# Family Feud Survey Says: **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 4, 2006, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-survey-says/342985 "2006-02-04T13:48:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-survey-says/342985/61 "2006-02-05T04:40:32Z")
Now for the answers I think my family members would give. (Rachel, these don’t count, please!) 1. Name a part of speech. – Sentence 2. Which day is most likely to have rain? – Wedding days 3. Name a food you put salt on before even tasting. – Roadkill 4. Name the most popular star in the sky. – Mars 5. Which USA state has the funniest name? – HaHa Waii 6. Which spectator sport is the most boring? – Hog Slaughterin’, hour 2 7. How far will the average car go on a tank of gasoline/petrol? – Countin’ pushin’? 8. Name a college course or class. – Ralph 9. Which island gets the most tourists per year? Rhode ---
**Author:** ![PaperDoll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/848f3c/32.png) [@PaperDoll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PaperDoll)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-survey-says/342985/62 "2006-02-05T04:54:27Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > The Role Lists threads have been such fun (and now the songs list is clicking along, too) that it occurred to me that we could have our own version of Family Feud here in Cafe Society. > > Simple enough. > > We ARE the survey as well as the contestants. > > Reply without looking at other replies and you’re part of the survey. After you see what the majority of others have replied you can see how well you (and your family) would do on the show. > > If the game part isn’t all that exciting then the comparison with what others react with, might be. > > Here goes: > > 1. Name a part of speech. > 2. Which day is most likely to have rain? > 3. Name a food you put salt on before even tasting. > 4. Name the most popular star in the sky. > 5. Which USA state has the funniest name? > 6. Which spectator sport is the most boring? > 7. How far will the average car go on a tank of gasoline/petrol? > 8. Name a college course or class. > 9. Which island gets the most tourists per year? 1. noun? 2. Sunday 3. Vegetables 4. Big Dipper 5. Kentucky 6. Golf 7. 300 miles 8. Psychology 9. Hawaii ---
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-survey-says/342985/63 "2006-02-05T04:57:55Z")
1. Adjective 2. Tuesday 3. None 4. Polaris 5. Idaho 6. Bowling 7. 25 miles 8. Intro to Statistics 9. Maui ---
**Author:** ![RachelChristine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7ab992/32.png) [@RachelChristine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RachelChristine)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-survey-says/342985/64 "2006-02-05T05:00:29Z")
We just need 5 more posters! ---
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-survey-says/342985/65 "2006-02-05T05:02:09Z")
> [@Gadarene](#): > > 1. Adjective > 2. Tuesday > 3. None > 4. Polaris > 5. Idaho > 6. Bowling > 7. 25 miles > 8. Intro to Statistics > 9. Maui Oh, tank of gas. :smack: 225 miles. ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-survey-says/342985/66 "2006-02-05T05:07:08Z")
1. Name a part of speech. 2. Which day is most likely to have rain? 3. Name a food you put salt on before even tasting. 4. Name the most popular star in the sky. 5. Which USA state has the funniest name? 6. Which spectator sport is the most boring? 7. How far will the average car go on a tank of gasoline/petrol? 8. Name a college course or class. 9. Which island gets the most tourists per year? Noun Monday French Fries Sun Arkansas Golf 300 miles Physics Hawaii ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-survey-says/342985/67 "2006-02-05T06:19:56Z")
1. Adverb 2. Thursday 3. French Fries 4. Betelgeuse 5. Massachusetts 6. Tennis 7. 300 Miles 8. Algebra I 9. Manhattan ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-survey-says/342985/68 "2006-02-05T07:13:41Z")
I just have to wonder - are all the answers of Monday influenced by the song “Rainy Days and Mondays”? ---
**Author:** ![Strinka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strinka/32/512_2.png) [@Strinka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strinka)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-survey-says/342985/69 "2006-02-05T07:42:31Z")
1. Name a part of speech. Noun 2. Which day is most likely to have rain? April 23rd 3. Name a food you put salt on before even tasting. French Fries 4. Name the most popular star in the sky. North Star 5. Which USA state has the funniest name? Iowa 6. Which spectator sport is the most boring? Golf 7. How far will the average car go on a tank of gasoline/petrol? 600 miles 8. Name a college course or class. Physics 9. Which island gets the most tourists per year? England ---
**Author:** ![CatsCradle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cab0a1/32.png) [@CatsCradle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CatsCradle)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-survey-says/342985/70 "2006-02-05T07:48:02Z")
1. Noun 2. Saturday 3. Fries 4. Orion 5. Mississippi 6. Soccer 7. 300 8. English 9. Oahu, HI ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-survey-says/342985/71 "2006-02-05T08:18:28Z")
1. Name a part of speech. Noun. 1. Which day is most likely to have rain? For some reason, Thursday leapt to my mind. 1. Name a food you put salt on before even tasting. French Fries. 1. Name the most popular star in the sky. The North Star. 1. Which USA state has the funniest name? Kentucky. Duh. 1. Which spectator sport is the most boring? Golf. 1. How far will the average car go on a tank of gasoline/petrol? 250 miles. (I drive shitty cars.) 1. Name a college course or class. Biology. 1. Which island gets the most tourists per year? Hawaii. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-survey-says/342985/72 "2006-02-05T11:33:15Z")
**RachelChristine** , excuse me for stepping away long enough for a night’s sleep, but I support the views already expressed on the various issues raised: 1. Count Hawaii as an individual island, not the whole set of islands 2. Allow the corrections/changes a poster may have posted after the original set 3. Let the tally after the 50th set be the “official” tally 4. For all who post after 50 sets have come in, let their “score” be based on the tally for the first 50. 5. Score each individual poster on each topic by the score that topic had in the tally. Example: Tally has 37 for answer A to Topic A and 22 for Answer A for Topic B, so Poster A with an A for Topics A and B would score 59 for those two topics. Continue such scoring for all 9 topics. Clear? 6. Identify the top 5 posters, don’t bother with those below Top 5. 7. Am I leaving anything out that needed a ruling? This has been a real blast, everybody! **RachelChristine** , please feel free to post a new thread with a new set of topics whenever you’re ready for it. ---
**Author:** ![petalpusher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9e8a1a/32.png) [@petalpusher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/petalpusher)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-survey-says/342985/73 "2006-02-05T11:45:18Z")
Verb Sunday French fries Polaris Wyoming Baseball 300 miles Physics Hawaii ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-survey-says/342985/74 "2006-02-05T12:11:04Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > **RachelChristine** , excuse me for stepping away long enough for a night’s sleep, but I support the views already expressed on the various issues raised: > > 1. Identify the top 5 posters, don’t bother with those below Top 5. > 2. Am I leaving anything out that needed a ruling? I should clarify: I support posting the “Official Tally” of the individual scores of each individual topic so that those below Top 5 can verify their own scores if they wish. No real purpose in having **RachelChristine** go to this additional effort. Doing the Tally and the Scoring and Posting of the Top 5 is way above the call of duty, I suggest. Many thanks to **RachelChristine** in advance for some nice work! ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-survey-says/342985/75 "2006-02-05T12:27:04Z")
One mo’ thang: For those who post after the “Official Tally” has been posted, tough break. It would be unfair to those who had either done their own tallying and scoring, or had waited for an official announcement, to be “beaten” by somebody who just gave the Top Answers as their own First Post. As I see it, there are three categories of participants: 1. Those who posted with no idea there would be scoring 2. Those who posted knowing there would be scoring but with no “Official Score” to see 3. Those who will have posted after the OS is shown. Categories 1 & 2 are in the same basic boat as I see it. Category 3 may have posted before reading subsequent posts (including all the talk about Tallying and Scoring, etc.) but we must err on the side of assuming they will have had the chance to “fix” their answers. Honor System is a nice idea but probably not to be relied upon when all this prize money is at stake! 😃 I welcome discussion on this and other issues, but as OP I suspect I ought to have final say. Besides, next “Game” whoever posts the OP can state her/his rules up front or add them as interest is shown. I am so happy this thread got such participation. I’ve been hoping for such a thing for going on three years now! Wheeeee! ---
**Author:** ![RachelChristine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7ab992/32.png) [@RachelChristine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RachelChristine)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-survey-says/342985/76 "2006-02-05T13:28:45Z")
well I see we got enough posters last night while I was sleeping! I’ll be posting the answers when I get home from church and have time to input these last 5 or so people. I think at this point right now there is exactly 50 posters, or maybe 51, but if anyone else post before I get home I’ll count them as well, just to be nice. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![RachelChristine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7ab992/32.png) [@RachelChristine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RachelChristine)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-survey-says/342985/77 "2006-02-05T13:35:34Z")
Okay, after reading Zeldar’s post, I will stop at the first 50 participants for the Survey. Anyone after that (and at this point we have 52 posters), will still get to have their names in for trying to win the Money in the Bank, but their answers won’t count towards the Top Answers on the Board. This has been such fun! I’ll try to post new questions today, but I’ll have to come up with some good ones… ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-survey-says/342985/78 "2006-02-05T13:38:36Z")
Excellent, **RachelChristine** , I can hardly wait! I want to participate in the next Game but felt I shouldn’t do so in the one I posted. Thanks to you for the extra work! ---
**Author:** ![Aholibah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Aholibah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aholibah)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-survey-says/342985/79 "2006-02-05T14:29:42Z")
As you say, **Zeldar** , you’re the OP and have the right to determine the rules, but I would suggest the results would be more amusing if you didn’t allow for posters’ corrections after the fact. Many of them may have come from reading other people’s responses and then realizing how they were supposed to answer the question. I think the original goof-ups add a certain verisimilitude. But perhaps that’s just me. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-survey-says/342985/80 "2006-02-05T14:40:25Z")
> [@Aholibah](#): > > As you say, **Zeldar** , you’re the OP and have the right to determine the rules, but I would suggest the results would be more amusing if you didn’t allow for posters’ corrections after the fact. Many of them may have come from reading other people’s responses and then realizing how they were supposed to answer the question. I think the original goof-ups add a certain verisimilitude. But perhaps that’s just me. 🙂 Basically, I agree with you. Some few were deliberate attempts at humor and “bucking the tide.” I suspect without asking for (and getting) assurance that everybody posted immediately after reading the OP, there would be no way to assure that the posts were knee-jerk reactions to the questions. It would have been easy enough for anybody to read ahead (after that first set of answers) and pattern their own responses accordingly. It would appear that a few replies did just that. But since this is a “for fun” venture, I think the slack is called for when asked for. Once we actually start having more at stake than giggles maybe tightening the rules would make sense. Thanks for your input, **Aholibah**. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-survey-says/342985.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-survey-says/342985.md?page=5)