Family Feud: By the Numbers

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  1. Rudolph
  2. Grumpy
  3. lust
  4. Lighthouse at Alexandria
  5. Princeton
  6. Carrots
  7. Eddie Fisher
  8. Anne Boleyn
  9. Massachusetts
  10. Paul
  11. Mars
  12. Javelin
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  1. Rudolph
  2. Dopey
  3. Sloth
  4. Hanging Gardens of Babylon
  5. Columbia
  6. Celery
  7. Eddie Fisher
  8. Ann Boleyn
  9. New Hampshire
  10. John
  11. Mars
  12. Long Jump
63
  1. Rudolph
  2. Doc
  3. Lust
  4. Colossus
  5. Cornell
  6. Celery
  7. Eddie Fisher
  8. Anne Boylen
  9. Name one of the 13 original colonies.
  10. Peter
  11. Mars
  12. High Jump
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Wolf Meister was kind enough to put everything into a spreadsheet for me. The only teeny problem is that I have absolutely zero Excel skills, so I have no idea what the “count these please” commands might be. If someone could give me a three-minute talk-through on that, I’ll proceed.

twicks, who, in case no one has gathered yet, is more a words person than a numbers person

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  1. Rudolph
  2. Grumpy
  3. Pride
  4. Hanging Gardens of Babylon
  5. Princeton
  6. Carrots
  7. Nicky Hilton
  8. Anne Boleyn
  9. Virginia
  10. Paul
  11. Mars
  12. Pole Vault
66
  1. Rudolph
  2. Dopey
  3. Greed
  4. Coliseum
  5. Princeton
  6. celery
  7. OK, really, how is a guy my age supposed to know that?
  8. Anne
  9. Virginia
  10. um…Paul? I’m not completely certain about the definition of apostle, so I hope he’s one of them.
  11. Mars
  12. Running
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  1. Dasher

  2. Dopey

  3. Lust

  4. Hanging Gardens

  5. Princeton

  6. Carrots

  7. Mike Todd

  8. Anne Boleyn

  9. Virginia

  10. Peter

  11. Mars

  12. Javelin

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  1. Name one of Santa’s reindeer.
    Rudolph
  2. Name one of the Seven Dwarfs.
    Sleepy
  3. Name one of the Seven Deadly Sins.
    Sloth
  4. Other than the Pyramids, name one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
    Hanging gardens of Babylon
  5. Other than Harvard or Yale, name an Ivy League school.
    Boston (???)
  6. Other than tomatoes, name one of the vegetables in V8.
    Carrots (???)
  7. Other than Richard Burton, name one of Liz Taylor’s husbands.
    Hilton (??)
  8. Name one of Henry VIII’s wives.
    Katherine of Aragon
  9. Name one of the 13 original colonies.
    Jamestown (???)
  10. Name one of Jesus’ apostles.
    Peter
  11. Other than Earth, name one of the planets in our solar system.
    Pluto
  12. Name one of the events in the Olympic
    decathlon.
    [/QUOTE]

Shooting

The USA slanted ones are hard!

69

Good luck with that, Twix. I’m clueless.

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Turns out that WolfMeister is a sucker for a helpless dame – he (I believe he’s a he) actually crunched the numbers for me. I’ll write the post on my lunch hour.

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Okay, I have to do the scoring tonight, but here are the results by numbers of answers (double for your points):

Reindeer
Rudolf 21
Dasher 9
Blitzen 6
Comet 5
Prancer 3
Dancer 3
Donner 2
Cupid 1
**
Dwarfs**
Dopey 28
Sleepy 7
Doc 6
Grumpy 4
Sneezy 3
Bashful 2

Sins
Lust 21
Sloth 9
Greed/avarice 7
Gluttony 6
Pride 5
(singletons: 2)

Wonders
Hanging Gardens 22
Colossus 17
Great Wall 4
Sphinx 3
(singletons/pass: 4)

Ivy League
Princeton 28
Columbia 8
Brown 4
Dartmouth 4
Cornell 3
Stanford 3

V8
Carrots 29
Celery 18
(Singletons: 3)

La Liz
Eddie Fisher 14
Lary Fortensky 13
Nicky Hilton 8
John Warner 8
(singletons/pass: 7)

Henry VIII
Anne Boleyn 43
Catherine of Aragon 3
“Anne” 2
Anne of Cleves: 2

Colonies
Massachusetts 17
Virginia 16
New York 4
Delaware 4
S. Carolina 2
(singletons: 7)
**
Apostles**
Peter 23
Judas 12
Paul 5
Matthew 4
John 2
Thomas 2
(singletons: 2)

Planets
Mars 37
Venus 4
Jupiter 3
Mercury 2
Neptune 2
(singletons/pass: 2)

Decathlon
Pole vault 9
Javelin 8
Long jump 7
Shot put 7
Discus 5
100 meter 4
High jump 4
(singletons: 6)

And could we have a huge honkin’ ovation for wolf_meister who actually compiled all those answers?

Yay, wolf_meister!

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Shucks thanks twickster :slight_smile:

73
  1. Blitzen
  2. Doc
  3. lust
  4. Hanging Gardens of Babylon
  5. Dartmouth
  6. celery
  7. Eddie Fisher
  8. Anne of Cleeves
  9. Virginia
  10. Andrew
  11. Venus
  12. shot put
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  1. Name one of Santa’s reindeer.
    Blitzen
  2. Name one of the Seven Dwarfs.
    Dopey
  3. Name one of the Seven Deadly Sins.
    Gluttony
  4. Other than the Pyramids, name one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
    Pharos
  5. Other than Harvard or Yale, name an Ivy League school.
    Brown
  6. Other than tomatoes, name one of the vegetables in V8.
    Carrots
  7. Other than Richard Burton, name one of Liz Taylor’s husbands.
    Eddie Fisher
  8. Name one of Henry VIII’s wives.
    Ann Bolyen
  9. Name one of the 13 original colonies.
    Georgia
  10. Name one of Jesus’ apostles.
    Matthew
  11. Other than Earth, name one of the planets in our solar system.
    Venus
  12. Name one of the events in the Olympic decathlon.
    Pole Vault
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It’s often hard to tell if you’re too late. Oh well.
did crappy anyway

76

  1. Name one of Santa’s reindeer.
    Rudolph

  2. Name one of the Seven Dwarfs.
    Doc

  3. Name one of the Seven Deadly Sins.
    Lust

  4. Other than the Pyramids, name one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
    Great Wall of China (if it’s not technically one of the 7, it should be)

  5. Other than Harvard or Yale, name an Ivy League school.
    Princeton

  6. Other than tomatoes, name one of the vegetables in V8.
    Celery

  7. Other than Richard Burton, name one of Liz Taylor’s husbands.
    Joe DiMaggio

  8. Name one of Henry VIII’s wives.
    Anne Boleyn

  9. Name one of the 13 original colonies.
    Virginia

  10. Name one of Jesus’ apostles.
    Judas

  11. Other than Earth, name one of the planets in our solar system.
    Mars

  12. Name one of the events in the Olympic decathlon.
    100 Meter Dash

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Since this thread is already in the 75-post range as I type, I’m probably late, but I can never resist one of these challenges.

  1. Rudolph
  2. Doc
  3. Lust
  4. Hanging Gardens of Babylon
  5. Princeton
  6. Carrots
  7. Larry Fortensky
  8. Anne Boleyn
  9. Pennsylvania (as a nod to the constructor’s home state!)
  10. Peter (although I suspect Paul got a lot of votes, I refuse to give an answer I know to be incorrect)
  11. Mars
  12. 100-meter dash
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1: Rudolph
2: Grumpy
3: Gluttony
4: Hanging Gardens of Babylon
5: Brown
6: Ummm… Carrot?
7: Pass
8: Jane Seymour
9: New Hampshire
10: Peter
11: Mars
12: Long Jump

ETA: Too late. Looks like I did bad, anyway…

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Way, way, way belatedly, here are the scores.

First by rank:

  1. Hal Briston 516
  2. Biotop 502
  3. Thudlow Boink 500
  4. Lord Il Palazzo 488
  5. Little Nemo 472
  6. Interrobang!? 470
  7. AsUWish 466
  8. Kat 466
  9. Zipper JJ 462
  10. IvoryTowerDenizen 454
  11. InnerStickler 446
  12. Freckafree 442
  13. Drain Bead 436
  14. Siege 436
  15. Mad The Swine 432
  16. ShibbOleth 432
  17. Hockey Monkey 422
  18. Jtgain 418
  19. MsWhatsit 416
  20. Gardentraveler 414
  21. Exastris 408
  22. BellRung… 404
  23. CatInASuit 394
  24. Purgatory Creek 390
  25. Lsura 384
  26. Spoons 382
  27. 3acresandatruck 376
  28. RickJay 376
  29. Justrob 374
  30. Antigen 372
  31. Bufftabby 368
  32. Enginerd 362
  33. Queen Tonya 360
  34. Chanteuse 358
  35. Fretful Porpentine 348
  36. BobLibDem 346
  37. El Kabong 334
  38. Snoooooopy 326
  39. Dottygumdrop 316
  40. Maggenpye 298
  41. Wallflower 296
  42. Hocow 290
  43. Cuncator 288
  44. Illuminatiprimus 286
  45. Mrs. RickJay 278
  46. Tesseract 266
  47. Tikki 254
  48. Tarragon918 242
  49. Freudian Slit 236
  50. Student Driver 126

And then alphabetically:

3acresandatruck 376
Antigen 372
AsUWish 466
BellRung… 404
Biotop 502
BobLibDem 346
Bufftabby 368
CatInASuit 394
Chanteuse 358
Cuncator 288
Dottygumdrop 316
Drain Bead 436
El Kabong 334
Enginerd 362
Exastris 408
Freckafree 442
Fretful Porpentine 348
Freudian Slit 236
Gardentraveler 414
Hal Briston 516
Hockey Monkey 422
Hocow 290
Illuminatiprimus 286
InnerStickler 446
Interrobang!? 470
IvoryTowerDenizen 454
Jtgain 418
Justrob 374
Kat 466
Little Nemo 472
Lord Il Palazzo 488
Lsura 384
Mad The Swine 432
Maggenpye 298
Mrs. RickJay 278
MsWhatsit 416
Purgatory Creek 390
Queen Tonya 360
RickJay 376
ShibbOleth 432
Siege 436
Snoooooopy 326
Spoons 382
Student Driver 126
Tarragon918 242
Tesseract 266
Thudlow Boink 500
Tikki 254
Wallflower 296
Zipper JJ 462

And next time I say I want to host a round – lock me up somewhere till I come to my senses.