# Family Feud Thursday Game Euro Travel \[Closed\] **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [March 6, 2008, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-thursday-game-euro-travel-closed/440279 "2008-03-06T03:20:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-thursday-game-euro-travel-closed/440279/61 "2008-03-07T01:20:29Z")
1. Buckingham 2. British Museum 3. Colesseum 4. Switzerland 5. Italian 6. Germany 7. St. Peter’s in Rome 8. Prague 9. Venus de Milo (joker) 10. Paris secret bonus: 1 ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-thursday-game-euro-travel-closed/440279/62 "2008-03-07T02:32:53Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] Umm- I don’t get it, all of you that misread “place” for “palace.” None of you answered Place de La Concorde. [/QUOTE] Well, haven’t they had to rename that, since the Concorde went out of service? ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-thursday-game-euro-travel-closed/440279/63 "2008-03-07T15:55:59Z")
OK, I’m tallying up the scores now. Sorry about the palace/place thing. If the question was being spoken aloud, then there wouldn’t have been so many mixups. Something I never considered. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-thursday-game-euro-travel-closed/440279/64 "2008-03-07T18:30:44Z")
[QUOTE=Zebra] This is the Thursday game. I will score it up Thursday night at midnight. You have till midnight EST to respond. [/QUOTE] So – game done – where are the scores? (I want to see how bad I effed up by misreading the first question. 😃 ) ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-thursday-game-euro-travel-closed/440279/65 "2008-03-07T19:04:24Z")
Ok, (sorry but they’ve been making me do actual work today, bastards) The winner is 5 Time Champ 5 Time Champ 538 cmkeller 518 Labdad 510 amarinth 506 KSO 504 42fish 498 Spoons 496 robardin 484 anyrose 452 Mullinator 452 Dolres Reborn 452 CatInASuit 448 SenoraGO 446 bibliophage 444 Omniscient 444 tarragon918 436 UncaStuart 418 The Cocky Watchman 416 IvoryTowerDenizen 402 Archive Guy 402 Really not all that bright 392 TheMerchandise 388 astorian 388 delphica 380 Wargamer 368 Grean Bean 348 TellMeI’mnotCrazy 346 Taber 344 KGS 344 SmartAleq 340 Illuminatiprimus 336 Justin Credible 326 Otakuloki 324 Panurge 306 winterhawk11 284 Ganster Octopus 272 El Kabong 268 twickster 260 Fretful Porpentine 244 Pergatory Creet 220 Pushkin 212 Alpha Order 42fish 498 5 Time Champ 538 amarinth 506 anyrose 452 Archive Guy 402 astorian 388 bibliophage 444 CatInASuit 448 cmkeller 518 delphica 380 Dolres Reborn 452 El Kabong 268 Fretful Porpentine 244 Ganster Octopus 272 Grean Bean 348 Illuminatiprimus 336 IvoryTowerDenizen 402 Justin Credible 326 KGS 344 KSO 504 Labdad 510 Mullinator 452 Omniscient 444 Otakuloki 324 Panurge 306 Pergatory Creet 220 Pushkin 212 Really not all that bright 392 robardin 484 SenoraGO 446 SmartAleq 340 Spoons 496 Taber 344 tarragon918 436 TellMeI’mnotCrazy 346 The Cocky Watchman 416 TheMerchandise 388 twickster 260 UncaStuart 418 Wargamer 368 winterhawk11 284 Scoring to come ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-thursday-game-euro-travel-closed/440279/66 "2008-03-07T19:06:26Z")
w00t!!! Top 10!!! (I assume you’ll be revealing the secret behind the bonus question as well?) ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-thursday-game-euro-travel-closed/440279/67 "2008-03-07T19:17:34Z")
Yikes. Fifth from bottom. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-thursday-game-euro-travel-closed/440279/68 "2008-03-07T19:26:37Z")
Yay!! Finally, I had a real good feeling about this particular game. Didn’t overlook that one obvious answer that I always seem to. Thank you, **Zebra**. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-thursday-game-euro-travel-closed/440279/69 "2008-03-07T19:39:05Z")
Damn you Switzerland! Damn you Germany! ---
**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:** [March 7, 2008, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-thursday-game-euro-travel-closed/440279/70 "2008-03-07T20:16:27Z")
OK, I know I sucked and all, but **Pergatory Creet**? Was that really warranted? 😃 'Twas a fun game, though. I love finding out how much there still is to learn. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-thursday-game-euro-travel-closed/440279/71 "2008-03-07T20:25:13Z")
Responses to questions totals, (only ones with more than one response) 1 Palace to see Buckingham had 20 responses Versailles had 9 and the Palace of Paris had 5 2 Not the Lourve but the British Museum 18 London Museum ? 2 Prada 6 Tate 6 Hermitage 3 What to see in Italy? Leaning Tower of Pisa had 15 responses the coliseum (many spellings, don’t ask me with is right) had 18 responses Sistine Chaple 3 Vatican 2 Venice 3 Where to go ski? Switzerland 35 the number one response in the game Frace 4 Austria 2 Whom to have a fling with? British 2 (I did not count Scotish) French 7 Spanish 5 Sweedish 10 Italian 12 (the heavy Sweed response suprised me) Best place to put on those beer goggles? Belgium 4 The UK 2 Ireland 2 Germany 33 The Church to see? Notre Dame 17 St. Peters 9 St. Paul 3 Sistine Chaple 2 Westminister Abbey 5 Eastern European City Budapest 3 Krakow 2 Moscow 4 Prague 24 When you visit the Lourve you see the Mona Lisa and you see… David 5 (good luck finding that) Madonna of the Rocks 2 Starry Night 3 Venus d Milo 17 Whistler’s Mother 2 Winged Nike/Victory 4 The most romantic city? Paris 30 (but only 5 of you want to have fling with a French person) Venice 7 Jokers Beer 11 Church 1 Italy 2 Mona Lisa and 1 Museum 1 Palace 5\* Romantic 10 Ski place 4 (best option) No Joker 6 Suprise bonuse question. I totaled up this number. I knew it would be a very low number. I decided to take the absoulte value and let that pick a question. It was, in fact, 1. So I took the value of your score for question 1 and doubled it. So if you Jokered #1 it quadrupled your score. If the value for the total of the special bonus was zero, that would have been the international signal for my minions to go out and pull the mother-fucking system down. But perhaps another day. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-thursday-game-euro-travel-closed/440279/72 "2008-03-07T20:27:18Z")
Sorry for misspelling any names but I’m doing a rush job of this. Also I’d like to welcome Puskin to his/her first game. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-thursday-game-euro-travel-closed/440279/73 "2008-03-07T20:30:50Z")
[QUOTE=Zebra] Jokers Beer 11 Church 1 Italy 2 Mona Lisa and 1 Museum 1 Palace 5\* Romantic 10 Ski place 4 (best option) No Joker 6 Suprise bonuse question. I totaled up this number. I knew it would be a very low number. I decided to take the absoulte value and let that pick a question. It was, in fact, 1. So I took the value of your score for question 1 and doubled it. So if you Jokered #1 it quadrupled your score. [/QUOTE] please explain this math again? How is the absolute value of 41 “1”? at best, in “Mod9” 41=5, but “1”? ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-thursday-game-euro-travel-closed/440279/74 "2008-03-07T20:36:36Z")
[QUOTE=anyrose] please explain this math again? How is the absolute value of 41 “1”? at best, in “Mod9” 41=5, but “1”? [/QUOTE] Can you ask that question in english? OK, I ask everyone to choose between 3 numbers. -1, 0 and 1 IF everyone picked number 1 the total would have been 41, and I would have been screwed. If everyone picked negative 1 the total would have been -41 and I would have been screwed. But I knew that the numbers picked would be distributed evenly. The total added to (positive) 1. That selected the first question as a bonus. So, before applying the Joker to the scored replies, I doubled your score for it. So if you jokered that response, the way cmkeller 42fish tarragon918 Mullinator SenoraGO all did, you scored 80 points for that. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-thursday-game-euro-travel-closed/440279/75 "2008-03-07T20:47:06Z")
well, if > [@](#): > > IF everyone picked number 1 the total would have been 41, and I would have been screwed. or > [@](#): > > If everyone picked negative 1 the total would have been -41 and I would have been screwed. had happened, that’s when you employ “Mod9”, wherein you add the individual digits of a given number, and keep doing so, until you get a single digit. Thus 41 = 4 + 1 = 5. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-thursday-game-euro-travel-closed/440279/76 "2008-03-07T21:32:45Z")
Ok So your question was… ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-thursday-game-euro-travel-closed/440279/77 "2008-03-07T21:34:17Z")
[QUOTE=Zebra] Ok So your question was… [/QUOTE] 😃 just trying to wangle a few more points for myself 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-thursday-game-euro-travel-closed/440279/78 "2008-03-07T21:46:08Z")
Well show me some boobies and we’ll talk. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-thursday-game-euro-travel-closed/440279/79 "2008-03-07T21:50:07Z")
[QUOTE=Zebra] Well show me some boobies and we’ll talk. [/QUOTE] [Wheee!](http://www.galapagosonline.com/Galapagos_Natural_History/Birds_and_Animals/Birds/Boobies.html) ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-thursday-game-euro-travel-closed/440279/80 "2008-03-07T22:09:23Z")
Fine, I award you 5 bonus points. \*of course it doesn’t change the standings. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-thursday-game-euro-travel-closed/440279.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-thursday-game-euro-travel-closed/440279.md?page=5)