Tough Trivial Feud

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It was fun, thanks for hosting.

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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

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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

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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.

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  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?

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Sorry Gala you are 51.

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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.

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My first forray into a top 5. Way to go Interrobang!?.

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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!

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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!

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DEAD LAST!

Egads, I think I’ll do the next round.

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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!

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:smack: Sorry, yes add 2 points to yours and sternvogel’s score as well.

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Sixth place. Not bad for a guy who had his Harrisons mixed up.

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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.

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Good points and so noted, and good thing we aren’t playing for money!

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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
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you beat my score. 44, whoo

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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.

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  1. Sheik
  2. Trafalgar
  3. Neon
  4. Harrison
  5. Polio
  6. quo erat demonstradum
  7. Central High
  8. Rainy Day Women #12
  9. Nickel
  10. Livy