Trivial Feud Part I

[Gala_Matrix_Fire]

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

[MaxTheVool]

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 )

[anyrose]

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

[garygnu]

I took the lack of food to include lack of water as well.

[anyrose]

@garygnu

I took the lack of food to include lack of water as well.

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.

[Hostile_Dialect]

@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.

[freckafree]

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

[MaxTheVool]

@Hostile Dialect

Feel free to verify your insults on Google or Wikipedia at any time. I proactively accept your apology.

Feel free to point me towards where on this wikipedia page it says anything about death.

[MaxTheVool]

@Hostile Dialect

Feel free to verify your insults on Google or Wikipedia at any time. I proactively accept your apology.

Feel free to point me towards where on this wikipedia page it says anything about death.

[askeptic]

@MaxTheVool

Feel free to point me towards where on this wikipedia page it says anything about death.

Dude, this is a game in MPSIMS not GD. But for your edification:

@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.

[Hostile_Dialect]

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

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.

[askeptic]

pssst, post #50.

[Hostile_Dialect]

We need 8 more.

[askeptic]

@Hostile Dialect

We need 8 more.

I was referring to my post #50 in response to Max…

[anyrose]

@Hostile Dialect

http://www.sleepdex.org/deficit.htm

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Health/CardiacHealth/story?id=3642202&page=1

Gee, and I only got my info from a ST:TNG episode…

[Hostile_Dialect]

@askeptic

I was referring to my post #50 in response to Max…

I was referring only to the fact that we need 8 more entries. I was checking anyway.

[JpnDude]

1. Ben Johnson
2. Guadalcanal
3. Canada
4. Dutch
5. Father
6. Id
7. Garcia
8. Lack Of Sleep
9. Nicotine
10. Jazz

[IvoryTowerDenizen]

Wheee! Fun!

@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

(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

[Hostile_Dialect]

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

2. Famous WWII battle

Bulge/Ardennes 19
Normandy/D-Day/Omaha Beach 13
Midway 6
Iwo Jima 3
Guadalcanal 2

3. French-speaking country (there have been a lot of unique responses so far)

Canada 24
Belgium 7
Haiti 2
Morocco 2

4. Germanic language (lots more unique responses)

Dutch 26
Norwegian/Norse 5
Danish 2
Swedish 2

5. Noun of Greek origin (more unique responses than you can shake a hamster at)

drama 3
philosophy 3
television 3
pass 3
olive 2

6. Freudian mind component

id 28
ego 13
superego 2

7. Hispanic surname

Garcia 14
Rodriguez 11
Gonzales 6
Lopez 4
Sanchez 2
Hernandez 2

8. Sleep/food

sleep 36
food 8

9. Stimulant

caffeine 34
amphetamines/speed 4
methamphetamine 2
cocaine 2

10. Music genre

blues 20
jazz 14
rock 4
R&B 4

Stay tuned!

[Garfield226]

1. Barry Bonds
2. D-Day
3. French Guayana
4. Dutch
5. Christ
6. Id
7. Rodriguez
8. sleep
9. caffeine
10. Jazz