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War in the Answers

War, what is it good for? This quiz. Say it again. Try to guess these answers that all contain the letters "war".
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First submittedDecember 21, 2012
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Clue
Answer
Capital of Poland
Warsaw
A war within a single country
Civil war
Movie that introduced the lightsaber
Star Wars
Tolstoy novel
War and Peace
Term for a male witch or sorcerer
Warlock
All is fair in ...
Love and war
Book credited to Sun Tzu
The Art of War
War engaged in by eager buyers
at an auction
Bidding war
"Princess Bride" advice: Never get
involved in a ____ ___ in Asia
Land war
The third Avengers movie
Infinity War
Clue
Answer
Team rope-pulling contest
Tug of war
War fought by Achilles and Hector
Trojan War
Violation of the Geneva Convention
War crime
War symbolized by the Berlin Wall
Cold War
What P.O.W. stands for
Prisoner of War
Crusade or jihad, for example
Holy war
Original name of World War One
The Great War
Head honcho at a prison
Warden
Cry havoc! And let slip the ...
Dogs of war
Town in England just south
of Coventry
Warwick
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60 Comments
+4
Level 23
Nov 17, 2015
30 seconds to Mar's "this is war"
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Level 31
Nov 1, 2016
The famous race horse, Man O' War, or his offspring, the triple crown winning, War Admiral
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Level 76
Aug 30, 2019
Or the metal band manowar..
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Level 72
Mar 21, 2024
Or the Portuguese man o' war
+3
Level 76
Apr 18, 2024
Yea I second the portuguese man o' war, amazing thing
+18
Level 79
Mar 13, 2018
Please accept "War and Peas"
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Level 75
Nov 23, 2018
It accepts "peace". I loved that.
+13
Level 68
Nov 24, 2018
Give peas a chance!
+6
Level ∞
Mar 16, 2024
Visualize whirled peas.
+9
Level 80
Nov 24, 2018
Or War, what is it good for?
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Level 77
Apr 18, 2024
Oh Laney
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Level 48
Apr 18, 2024
ab-so-lute-ly nothin'!
+3
Level 66
Dec 13, 2018
How do you obtain peas?
+12
Level 94
Dec 19, 2018
Peas can only be achieved through shelling.
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Level 74
Nov 24, 2018
The last question totally stumped me.
+2
Level 86
Nov 26, 2018
It looks you're far from the only one, though I figured it out in the end.
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Level 74
Oct 3, 2023
Yeah, I thought it should be war of attrition.
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Level 96
Nov 25, 2018
no thumb war?
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Level 49
Dec 13, 2018
No Wars of the Roses?
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Level 45
Dec 13, 2018
surprised less than half got infinity war. biggest movie of the year
+5
Level 65
Dec 14, 2018
I didn't watch it. I don't care for Marvel movies. But I still got it though
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Level 92
Mar 19, 2024
I don't know a thing about it and from what I'm gathering here, sounds like another computer animated comic book movie with ridiculously unnatural levels of subwoofer applied.
+17
Level 39
Dec 13, 2018
For WWI accept "the war to end all wars". I think that is correct.
+1
Level 78
Mar 23, 2019
That was WW2
+12
Level 80
Apr 15, 2019
No, definitely a term born of the First WW.
+1
Level 74
Jan 9, 2024
It isn't.
+7
Level 55
Dec 13, 2018
Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty. Spoiler, poverty won.
+6
Level 45
May 1, 2019
War on terror, war on drugs...wars on "things" don't seem to have a very good track record.
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Level 70
Sep 28, 2020
War on Emus.
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Level 48
Dec 14, 2018
Can maybe attrition (as in attrition warfare) be a valid answer for the last question?
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Level 65
Sep 3, 2025
That is simply not the quote
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Level 76
Jan 28, 2019
Could religious war be accepted instead of holy war? I feel like they're basically the same thing
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Level 57
Nov 7, 2020
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+6
Level 74
Jan 9, 2024
No.
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Level 46
Apr 14, 2019
Please accept ULTIMATE WARRIOR for any of these
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Level 61
Jan 26, 2021
___ ! What is it good for?
+2
Level 69
Apr 18, 2024
I got nothing. What is it?
+4
Level 67
Nov 15, 2022
Is there a rule that the Princess Bride needs to be on every possible quiz? I never hear anyone talk about it outside of here or reddit.

Other questions were good though, exactly what I expected from the title.

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Level 75
Mar 19, 2024
Can't remember seeing the Princess Bride on any other quiz, or on Reddit, though I've seen it many other places.
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Level 64
Oct 8, 2025
Inconceivable.
+2
Level 92
Mar 19, 2024
2 minutes ago, Andy Warhol was the last answer and it cut short the earlier holy war answer. Now it's Warwick.
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Level 88
Mar 19, 2024
Fun quiz.
+1
Level 74
Mar 19, 2024
‘War games’ as a possible additional question/answer.
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Level 85
Mar 19, 2024
Love the Princess Bride clue
+2
Level 85
Mar 20, 2024
Fashion accessories made famous in movies such as Fame: leg warmers.
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Level 63
Mar 20, 2024
"The war to end all wars" was in common use for World War I and contains "war" in its name. Could it please be acceptable for "Original name of World War One"?
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Level 87
Mar 28, 2024
The Princess Bride quote is the least guessed??

INCONCEIVABLE!!!

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Level 67
Apr 18, 2024
great fun. love some of the off the wall things here.

a missed opportunity to include wario, but hey. good quiz.

+1
Level 66
Apr 18, 2024
Accept Troy for trojan war plase.
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Level 67
Apr 18, 2024
All correct except the Avengers question
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Level 70
Apr 18, 2024
"war" and "poland" seems like a very careful choice of words
+1
Level 70
Apr 18, 2024
joke
+1
Level 49
Apr 18, 2024
No American Ninja WARrior? No HogWARts Academy? No Nether WARt? Missed opportunities, man.
+1
Level 57
Dec 17, 2024
Yeah I really doubt very many jetpunkers are avid Minecraft players.
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Level 79
Apr 18, 2024
throwing some random small town in england into the quiz, when there's millions of better more interesting things to ask about, is peak british behavior
+2
Level 82
Apr 20, 2024
Firstly, QM is American, and secondly, it's a general knowledge quiz, it can have whatever questions it likes including fairly obscure ones.
+1
Level 56
Apr 18, 2024
I was sure it was wizard not warlock
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Level 74
Sep 17, 2025
Respect for making "Crimea" a type-in for Geneva Convention violation.
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Level 80
Oct 5, 2025
Huh? The answer is "crime", so of course "Crime-a" is going to work. This has nothing to do with Crimea itself.
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Level 59
Apr 5, 2026
Great quiz but please accept “War of Troy” as a typin for Trojan War.

Thank you.