# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-i/430609/41 "2007-12-19T22:47:29Z")
1. Name an athlete known to have used illegal drugs. **Marion Jones** 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. **Morocco** 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. **metaphor** 6. Name one of the three components of the human mind according to Freud’s psychoanalytic model. **Superego** 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? Food 9. What is the most popular stimulant drug? **Cocaine** 10. Which musical genre indigenous to the United States has been the most influential? **Jazz** ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-i/430609/42 "2007-12-20T00:22:17Z")
1. Barry Bonds 2. D-Day 3. Canada (yes, I know) 4. Dutch 5. olympic 6. ego 7. lopez 8. This is a VERY badly phrased question. If you deprive someone of food for long enough, they will die, period. If you deprive them of sleep, they will eventually fall asleep anyhow. Unless what you are getting at is their lack of sleep will cause them to have an auto accident or something. However, you can go something like 30 days without food, so I will choose sleep as my answer. 9. caffeine 10. rock & roll (edited to remove overquoting, not to cheat 🙂 ) ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-i/430609/43 "2007-12-20T00:34:32Z")
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. **Yiddish** 5. Name an English noun which came from Greek. **helicopter** 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. **Gonzalez** 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?**Coffee (caffeine)** 10. Which musical genre indigenous to the United States has been the most influential? **R & B** ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-i/430609/44 "2007-12-20T00:35:42Z")
I took the lack of food to include lack of water as well. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-i/430609/45 "2007-12-20T00:42:27Z")
[QUOTE=garygnu] I took the lack of food to include lack of water as well. [/QUOTE] I don’t think that’s what was meant. A person can go a much longer time without solid food than without water (IIRC, I think the limit on water is 3 days?), but the brain needs REM sleep to function; if it doesn’t get it, it starts malfunctioning and eventually shuts down. ---
**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 20, 2007, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-i/430609/46 "2007-12-20T01:23:26Z")
> [@Frosted Glass](#): > > 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. No worries. > [@MaxTheVool](#): > > This is a VERY badly phrased question. If you deprive someone of food for long enough, they will die, period. If you deprive them of sleep, they will eventually fall asleep anyhow. Unless what you are getting at is their lack of sleep will cause them to have an auto accident or something. However, you can go something like 30 days without food, so I will choose sleep as my answer. Feel free to verify your insults on Google or Wikipedia at any time. I proactively accept your apology. > [@anyrose](#): > > I don’t think that’s what was meant. A person can go a much longer time without solid food than without water (IIRC, I think the limit on water is 3 days?), but the brain needs REM sleep to function; if it doesn’t get it, it starts malfunctioning and eventually shuts down. My intention, personally, is that each question means whatever each player wants it to mean. I’m not going to disqualify anyone for simply answering “You’re a fraud!” or “This question sucks” to every single question, but if nobody else does it they’re not going to get any points for it. ETA: And yes, it is intentional that some of these questions will be open to interpretation. That’s how we’re getting into your head, you know. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-i/430609/47 "2007-12-20T01:47:36Z")
1. Name an athlete known to have used illegal drugs. Barry Bonds 2. Name a famous battle of World War II. Battle of Normandy/D-Day 3. Name any country with French as an official language except France. Niger 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. 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. 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? Jazz ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-i/430609/48 "2007-12-20T02:00:04Z")
[QUOTE=Hostile Dialect] Feel free to verify your insults on Google or Wikipedia at any time. I proactively accept your apology. [/QUOTE] Feel free to point me towards where on [this wikipedia page](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_deprivation) it says anything about death. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-i/430609/49 "2007-12-20T02:00:02Z")
[QUOTE=Hostile Dialect] Feel free to verify your insults on Google or Wikipedia at any time. I proactively accept your apology. [/QUOTE] Feel free to point me towards where on [this wikipedia page](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_deprivation) it says anything about death. ---
**Author:** ![askeptic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@askeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/askeptic)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-i/430609/50 "2007-12-20T02:06:35Z")
[QUOTE=MaxTheVool] Feel free to point me towards where on [this wikipedia page](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_deprivation) it says anything about death. [/QUOTE] Dude, this is a game in MPSIMS not GD. But for your edification: [QUOTE= From Wiki on the page you cited] A 2001 Study at Chicago Medical Institute suggested that sleep deprivation may be linked to more serious diseases, such as heart disease, mental illnesses, such as psychosis and bipolar disorder, and even death. [/QUOTE] ---
**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 20, 2007, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-i/430609/51 "2007-12-20T02:10:01Z")
[http://www.sleepdex.org/deficit.htm](http://www.sleepdex.org/deficit.htm) > [@](#): > > In humans, fatal familial insomnia, a degenerative brain disease, leads to death after several months [http://www.abcnews.go.com/Health/CardiacHealth/story?id=3642202&page=1](http://www.abcnews.go.com/Health/CardiacHealth/story?id=3642202&page=1) > [@](#): > > A 17-year analysis of 10,000 government workers showed those who cut their sleep from seven hours a night to five or less faced a 1.7-fold increased risk of death from all causes and more than double the risk of cardiovascular death. ---
**Author:** ![askeptic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@askeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/askeptic)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-i/430609/52 "2007-12-20T02:10:52Z")
pssst, post #50. ---
**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 20, 2007, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-i/430609/53 "2007-12-20T02:12:30Z")
We need 8 more. ---
**Author:** ![askeptic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@askeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/askeptic)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-i/430609/54 "2007-12-20T02:16:46Z")
[QUOTE=Hostile Dialect] We need 8 more. [/QUOTE] I was referring to my post #50 in response to Max… ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-i/430609/55 "2007-12-20T02:17:29Z")
[QUOTE=Hostile Dialect] [http://www.sleepdex.org/deficit.htm](http://www.sleepdex.org/deficit.htm) [http://www.abcnews.go.com/Health/CardiacHealth/story?id=3642202&page=1](http://www.abcnews.go.com/Health/CardiacHealth/story?id=3642202&page=1) [/QUOTE] Gee, and I only got my info from a ST:TNG episode… 😉 ---
**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 20, 2007, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-i/430609/56 "2007-12-20T02:19:54Z")
[QUOTE=askeptic] I was referring to my post #50 in response to Max… [/QUOTE] I was referring only to the fact that we need 8 more entries. I was checking anyway. ---
**Author:** ![JpnDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@JpnDude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JpnDude)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-i/430609/57 "2007-12-20T03:56:23Z")
1. Ben Johnson 2. Guadalcanal 3. Canada 4. Dutch 5. Father 6. Id 7. Garcia 8. Lack Of Sleep 9. Nicotine 10. Jazz ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-i/430609/58 "2007-12-20T04:23:48Z")
Wheee! Fun! [QUOTE=Hostile Dialect] Good luck! 1. Name an athlete known to have used illegal drugs. Rodger Clemens 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. Norwegian 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? Caffiene 10. Which musical genre indigenous to the United States has been the most influential? Blues [/QUOTE] (Edited to fix format for scoring ease- no answers were changed) 1. Roger Clemens 2. Battle of the Bulge 3. Canada 4. Norwegian 5. Olive 6. Id 7. Garcia 8. Sleep 9. Caffeine 10. Blues ---
**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 20, 2007, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-i/430609/59 "2007-12-20T05:11:51Z")
I was bored, so I devised and used a much faster method of tallying responses. The tallies so far (as of **IvoryTowerDenizen** ’s entry) are included below for your premature emasculation, but keep in mind that we still need six more entries. The numbers included are replies, not points. One response each for questions 6 and 10 has been omitted pending a judge’s (that’s me) decision. Only the responses that _would_ score points _if the game ended right now_ are listed, as this post will be long enough already. So if you don’t see your pick, don’t fret: you can still score 14 points on it. 1. Athlete on drugs Barry Bonds 27 Ben Johnson 4 Marion Jones 4 Darryl Strawberry 2 Jose Canseco 2 Roger Clemens 2 1. Famous WWII battle Bulge/Ardennes 19 Normandy/D-Day/Omaha Beach 13 Midway 6 Iwo Jima 3 Guadalcanal 2 1. French-speaking country (there have been a lot of unique responses so far) Canada 24 Belgium 7 Haiti 2 Morocco 2 1. Germanic language (lots more unique responses) Dutch 26 Norwegian/Norse 5 Danish 2 Swedish 2 1. Noun of Greek origin (more unique responses than you can shake a hamster at) drama 3 philosophy 3 television 3 pass 3 olive 2 1. Freudian mind component id 28 ego 13 superego 2 1. Hispanic surname Garcia 14 Rodriguez 11 Gonzales 6 Lopez 4 Sanchez 2 Hernandez 2 1. Sleep/food sleep 36 food 8 1. Stimulant caffeine 34 amphetamines/speed 4 methamphetamine 2 cocaine 2 1. Music genre blues 20 jazz 14 rock 4 R&B 4 Stay tuned! ---
**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-i/430609/60 "2007-12-20T05:19:42Z")
1. Barry Bonds 2. D-Day 3. French Guayana 4. Dutch 5. Christ 6. Id 7. Rodriguez 8. sleep 9. caffeine 10. Jazz [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-i/430609.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-i/430609.md?page=4)