used to die a lot from, but no longer do. - Small Pox
6. Type out for us a phrase from the Latin [at least 3 words] - Veni, vidi, vici
7. Name a nonfictional high school. - Columbine
8. Name one of those weird Bob Dylan songs whose title is not prominently mentioned in the song. - North Country Blues
9. Name an ancient coin. - Denarius
10. Name an ancient historian. - Herodotus
- Admiral
- Marengo
- Neon
- William Henry Harrison (who served the shortest term, one month)
- Smallpox
- quid pro quo
- Central High School of Little Rock, Arkansas
- Subterranean Homesick Blues
- That crossword favorite, the Greek obol
- Herodotus
Tough Trivial Feud
- Algebra
- Borodino
- Argon
- William Henry Harrison
- Smallpox
- E Pluribus Unum
- Power Memorial
- Subterranean Homesick Blues
- Drachma
- Herodotus
Heck, I just hope I got some right.
You answered them all correctly.
- Algebra
- Um, Trafalgar?
- Neon
- William Henry Harrison
- Smallpox
- Arma virumque cano
- Columbine High School
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"Positively 4th Street" - Drachma
- Tacitus
- burqa
- Battle of Trafalgar
- neon
- Harrison
- TB
- quid pro quo
- Exeter
- Bob Dylan’s blues
- denarius
- Josephus
- 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.
- Other than Waterloo, name a set-piece battle of the Napoleonic Wars. [Note this also rules out anything related to Moscow]
Jesus, I have no idea.
- Other than helium, name a noble gas.
Argon.
- Other than John Kennedy, name an American president that served for a very short time
William Henry Harrison
- Name a disease that humans used to die a lot from, but no longer do.
Smallpox.
- Type out for us a phrase from the Latin [at least 3 words]
Quod Erat Demonstratum
- Name a nonfictional high school
nonfictional high school? Ummm…okay, Petaluma High, my alma mater.
- Name one of those weird Bob Dylan songs whose title is not prominently mentioned in the song
Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 (are those the right numbers?)
- Name an ancient coin
Talent
- Name an ancient historian
Herodotus
- Algebra
- Austerlitz
- Argon
- Harrison
- Smallpox
- Consensus ad idem (meeting of the minds)
- Columbine High
- Rainy Day Woman No. 12 and No. 35
- Sesterces
- Herodotus
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.