# 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:** 15\ **Page:** 5
**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 20, 2007, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-i/430609/81 "2007-12-20T20:07:20Z")
Boy do I suck. I’m kinda surprised, though, that Midway wasn’t a more popular answer for the WWII battle. ---
**Author:** ![mikemo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/41988e/32.png) [@mikemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikemo)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-i/430609/82 "2007-12-20T20:58:16Z")
I’m going in the wrong direction in these things…I keep getting worse! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Random](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/57b2e6/32.png) [@Random](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Random)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-i/430609/83 "2007-12-20T23:23:23Z")
1. Name an athlete known to have used illegal drugs. Bonds 1. Name a famous battle of World War II. Normandy. 1. Name any country with French as an official language except France. Canada 1. Name a living language in the Germanic language family other than German or English. Dutch. 1. Name an English noun which came from Greek. Democracy. 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. Perez. 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? Rock n Roll ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-i/430609/84 "2007-12-20T23:51:40Z")
1. Ben Johnson 2. Iwo Jima 3. Tahiti 4. Dutch 5. Philosophy 6. The id 7. Lopez 8. Lack of sleep 9. Caffeine 10. Rock and roll ---
**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 21, 2007, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-i/430609/85 "2007-12-21T00:01:55Z")
> [@Asimovian](#): > > You know what’s impressive? A game that seeks to rank people 1 - 50 by popular responses, and I manage to come in 51st. Hey, look at it this way: you’re the most unique. > [@Rube E. Tewesday](#): > > I’m kinda surprised, though, that Midway wasn’t a more popular answer for the WWII battle. Glad I’m not the only one. I thought I was just biased because of my location. There were some things in general that surprised me. For one, I didn’t expect the “athletes on drugs” thing to be so unanimous in the wake of the Mitchell report. I was also surprised how many nouns from Greek came in, although of course I shouldn’t have been. I only just found out that lack of sleep can kill you before lack of food, right before I started the game, so I expected a lot more people to vote for lack of food. And not as many people picked the blues as the most influential American genre as I thought would. My hypothesis is that the people who picked jazz are rap fans, and the people who picked the blues are rock and jazz fans. Anyone care to chime in on that? ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-i/430609/86 "2007-12-21T00:15:47Z")
[QUOTE=Hostile Dialect] There were some things in general that surprised me. For one, I didn’t expect the “athletes on drugs” thing to be so unanimous in the wake of the Mitchell report. [/quote] Yeah, I took a calculated risk that Clemens would be in people’s minds more than Bonds, so I went with Clemens. Obviously I should have stuck with Bonds. > [@](#): > > And not as many people picked the blues as the most influential American genre as I thought would. My hypothesis is that the people who picked jazz are rap fans, and the people who picked the blues are rock and jazz fans. Anyone care to chime in on that? Well, I’m more of a classical/opera fan, but I certainly listen to much more rock and jazz than rap, so I suppose that’s a point in your favor (I answered blues). ---
**Author:** ![Interrobang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/interrobang/32/17463_2.png) [@Interrobang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Interrobang)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-i/430609/87 "2007-12-21T00:19:51Z")
Re: Midway – I suspect that I filled in “Battle of the Bulge” in part because of the word “Battle” in the question. I know Midway is also called a battle, but it lacks the alliteration that Battle of the Bulge has. But I thought of it second. Sports: I don’t follow sports, and the word “known” pretty much led to me thinking of people who’ve admitted it. Marion Jones was the first name to come to mind. I wavered on blues instead of jazz–and put jazz in part because I thought more people would think of it. It’s the one credited as America’s native art form, after all. (As though that were a unique quality.) But I’m a rock fan, not hip-hop, so I contradict your hypothesis. ---
**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 21, 2007, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-i/430609/88 "2007-12-21T00:22:41Z")
> [@Interrobang!?](#): > > It’s the one credited as America’s native art form, after all. (As though that were a unique quality.) Well, they both are universally credited to America. The blues could’ve never happened, at least not the way it did, without the specific way that the whole slavery episode played out here. ---
**Author:** ![Interrobang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/interrobang/32/17463_2.png) [@Interrobang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Interrobang)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-i/430609/89 "2007-12-21T01:57:54Z")
Oh, I know, but jazz hired a better PR firm. I’ve heard variations on the “uniquely American art form” long enough for it to feel like a cliche to me – though maybe not as common as I thought. ---
**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 21, 2007, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-i/430609/90 "2007-12-21T02:12:51Z")
You have a point. While the jazz ethic has always been defined by musical artistry, the music itself has more room for commercialism and appeal to the masses–hence the abomination of lip-synch, 4-bar-solo swing and the current plague of smooth jazz. And some downright awful fusion bands\* in the 70s, too. - But Wynton Marsalis and the trad jazz movement can pry my Headhunters records from my cold, dead hands. Wait, we’re in CS, right? ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-i/430609/91 "2007-12-21T06:06:49Z")
“21”??? !!! Yay!!! ---
**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 21, 2007, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-i/430609/92 "2007-12-21T13:14:47Z")
Wow!!! I never win anything! What a surprise! :: bows gracefully :: ---
**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 21, 2007, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-i/430609/93 "2007-12-21T16:56:42Z")
My place is the same as my age??? **Hostile Dialect** , you’re messing with my head!!! 😃 Oh, congrats, **Dolores**! ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-i/430609/94 "2007-12-21T19:14:38Z")
I’ve done 3 of these, and come in 2nd, 3rd, & 4th. I should change my username to **John Q Public** ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-i/430609/95 "2007-12-21T19:57:41Z")
1. Hispanic surname Garcia 18 Rodriguez 13 Gonzales 6 Lopez 4 Hernandez 2 Sanchez 2 Interestingly, our top 2 are correct, but the next most common Hispanic surname is Martinez, which is currently number 11 in the USA, after Wilson, and that didn’t make our list. I hadn’t seen this article and live in an area filled with Hispanic surnames (I have one myself, sort of), so just took a wild guess. I see Garcia so much that I don’t really think of it as Spanish anymore. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-i/430609.md?page=4)