# Weekend Feud: All Things British by bluecanary \[Game Over\] **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [January 23, 2009, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-all-things-british-by-bluecanary-game-over/482685 "2009-01-23T18:55:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-all-things-british-by-bluecanary-game-over/482685/61 "2009-01-23T23:01:20Z")
1. The Who 2. Manchester 3. Stonehenge 4. Winston Churchill 5. Fish and chips 6. _Lawrence of Arabia_ 7. _Fawlty Towers_ 8. Boxing Day 9. Manchester United 10. Fox hunting 11. Have bad teeth ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-all-things-british-by-bluecanary-game-over/482685/62 "2009-01-23T23:27:46Z")
1. The Who 2. Manchester 3. Stonehenge 4. Tony Bliar 5. Yorkshire Pudding 6. Four Weddings and a Funeral 7. Monty Python’s Flying Circus 8. Guy Fawkes Day 9. Manchester United 10. Cricket 11. horrible dental hygiene ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-all-things-british-by-bluecanary-game-over/482685/63 "2009-01-23T23:35:49Z")
> [@](#): > > 1. Name a British (popular music) band, other than The Beatles or the Stones. > 2. Name a British city other than London > 3. Name a tourist attraction in Britain that is not a city. > 4. Name a British politician. > 5. Name a British food. > 6. Name a British movie. > 7. Name a British TV show. > 8. Name a British festival that is not shared by the USA. > 9. Name a British soccer (football) team. > 10. Name a sport other than soccer that is popular in Britain. > 11. Name a stereotype about British people. 1. The Who 2. Manchester 3. Stonehenge 4a. Margaret Thatcher 4b. Fish and Chips 4. Monty Python and Holy Grail 5. Fawlty Towers 6. Boxing Day 7. Manchester United 8. Cricket 9. Bad Teeth Hope answered #4 correctly. Took me a second to figure out there were two #4 questions. I guess i will know what to do after I post. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-all-things-british-by-bluecanary-game-over/482685/64 "2009-01-23T23:40:04Z")
Maybe the fact that we have two questions for #4 is a subliminal message about Brits counting ability? ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-all-things-british-by-bluecanary-game-over/482685/65 "2009-01-23T23:41:39Z")
> [@WormTheRed](#): > > Would that be Citeh\*, or United\*\*? > \*the lame nuevau riche guys who suck > \*\* the best team in the world United, because it’s the only one I’ve ever heard of. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-all-things-british-by-bluecanary-game-over/482685/66 "2009-01-24T00:01:36Z")
1. The Kinks 2. Manchester 3. Big Ben 4a. Tony Blair 4b. kidney pie (or steak and kidney pie) 4. In Bruges 5. Dr. Who 6. Guy Fawkes Day 7. Manchester United 8. rugby 9. bad teeth ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-all-things-british-by-bluecanary-game-over/482685/67 "2009-01-24T00:11:43Z")
I think I was the 50th response, but maybe Rebo wants 51 responses. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-all-things-british-by-bluecanary-game-over/482685/68 "2009-01-24T00:28:10Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > I think I was the 50th response, but maybe Rebo wants 51 responses. Since there were 11 questions, maybe this one needs to go to 55. 😃 ---
**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, 2009, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-all-things-british-by-bluecanary-game-over/482685/69 "2009-01-24T01:01:03Z")
Probably closed 1. Queen 2. Liverpool 3. Stonehenge 4. Tony Blair 5. ``` Guy Fawkes Day ``` 6. Fish & chips 7. Monty Python & Holy Grail 8. Monty Python 9. Manchester United 10. Cricket 11. Bad teeth 12. Or my birthday as I call it here in America Hmm when I visited Great Britain 20 years ago- the numbering system was 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 when did that change ---
**Author:** ![bluecanary](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bluecanary/32/3614_2.png) [@bluecanary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bluecanary)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-all-things-british-by-bluecanary-game-over/482685/70 "2009-01-24T01:14:25Z")
Oh, dear. Not only did I include two #4s, I almost certainly didn’t see this in time to play. In case its still open: 1. Oasis 2. Manchester 3. Stonehenge 4. Tony Blair 5. Fish ‘n’ Chips 6. Trainspotting 7. Fawlty Towers 8. Guy Fawkes Night 9. Manchester United 10. Cricket 11. Bad teeth ---
**Author:** ![bluecanary](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bluecanary/32/3614_2.png) [@bluecanary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bluecanary)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-all-things-british-by-bluecanary-game-over/482685/71 "2009-01-24T01:21:59Z")
> [@](#): > > 1. The one when you burn a straw man 😕 - Do you mean Guy Fawkes night? ---
**Author:** ![bmoak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@bmoak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmoak)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-all-things-british-by-bluecanary-game-over/482685/72 "2009-01-24T01:22:07Z")
1. The Kinks 2. Manchester 3. Stonehenge 4. Margaret Thatcher 5. Fish & Chips 6. Bend it Like Beckham 7. Monty Python’s Flying Circus 8. Guy Fawkes Day 9. Manchester Untied 10. cricket 11. bad teeth ---
**Author:** ![criminey.jicket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@criminey.jicket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/criminey.jicket)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-all-things-british-by-bluecanary-game-over/482685/73 "2009-01-24T05:35:01Z")
1. Pink Floyd 2. Liverpool 3. Buckingham Palace 4-1. Tony Blair 4-2. Fish and Chips 4. Four Weddings and a Funeral 5. Fawlty Towers 6. Guy Fawkes Day 7. Manchester United 8. cricket 9. bad teeth 10. Farty Towels! 4-2. Bubble and Squeak. Toad in the Hole. Spotted Dick. Ploughman’s Lunch. Cornish pasties…Britian does have some memorably named dishes. ---
**Author:** ![mshar253](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@mshar253](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mshar253)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-all-things-british-by-bluecanary-game-over/482685/74 "2009-01-24T05:49:21Z")
1. The Who 2. Manchester 3. Buckingham Palace 4. Gordon Brown 5. Fish and chips 6. Trainspotting 7. Dr. Who 8. Guy Fawkes Night 9. Manchester United 10. Rugby 11. Bad teeth ---
**Author:** ![Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilvert_s_Pagan)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-all-things-british-by-bluecanary-game-over/482685/75 "2009-01-24T13:40:24Z")
1. Led Zeppelin 2. Liverpool 3. Stonehenge 4. Tony Blair 5. Fish ‘n’ chips 6. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s/Philosopher’s stone 7. Last of the Summer Wine 8. Queen’s Birthday 9. Manchester United 10. Cricket 11. Bad teeth ---
**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:** [January 24, 2009, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-all-things-british-by-bluecanary-game-over/482685/76 "2009-01-24T14:40:11Z")
Well, isn’t this a fine kettle of fish! **notfrommensa** is #50. This is gonna be tough to cut and paste. I think I’ll eliminate the second #4, and I won’t have to renumber them. Argh! I need to proofread better. ---
**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-all-things-british-by-bluecanary-game-over/482685/77 "2009-01-24T14:44:23Z")
> [@bluecanary](#): > > 😕 - Do you mean Guy Fawkes night? Yes I do. Just couldn’t think of what it was called. ---
**Author:** ![MHaye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@MHaye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MHaye)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-all-things-british-by-bluecanary-game-over/482685/78 "2009-01-24T17:24:58Z")
1. The Kinks 2. Manchester 3. Stonehenge 4. Tony Blair 5. Fish and Chips 6. The Italian Job 7. Doctor Who 8. The Proms 9. Manchester United 10. Cricket 11. The stiff upper lip 12. It’s tough thinking of a Britsh politician Americans will have heard of. 13. See 4. I don’t watch TV much any more. 14. Annual series of concerts aimed at making classical music more accessible to the lower classes (at least, when founded in 1895). ---
**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:** [January 25, 2009, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-all-things-british-by-bluecanary-game-over/482685/79 "2009-01-25T02:47:13Z")
1. Name a British (popular music) band, other than The Beatles or the Stones. **1. The Who 26** 2. Oasis 5 3. Pink Floyd 5 4. Led Zeppelin 4 5. Coldplay 3 6. Queen 2 7. The Kinks 2 8. Duran Duran 1 9. Sex pistols 1 10. The Monkees 1 11. Name a British city other than London \*\*2. Liverpool 20 12. Manchester 20\*\* 13. Edinburgh 3 14. Birmingham 2 15. Bristol 1 16. Cambridge 1 17. Leeds 1 18. Oxford 1 19. York 1 20. Name a tourist attraction in Britain that is not a city. **3. Stonehenge 33** 21. Big Ben 7 22. Buckingham Palace 5 23. The Tower of London 3 24. Hadrian’s Wall 1 25. Piccadilly Circle 1 26. Name a British politician. **4. Tony Blair 36** 27. Gordon Brown 5 28. Margaret Thatcher 4 29. Winston Churchill 3 30. John Major 2 31. Name a British movie. **5. Monty Python and the Holy Grail 11** 32. Four weddings and a Funeral 7 33. Trainspotting 6 34. Lawrence of Arabia 4 35. Slumdog Millionaire 3 36. Snatch 3 37. The Full Monty 3 38. A Clockwork Orange 1 39. Billy Elliot 1 40. Chariots of Fire 1 41. Enchanted April 1 42. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone 1 43. Life of Brian 1 44. Lock, Stock and Two smoking Barrels 1 45. Love Actually 1 46. Mary Poppins 1 47. Monty Python’s Meaning of Life 1 48. Shaun of the Dead 1 49. The 39 Steps 1 50. The Commitments 1 51. Name a British TV show. \*\*6. Fawlty Towers 14 52. Monty Python’s Flying Circus 14\*\* 53. Dr. Who 7 54. Blackadder 3 55. Eastenders 3 56. Absolutely Fabulous 2 57. Benny Hill 1 58. Coronation Place 1 59. Father Ted 1 60. Keeping up appearances 1 61. The Bill 1 62. The Office 1 63. Upstairs, Downstairs 1 64. Name a British festival that is not shared by the USA. **7. Guy Fawkes Day 26** 65. Boxing Day 10 66. Glastonbury 4 67. Isle of Wight Music Festival 3 68. Queen’s Birthday 2 69. St. Georges Day 2 70. Asparagus Festival 1 71. August bank Holiday 1 72. Michalmas 1 73. Name a British soccer (football) team. **8. Manchester United 46** 74. Arsenal 3 75. Chelsea 1 76. Name a sport other than soccer that is popular in Britain. **9. Cricket 35** 77. Rugby 10 78. Horseracing 2 79. Fox hunting 1 80. Golf 1 81. Polo 1 82. Name a stereotype about British people. **10. Bad teeth 39** 83. Prim and proper/stuffy/polite/stiff upper lip 7 84. Lager louts 1 85. Like to queue 1 86. public school = homosexual experience. 1 87. Tea drinking 1 ---
**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:** [January 25, 2009, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-all-things-british-by-bluecanary-game-over/482685/80 "2009-01-25T02:57:33Z")
And the winner is ~~~drumroll~~~ **silenus**!!! Jolly good show! 😉 ::flings confetti:: **silenus** got all 10 top answers. Outstanding! Thanks everyone, and thanks for a fun one, **bluecanary**!! New one up tomorrow. \*\*1. silenus 572.00 \*\* 2. anyrose 564.00 3. Ellen Cherry 556.00 4. Sigmagirl 550.00 4. Baker 550.00 6. NDP 542.00 7. twickster 534.00 8. Manduck 518.00 9. kenner116 514.00 10. Biffy the Elephant Shrew 508.00 11. ShibbOleth 506.00 12. Beadalin 504.00 13. Thudlow Boink 502.00 14. 42fish 488.00 15. Mahaloth 484.00 16. pravnik 478.00 17. notfrommensa 476.00 18. Scarlett67 472.00 19. delphica 470.00 20. The Superhero 466.00 21. Tom Scud 464.00 22. fachverwirrt 460.00 23. WormTheRed 458.00 24. Gangster Octopus 456.00 24. Larry Borgia 456.00 24. Chronos 456.00 27. GorillaMan 450.00 28. 3acresandatruck 446.00 29. Charlie Tan 434.00 30. swampbear 428.00 31. Elendil’s Heir 424.00 32. Ultraviolet 404.00 33. Dolores Reborn 400.00 34. Sternvogel 390.00 35. Aspidistra 380.00 36. Fretful Porpentine 378.00 37. winterhawk11 368.00 38. MadTheSwine 354.00 39. Simmerdown 350.00 39. Sateryn76 350.00 41. RealityChuck 344.00 42. Springtime for Spacers 342.00 43. Jack Batty 320.00 44. Freudian Slit 266.00 45. gonzomax 264.00 46. jali 262.00 47. SiXSwordS 246.00 48. ThePylon 242.00 49. cmkeller 228.00 50. Illuminatiprimus 204.00 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-all-things-british-by-bluecanary-game-over/482685.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekend-feud-all-things-british-by-bluecanary-game-over/482685.md?page=5)