# Family Feud: The Avis Edition **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [January 13, 2008, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-the-avis-edition/433366 "2008-01-13T05:59:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2008, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-the-avis-edition/433366/1 "2008-01-13T05:59:39Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2008, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-the-avis-edition/433366/2 "2008-01-13T06:20:04Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![tesseract](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bb73d2/32.png) [@tesseract](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tesseract)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2008, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-the-avis-edition/433366/3 "2008-01-13T06:24:43Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2008, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-the-avis-edition/433366/4 "2008-01-13T06:27:22Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Dottygumdrop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Dottygumdrop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dottygumdrop)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2008, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-the-avis-edition/433366/5 "2008-01-13T06:37:47Z")
1. Oak 2. D-Day 3. Eric Idle 4. Donald Rumsfeld 5. pawn 6. Titanic 7. Lestat 8. Stargate 9. Tiger 10. 7 ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2008, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-the-avis-edition/433366/6 "2008-01-13T06:54:07Z")
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. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2008, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-the-avis-edition/433366/7 "2008-01-13T07:15:43Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2008, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-the-avis-edition/433366/8 "2008-01-13T07:40:31Z")
> [@](#): > > 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.) ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Dave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/46a35a/32.png) [@Great\_Dave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Dave)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2008, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-the-avis-edition/433366/9 "2008-01-13T07:48:32Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Tenar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@Tenar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tenar)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2008, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-the-avis-edition/433366/10 "2008-01-13T07:57:03Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2008, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-the-avis-edition/433366/11 "2008-01-13T07:58:28Z")
1. Maple 2. Midway 3. Eric Idle 4. Colin Powell 5. Rook 6. The Sting 7. Lestat 8. Space: 1999 9. Cougar 10. 4 ---
**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2008, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-the-avis-edition/433366/12 "2008-01-13T10:10:38Z")
1. Elm 2. Iwo Jima 3.Eric Idle 3. GW Bush 4. Rook 5. Brokeback Moutain 6. Lestat 7. Dr Who 8. Jaguar 9. 9 ---
**Author:** ![Panurge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@Panurge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Panurge)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2008, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-the-avis-edition/433366/13 "2008-01-13T10:26:38Z")
1: Beech 2: Battle of Britain 3: Terry Jones 4: Rice 5: Pawn 6: Unforgiven 7: Count Blacula 8: V 9: Cheetah 10: 10 ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2008, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-the-avis-edition/433366/14 "2008-01-13T12:26:22Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2008, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-the-avis-edition/433366/15 "2008-01-13T12:39:41Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2008, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-the-avis-edition/433366/16 "2008-01-13T12:41:25Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![pretend\_my\_name\_is\_witty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9e5f3/32.png) [@pretend\_my\_name\_is\_witty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pretend_my_name_is_witty)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2008, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-the-avis-edition/433366/17 "2008-01-13T12:47:48Z")
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 ---
**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:** [January 13, 2008, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-the-avis-edition/433366/18 "2008-01-13T12:54:03Z")
[QUOTE=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. [/QUOTE] 11. Birch 12. Midway 13. Eric Idle 14. C. Rice 15. Rook 16. American Beauty 17. Lestat 18. X-Files 19. Puma 20. 10 ---
**Author:** ![3acresandatruck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/e79b87/32.png) [@3acresandatruck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3acresandatruck)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2008, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-the-avis-edition/433366/19 "2008-01-13T13:36:42Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2008, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-the-avis-edition/433366/20 "2008-01-13T13:50:46Z")
1. Maple 2. Verdun 3. John Cleese 4. Rumsfeld 5. Queen 6. Shakespeare in Love 7. Lestat 8. Dr. Who 9. panther 10. ten [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-the-avis-edition/433366.md?page=2)