# Trivial Feud Part I **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 19, 2007, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-i/430609 "2007-12-19T19:30:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-i/430609/1 "2007-12-19T19:30:23Z")
Several enchiladas later, I’ve fully recovered from scoring Family Feud Part VIII–which was made a lot harder by the strong IPA, now that I think about it. Since there were complaints that my questions in FFP8 were too much like trivia and not enough like Family Feud, I’ve decided to split the game off into Trivial Feud, which will focus on more mentally taxing topics, artistic and maybe even political opinions, and trivia recall. As in FFP8, “pass” will be considered an answer, but please don’t hesitate to use Google or Wikipedia to choose a “real” answer if you can’t come up with anything. (Now you’re playing Prisoner’s Dilemma, trying to figure out if more people will pass or use Google. See? It’s more interesting already! 😉 ) Otherwise, the rules from the main Family Feud threads still apply: for those who are new to this, DON’T READ THE THREAD BEFORE YOU POST! Super-sized to make sure nobody misses it, after that obfuscatory paragraph above. Post your responses to the questions below; after there have been 50 responses, I will double the value of the response to each question to come up with the Survey Says. You want to post what you think the most popular answer will be. If all 50 respondents have the same answer as you, you will get 100 points like the game show. After 50 responses have been posted (including my own, since I can’t keep from playing this myself), I will tabulate the results, declare the winner, and post the scoreboard. There are ten questions and 1000 possible points; **Tamex** , the defending champion, won with 464 points. Results of FFP8 are [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=448059&page=2&pp=50) and the current Family Feud thread is [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=448335). There is no rule about how to format your answers, but [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=9288281&postcount=77) are some helpful tips. Good luck! 1. Name an athlete known to have used illegal drugs. 2. Name a famous battle of World War II. 3. Name any country with French as an official language except France. 4. Name a living language in the Germanic language family other than German or English. 5. Name an English noun which came from Greek. 6. Name one of the three components of the human mind according to Freud’s psychoanalytic model. 7. For the first time, two Hispanic surnames are among the 10 most common in the United States. Name one of them. 8. Which can kill a person faster: total lack of sleep or total lack of food? 9. What is the most popular stimulant drug? 10. Which musical genre indigenous to the United States has been the most influential? ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-i/430609/2 "2007-12-19T19:32:15Z")
1. Barry Bonds 2. Midway 3. Monaco 4. Dutch 5. drama 6. id 7. Garcia 8. food 9. caffeine 10. blues ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-i/430609/3 "2007-12-19T19:33:31Z")
1. Name an athlete known to have used illegal drugs. Ben Johnson 2. Name a famous battle of World War II. The Bulge 3. Name any country with French as an official language except France. Belgium. 4. Name a living language in the Germanic language family other than German or English. Dutch. 5. Name an English noun which came from Greek. Philosophy. 6. Name one of the three components of the human mind according to Freud’s psychoanalytic model. Id. 7. For the first time, two Hispanic surnames are among the 10 most common in the United States. Name one of them. Sanchez. 8. Which can kill a person faster: total lack of sleep or total lack of food? Sleep. 9. What is the most popular stimulant drug? Caffeine. 10. Which musical genre indigenous to the United States has been the most influential? Blues. ---
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-i/430609/4 "2007-12-19T19:35:49Z")
1. Name an athlete known to have used illegal drugs. Darryl Strawberry 2. Name a famous battle of World War II. Normandy Invasion 3. Name any country with French as an official language except France. Canada 4. Name a living language in the Germanic language family other than German or English. Gaelic 5. Name an English noun which came from Greek. Pedestal 6. Name one of the three components of the human mind according to Freud’s psychoanalytic model. Ego 7. For the first time, two Hispanic surnames are among the 10 most common in the United States. Name one of them. Perez 8. Which can kill a person faster: total lack of sleep or total lack of food? Sleep 9. What is the most popular stimulant drug? Caffeine 10. Which musical genre indigenous to the United States has been the most influential? Blues ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-i/430609/5 "2007-12-19T19:38:23Z")
1. Barry Bonds. 2. Guadalcanal 3. Burkina Faso 4. Norse 5. Lexicon 6. Id 7. Fernandez. 8. Sleep 9. Caffeine 10. Jazz ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-i/430609/6 "2007-12-19T19:39:35Z")
1. Name an athlete known to have used illegal drugs. Dennis Rodman 1. Name a famous battle of World War II. Storming Normandy Beach 1. Name any country with French as an official language except France. Luxembourg 1. Name a living language in the Germanic language family other than German or English. Faroese 1. Name an English noun which came from Greek. Dinosaur 1. Name one of the three components of the human mind according to Freud’s psychoanalytic model. Id 1. For the first time, two Hispanic surnames are among the 10 most common in the United States. Name one of them. Gonzales 1. Which can kill a person faster: total lack of sleep or total lack of food? Sleep 1. What is the most popular stimulant drug? Caffeine 1. Which musical genre indigenous to the United States has been the most influential? Jazz ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-i/430609/7 "2007-12-19T19:39:36Z")
1. Barry Bonds 2. Battle of Midway 3. Senegal 4. Dutch 5. Telescope 6. Id 7. Rodriguez 8. total lack of sleep 9. Cocaine 10. Blues ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-i/430609/8 "2007-12-19T19:41:28Z")
1. Barry Bonds 2. D-Day 3. Canada 4. Norwegian 5. chaos 6. id 7. Garcia 8. Lack of sleep. 9. Caffeine 10. The blues ---
**Author:** ![brewha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@brewha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brewha)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-i/430609/9 "2007-12-19T19:47:05Z")
1. Barry Bonds 2. D-day invasion 3. Canada 4. Cerillic 5. Thursday 6. ID 7. Lopez 8. lack of sleep 9. caffine 10. jazz ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-i/430609/10 "2007-12-19T19:48:05Z")
[QUOTE=Hostile Dialect] 1. Name an athlete known to have used illegal drugs. 2. Name a famous battle of World War II. 3. Name any country with French as an official language except France. 4. Name a living language in the Germanic language family other than German or English. 5. Name an English noun which came from Greek. 6. Name one of the three components of the human mind according to Freud’s psychoanalytic model. 7. For the first time, two Hispanic surnames are among the 10 most common in the United States. Name one of them. 8. Which can kill a person faster: total lack of sleep or total lack of food? 9. What is the most popular stimulant drug? 10. Which musical genre indigenous to the United States has been the most influential? [/QUOTE] 11. Ricky Williams 12. Battle of the Bulge 13. Canada 14. Dutch 15. democracy 16. ego 17. Rodriguez (and it appears I’m right after checking _Wikipedia_) 18. total lack of sleep (according to a book I read when I was a kid, the maximum was something like six months without food, but no more than a couple of weeks without sleep) 19. amphetamines (hope that’s specific enough) 20. rock and roll ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-i/430609/11 "2007-12-19T19:49:46Z")
Good luck! 1. Name an athlete known to have used illegal drugs. **Barry Bonds** 2. Name a famous battle of World War II. **Battle of the Bulge** 3. Name any country with French as an official language except France. **Canada** 4. Name a living language in the Germanic language family other than German or English. **Dutch** 5. Name an English noun which came from Greek. **olive** 6. Name one of the three components of the human mind according to Freud’s psychoanalytic model. **Id** 7. For the first time, two Hispanic surnames are among the 10 most common in the United States. Name one of them. **Garcia** 8. Which can kill a person faster: total lack of sleep or total lack of food? **sleep** 9. What is the most popular stimulant drug? **caffeine** 10. Which musical genre indigenous to the United States has been the most influential? **blues** ---
**Author:** ![Frosted\_Glass](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frosted_glass/32/3926_2.png) [@Frosted\_Glass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frosted_Glass)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-i/430609/12 "2007-12-19T19:52:45Z")
1. Name an athlete known to have used illegal drugs. **Barry Bonds** 2. Name a famous battle of World War II. **Battle of the Bulge** 3. Name any country with French as an official language except France. **Haiti** 4. Name a living language in the Germanic language family other than German or English. **Danish** 5. Name an English noun which came from Greek. **Theater** 6. Name one of the three components of the human mind according to Freud’s psychoanalytic model. **Id** 7. For the first time, two Hispanic surnames are among the 10 most common in the United States. Name one of them. **Rodriguez** 8. Which can kill a person faster: total lack of sleep or total lack of food? **Total lack of sleep** 9. What is the most popular stimulant drug? **Caffeine** 10. Which musical genre indigenous to the United States has been the most influential? **Blues** ---
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-i/430609/13 "2007-12-19T19:58:58Z")
1. Name an athlete known to have used illegal drugs. **Barry Bonds** 2. Name a famous battle of World War II. **Battle of Normandy** 3. Name any country with French as an official language except France. **Canada** 4. Name a living language in the Germanic language family other than German or English. **Austria** 5. Name an English noun which came from Greek. **photograph** 6. Name one of the three components of the human mind according to Freud’s psychoanalytic model. **Ego** 7. For the first time, two Hispanic surnames are among the 10 most common in the United States. Name one of them. **Lopez** 8. Which can kill a person faster: total lack of sleep or total lack of food? **Lack of sleep** 9. What is the most popular stimulant drug? **Caffeine** 10. Which musical genre indigenous to the United States has been the most influential? **Country** ---
**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:** [December 19, 2007, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-i/430609/14 "2007-12-19T20:00:33Z")
1. Name an athlete known to have used illegal drugs. - Jose Canseco 2. Name a famous battle of World War II. - Normandy 3. Name any country with French as an official language except France. - Canada 4. Name a living language in the Germanic language family other than German or English. - Dutch 5. Name an English noun which came from Greek. - Alphabet 6. Name one of the three components of the human mind according to Freud’s psychoanalytic model. - Id 7. For the first time, two Hispanic surnames are among the 10 most common in the United States. Name one of them. - Rodriguez 8. Which can kill a person faster: total lack of sleep or total lack of food? - Sleep 9. What is the most popular stimulant drug? - Caffeine 10. Which musical genre indigenous to the United States has been the most influential? - Jazz ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-i/430609/15 "2007-12-19T20:01:44Z")
1. Barry Bonds 2. Omaha Beach 3. Canada 4. Swedish 5. Stadium 6. Ego 7. Garcia 8. Lack of sleep 9. Caffeine 10. Blues ---
**Author:** ![Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f0a364/32.png) [@Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rube_E.Tewesday)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-i/430609/16 "2007-12-19T20:04:39Z")
1. Name an athlete known to have used illegal drugs. **Barry Bonds** 2. Name a famous battle of World War II. **Midway** 3. Name any country with French as an official language except France. **Belgium** 4. Name a living language in the Germanic language family other than German or English. **Norwegian** 5. Name an English noun which came from Greek. **Television** 6. Name one of the three components of the human mind according to Freud’s psychoanalytic model. **Id** 7. For the first time, two Hispanic surnames are among the 10 most common in the United States. Name one of them. **Rodriguez** 8. Which can kill a person faster: total lack of sleep or total lack of food? **Total Lack of sleep** 9. What is the most popular stimulant drug? **Speed** 10. Which musical genre indigenous to the United States has been the most influential? **Jazz** ---
**Author:** ![Indyellen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/indyellen/32/4176_2.png) [@Indyellen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indyellen)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-i/430609/17 "2007-12-19T20:04:45Z")
1. Name an athlete known to have used illegal drugs. **Barry Bonds** 2. Name a famous battle of World War II. **Iwa Jima** 3. Name any country with French as an official language except France. **Switzerland** 4. Name a living language in the Germanic language family other than German or English. **Dutch** 5. Name an English noun which came from Greek. **protagonist** 6. Name one of the three components of the human mind according to Freud’s psychoanalytic model. **Ego** 7. For the first time, two Hispanic surnames are among the 10 most common in the United States. Name one of them. **Gonzales** 8. Which can kill a person faster: total lack of sleep or total lack of food? **Sleep** 9. What is the most popular stimulant drug? **Caffeine** 10. Which musical genre indigenous to the United States has been the most influential? **Jazz/Blues** ---
**Author:** ![Frosted\_Glass](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frosted_glass/32/3926_2.png) [@Frosted\_Glass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frosted_Glass)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-i/430609/18 "2007-12-19T20:05:42Z")
Hey **Hostile** , sorry about my answers format. I was just reading your comments in the other thread and I saw that the number-answer format is much easier for you to score. I will use that style for the rest. ---
**Author:** ![mikemo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/41988e/32.png) [@mikemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikemo)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-i/430609/19 "2007-12-19T20:07:02Z")
[QUOTE=Hostile Dialect] 1. Name an athlete known to have used illegal drugs. 2. Name a famous battle of World War II. 3. Name any country with French as an official language except France. 4. Name a living language in the Germanic language family other than German or English. 5. Name an English noun which came from Greek. 6. Name one of the three components of the human mind according to Freud’s psychoanalytic model. 7. For the first time, two Hispanic surnames are among the 10 most common in the United States. Name one of them. 8. Which can kill a person faster: total lack of sleep or total lack of food? 9. What is the most popular stimulant drug? 10. Which musical genre indigenous to the United States has been the most influential? [/QUOTE] \*\* 1. Barry Bonds 2. Battle of the Bulge 3. Canada 4. Dutch 5. Encyclopedia 6. Ego and Id 7. Rodriguez 8. Lack of food 9. Amphetimines 10 R&B \*\* ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-i/430609/20 "2007-12-19T20:10:28Z")
**1. Name an athlete known to have used illegal drugs.** Barry Bonds **2. Name a famous battle of World War II.** Battle of Normandy **3. Name any country with French as an official language except France.** Canada **4. Name a living language in the Germanic language family other than German or English.** Dutch **5. Name an English noun which came from Greek.** Automobile **6. Name one of the three components of the human mind according to Freud’s psychoanalytic model.** Ego **7. For the first time, two Hispanic surnames are among the 10 most common in the United States. Name one of them.** Rodrigues **8. Which can kill a person faster: total lack of sleep or total lack of food?** Total lack of sleep. **9. What is the most popular stimulant drug?** Caffeine **10. Which musical genre indigenous to the United States has been the most influential?** Rhythm & Blues [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-i/430609.md?page=2)