Family Feud 2018

[Quizmaster]

The results are in!

1. Name a species of large (big) cats.
Lion (1 pt) -- Simon, Gronkling, Crane, SQron188, Akseli
Tiger (0.40 pts) -- IchoTolot, Raymanni

1. Tiger (I assume you mean 'big cats')

2. Name a DOS platforming game.
Commander Keen (1 pt) -- Simon, IchoTolot, Crane, Akseli, Raymanni
Jazz Jackrabbit (0.20 pts) -- Gronkling
Prehistorik 2 (0.20 pts) -- SQron188

3. Name the average number of skills in a level.
10 (1 pt) -- Gronkling, IchoTolot, SQron188
4 (0.33 pts) -- Raymanni
8 (0.33 pts) -- Crane
15 (0.33 pts) -- Simon
20 (0.33 pts) -- Akseli

4. Name a country in Africa.
Egypt (1 pt) -- Simon, IchoTolot, SQron188, Akseli, Raymanni
Mozambique (0.20 pts) -- Crane
South Africa (0.20 pts) -- Gronkling

5. Name the cutest rodent species.
Lemming (1 pt) -- Gronkling, Akseli, Raymanni
Guinea pig (0.33 pts) -- Simon
Mouse (0.33 pts) -- Crane
Rabbit (0.33 pts) -- IchoTolot
Squirrel (0.33 pts) -- SQron188

5. squirrel (I don't remember the full species name, don't shoot me)

Rabbit is factually incorrect by modern biology. Still, rabbits were considered rodents in earlier centuries, and feud scoring is independent from factual truth anyway.

6. Name a destructive skill.
Basher (1 pt) -- Gronkling, IchoTolot, Raymanni
Bomber/Exploder (0.67 pts) -- Crane, SQron188
Miner (0.67 pts) -- Simon, Akseli

6. BOMBER

7. What is your restaurant side dish?
Chips/Fries (1 pt) -- IchoTolot, Crane
Potatoes (1 pt) -- Simon, Akseli
Greek salad (0.50 pts) -- SQron188
Nothing (0.50 pts) -- Raymanni
Salad (0.50 pts) -- Gronkling

It was conceivable to merge Salad and Greek salad, but there are so many different types of salad that the subclass rule should stand here.

8. Name a species of fish that makes a popular dish.
Salmon (1 pt) -- Simon, IchoTolot, Akseli, Raymanni
Cod (0.75 pts) -- Gronkling, Crane, SQron188

Very close.

9. State a tautology.
The lemming is a lemming. / Lemmings are lemmings. (1 pt) -- Simon, Akseli
People die when they are killed. / If it's in stock, we have it. (1 pt) -- SQron188, Raymanni
A or not-A (0.50 pts) -- IchoTolot
ATM Machine (0.50 pts) -- Gronkling
They arrived one after the other in succession. (0.50 pts) -- Crane

Only the two self-equalities (A = A) with the lemmings were easy to merge.

People die when they are killed. / If it's in stock, we have it: These sentences are still merged because of their structural similarity: Both are if-then, both are true once you know the common-sense meanings of all words.

Both (ATM Machine) and (They arrived one after the other in succession.) duplicate information. We didn't merge these because they arise from vastly different cognitive phenomena: (ATM machine) ignores the meaning of the abbreviation, the other can be a stylistic figure. This was a hard decision.



IchoTolot wins the sad-Tiger award by Forestidia for stating a tautology from propositional logic, i.e., a tautology in the strictest meaning of the word tautology, yet scoring minimum points for the factually best answer.

If it's in stock, we have it! (Thank you google)

9. "They arrived one after the other in succession" (I know - Google! It's hard to think of one when asked)

10. What pick-up line did the Lemming say to the Lix?
Let's go! (1 pt) -- Akseli, Raymanni
Do you know the mating call of the clam ? (0.50 pts) -- IchoTolot
I dig you. (0.50 pts) -- Gronkling
Nice hair! (0.50 pts) -- Simon
No pick-up lines, they both just dug. (0.50 pts) -- SQron188
Wanna go down? (0.50 pts) -- Crane

10.)
Lemming: "Do you know the mating call of the clam ?"
Lix: "No, what's it like?"
The Lemming holds both his arms horizontal on top of each other before his head, opens them quickly like a clam and then he says with haste:
Lemming: "Ey, wanna smash?!?"
*Then he closes his clam-arms again.*
If the line worked is up to your imagination.

Results
1. Akseli (9.000)
2. Raymanni (8.230)
3. Simon (7.833)
4. IchoTolot (7.730)
5. SQron188 (6.950)
6. Gronkling (6.650)
7. Crane (6.283)

Akseli is miles ahead of the bunch, congrats! Thanks to everybody for playing.

Akseli, do you want to host the next round? Who else would like to?



-- Simon

[ccexplore]

Were the emojis in Gronkling's #10 answer part of what he typed in his answer PM, vs. commentary inserted by QuizMaster?

Sadly I was too preoccupied this week to participate, but looks very interesting especially those tough questions at the end.

[Simon]

The emojis were part of the answer. Although I've only considered the text for merging with other answers.

-- Simon

[Ryemanni]

That was an interesting but fun feud. (I noticed something; I'm not actually included in the scoring, but all my answers are the same as grams88's. Was there an error or just a typo? )

[grams88]

I just noticed there . I think that must of been yourself Raymanni , I never took part in this family feud due to lots of things happening but it looked a fun and an interesting round.

Welldone to Akseli for winning that one.

[Simon]

Right, I wrote grams88 whenever I should have written Raymanni. I've fixed the scoring post. Thanks for noticing!

-- Simon

[Simon]

More fixes: I merged "Lemming" and "Lemmings" for the rodent question. We asked for a species, and neither "Lemming" nor "Lemmings" clarifies whether it's the video game creature or the real-life rodent; thus, they're equal.

Raymanni +0.5 points, all non-Lemmings answerers -0.16 points.

Compared to my initial erroneous scoring, instead of grams88 in 4th, we now have Raymanni in 2nd.

-- Simon

[Ryemanni]

Aw yes, the wonders of rescoring.

[Quizmaster]

Come out of hiding everyone, it's time for a random mixed bag of questions.
Send your answers to the Quizmaster via PM, the deadline is next Tuesday, September 4th, 00:00 UTC.

1. Name a PS1 platformer (2D/3D, only one game, not a series)
2. Pick one letter from the word 'Lemmings'
3. Name a ground type Pokemon (It can also have a secondary type)
4. Name a web browser software
5. What's the mortal enemy of Lemmings?
6. Pick a bone from the human skeleton
7. Name an english palindrome
8. Name a school subject which is stereotypically disliked by students
9. What's the perfect breakfast?
10. Come up with a name for the Quizmaster avatar character:



I don't really remember older feuds, so let's hope there aren't any dublicate questions by accident.

[Quizmaster]

That's a wrap! We had a whopping 10 participants this time.

1. Name a PS1 platformer (2D/3D, only one game, not a whole series)
Crash Bandicoot (1 pt) -- Raymanni, Crane, Akseli, SQron188, namida
Rayman (0.40 pt) -- IchoTolot, Nessy
The Adventures of Lomax (0.40 pt) -- Simon, ccexplore
Croc: Legend of Gobbos (0.20 pt) -- Gronkling

Imaginary bonus points to IchoTolot and Nessy.

2. Pick one letter from the word 'Lemmings'
L (1 pt) -- Crane, Akseli, SQron188, Simon, Gronkling, IchoTolot, Nessy, ccexplore
M (0.25 pt) -- Raymanni, namida

3. Name a ground type Pokemon (It can also have a secondary type)
Geodude (1 pt) -- Raymanni, Simon, IchoTolot
Diglett (1 pt) -- Gronkling, Namida, Nessy
Sandshrew (1 pt) -- Akseli, SQron188, ccexplore
Golem (0.33 pt) -- Crane

4. Name a web browser
Mozilla Firefox (1 pt) -- Raymanni, SQron188, Simon, Namida, IchoTolot
Google Chrome (1 pt) -- Crane, Akseli, Gronkling, Nessy, ccexplore

5. What's the mortal enemy of Lemmings?
Water (1 pt) --  Raymanni, IchoTolot, ccexplore
(0.67 pt) -- Simon, Gronkling
Weasels (0.67 pt) -- namida, Nessy
Fire (0.33 pt) -- Crane
Chameleon (0.33 pt) -- Akseli
The Time Limit (0.33 pt) -- SQron188

5. The ever-so-lovely Clam (I'm tempted to say: Players who aren't as strong at solving. They have no qualms nuking 20 lems, compare this with the clam who only ever snatches the odd lem or two. But that answer seems too far out of the box.)

6. Name a bone from the human skeleton
Skull/Cranium (1 pt) -- Raymanni, Gronkling, namida, IchoTolot, Nessy
Femur/Thigh Bone (0.60 pt) -- Crane, Akseli, ccexplore
Tibia (0.20 pt) -- SQron188
Humerus (0.20 pt) -- Simon

7. Name an english palindrome
Mom (1 pt) -- Akseli, SQron188
Boob (1 pt) -- Gronkling, IchoTolot
A (1 pt) -- Simon, namida
Level (0.50 pt) -- Nessy
Race car (0.50 pt) -- Crane
Was it a cat I saw? (0.50 pt) -- Raymanni
Madam (0.50 pt) -- ccexplore

8. Name a school subject which is stereotypically disliked by students
Mathematics (1 pt) -- Crane, Akseli, SQron188, Simon, Gronkling, IchoTolot, Nessy, ccexplore
History (0.13 pt) -- namida
PE (0.13 pt) -- Raymanni

I'm surprised how many people here hate mathematics.

8. Math (This is hard. Many forumers like math, and math even became top answer for "Name a fun subject in school.")

9. What's a perfect breakfast?
Bacon and eggs [+ tea] (1 pt) -- Crane, Akseli, SQron188
Toast (0.67 pt) -- namida, IchoTolot
Scrambled Eggs (0.33 pt) -- Simon
Cereal (0.33 pt) -- Gronkling
Pancakes (0.33 pt) -- Nessy
Bread and orange juice (0.33 pt) -- Raymanni
Porridge (0.33 pt) -- ccexplore

9. heck, i dunno, I've never had the perfect breakfast but here's a guess: bacon and eggs along with tea

9. porridge (for Feud purposes only esp w/ Akseli being QuizMaster)

10. Come up with a name for the Quizmaster avatar character
Steve (1 pt) -- Raymanni, Akseli, Gronkling
Quizzy McQuizface (0.33 pt) -- Crane
Hank Cheeseburger (0.33 pt) -- SQron188
Frank (0.33 pt) -- Simon
Quizmaster (0.33 pt) -- namida
Horst (0.33 pt) -- IchoTolot
Alex Terbek Jr. (0.33 pt) -- Nessy
Q (0.33 pt) -- ccexplore

10. Frank (I'm always reminded by a real-life friend's quote: Der Kerl hat Schultern wie ein Kleiderschrank! Translates to: That guy has shoulders like a wardrobe closet! And "Frank" with German pronunciation rhymes with "Schrank".)

Final scores:
1. Akseli (8.93)
2. IchoTolot (8.40)
3. Gronkling (8.20)
4. SQron188 (7.87)
5. Nessy (7.23)
6. Raymanni (7.21)
7. ccexplore (7.17)
8. Crane (7.10)
9. namida (7.04)
10. Simon (6.93)

There was a last second contender just as I finished writing this post. This turned the tables majorly and caused Akseli to push to the top. Congrats! (Let's hope it didn't also mess up with my calculations)
That was a very tight round. Thanks to evereyone who participated!

[IchoTolot]

Clarification: I don't hate math, but I thought it would be the popular answer. I actually liked math back in school!

(But I am still no great supporter of university math )

[SQron188]

10. Come up with a name for the Quizmaster avatar character
Hank Cheeseburger (0.33 pt) -- SQron188

I answered that because the Polish version of Family Feud (Familiada) is hosted by a dude called Karol Starsburger.

I presume this is to do with my answer, good effort!

[ccexplore]

There was a last second contender just as I finished writing this post. This turned the tables majorly and caused Akseli to push to the top.

That was probably me, I definitely submitted well after the 9/4 0:00 UTC deadline.   Do you remember what the rankings would've looked like without the last second contender?

I'm curious how many people actually answered the Pokémon question without looking it up on the web?  As I recall "sandshrew" was from two websites that were top hits from Google search for "ground type pokemon" (no quotes).  (Specifically hit #1 and hit #2.)  Both websites have the sandshrew as the first one listed, so I figured on picking that.

For some of the other Pokémon answers, was there somehow a recent IRC thread involved?  Either that, or Pokémon was more popular amongst the regulars here than I thought.

The bone one was tricky.  Technically speaking the skull is actually 22 bones and even the cranium is apparently 8 bones, though I'm well aware this is irrelevant feud-wise and some people would still answer "skull".  Then again, skull is also not your stereotypical "thin and long" shape you'd expect when you ask someone to draw a bone, so I wasn't really sure if that was a good pick.  At one point I actually considered answering "rib" since it'd look more like a "stereotypical bone" and also the only other thing I can actually name off top of my head.  Kinda glad I didn't though given the other answers.

Palindrome was interesting.  I arrived at "madam" essentially via the first thing mentioned in the Wikipedia article about palindromes.  But after I submitted all my answers, it did occur to me that technically "a" or any one-letter word would also count, and I suspect I wasn't the only one who might've thought that way.  But being already a late submission I don't want to bother with amending my already late answers again (there were other questions I suspect I wouldn't do well on anyway and don't have other answers ready, so really why bother on one).

I don't hate math at all, but I believe there's a general sense that some people "aren't good with numbers" and thus would especially dislike math.  I suspect they wouldn't like some of the science subjects very much either.  Of course in reality every subject gets hated by someone, and some people probably hate every school subject, just as the reverse will be true for some people.

I can't believe I didn't think of Crane's Quizzy McQuizface, that was rather obvious in hindsight, though apparently not actually all that popular amongst the answers.  "Steve" on the other hand feels like I missed something again on IRC maybe?

[Simon]

Either that, or Pokémon was more popular amongst the regulars here than I thought.

I played Pokemon yellow as a teenager. The first boss opens Geodude and is nasty to fight with what you have by then. No rock pokemon appear earlier.

The bone one was tricky.  Technically speaking the skull is actually 22 bones and even the cranium is apparently 8 bones,

Hah, I too didn't want to answer Skull for this reason, and I lacked the gut to ignore the definitions.

"Steve" on the other hand feels like I missed something again on IRC maybe?

The US TV feud show's host is Steve Harvey. He doesn't look at all like this quizmaster, but he's connected with the feud for sure. I wonder how many have seen US feuds? Excerpts upload frequently on youtube.

-- Simon

[nin10doadict]

I usually train a Nidoran to handle Brock with Double Kick when I play Yellow. Red and Blue versions have it easier as their available starters all fare better against Brock than Pikachu does.

I should jump into one of these Feud rounds sometime...