# Trivial Feud Part III: World Edition **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 16, 2008, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-iii-world-edition/433775 "2008-01-16T20:22:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![tesseract](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bb73d2/32.png) [@tesseract](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tesseract)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2008, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-iii-world-edition/433775/61 "2008-01-21T20:46:17Z")
1. Brazil 2. Brazil? 3. pass 4. Bombay – Mumbai 5. Mexico City 6. Roberto Benigni 7. Greece 8. Zidane 9. gymnastics 10. United States – Salt Lake City oh, i see i’m too late! ah well i like playing anyway ---
**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:** [January 21, 2008, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-iii-world-edition/433775/62 "2008-01-21T22:32:24Z")
Sorry guys. I tried to score it, left the computer, and my answers list ended up being erased. To keep from going homicidal, I decided to leave it be instead of trying to start over, and just hope that the thread would fade into nothing more than a distant MPSIMS memory. Unfortunately, it hasn’t. So I’ll be along with the scores, I promise, but things have an annoying habit of coming up today, so I can’t promise it will be incredibly soon. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2008, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-iii-world-edition/433775/63 "2008-01-22T14:33:20Z")
You tease! ---
**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:** [January 23, 2008, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-iii-world-edition/433775/64 "2008-01-23T20:03:10Z")
This thread ain’t getting lost so easily, Hostile Dialect. ---
**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:** [January 23, 2008, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-iii-world-edition/433775/65 "2008-01-23T21:17:38Z")
> [@cmkeller](#): > > This thread ain’t getting lost so easily, Hostile Dialect. Easy, folks. Since I promised answers, I’ve been swamped with supplemental college transfer applications (“Our admissions department doesn’t feel like figuring out which of your 88.5 semester units transfer to our campus and adding them up; why don’t you go ahead and do it for them?”) and a heaping helping of random oddities popping up left and right, all at exactly the worst time for the Trivial Feud players on the edges of their seats. I shall calculate thine scores presently; be patient, and I’ll be back in the next few minutes. ---
**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:** [January 23, 2008, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-iii-world-edition/433775/66 "2008-01-23T21:43:06Z")
OK, here goes. I let tesseract join in the fun since I was so late with the scores. 1. World Cup winner Brazil 32 Italy 5 England 3 1. World Cup host Germany 13 USA 12 France 4 Italy 3 Brazil 3 Korea/Japan 2 (ONE country, people) 1. Merged country East Germany 17 (heh, wonder what that says about us) West Germany 5 Texas 3 Germany 2 (reread the question) Zanzibar 2 1. New-name city Constantinople 7 Peking 7 Edo 5 Bombay 4 Pass 3 Saigon 3 Leopoldville 3 Harare 2 Leningrad 2 1. Top 20 city Tokyo 16 Mexico City 11 New York 7 London 3 Shanghai 2 1. Famous foreign director Fellini 6 Kurosawa 6 Almodovar 3 Bergman 3 Polanski 3 Del Toro 2 Miyazaki 2 Lean 2 Leone 2 1. Olive exporter Greece 24 Italy 10 Spain 7 1. Athlete Pele 20 Comaneci 4 Federer 3 Kournikova 2 Zidane 2 Yao Ming 2 1. Olympic sport Football 13 Athletics 11 Gymnastics 8 100 m dash 2 sprinting 2 basketball 2 1. Olympic host USA 14 Japan 7 Italy 5 Canada 5 Yugoslavia 5 Norway 2 Scores in a few minutes. France 2 ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-iii-world-edition/433775/67 "2008-01-23T22:32:37Z")
I seem to have gotten 3 points for everything. Except Guy Ritchie. _Nobody_ else liked _Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels?_ ---
**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:** [January 23, 2008, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-iii-world-edition/433775/68 "2008-01-23T22:49:44Z")
Oh, and: 1. Ritchie 2 The Scoreboard (I didn’t bother to calculate the scores with the formula or anything, sorry): ```auto 1 Mahna Mahna 306 2 Enginerd 294 3 Sternvogel 286 4 5 time champ 282 5 cmkeller 270 6 Panurge 262 7 Dottygumdrop 254 8 Asimovian 246 8 Justin Credible 246 10 Little Nemo 240 10 amarinth 240 10 MaxTheVool 240 13 Frosted Glass 238 14 Mullinator 236 15 CMiller 234 16 Wargamer 230 17 jjimm 228 18 DaphneBlack 222 19 Fretful Porpentine 214 20 Purgatory Creek 212 21 Tristan 206 22 Gala Matrix Fire 202 22 Sitnam 202 24 Interrobang!? 200 25 ShibbOleth 196 25 tesseract 196 27 RickJay 192 28 garygnu 188 29 El_Kabong 184 30 wolfman 180 31 Kyla 178 32 CatInASuit 172 33 LilyoftheValley 166 34 Zebra 162 34 Beadalin 162 36 Happy Lendervedder 158 37 Aguecheek 142 37 iamthewalrus(:3= 142 39 Hostile Dialect 138 40 Really Not All That Bright 132 41 robardin 126 42 maggenpye 48 ``` ---
**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:** [January 23, 2008, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-iii-world-edition/433775/69 "2008-01-23T23:14:35Z")
Wow, twice in a row now I placed fifth! Awesome! ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-iii-world-edition/433775/70 "2008-01-23T23:22:12Z")
Doh, you get 3 points for saying “pass” on the changed-name capital, and none for Oslo? I shake my northern fist in y’all’s general direction… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-iii-world-edition/433775/71 "2008-01-24T00:50:33Z")
Another top five finish! ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-iii-world-edition/433775/72 "2008-01-24T01:39:39Z")
Woo! Not last! ---
**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:** [January 24, 2008, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-iii-world-edition/433775/73 "2008-01-24T01:50:19Z")
I’m pretty sure both I and the game had a record low score in this one. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Panurge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@Panurge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Panurge)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-iii-world-edition/433775/74 "2008-01-24T08:16:18Z")
Yay! Number six. A dramatic leap upward in the table. - And I didn’t even get scored for Mumbai/Bombay in question five. ---
**Author:** ![Dottygumdrop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Dottygumdrop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dottygumdrop)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-iii-world-edition/433775/75 "2008-01-24T10:31:15Z")
w00t! Seventh!!! ---
**Author:** ![Purgatory\_Creek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/74df32/32.png) [@Purgatory\_Creek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purgatory_Creek)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-iii-world-edition/433775/76 "2008-01-24T12:48:33Z")
Just about in the middle, about 22 places up from where I could realistically have expected to place. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-feud-part-iii-world-edition/433775.md?page=3)