Trivial Feud Part II

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I want to thank our esteemed host for this game! It’s tons of fun, even if this one is hard. :wink:

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  1. Cockney
  2. Rodney King (L.A. early 90s?)
  3. Southern Louisiana/Mississippi
  4. Yugoslavia
  5. Barbequeing
  6. Amiga
  7. Pass
  8. Transformers
  9. Mark Twain
  10. Grand Theft Auto - San Andreas
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  1. Name an English dialect spoken somewhere in the British Isles.

Cockney

  1. What was the most destructive riot in living memory? (ETA: Please include both location and general date–usually a decade is good enough.)

Watts Riot

  1. Which area is most prone to natural disasters?

Coastal areas

  1. Name a country occupied by Germany during World War II.

Poland

  1. What is the most popular pastime in Australia?

Rugby

  1. Name an operating system besides Windows, Mac OS, and Linux.

MSDOS

  1. Which 1970s song has been sampled the most in hip-hop music?

Pass

  1. What was the best movie of 2007?

Pass

  1. Name one of the top five most popular writers whose work is in the public domain.

William Shakespeare

  1. Which video game holds the record for most opening-day sales?

Halo

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  1. Yorkshire
  2. Watts 1960s
  3. Florida
  4. Austria
  5. rugby
  6. DOS
  7. Shaft
  8. Juno
  9. Shelley
  10. Halo 3
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1 Scottish
2 The Los Angeles riots in the mid 90’s
3 Florida
4 Poland
5 Revealing a knife larger than someone else’s knife
6 Firefox…that’s a thing right?
7 Just the Two of Us
8 300
9 Charles Dickens
10 Halo 3

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I guess this is a lesson to always go with your first thought. I had Cockney for #1, then decided to change it to Scottish. Oh well.

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Ooh, I saw the last one way too late for my answers to count, so here goes (bearing in mind that I know nothing whatsoever about at least half of these topics, so some of my answers may be rather weird).

  1. Scots.

  2. Los Angeles, early 1990s.

  3. Bangladesh.

  4. Poland.

  5. Surfing.

  6. DOS.

  7. “I Heard it Through the Grapevine”

  8. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

  9. Arthur Conan Doyle.

  10. Halo.

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  1. Cockney
  2. L.A. riot, 1992
  3. California
  4. Poland
  5. Beer
  6. DOS
  7. Jack and Diane, J.C. Mellencamp (80s song, but I think it will win)
  8. Sweeney Todd
  9. Shakespeare
  10. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock
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  1. Cockney
  2. LA, 90s
  3. Southeast Asia
  4. Poland
  5. Knifey Spoony
  6. DOS
  7. Pass
  8. Pass
  9. Shakespeare
  10. Halo 3
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  1. Cockney
  2. Brixton, 1950’s
  3. Carribean
  4. Poland
  5. Cricket
  6. DOS
  7. Pass
  8. Simpsons
  9. Shakespear
  10. Halo
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  1. Cockney
  2. Brixton
  3. Pacific rim
  4. Poland
  5. Beer
  6. DOS
  7. (pass)
  8. (pass)
  9. Shakespeare
  10. Halo 3?
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  1. British English
  2. LA/Rodney King verdict
  3. Pacific Rim
  4. Poland
  5. surfing
  6. Unix
  7. Superfreak
  8. No Country for Old Men
  9. Shakespeare
  10. Halo III
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  1. Name an English dialect spoken somewhere in the British Isles. - Cockney
  2. What was the most destructive riot in living memory? (ETA: Please include both location and general date–usually a decade is good enough.) - Watts, 1968?
  3. Which area is most prone to natural disasters? - South Asia
  4. Name a country occupied by Germany during World War II. - France
  5. What is the most popular pastime in Australia? - Rugby
  6. Name an operating system besides Windows, Mac OS, and Linux. - OS/2
  7. Which 1970s song has been sampled the most in hip-hop music? - I Will Survive
  8. What was the best movie of 2007? - Ratatouille
  9. Name one of the top five most popular writers whose work is in the public domain. - William Shakspeare
  10. Which video game holds the record for most opening-day sales? - Halo 3
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1. Name an English dialect spoken somewhere in the British Isles.
Cockney

2. What was the most destructive riot in living memory? (ETA: Please include both location and general date–usually a decade is good enough.)
Watts riots, Los Angeles, 1965

3. Which area is most prone to natural disasters?
Southeastern USA (Florida, et al.)?

4. Name a country occupied by Germany during World War II.
France (does it have to be total occupation?)

5. What is the most popular pastime in Australia?
Football (rugby)

6. Name an operating system besides Windows, Mac OS, and Linux.
OS/2

7. Which 1970s song has been sampled the most in hip-hop music?
James Brown’s Get Up Offa That Thing?

8. What was the best movie of 2007?
The Simpsons Movie

9. Name one of the top five most popular writers whose work is in the public domain.
William Shakespeare

10. Which video game holds the record for most opening-day sales?
Halo 3

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  1. Liverpudlian
  2. Watts, 1960s
  3. Southeast Asia
  4. Poland
  5. Surfing
  6. Unix
  7. War (What is it Good For?) Seriously, I have no clue.
  8. Sweeney Todd
  9. Wm Shakespeare
  10. The Sims 2
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  1. Cockney
  2. Los Angeles Riots (Re: Rodney King, sometime in the 90s)
  3. Southeast Asia
  4. Poland
  5. Drinking beer
  6. DOS
  7. YMCA
  8. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
  9. Shakespeare
  10. Halo 3
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Okay, I’ll give this a try…

  1. Cockney
  2. Watts (Los Angeles), 1960s
  3. Japan
  4. Poland
  5. Cricket
  6. CP/M-86
  7. “Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker),” Parliament
  8. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
  9. William Shakespeare
  10. Halo 3
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  1. Name an English dialect spoken somewhere in the British Isles.
    Cockney

  2. What was the most destructive riot in living memory? (ETA: Please include both location and general date–usually a decade is good enough.)
    Rodney King riots in LA.

  3. Which area is most prone to natural disasters?
    Joke answer: trailer parks
    Real answer: Florida/gulf coast (ie, hurricane area)

  4. Name a country occupied by Germany during World War II.
    France

  5. What is the most popular pastime in Australia?
    Cricket

  6. Name an operating system besides Windows, Mac OS, and Linux.
    DOS

  7. Which 1970s song has been sampled the most in hip-hop music?
    Pass

  8. What was the best movie of 2007?
    No Country for Old Men

  9. Name one of the top five most popular writers whose work is in the public domain.
    Shakespeare

  10. Which video game holds the record for most opening-day sales?
    Halo 3

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  1. Cockney
  2. '60s LA race riots
  3. Southern California?
  4. Poland
  5. Cricket
  6. Unix
  7. pass
  8. Fantastic Four 2
  9. Shakespeare
  10. Halo 3
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Spoons:

I’m not sure Godzilla, Mothra, et al count as “natural disasters.”