# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Darth\_Sensitive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Darth\_Sensitive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Sensitive)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-the-avis-edition/433366/41 "2008-01-14T07:17:18Z")
1. Maple 2. Midway 3. Eric Idle 4. Condoleeza Rice 5. Rice 6. Titanic 7. Nosferatu 8. Battlestar Galactica 9. Leopard 10. Eight ---
**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:** [January 14, 2008, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-the-avis-edition/433366/42 "2008-01-14T08:58:42Z")
Cool idea! 1. fir 2. Midway 3. Eric Idle 4. Donald Rumsfeld 5. bishop 6. Crash 7. Nosferatu 8. V 9. jaguar 10. nine ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-the-avis-edition/433366/43 "2008-01-14T12:14:52Z")
1. Oak 2. Normandy 3. John Cleese 4. Condoleeza Rice 5. Rook 6. Shindler’s List 7. Dracula 8. Outer Limits 9. Tiger 10. Seven ---
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-the-avis-edition/433366/44 "2008-01-14T12:24:43Z")
1. Name a kind of tree **Ash** 2. Name a battle in World War II **Iwo Jima** 3. Name a member of Monty Python **Michael Palin** 4. Name a current or former member of George W. Bush’s cabinet **Condoleeza Rice** 5. Name a chess piece **Pawn** 6. Name a movie that won the best picture Oscar **Casablanca** 7. Name a vampire **Dracula** 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. **Seven** ---
**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:** [January 14, 2008, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-the-avis-edition/433366/45 "2008-01-14T12:55:30Z")
1. Oak 2. Iwo Jima 3. John Cleese 4. Colin Powell 5. King 6. Crash 7. Dracula 8. Star Trek 9. Lion 10. 8 ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-the-avis-edition/433366/46 "2008-01-14T13:41:22Z")
I can’t believe no one else has mentioned Count Chocula. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-the-avis-edition/433366/47 "2008-01-14T14:07:18Z")
1. Name a kind of tree Elm 1. Name a battle in World War II Iwo Jima 3. Name a member of Monty Python John Cleese 1. Name a current or former member of George W. Bush’s cabinet Condoleeza Rice 1. Name a chess piece Pawn 1. Name a movie that won the best picture Oscar Titanic 1. Name a vampire Lestat 1. Name a science fiction television series Battlestar Galactica 1. Name a species of big cat Panther 1. Pick a number between one and ten, inclusive. Seven ---
**Author:** ![Purgatory\_Creek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/74df32/32.png) [@Purgatory\_Creek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purgatory_Creek)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-the-avis-edition/433366/48 "2008-01-14T14:09:37Z")
1. Maple. 2. Midway 3. Eric Idle 4. Colin Powell 5. Rook 6. Gone With the Wind 7. Lestat 8. Twilight Zone 9. Leopard 10. 6 ---
**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 14, 2008, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-the-avis-edition/433366/49 "2008-01-14T17:22:59Z")
We’ve got forty five responses so far. Only five more to go. I expect to have this wrapped up tonight. The current numbers are: Oak = 11 Maple = 10 Elm = 8 Apple = 2 Ash = 2 Beech = 2 Pine = 2 Larch = 2 Palm Birch Fir Sequoia Mahogany Poplar Down to the wire on this one. Oak, maple, and elm are all so close that any of them could end up scoreless in the top spot or a tie. The other entries are all looking to be one pointers at best. Midway = 11 Battle of the Bulge = 9 Iwo Jima = 8 Normandy = 7 Stalingrad = 2 Battle of Britain = 2 Kursk = 2 Bataan Verdun Dunkirk Okinawa Pretty much the same situation as the tress with four answers fighting for the top spot. Eric Idle = 18 John Cleese = 11 Terry Jones = 5 Michael Palin = 4 Graham Chapman = 3 Terry Gilliam = 3 The dead parrot Eric Idle has a lock on the scoreless top place now so John Cleese will be the big scorer here. The big question here is whether LilyoftheValley will be allowed to remain a member on this board if she doesn’t know any members of Monty Python. Condoleezza Rice = 15 Colin Powell = 12 Donald Rumsfeld = 7 Dick Cheney Michael Mukasey Michael Brown Alberto Gonzales Karl Rove Paul O’Neill George W Bush Robert M. Gates Henry Paulson John Ashcroft Margaret Spellings A tip for people running future Family Feuds: a good question would be “Pick a way to misspell Secretary of State Rice’s first name.” Bishop = 13 Rook = 13 Pawn = 7 Queen = 5 King = 4 Knight = 2 Rice? Bishop and Rook have been neck and neck all game. We’ll have to see if Darth Sensitive’s bold move in guessing “rice” pays off. Titanic = 9 Ben Hur = 3 The Godfather = 3 Braveheart = 2 Casablanca = 2 Crash = 2 Gone With The Wind = 2 Shakespeare in Love = 2 Unforgiven = 2 Amadeus American Beauty Brokeback Moutain Chicago The Departed Forrest Gump Gandhi Lawrence of Arabia Million Dollar Baby On Golden Pond Philadelphia Platoon The Return of the King Rocky Schindler’s List Silence of the Lambs The Sting Pass Nobody’s getting a lot of points here. Titanic will be scoreless and there’s a whole bunch of singletons. Even the winners are looking to all be one or two pointers. Lestat = 18 Dracula = 12 Nosferatu = 8 Angel = 2 Spike = 2 Barnabas Collins Blacula Count Chocula Lestat will be the scoreless one here with Dracula looking like the big winner. Star Trek = 7 Firefly = 6 Battlestar Galactica = 5 Doctor Who = 5 Stargate SG-1 = 4 The X-Files = 4 Babylon 5 = 2 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century = 2 Outer Limits = 2 Space: 1999 = 2 V = 2 Journeyman Mystery Science Theater 3000 Time Tunnel Twilight Zone A very tight race that’s too close to call. Tiger = 12 Leopard = 9 Lion = 6 Jaguar = 5 Panther = 4 Cheetah = 3 Mountain Lion = 2 Cougar = 2 Puma = 2 I had to make a decision here to just go ahead and score by names rather than try to figure out species. So as far as scoring is concerned a leopard and a panther and a jaguar and a cougar are all different animals. Seven = 11 Six = 10 Eight = 8 Four = 5 Ten = 4 Three = 4 Nine = 3 A very surprising outcome. Six, seven, and eight are way out ahead of the others and one, two, and five haven’t been picked at all. ---
**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-the-avis-edition/433366/50 "2008-01-14T17:40:23Z")
1. Ash 2. Caretan 3. Eric Idle 4. John Ashcroft 5. Rook 6. Shakespeare in Love 7. Nosferatu 8. Babylon 5 9. Puma 10. 8 ---
**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:** [January 14, 2008, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-the-avis-edition/433366/51 "2008-01-14T17:44:56Z")
I so didn’t read the rules to this one (throwing out the top answer? crazy!), but I may do very well since I picked almost all of the second place answers. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-the-avis-edition/433366/52 "2008-01-14T17:51:26Z")
I seem to pick answer #2 naturally in all these threads, so maybe I’ll be super-good at this. 1. Name a kind of tree **Oak** 2. Name a battle in World War II **Jutland** 3. Name a member of Monty Python **Michael Palin** 4. Name a current or former member of George W. Bush’s cabinet **Condoleeza Rice** 5. Name a chess piece **Pawn** 6. Name a movie that won the best picture Oscar **Titanic** 7. Name a vampire **er… Angel? (okay, on that one I tried to get answer #2.)** 8. Name a science fiction television series **Star Trek: TNG** 9. Name a species of big cat **Leopard** 10. Pick a number between one and ten, inclusive. **eight.** ---
**Author:** ![Omi\_no\_Kami](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a88e4f/32.png) [@Omi\_no\_Kami](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omi_no_Kami)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-the-avis-edition/433366/53 "2008-01-14T18:11:32Z")
1. Name a kind of tree Pine 2. Name a battle in World War II Battle of Somme 3. Name a member of Monty Python Michael Palin 4. Name a current or former member of George W. Bush’s cabinet Condoleezza Rice 5. Name a chess piece Rook 6. Name a movie that won the best picture Oscar Crash 7. Name a vampire Nosferatu 8. Name a science fiction television series Dr. Who 9. Name a species of big cat Tiger 10. Pick a number between one and ten, inclusive. 5 ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-the-avis-edition/433366/54 "2008-01-14T18:15:47Z")
1. Name a kind of tree **Beech** 2. Name a battle in World War II **Midway** 3. Name a member of Monty Python **John Cleese** 4. Name a current or former member of George W. Bush’s cabinet **John Ashcroft** 5. Name a chess piece **Bishop** 6. Name a movie that won the best picture Oscar **Titanic** 7. Name a vampire **Spike** 8. Name a science fiction television series **Babylon 5** 9. Name a species of big cat **Leopard** 10. Pick a number between one and ten, inclusive. **seven** ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-the-avis-edition/433366/55 "2008-01-14T18:19:48Z")
1. Oak 2. Okinawa 3. Spam Waiter 4. Robert Gates 5. Rook 6. Million Dollar Baby 7. Nosferatu 8. Star Trek 9. Mountain Lion (Puma) 10. 7 ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-the-avis-edition/433366/56 "2008-01-14T19:58:32Z")
ooof. This isn’t looking so good for me. ---
**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 14, 2008, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-the-avis-edition/433366/57 "2008-01-14T20:16:50Z")
Okay. We have fifty entires and the game is closed. Here’s the point tallies. Oak = 13 - 0 pts Maple = 10 - 9 pts Elm = 8 - 7 pts Ash = 3 - 2 pts Beech = 3 - 2 pts Pine = 3 - 2 pts Apple = 2 - 1 pt Larch = 2 - 1 pt Birch - 0 pts Fir - 0 pts Mahogany - 0 pts Palm - 0 pts Poplar - 0 pts Sequoia - 0 pts Midway = 12 - 0 pts Battle of the Bulge = 9 - 8 pts Iwo Jima = 8 - 7 pts Normandy = 7 - 6 pts Battle of Britain = 2 - 1 pt Kursk = 2 - 1 pt Okinawa = 2 - 1 pt Stalingrad = 2 - 1 pt Bataan - 0 pts Caretan - 0 pts Jutland - 0 pts The Somme - 0 pts Verdun - 0 pts Dunkirk - 0 pts Eric Idle = 19 - 0 pts John Cleese = 12 - 11 pts Michael Palin = 6 - 5 pts Terry Jones = 5 - 4 pts Graham Chapman = 3 - 2 pts Terry Gilliam = 3 - 2 pts The dead parrot - 0 pts The Spam waiter - 0 pts Condoleezza Rice = 17 - 0 pts Colin Powell = 12 - 11 pts Donald Rumsfeld = 7 - 6 pts John Ashcroft = 3 - 2 pts Robert Gates = 2 - 1 pt Michael Brown - 0 pts George W. Bush - 0 pts Dick Cheney - 0 pts Alberto Gonzales - 0 pts Michael Mukasey - 0 pts Paul O’Neill - 0 pts Henry Paulson - 0 pts Karl Rove - 0 pts Margaret Spellings - 0 pts Rook = 16 - 0 pts Bishop = 14 - 13 pts Pawn = 8 - 7 pts Queen = 5 - 4 pts King = 4 - 3 pts Knight = 2 - 1 pt Rice? - 0 pts Titanic = 11 - 0 pts Ben Hur = 3 - 2 pts Crash = 3 - 2 pts The Godfather = 3 - 2 pts Shakespeare in Love = 3 - 2 pts Braveheart = 2 - 1 pt Casablanca = 2 - 1 pt Gone With The Wind = 2 - 1 pt Million Dollar Baby = 2 - 1 pt Unforgiven = 2 - 1 pt Amadeus - 0 pts American Beauty - 0 pts Brokeback Moutain - 0 pts Chicago - 0 pts The Departed - 0 pts Forrest Gump - 0 pts Gandhi - 0 pts Lawrence of Arabia - 0 pts On Golden Pond - 0 pts Philadelphia - 0 pts Platoon - 0 pts The Return of the King - 0 pts Rocky - 0 pts Schindler’s List - 0 pts Silence of the Lambs - 0 pts The Sting - 0 pts Pass - 0 pts Lestat = 18 - 0 pts Dracula = 12 - 11 pts Nosferatu = 11 - 10 pts Angel = 3 - 2 pts Spike = 3 - 2 pts Barnabas Collins - 0 pts Blacula - 0 pts Count Chocula - 0 pts Star Trek = 8 - 0 pts Firefly = 6 - 5 pts Doctor Who = 6 - 5 pts Battlestar Galactica = 5 - 4 pts Stargate SG-1 = 4 - 3 pts The X-Files = 4 - 3 pts Babylon 5 = 4 - 3 pts Buck Rogers in the 25th Century = 2 - 1 pt Outer Limits = 2 - 1 pt Space: 1999 = 2 - 1 pt V = 2 - 1 pt Journeyman - 0 pts Mystery Science Theater 3000 - 0 pts Star Trek: The Next Generation - 0 pts Time Tunnel - 0 pts Twilight Zone - 0 pts Tiger = 13 - 0 pts Leopard = 11 - 19 pts Lion = 6 - 5 pts Jaguar = 5 - 4 pts Panther = 4 - 3 pts Cheetah = 3 - 2 pts Mountain Lion = 3 - 2 pts Puma = 3 - 2 pts Cougar = 2 - 1 pt Seven = 13 - 0 pts Six = 10 - 9 pts Eight = 10 - 9 pts Four = 5 - 4 pts Ten = 4 - 3 pts Three = 4 - 3 pts Nine = 3 - 2 pts Five - 0 pts ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-the-avis-edition/433366/58 "2008-01-14T20:31:37Z")
Okay, by my count I got 36 – middle of the pack, maybe? or below? ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-the-avis-edition/433366/59 "2008-01-14T20:37:28Z")
1. Palm 2. Battle of the Buldge 3. Michael Palin 4. Condoleeza Rice 5. Bishop 6. Life Is Beautiful 7. Lestat 8. Battlestar Galactica 9. Cougar 10. 1. ETA: _sigh_ Nevermind. ---
**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 14, 2008, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-the-avis-edition/433366/60 "2008-01-14T21:00:01Z")
Never before have I picked so many #1 answers :smack: . sigh. 8 points. I got 8 lousy points. 4 zeros for being #1, 3 zeros for being obscure, and 8 points on the last three categories. Wow. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-the-avis-edition/433366.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-the-avis-edition/433366.md?page=4)