Family Feud: The Avis Edition

[Little Nemo]

READ THESE RULES. THIS GAME HAS DIFFERENT RULES THAN THE OTHER FAMILY FEUD THREADS.

First off, don't read the other posts until you've submitted your own post. That hasn't changed.

Second, read the questions and post an answer to each question. You don't need to repeat the questions but please number your answers to make it easier for me to add them up.

Third - and here's where it starts to gets weird - once fifty people have submitted their answers, I'll add up the responses. But here's the difference in this thread - the most popular answer to each question will be thrown out and all of the people who gave that answer will score zero points for that question. If two (or more) answers tie for the top place, both will be thrown out. Also any answer that's simply wrong will also score zero points (although I'll interpret the questions and answers broadly). After that, you get one point for every person besides yourself who gave the same answer you did.

So you want to guess a good answer but not a great answer. You want to ideally guess the second best answer to each question. But keep in mind, every one else is trying to do the same, so the what looks like the second best answer may end up being the one most people pick.

1. Name a kind of tree
2. Name a battle in World War II
3. Name a member of Monty Python
4. Name a current or former member of George W. Bush's cabinet
5. Name a chess piece
6. Name a movie that won the best picture Oscar
7. Name a vampire
8. Name a science fiction television series
9. Name a species of big cat
10. Pick a number between one and ten, inclusive.

[cmkeller]

1. Name a kind of tree - Maple
2. Name a battle in World War II - Midway
3. Name a member of Monty Python - Eric Idle
4. Name a current or former member of George W. Bush's cabinet - Alberto Gonzales
5. Name a chess piece - Pawn
6. Name a movie that won the best picture Oscar - Titanic
7. Name a vampire - Nosferatu
8. Name a science fiction television series - Battlestar Galactica
9. Name a species of big cat - Tiger
10. Pick a number between one and ten, inclusive. - Seven

[tesseract]

1. Pine
2. The Battle of Midway
3. John Cleese
4. Karl Rove
5. Pawn
6. Rocky
7. Dracula
8. X Files
9. Mountain Lion
10. 6

This is tricky!

[MsWhatsit]

1. beech
2. Midway Island
3. Graham Chapman
4. Colin Powell
5. bishop
6. Shakespeare in Love
7. Dracula
8. Doctor Who
9. mountain lion
10. 6

[Dottygumdrop]

1. Oak
2. D-Day
3. Eric Idle
4. Donald Rumsfeld
5. pawn
6. Titanic
7. Lestat
8. Stargate
9. Tiger
10. 7

[wolf_meister]

1) Elm
2) Battle of the Bulge
3) Eric Idle
4) Colin Powell
5) Rook
6) Ben Hur
7) Barnabas (from "Dark Shadows")
8) Science Fiction Theater
9) Leopard
10) Eight

(For question ten, I assume you meant an integer.
Since this isn't the "Dead Pool", I wouldn't score any "unique pick points" by choosing 8.675309? No, probably not.

[Enginerd]

1. maple
2. Midway
3. Terry Gilliam
4. Condaleeza Rice
5. Rook
6. Silence of the Lambs
7. Lestat
8. Battlestar Galactica
9. Tiger
10. six

[Little Nemo]

For question ten, I assume you meant an integer. Since this isn't the "Dead Pool", I wouldn't score any "unique pick points" by choosing 8.675309? No, probably not.

I intentionally designed the scoring system to prevent people from simply going for the most obscure possible answers. (Which is also why I chose several questions in which the field of possible answers was limited.)

[Great Dave]

1. Name a kind of tree- apple
2. Name a battle in World War II -Stalingrad
3. Name a member of Monty Python -Terry Jones
4. Name a current or former member of George W. Bush's cabinet -Paul O'Neill
5. Name a chess piece -Bishop
6. Name a movie that won the best picture Oscar -Forrest Gump
7. Name a vampire -Lestat
8. Name a science fiction television series -Firefly
9. Name a species of big cat -Jaguar
10. Pick a number between one and ten, inclusive. -8

[Tenar]

1. Oak
2. Bataan
3. Terry Gilliam
4. Colin Powelll
5. King
6. Gone With The Wind
7. Angel
8. Firefly
9. Tiger
10. Seven

[Spoons]

1. Maple
2. Midway
3. Eric Idle
4. Colin Powell
5. Rook
6. The Sting
7. Lestat
8. Space: 1999
9. Cougar
10. 4

[maggenpye]

1. Elm
2. Iwo Jima
3.Eric Idle
4. GW Bush
5. Rook
6. Brokeback Moutain
7. Lestat
8. Dr Who
9. Jaguar
10. 9

[Panurge]

1: Beech
2: Battle of Britain
3: Terry Jones
4: Rice
5: Pawn
6: Unforgiven
7: Count Blacula
8: V
9: Cheetah
10: 10

[twickster]

1. Name a kind of tree -- pine
2. Name a battle in World War II -- Iwo Jima
3. Name a member of Monty Python -- Eric Idle
4. Name a current or former member of George W. Bush's cabinet -- Colin Powell
5. Name a chess piece -- rook
6. Name a movie that won the best picture Oscar -- The Godfather
7. Name a vampire -- Count Chocula
8. Name a science fiction television series -- Firefly
9. Name a species of big cat -- couga
10. Pick a number between one and ten, inclusive -- eight

[Dolores Reborn]

Neat twist, Little Nemo!

1. Palm
2. Battle of the Bulge
3. John Cleese
4. Condaleeza Rice
5. Rook
6. Million Dollar Baby
7. LeStat
8. Stargate
9. Tiger
10. 8

[Amp]

1. Maple
2. Battle of the Bulge
3. Eric Idle
4. Colin Powell
5. Rook
6. Pass
7. LeStat
8. Buck Rogers
9. Panther
10. 4

[pretend my name is witty]

1. Oak
2. Operation Overlord/Battle of Normandy
3. John Cleese
4. Donald Rumsfeld
5. Queen
6. Titanic (?)
7. Dracula
8. Dr Who
9. Tiger
10. Seven

[IvoryTowerDenizen]

Originally Posted by Little Nemo

1. Name a kind of tree
2. Name a battle in World War II
3. Name a member of Monty Python
4. Name a current or former member of George W. Bush's cabinet
5. Name a chess piece
6. Name a movie that won the best picture Oscar
7. Name a vampire
8. Name a science fiction television series
9. Name a species of big cat
10. Pick a number between one and ten, inclusive.

1. Birch
2. Midway
3. Eric Idle
4. C. Rice
5. Rook
6. American Beauty
7. Lestat
8. X-Files
9. Puma
10. 10

[3acresandatruck]

1. elm
2. the Kursk Salient
3. Eric Idle
4. Rumsfeld
5. bishop
6. Lawrence of Arabia
7. Nosferatu
8. Time Tunnel
9. leopard
10. three

[LavenderBlue]

1. Maple
2. Verdun
3. John Cleese
4. Rumsfeld
5. Queen
6. Shakespeare in Love
7. Lestat
8. Dr. Who
9. panther
10. ten

[El_Kabong]

Hey, two of the names of androids in the Alien films: coincidenzia!

1. Ash
2. Dunkirk
3. Terry Jones
4. Robert M. Gates
5. Bishop
6. Gandhi
7. Nosferatu
8. Stargate SG-1
9. Leopard
10. Seven

[Zebra]

The Larch
D-Day
Terry Gilliam
Condi rice
King
Titanic
Dracula
Star Trek
Tiger
7

[Tikki]

1. Sequoia
2. The Bulge
3. Erik Idle
4. Condeleeza Rice
5. Knight
6. Ben-Hur
7. Le Stat
8. Stargate
9. Leopard
10. Eight

[as_u_wish]

Hmmm. Well, I usually get the number two answer, so I'm just going to say what comes into my head. Probably not a winning strategy.

1. Elm
2. Iwo Jima
3. John Cleeves
4. Congolecia (sp?) Rice
5. Pawn
6. Lord of the Rings-Return of the King
7. Daracula
8. Star Trek
9. Lion
10. Three

[Airman Doors, USAF]

1. Name a kind of tree

Apple

2. Name a battle in World War II

Midway

3. Name a member of Monty Python

Graham Chapman

4. Name a current or former member of George W. Bush's cabinet

Colin Powell

5. Name a chess piece

Queen

6. Name a movie that won the best picture Oscar

Platoon

7. Name a vampire

Dracula

8. Name a science fiction television series

Star Trek

9. Name a species of big cat

Lion

10. Pick a number between one and ten, inclusive.

Three

[Lsura]

1. Name a kind of tree Oak
2. Name a battle in World War II Battle of Okinawa
3. Name a member of Monty Python Michael Palin
4. Name a current or former member of George W. Bush's cabinet Condoleeza Rice
5. Name a chess piece Knight
6. Name a movie that won the best picture Oscar Titanic
7. Name a vampire Spike
8. Name a science fiction television series Firefly
9. Name a species of big cat Lion
10. Pick a number between one and ten, inclusive 6

[RickJay]

1. Name a kind of tree

Maple

2. Name a battle in World War II

The Battle of Britain

3. Name a member of Monty Python

Terry Jones

4. Name a current or former member of George W. Bush's cabinet

Donald Rumsfeld

5. Name a chess piece

The rook/castle

6. Name a movie that won the best picture Oscar

"Braveheart"

7. Name a vampire

Dracula

8. Name a science fiction television series

"Babylon 5"

9. Name a species of big cat

Tiger

10. Pick a number between one and ten, inclusive

Three

[KSO]

1. Oak
2. Battle of Midway
3. John Cleese
4. Rumsfeld
5. Rook
6. Godfather
7. Nosferatu
8. X Files
9. Tiger
10. Four

[Queen Tonya]

Originally Posted by Little Nemo

1. Name a kind of tree
2. Name a battle in World War II
3. Name a member of Monty Python
4. Name a current or former member of George W. Bush's cabinet
5. Name a chess piece
6. Name a movie that won the best picture Oscar
7. Name a vampire
8. Name a science fiction television series
9. Name a species of big cat
10. Pick a number between one and ten, inclusive.

Hey, I'm new at this so I don't know what the rules were the last times, yay me.

1. Elm
2. Iwo Jima
3. Eric
4. Paulson (Paulsen?)
5. Queen
6. Philadelphia
7. Dracula
8. Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
9. Leopard
10. 6

[Fretful Porpentine]

Ooh, maybe I'll be good at this, given that I suck at the other kind.

1. Maple.
2. Iwo Jima.
3. Eric Idle.
4. Colin Powell.
5. Bishop.
6. Amadeus.
7. Lestat.
8. Star Trek.
9. Leopard.
10. Seven.

[CatInASuit]

1. Elm
2. Stalingrad
3. Michael Palin
4. Condaleeza Rice
5. Bishop
6. Chicago
7. Lestat
8. Doctor Who
9. Cheetah
10. Four

[anyrose]

nice twist on the rules, there, Little Nemo.
okay - here goes.
1. Elm
2. The Bulge
3. Terry Jones
4. Colin Powell
5. bishop
6. The Godfather
7. Spike
8. Space:1999
9. Cheetah
10. 6

[iamthewalrus(:3=]

1. Oak
2. Normandy
3. John Cleese
4. Ashcroft
5. Queen
6. Ben Hur
7. Dracula
8. Star Trek
9. Tiger
10. 4

[5 time champ]

1. Name a kind of tree
2. Name a battle in World War II
3. Name a member of Monty Python
4. Name a current or former member of George W. Bush's cabinet
5. Name a chess piece
6. Name a movie that won the best picture Oscar
7. Name a vampire
8. Name a science fiction television series
9. Name a species of big cat
10. Pick a number between one and ten, inclusive.

1. mahogany
2. Kursk
3. Graham Chapman
4. Margaret Spelling
5. King
6. Unforgiven
7. Nosferatu
8. Outer Limits
9. lion
10. ten

[Kat]

1. Name a kind of tree Maple
2. Name a battle in World War II Battles of the Bulge
3. Name a member of Monty Python John Cleese
4. Name a current or former member of George W. Bush's cabinet Colin Powell
5. Name a chess piece Bishop
6. Name a movie that won the best picture Oscar Titanic
7. Name a vampire Angel
8. Name a science fiction television series Firefly
9. Name a species of big cat Tiger
10. Pick a number between one and ten, inclusive. Six

[Freudian Slit]

1. Poplar

2. Battle of the bulge

3. Eric Idle

4. Condi Rice

5. Bishop

6. Titanic

7. Lestat

8. Battlestar Galactica

9. Puma

10. Eight

[LilyoftheValley]

1. Oak
2. Battle of the Bulge
3. the parrot (I don't know!)
4. Mukasey
5. bishop
6. Casablanca
7. Lestat
8. X-Files
9. Leopard
10. 6

[sinjin]

1. Oak
2. Normandy
3. Michael Palin
4. Brownie
5. Bishop
6. On Golden Pond
7. Lestat
8. Star Treck
9. Lion
10. Seven

[Mindfield]

1. Name a kind of tree
The Larch

2. Name a battle in World War II
Bulge

3. Name a member of Monty Python
Eric Idle (Hey, I answered "Larch" before I even read this question.)

4. Name a current or former member of George W. Bush's cabinet
Dick Cheney

5. Name a chess piece
Bishop

6. Name a movie that won the best picture Oscar
The Departed

7. Name a vampire
Nosferatu

8. Name a science fiction television series
Babylon 5

9. Name a species of big cat
Jaguar

10. Pick a number between one and ten, inclusive.
6

[cmyk]

1. Oak
2. D-Day
3. Eric Idle
4. Rice
5. Rook
6. Braveheart
7. Lestat
8. Journeyman
9. Panther
10. 9

[Darth Sensitive]

1. Maple
2. Midway
3. Eric Idle
4. Condoleeza Rice
5. Rice
6. Titanic
7. Nosferatu
8. Battlestar Galactica
9. Leopard
10. Eight

[Hostile Dialect]

Cool idea!

1. fir
2. Midway
3. Eric Idle
4. Donald Rumsfeld
5. bishop
6. Crash
7. Nosferatu
8. V
9. jaguar
10. nine

[freckafree]

1. Oak
2. Normandy
3. John Cleese
4. Condoleeza Rice
5. Rook
6. Shindler's List
7. Dracula
8. Outer Limits
9. Tiger
10. Seven

[Siege]

1. Name a kind of tree
Ash
2. Name a battle in World War II
Iwo Jima
3. Name a member of Monty Python
Michael Palin
4. Name a current or former member of George W. Bush's cabinet
Condoleeza Rice
5. Name a chess piece
Pawn
6. Name a movie that won the best picture Oscar
Casablanca
7. Name a vampire
Dracula
8. Name a science fiction television series
Firefly
9. Name a species of big cat
Jaguar
10. Pick a number between one and ten, inclusive.
Seven

[Justin_Bailey]

1. Oak
2. Iwo Jima
3. John Cleese
4. Colin Powell
5. King
6. Crash
7. Dracula
8. Star Trek
9. Lion
10. 8

[twickster]

I can't believe no one else has mentioned Count Chocula.

[Drain Bead]

1. Name a kind of tree

Elm

2. Name a battle in World War II

Iwo Jima


3. Name a member of Monty Python

John Cleese

4. Name a current or former member of George W. Bush's cabinet

Condoleeza Rice

5. Name a chess piece

Pawn

6. Name a movie that won the best picture Oscar

Titanic

7. Name a vampire

Lestat

8. Name a science fiction television series

Battlestar Galactica

9. Name a species of big cat

Panther

10. Pick a number between one and ten, inclusive.

Seven

[Purgatory Creek]

1. Maple.
2. Midway
3. Eric Idle
4. Colin Powell
5. Rook
6. Gone With the Wind
7. Lestat
8. Twilight Zone
9. Leopard
10. 6

[Little Nemo]

We've got forty five responses so far. Only five more to go. I expect to have this wrapped up tonight.

The current numbers are:

Oak = 11
Maple = 10
Elm = 8
Apple = 2
Ash = 2
Beech = 2
Pine = 2
Larch = 2
Palm
Birch
Fir
Sequoia
Mahogany
Poplar

Down to the wire on this one. Oak, maple, and elm are all so close that any of them could end up scoreless in the top spot or a tie. The other entries are all looking to be one pointers at best.

Midway = 11
Battle of the Bulge = 9
Iwo Jima = 8
Normandy = 7
Stalingrad = 2
Battle of Britain = 2
Kursk = 2
Bataan
Verdun
Dunkirk
Okinawa

Pretty much the same situation as the tress with four answers fighting for the top spot.

Eric Idle = 18
John Cleese = 11
Terry Jones = 5
Michael Palin = 4
Graham Chapman = 3
Terry Gilliam = 3
The dead parrot

Eric Idle has a lock on the scoreless top place now so John Cleese will be the big scorer here. The big question here is whether LilyoftheValley will be allowed to remain a member on this board if she doesn't know any members of Monty Python.

Condoleezza Rice = 15
Colin Powell = 12
Donald Rumsfeld = 7
Dick Cheney
Michael Mukasey
Michael Brown
Alberto Gonzales
Karl Rove
Paul O'Neill
George W Bush
Robert M. Gates
Henry Paulson
John Ashcroft
Margaret Spellings

A tip for people running future Family Feuds: a good question would be "Pick a way to misspell Secretary of State Rice's first name."

Bishop = 13
Rook = 13
Pawn = 7
Queen = 5
King = 4
Knight = 2
Rice?

Bishop and Rook have been neck and neck all game. We'll have to see if Darth Sensitive's bold move in guessing "rice" pays off.

Titanic = 9
Ben Hur = 3
The Godfather = 3
Braveheart = 2
Casablanca = 2
Crash = 2
Gone With The Wind = 2
Shakespeare in Love = 2
Unforgiven = 2
Amadeus
American Beauty
Brokeback Moutain
Chicago
The Departed
Forrest Gump
Gandhi
Lawrence of Arabia
Million Dollar Baby
On Golden Pond
Philadelphia
Platoon
The Return of the King
Rocky
Schindler's List
Silence of the Lambs
The Sting
Pass

Nobody's getting a lot of points here. Titanic will be scoreless and there's a whole bunch of singletons. Even the winners are looking to all be one or two pointers.

Lestat = 18
Dracula = 12
Nosferatu = 8
Angel = 2
Spike = 2
Barnabas Collins
Blacula
Count Chocula

Lestat will be the scoreless one here with Dracula looking like the big winner.

Star Trek = 7
Firefly = 6
Battlestar Galactica = 5
Doctor Who = 5
Stargate SG-1 = 4
The X-Files = 4
Babylon 5 = 2
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century = 2
Outer Limits = 2
Space: 1999 = 2
V = 2
Journeyman
Mystery Science Theater 3000
Time Tunnel
Twilight Zone

A very tight race that's too close to call.

Tiger = 12
Leopard = 9
Lion = 6
Jaguar = 5
Panther = 4
Cheetah = 3
Mountain Lion = 2
Cougar = 2
Puma = 2

I had to make a decision here to just go ahead and score by names rather than try to figure out species. So as far as scoring is concerned a leopard and a panther and a jaguar and a cougar are all different animals.

Seven = 11
Six = 10
Eight = 8
Four = 5
Ten = 4
Three = 4
Nine = 3

A very surprising outcome. Six, seven, and eight are way out ahead of the others and one, two, and five haven't been picked at all.

[Mullinator]

1. Ash
2. Caretan
3. Eric Idle
4. John Ashcroft
5. Rook
6. Shakespeare in Love
7. Nosferatu
8. Babylon 5
9. Puma
10. 8