# Family Feud XII

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-xii/433152>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [January 11, 2008, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-xii/433152 "2008-01-11T17:22:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 5

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**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 11, 2008, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-xii/433152/81 "2008-01-11T23:36:16Z")

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I like “Exotic Danger” as a job description, though. I think I’m putting that in the Experience section on my CV.

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**Author:** ![SSG\_Schwartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2008, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-xii/433152/82 "2008-01-11T23:37:31Z")

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1. Baked Potato

2. Snow White

3. Nike

4. Walter Cronkite

5. Brown Sugar

6. Grocery Store Bagger

7. Horse

8. Toothpaste

9. N Pale

10. Wallet

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**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 11, 2008, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-xii/433152/83 "2008-01-11T23:39:12Z")

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[QUOTE=Hostile Dialect]  
I like “Exotic Danger” as a job description, though. I think I’m putting that in the Experience section on my CV.  
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All the other types of danger are so BORING…

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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2008, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-xii/433152/84 "2008-01-11T23:41:28Z")

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**Asimovian** – you’re in. You’re #48, in fact. **SSG S** is #49, so one more and I’ll start scoring.

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**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 11, 2008, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-xii/433152/85 "2008-01-11T23:46:06Z")

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[QUOTE=twickster]  
**Asimovian** – you’re in. You’re #48, in fact. **SSG S** is #49, so one more and I’ll start scoring.  
[/QUOTE]  
_ahem_

I hereby retract my rant and the associated gargled scream that went with it. Carry on, please.

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**Author:** ![RachelChristine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7ab992/32.png) [@RachelChristine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RachelChristine)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-xii/433152/86 "2008-01-12T00:30:09Z")

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1. Onion Rings

2. Snow White

3. Nike

4. Andy Rooney

5. Brown Sugar

6. Hair Dresser

7. Billy Goat

8. Aspirin (Tylenol/Advil/whatever)

9. Aqua

10. Wedding Ring

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**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-xii/433152/87 "2008-01-12T00:39:01Z")

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Just so’s y’all know - I am working on round 13 while **twickster** scores this one. It should be ready within the hour.

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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-xii/433152/88 "2008-01-12T00:39:19Z")

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Okay, and with **RachelChristine** ’s participation, we have our 50. Stand by “the survey says.”

Feel free to keep playing – though you’ll have to do your own scoring.

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**Author:** ![as\_u\_wish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@as\_u\_wish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/as_u_wish)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-xii/433152/89 "2008-01-12T00:46:36Z")

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1. Baked potato
2. Princess
3. Nike
4. Mike Wallace
5. Satisfaction (I Can’t Get No)
6. Taxi driver
7. Goat
8. Shampoo
9. Navy
10. Wallet

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**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-xii/433152/90 "2008-01-12T00:48:23Z")

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New game [over here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=9359606#post9359606)

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**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-xii/433152/91 "2008-01-12T00:48:48Z")

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[QUOTE=anyrose]  
Just so’s y’all know - I am working on round 13 while **twickster** scores this one. It should be ready within the hour.  
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Anyone who’s willing to run one of these games is a hero to us all. I just love playing them.

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**Author:** ![as\_u\_wish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@as\_u\_wish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/as_u_wish)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-xii/433152/92 "2008-01-12T00:51:14Z")

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Boy do I feel stupid. I read “human character” to be generic–you know, like princess, or stepmother, or prince. Everyone–everyone !!!–everyone else picked a specific character. I must live in my own generic fairy tale world.

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**Author:** ![sinjin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@sinjin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sinjin)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-xii/433152/93 "2008-01-12T00:57:53Z")

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Good luck!

1. Besides steak, name something you order at a steakhouse: Ribs

2. Name a human character in a fairy tale: Snow White

3. Name a brand of running shoes Nike

4. Name a correspondent from _60 Minutes_ (past or present): Dan Rather

5. Name a song by the Rolling Stones: Satisfaction

6. Name a profession, other than waiter/waitress, where you work for tips: Cab Driver

7. Name an animal commonly found in a petting zoo: Sheep

8. Name something you’re equally likely to buy at the supermarket or the drugstore: Pain killer, aspirin, ibuprofen

9. Name a shade of blue: sky

10. Name something you always have with you: Keys

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**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:** [January 12, 2008, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-xii/433152/94 "2008-01-12T01:01:10Z")

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Late again- shouldn’t hung around work so long.

1. Besides steak, name something you order at a steakhouse.  
Chicken

2. Name a human character in a fairy tale.  
Cinderella

3. Name a brand of running shoes.  
Nike

4. Name a correspondent from 60 Minutes (past or present).  
Mike Wallace

5. Name a song by the Rolling Stones.  
Gimme Shelter

6. Name a profession, other than waiter/waitress, where you work for tips.  
cab driver

7. Name an animal commonly found in a petting zoo.  
sheep

8. Name something you’re equally likely to buy at the supermarket or the drugstore.  
aspirin

9. Name a shade of blue.  
royal

10. Name something you always have with you.  
cellphone

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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-xii/433152/95 "2008-01-12T01:04:54Z")

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Note: All of these are the number of people giving the answer; point totals will be x2.

**1. Steakhouse**  
Baked potato (potato): 31  
Beer/wine: 4  
Lobster: 3  
Shrimp: 2  
Salad: 2  
Fries/chips: 2  
Singletons (no points): Hamburger, beans, ribs, chicken, onion rings

**2. Fairy Tale**  
Cinderella: 16  
Snow White: 14  
Jack: 5  
Little Red Riding Hood: 4  
Prince Charming: 3  
Sleeping Beauty: 2  
Peter Pan: 2  
Singletons (no points): Frodo, Robin Hood, Goldilocks, [pass]

**3. Running shoes** (Man, I fucked that up – I should have said “sneakers”)  
Nike: 45  
New Balance: 2  
Singletons (no points): Puma, Avia, Adidas

**4. _60 Minutes_**  
Mike Wallace: 27  
Andy Rooney: 8  
Morley Safer: 6  
Ed Bradley: 5  
Dan Rather: 3  
Singleton (no points): Walter Cronkite

**5. Stones song**  
Satisfaction: 34  
Brown Sugar: 5  
Sympathy for the Devil: 4  
Gimme Shelter: 3  
Paint It Black: 2  
Start Me Up: 2

ETA: Shit! Didn’t mean to hit “submit.” See next post for rest of scores.

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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-xii/433152/96 "2008-01-12T01:19:52Z")

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Again – these are all numbers of answers; points will be x2.

**6. Tip-based jobs**  
Bartender: 11  
Hairstylist/barber/beautician/etc.: 10  
Cabbie: 8  
Bellhop: 6  
Stripper: 5  
Parking valet: 3  
Pizza delivery person: 3  
Busboy: 2  
Singletons [no points]: delivery driver, grocery bagger

**7. Petting zoo animal**  
Goat/kid: 31  
Sheep/lamb: 10  
Rabbit: 3  
Singletons [no points]: llama, monkey, donkey, chick, horse, pig

**8. Supermarket/drugstore**  
Aspirin/Tylenon/headache remedy: 15  
Shampoo: 11  
Toothpaste: 7  
Toilet paper: 4  
Soap: 4  
Cough/cold medicine: 4  
(OTC) medicine: 2  
Singletons [no points]: lotion, milk, Kleenex

**9. Shade of blue**  
Navy: 22  
Royal: 8  
Sky: 5  
Teal: 4  
Baby: 2  
Azure: 2  
Aqua/aquamarine: 2  
Singletons [no points]: cerulean, cornflower, cyan, carolina, pale

**10. Always have**  
Wallet: 25  
Keys: 11  
ID/driver’s license: 5  
Phone: 4  
Wedding ring: 2  
Purse: 2  
And with that, I’m burnt out – will compile scores for individual players tomorrow.

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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-xii/433152/97 "2008-01-12T14:02:34Z")

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PS: The no-point singleton answer on #10 was “hair.”

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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-xii/433152/98 "2008-01-12T17:08:21Z")

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Okay, the theoretical maximum is 1000 points – the maximum possible score in this game (all #1 answers) is 514.

_ **Note: Feel free to check my math!** _

The rankings are as follows:

1. KSO 492 (all #1 answers _except_ supermarket/drugstore)
2. Zebra 480
3. Sternvogel 478
4. Paintcharge 474
5. Scout1222 462
6. Gala Matrix Fire 460
7. Happy Lendervedder 456
8. Dolores Reborn 434
9. What Exit? 432
10. Lieu 428
11. Enginerd 424
12. 3acresandatruck 420
13. Garygnu 406
14. Darth Sensitive 402
15. Lavender Blue 400
16. Max the Vool 396
17. RickJay 392
18. Mr. Greenjeans 390
19. Beadalin , Yeticus Rex 384
20. Don’t Call Me Shirley 380
21. Little Nemo 376
22. Spoons 374
23. Amarinth, Mindfield 370
24. IvoryTowerDenizen 366
25. El Kabong 362
26. Shibb0leth 360
27. Asimovian 352
28. Wargamer 346
29. BellRung[etc.] 344
30. Drain Bead 342
31. ZipperJJ 332
32. Iamthewalrus, Justin\_Bailey 324
33. Anyrose 320
34. Interrobang!? 314
35. Cmkeller
36. Freudian Slit 312
37. Bayard 304
38. Hockey Monkey 300
39. Tesseract 288
40. Hostile Dialect 274
41. Sateryn76 266
42. RachelChristine 264
43. Mikemo 260
44. SSG Schwartz 254
45. Hawkeyeop 250
46. CatInASuit 214
47. Fretful Porpentine 208

(My apologies for incorrect capitalization, etc. – I’ve got an old version of Word that converts initial letters to caps regardless. All other username errors are my typos.)

And in alphabetical order:

3acresandatruck 420  
Amarinth,  
Anyrose 320  
Asimovian 352  
Bayard 304  
Beadalin 384  
BellRung[etc] 344  
CatInASuit 214  
Cmkeller  
Darth Sensitive 402  
Dolores Reborn 434  
Don’t Call Me Shirley 380  
Drain Bead 342  
El Kabong 362  
Enginerd 424  
Fretful Porpentine 208  
Freudian Slit 312  
Gala Matrix Fire 460  
Garygnu 406  
Happy Lendervedder 456  
Hawkeyeop 250  
Hockey Monkey 300  
Hostile Dialect 274  
Iamthewalrus,  
Interrobang!? 314  
IvoryTowerDenizen 366  
Justin\_Bailey 324  
KSO 492  
Lavender Blue 400  
Lieu 428  
Little Nemo 376  
Max the Vool 396  
Mikemo 260  
Mindfield 370  
Mr Greenjeans 390  
Paintcharge 474  
RachelChristine 264  
RickJay 392  
Sateryn76 266  
Scout1222 462  
Shibb0leth 360  
Spoons 374  
SSG Schwartz 254  
Sternvogel 478  
Tesseract 288  
Wargamer 346  
What Exit? 432  
Yeticus Rex 384  
Zebra 480  
ZipperJJ 332

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**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 12, 2008, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-xii/433152/99 "2008-01-12T17:54:21Z")

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I could have broke 400 but I overthought it. My initial response to #4 was Mike Wallace but the point was to try to guess what answer other people would give and I figured Dan Dather was better known and would be the more popular choice.

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**Author:** ![CatInASuit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3be4f8/32.png) [@CatInASuit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CatInASuit)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-feud-xii/433152/100 "2008-01-12T18:01:59Z")

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Wow, I am so good at this game. ☹

I wonder if I can get last place next time.

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