# Family Feud Part VIII **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [December 16, 2007, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-part-viii/430261 "2007-12-16T23:07:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-part-viii/430261/61 "2007-12-18T19:09:16Z")
:smack: You had me so excited, ya bastard! šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![Frosted\_Glass](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frosted_glass/32/3926_2.png) [@Frosted\_Glass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frosted_Glass)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-part-viii/430261/62 "2007-12-18T21:06:45Z")
1. Name a famous trumpeter. **Miles Davis** 2. What is the most popular means of communication, other than face-to-face? **Email** 3. Name a language spoken in at least two countries. **English** 4. Name a country with a king. **Jordan** 5. Name an American writer. **Ernest Hemmingway** 6. Name a Spanish painter. **Pablo Picasso** 7. What was the best movie of the 1960s? **pass** 8. Name a President of a country other than the United States. **Nicolas Sarkozy** 9. Name a war that occurred in Israel. **6 day war** 10. What is the most popular college major? **Psychology** ---
**Author:** ![Frosted\_Glass](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frosted_glass/32/3926_2.png) [@Frosted\_Glass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frosted_Glass)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-part-viii/430261/63 "2007-12-18T21:10:21Z")
I canā€™t believe how hard it was for me to think of a movie in the '60s. I am younger than I thought I was. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-part-viii/430261/64 "2007-12-18T21:33:42Z")
Iā€™m pretty sure I won this. No need to tally the scores. NEXT! ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-part-viii/430261/65 "2007-12-18T22:54:37Z")
Before I do any counting, good luck again to everyone who played, and thanks for playing. I would also like to remind everyone that I am still accepting submissions for questions for Family Feud Part IX by **email** (not PM!). If thereā€™s enough interest, I might split off a Trivial Feud game for harder, more serious, searchable questions like the ones in this thread. Two enchiladas, one strong IPA and seemingly about an hour later: Hooray! Countingā€™s over! OK, here comes the scoring rubric (by responses, not points). One-entry-only responses donā€™t score points, so theyā€™re not in the lists. Any responses where itā€™s reasonably obvious that the different posters meant the same thing (different spellings of the same President, or England/UK/Great Britain for having a king, or different names for the same Israeli war) were considered the same response. ā€œPassā€ was considered a response. 1. Famous trumpeter Louis Armstrong 27 Dizzy Gillespie 9 Miles Davis 7 Al Hirt 2 Chuck Mangione 2 Wynton Marsalis 2 (I counted Branford Marsalis, a sax player, as brother Wynton, the trumpet player. Merry Christmas! šŸ™‚ ) 1. Means of communication Telephone 34 Cellphone 8 Email 7 (If you said _both_ telephone _and_ cellphone, you got counted for cellphone. Be less specific next time! šŸ˜‰ ) 1. Language English 36 Spanish 11 1. Country with King Spain 22 Jordan 9 England/UK/Great Britain 6 Saudi Arabia 4 Sweden 4 Norway 2 1. American writer Mark Twain 17 Stephen King 13 Ernest Hemingway 10 Edgar Allen Poe 3 John Steinbeck 2 Norman Mailer 2 1. Spanish painter Pablo Picasso 30 Salvador Dali 11 El Greco 3 Francisco Goya 2 Pass 2 1. Best movie of the 1960s The Graduate 16 Easy Rider 5 Dr. Strangelove 4 2001: A Space Odyssey 3 Pass 3 Midnight Cowboy 2 To Kill a Mockingbird 2 The Sound of Music 2 1. Foreign president Vladimir Putin 14 Pervez Musharraf 9 Nicholas Sarkozy 8 Hugo Chavez 5 Felipe Calderon 4 Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 2 Jacques Chirac 2 1. Israeli war 1967/Six-Day 31 Yom Kippur 6 1948/Arab-Israeli/Independence 5 Crusades 3 Seven-Day 2 Pass 2 1. College major Business 13 English 12 Psychology 4 Communications 3 Computer Science 2 Engineering 2 Answers not counted (one response only): Herb Alpert, written communication, German, Portuguese, French, Thailand, Greece, Japan, Tom Clancy, Toni Morrison, William Faulkner, El Cid, Diego Velasquez, Breakfast at Tiffanyā€™s, Mary Poppins, Psycho, Goldfinger, The Great Train Robbery, Itā€™s A Mad etc. World, Ben Hur, The Magnificent Seven, Cool Hand Luke, Gone with the Wind, Dr. No, The Birds, The Russians are Coming! The Russians are Coming!, Vicente Fox, Fidel Castro, Mitterand, Marcos, Mbarrack, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, biology, journalism, medicine, speech communication, education, economics, sociology. Scoreboard coming. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-part-viii/430261/66 "2007-12-18T23:01:46Z")
Forgot Liberal Arts ā€“ 6 responses. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-part-viii/430261/67 "2007-12-19T00:00:48Z")
Drumroll please! The winner is **Tamex** with an astounding 464 points, nailing almost every single question! Congratulations **Tamex**! The entire scoreboard follows: ```auto 1 Tamex 464 2 DaphneBlack 444 3 A Monkey With a Gun 438 4 labtrash 436 5 MadTheSwine 420 6 fatmac98 404 7 tesseract 396 7 scout1222 396 9 zuma 392 10 Sternvogel 370 11 JpnDude 366 12 iamthewalrus(:3= 360 12 cmkeller 360 14 Interrobang!? 354 14 Justin_Bailey 354 16 Lsura 348 17 Wile E 340 18 Inner Stickler 338 18 OneCentStamp 338 20 MissGypsy 336 21 racer72 332 21 Indistinguishable 332 23 Mhaye 330 23 Paintcharge 330 25 Purgatory Creek 328 26 PaulParkhead 326 27 ZipperJJ 320 28 RickJay 316 28 cmyk 316 30 Bayard 310 31 Happy Lendervedder 306 32 BearFlag 304 33 Gala Matrix Fire 300 34 BoBettie 298 35 mikemo 298 36 Frosted Glass 290 36 BrassyPhrase 290 38 Madd Maxx 286 39 Kat 280 40 Hostile Dialect 278 41 freckafree 264 42 treis 262 42 3acresandatruck 262 44 Hockey Monkey 240 45 SSG Schwartz 224 46 anyrose 208 47 gonzomax 188 47 Beadalin 188 49 Queen Bruin 156 50 USCDiver 128 ``` ETA: Whew, shit, that was a lot of work. Kudos to **SSG Schwartz** and anyone else whoā€™s run this. Iā€™ll be happy to do it again, but unless someone wants to take over for a little bit or volunteer to pick up some of the slack for the next game, Iā€™m going to take a little break. Thanks again for playing, everyone! ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-part-viii/430261/68 "2007-12-19T00:03:08Z")
well, at least I wasnā€™t last. šŸ˜‘ whenā€™s the next game? ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-part-viii/430261/69 "2007-12-19T00:10:31Z")
[QUOTE=anyrose] whenā€™s the next game? [/QUOTE] Iā€™ll run the next game, just give me a few minutes to come up with questions. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-part-viii/430261/70 "2007-12-19T01:27:03Z")
[New game](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=448335) hosted by **Justin Bailey** ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-part-viii/430261/71 "2007-12-19T01:32:41Z")
Woot! #17! Much better than 2nd to last. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-part-viii/430261/72 "2007-12-19T01:36:54Z")
nevermind ā˜¹ (The OP said not to read the whole thread before you postā€¦) ---
**Author:** ![Tamex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Tamex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamex)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-part-viii/430261/73 "2007-12-19T04:07:45Z")
I won? Really? Yay šŸ˜ƒ I had a lot of trouble coming up with a country that had a king (as opposed to a queen). ---
**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-part-viii/430261/74 "2007-12-19T15:07:06Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > well at least I wasnā€™t last Um, ouchā€¦ Iā€™ll have to think more like the general public next time instead of the first thing that pops into my head. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-part-viii/430261/75 "2007-12-19T15:44:58Z")
my response in bold [QUOTE=Hostile Dialect] 1. Name a famous trumpeter. **Louis Armstrong** 2. What is the most popular means of communication, other than face-to-face? **Email** 3. Name a language spoken in at least two countries. **English** 4. Name a country with a king. **Spain** 5. Name an American writer. **Hemmingway** 6. Name a Spanish painter. **Goya** 7. What was the best movie of the 1960s? **Barbarella** 8. Name a President of a country other than the United States. **Russia** 9. Name a war that occurred in Israel. **The Six Day War** 10. What is the most popular college major? **Business** [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-part-viii/430261/76 "2007-12-19T16:19:59Z")
What is the best format for the responses? Do you like the question repeated? Do you like the answers numbered? Does it matter? Maybe the instructions should be amended let us know, making your scoring job easier. Just a thought. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-part-viii/430261/77 "2007-12-19T17:22:57Z")
Since you asked, the biggest things that respondents can do to make (my method of) scoring easier are numbering their answers, making their answers stick out, and minimizing the line spaces between answers. So this is great: > [@hypothetical](#): > > 1. OJ Simpson > 2. Bonobo sex > 3. Klingon > 4. Funkytown And so is this: > [@hypothetical](#): > > 1. Name an American writer. **Ricky Martin** > > 2. Name a Spanish painter. **RuPaul** > > 3. What was the best movie of the 1960s? **Deep Throat** But this is a little harder to score: > [@hypothetical](#): > > 1. Name a President of a country other than the United States. > > Austin Powers > 9. Name a war that occurred in Israel. > > War of the Worlds > > 1. What is the most popular college major? > Applied Funk Thanks for asking! Iā€™m thinking of starting a Trivial Feud game fairly soon with more questions like these ones, since it turns out that Feud Tucker is a more temporary condition than I thought. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-part-viii/430261.md?page=3)