Family Feud Part VIII

:smack:

You had me so excited, ya bastard! :wink:

  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

I can’t believe how hard it was for me to think of a movie in the '60s. I am younger than I thought I was.

I’m pretty sure I won this. No need to tally the scores. NEXT!

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 there’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! Counting’s over! OK, here comes the scoring rubric (by responses, not points). One-entry-only responses don’t score points, so they’re not in the lists. Any responses where it’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. “Pass” 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! :slight_smile: )

  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! :wink: )

  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 Tiffany’s, Mary Poppins, Psycho, Goldfinger, The Great Train Robbery, It’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.

Forgot Liberal Arts – 6 responses.

Drumroll please!
The winner is Tamex with an astounding 464 points, nailing almost every single question! Congratulations Tamex!

The entire scoreboard follows:



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 who’s run this. I’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, I’m going to take a little break. Thanks again for playing, everyone!

well, at least I wasn’t last. :expressionless:

when’s the next game?

I’ll run the next game, just give me a few minutes to come up with questions.

New game hosted by Justin Bailey

Woot! #17! Much better than 2nd to last.

nevermind :frowning: (The OP said not to read the whole thread before you post…)

I won? Really? Yay :smiley:

I had a lot of trouble coming up with a country that had a king (as opposed to a queen).

Um, ouch… I’ll have to think more like the general public next time instead of the first thing that pops into my head.

my response in bold

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.

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:

And so is this:

But this is a little harder to score:

Thanks for asking! I’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.