Young Girls Playing Beer Pong

In some places Beer Pong refers to the version of the game with paddles, and Beirut to the version without. However, according to a CollegeHumor survey, beer pong is a more common term than Beirut for the paddle-less game.
The origin of the name "Beirut" is disputed. A 2004 op-ed article in the Daily Princetonian, the student newspaper at Princeton University, suggested that the name was possibly coined at Bucknell or Lehigh University around the time of the Lebanese Civil War, Beirut being the capital of Lebanon and scene of much fighting. Some students at Lafayette College, rivals of Lehigh, insist modern, paddle-less beer pong was invented at their school, but The Lafayette, the college's student newspaper, says there is no proof to back up the assertion.There are most likely multiple origins to the game. One such is in Marcellus, a small town in upstate NY where Dan Lathrop and Paul Steves claim to have invented it in the summer of 1981 at a house party in Pauls basement, of which several witnesses concur but there is no written evidence.