Family Feud 2015

[Quizmaster]

Welcome to the first Family Feud of 2015! This is the ultimate standard Family Feud round with the ultimate standard Family Feud questions! It doesn’t get more standard than this!

Are you tired of overcomplicated Feud questions? Or questions that some small inside groups could possibly answer similarly and gain benefit from that? This Feud round goes back to the very roots of this game having 0 non-standardly scored questions. This kind of Feud we have had in our forum only once, it was the very first round we played.

Everyone can join, please send your answers via PM to Quizmaster! Try to get the most popular answers with these standard questions, here we go!

1. Name a country in the central America. (Hint: Mexico doesn’t belong to central America and can’t be an answer for this question.)
2. Name a football (soccer) club.
3. Name a horror fiction author.
4. Name a metalloid.
5. Name a month that’s not on Winter.
6. Name a music group.
7. Name a study subject in school other than mathematics.
8. Name a tree species.
9. Name an animation movie.
10. Name an FPS (first person shooter) video game series.
11. Name an ingredient you could put in your porridge to give it some flavor.
12. Name an intercardinal direction.

Good luck and a happy new Family Feud year!

[grams88]

I'll give this a go and see if I can get in a good position (lol)   

Thanks Akseli, for getting in contact.    that's actually not a bad point about some of the questions being a bit complicated. Okay I'm going to keep quiet for now as I don't want to give out any clue to what my answers are going to be.

[Quizmaster]

Standard Family Feud results are here! 18 people participated, of which Erkki-Pekka and DeadOnArrival are my real-life siblings.
For each Family Feud question, you get (participants with your answer) / (number of votes the most popular answer got) points.

1.   Name a country in the central America. (Hint: Mexico doesn’t belong to central America and can’t be an answer for this question.)
Panama (7/7) -- Akseli, NaOH, Simon, möbius, namida, Clam, ccexplore
Guatemala (3/7) -- Timballisto, Ramon, grams88
Nicaragua (2/7) -- Erkki-Pekka, geoo
Costa Rica (2/7)  -- DeadOnArrival, RubiX
Ecuador (1/7) -- Minim
Honduras (1/7) -- Pieuw
Cuba (1/7) -- Nepster
Belize (1/7) -- SLIME MINISTER

1. Ecuador (A country on the equator, and the equator's in central Earth, so)

1) Cuba (hopefully featuring most prominently in US news right now)

1. Nicaragua (biggest and most central, though I wonder if Panama is better known?)

2.   Name a football (soccer) club.
Manchester United (6/6) -- Timballisto, Minim, namida, Erkki-Pekka, Clam, ccexplore
Real Madrid (4/6) -- Akseli, Simon, Pieuw, Nepster
FIFA (1/6) -- NaOH
Haverford Soccer Club (1/6) -- möbius
Arsenal (1/6) -- Ramon
Liverpool (1/6) -- DeadOnArrival
Green Bay Packers (1/6) -- grams88
Saints (1/6) -- RubiX
Bayern München (1/6) -- SLIME MINISTER
Chelsea (1/6) -- geoo

3.   Name a horror fiction author.
Stephen King (11/11) -- Timballisto, Akseli, NaOH, möbius, Pieuw, namida, Erkki-Pekka, DeadOnArrival, grams88, RubiX, ccexplore
H. P. Lovecraft (4/11) -- Simon, Clam, Nepster, geoo
Roy C. Booth (1/11) -- Minim
Edgar Allan Poe (1/11) -- Ramon
Dean Koontz (1/11) -- SLIME MINISTER

3. H.P. Lovecraft, he wrote novels about wide-mouthed frogs in images/occult/

3. Stephen King [one of my favorite authors. My favorite work by him is actually his few non-horror/fantasy stories like The Shawshank Redemption or Secret Window]

Question 3 = Stephen King, I recommend one of his books (Misery even though I think the film beats the book version, oh man I could be starting a debate.

4.   Name a metalloid.
silicon (8/8) -- Timballisto, Akseli, Simon, möbius, Minim, DeadOnArrival, Nepster, ccexplore
boron (4/8) -- NaOH, grams88, RubiX, geoo
arsenic (4/8) -- namida, Erkki-Pekka, Clam, SLIME MINISTER
carbon (1/8) -- Pieuw
germanium (1/8) -- Ramon

Freely translated quote by Erkki-Pekka: "Arsenic is more fun, though I wonder if silicon is going to win."

5.   Name a month that’s not on Winter.
July (8/8) -- Simon, möbius, Pieuw, Ramon, Erkki-Pekka, DeadOnArrival, RubiX, geoo
March (4/8) -- namida, grams88, Nepster, ccexplore
June (3/8) -- Akseli, NaOH, Minim
August (1/8) -- Timballisto
September (1/8) -- Clam
May (1/8) -- SLIME MINISTER

Question 5 = March  (Actually that's a interesting simple question as this will be interesting to see what people pick) I wonder if anyone picked (June, July, August, December, January, February)

5. September (avoiding both northern and southern winter months)

5) March [wonder how many people pick the "summer" months that would actually be winter in Australia?]

5. July (Screw the southern hemisphere. Their winter isn't a real winter anyway unless you live in Antarctica. Though I wonder if people will pick months in spring or fall to make sure that it's not in winter in either hemisphere...)

6.    Name a music group.
The Beatles (10/10) -- Timballisto, Akseli, NaOH, Simon, möbius, Clam, Nepster, RubiX, ccexplore, geoo
Metallica (3/10) -- namida, Erkki-Pekka, DeadOnArrival
One Direction (1/10) -- Minim
U2 (1/10) -- Pieuw
Radiohead (1/10) -- Ramon
Led Zeppelin (1/10) -- grams88
AC/DC (1/10) -- SLIME MINISTER

7.   Name a study subject in school other than mathematics.
science (5/5) -- möbius, Clam, Minim, RubiX, ccexplore
physics (4/5) -- Ramon, Erkki-Pekka, Nepster, geoo
history (3/5) -- Timballisto, Pieuw, DeadOnArrival
English (3/5) -- Simon, grams88, SLIME MINISTER
chemistry (2/5) -- NaOH, namida
biology (1/5) -- Akseli

8.   Name a tree species.
oak (10/10) -- Timballisto, NaOH, Simon, möbius, Minim, Pieuw, Ramon, grams88, RubiX, geoo
pine (4/10) -- Akseli, Erkki-Pekka, Clam, ccexplore
maple (2/10) -- DeadOnArrival, Nepster
cannabis (1/10) -- namida
birch (1/10) -- SLIME MINISTER

8. Pine (Mr. Paul Q Pine will approve)

9.   Name an animation movie.
Toy Story (3/3) -- Minim, DeadOnArrival, grams88
Frozen (3/3) -- Clam, RubiX, ccexplore
Finding Nemo (2/3) -- Timballisto, Ramon
The Lion King (2/3) -- Akseli, Simon
Spirited Away (2/3) -- NaOH, Erkki-Pekka
Pokémon (1/3) -- möbius
How to Train Your Dragon (1/3) -- Pieuw
The Simpsons Movie (1/3) -- namida
The Lix Movie (1/3) -- Nepster
Shrek (1/3) -- SLIME MINISTER
Tonari no Totoro (1/3) -- geoo

9. Spirited Away <3

9. HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON

Question 9 = Toy Story, I was thinking about going for pokemon but that would be too risky then again maybe not.

9. Frozen (seriously wtf people are still raving about this movie)

9) The Lix Movie (hopefully this counts as a valid answer)

10.    Name an FPS (first person shooter) video game series.
Halo (4/4) -- Timballisto, Ramon, namida, SLIME MINISTER
Doom (3/4) -- Akseli, Minim, geoo
Call of Duty (3/4) -- Pieuw, RubiX, ccexplore
Counter Strike (3/4) -- Erkki-Pekka, DeadOnArrival, Nepster
Half-Life (2/4) -- Simon, möbius
Portal (1/4) NaOH
Duke Nukem 3D (1/4) -- grams88
Team Fortress (1/4) -- Clam

10. Quake, Half-Life or Unreal, le hard décision, I choose Half-Life

10. Half-Life [my favorite]

11.    Name an ingredient you could put in your porridge to give it some flavor.
sugar (9/9) -- Timballisto, Akseli, möbius, namida, Erkki-Pekka, grams88, Clam, RubiX, geoo
maple syrup (1/9) -- NaOH
leek (1/9) -- Simon
golden syrup (1/9) -- Minim
banana (1/9) -- Pieuw
apple (1/9) -- Ramon
jam (1/9) -- DeadOnArrival
wurst (1/9) -- Nepster
honey (1/9) -- SLIME MINISTER
salt (1/9) -- ccexplore

11. I've never eaten porridge, don't know what it tastes like. Let's say banana.

11) Wurst (second choice would have been white powder)

11. sugar (a.k.a. mysterious white powder)

12.    Name an intercardinal direction.
northeast (8/8) -- Simon, Ramon, namida, DeadOnArrival, grams88, Nepster, RubiX, ccexplore
northwest (5/8) -- Timballisto, NaOH, möbius, Clam, geoo
southeast (2/8) -- Akseli, Minim
southwest (2/8) -- Erkki-Pekka, SLIME MINISTER
north (1/8) – Pieuw


Final scores:

9,76 – ccexplore
9,70 – RubiX
9,63 – möbius
9,44 – Timballisto
8,91 – Simon
8,31 – Akseli
8,26 – Clam
8,13 – namida
7,95 – Erkki-Pekka
7,82 – geoo
7,55 – grams88
7,41 – DeadOnArrival
7,09 – NaOH
6,87 – Nepster
6,82 – Minim
6,49 – Ramon
5,95 – Pieuw
3,52 – SLIME MINISTER

ccexplore won the very first Family Feud round with only 5 standard questions and 5 participants. Now, wit a lot more questions and participants, he wins again the second ever standard-questions-only round in our forums! Congratulations ccexplore!

Thanks for joining, everyone! If you would like to host the next round, ask me (Akseli) for the Quizmaster account password.

[ccexplore]

Wow, biggest participation so far!   (Though if I had known how many [particularly new] people ended up participating I would've definitely changed how I answered question #5.)

I clearly had porridge confused with something else on question 9 , though apparently I still manage to be on top despite that snafu.  Next time I guess I must Wikipedia everything no matter what.

Never thought of Portal as an FPS but I guess NaOH technically has a point there (or rather, quarter of a point as it turned out).

Green Bay Packers (1/6) -- grams88

Congratulations*, you are a true (US) American!  *at least one of you here probably thinks "sorry" instead

(To be fair, Manchester United is literally the only answer I knew for #2, and by "knew" I mean "I don't remember where I heard the name before", so I'm really no different from grams88 in this regard.)

[Clam]

Screw the southern hemisphere

): my hemisphere

I think I've been genuinely disadvantaged on this question by having a different perspective on it compared with the majority. Especially since the winning month is actually winter

[namida]

Screw the southern hemisphere

): my hemisphere

I think I've been genuinely disadvantaged on this question by having a different perspective on it compared with the majority. Especially since the winning month is actually winter

I went with the first unambiguous month for this reason.

[geoo]

Not being an expert in soccer at all, I'm wondering what sets Manchester United and Real Madrid so far apart from the rest...

I went with the first unambiguous month for this reason.

I find March to be far from unambiguous, considering 2/3 of it are in winter in the northern hemisphere, astronomically speaking (which is my understanding of winter, and also what appears in most calendars).
So it's a good thing I went by 'screw the southern hemisphere', as otherwise I'd have picked April, May, October or November, the only true answers that are at the same time also the least popular answers.

[namida]

Hm. Maybe my understanding is a bit oversimplified. I've always thought of it as 3 months per season (starting with December as the start of Winter or Summer depending on hemisphere), and inverted between the two hemispheres. In practice there isn't really a hard-and-fast border between them as weather gradually changes, so I guess any definition is ultimately arbitrary.

[ccexplore]

Yes, arbitrary in the sense that there are definitely a few different calendar-based systems around the world for delineating when seasons start and end:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Season#Four-season_calendar_reckoning

The one geoo is thinking of is referred to as "astronomical" and apparently dates back to the Roman empire, which explains its relative widespread adoption particularly in Europe and North America.  In that system season boundaries falls on solstices and equinoxes.  A different system referred to as "meteorological" also exists that lines up directly with month boundaries (so Spring is just March, April, May rather than starting on the equinox around 20th of March).  Supposedly it's still preferred over astronomical in Australia, New Zealand and Russia.  Still other systems use the solstices and equinoxes as midpoints of seasons instead, and apparently some South-Asian calendar systems actually use 6 seasons rather than 4.

[ccexplore]

Not being an expert in soccer at all, I'm wondering what sets Manchester United and Real Madrid so far apart from the rest...

It would seem that at least part of it may be due to their financial success?  In other words, they can afford to advertise themselves more effectively.  See how they fairly consistently (esp Real Madrid) took up the top spots in this table for example.

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And since clearly a few people here would've missed the joke, grams88's answer (probably not intentionally) is referring to an American football team, where "American football" refers to that extremely popular U.S.-born sport almost completely unknown to rest of the world, which far more resembles rugby than the ball-kicking "football" the rest of the world knows and loves.

[SLIME MINISTER]

I should probably say that I'm Gronkling (just made a new account so I can have my 'new' online-internet name)
and I tried a secret-technique where I related each answer to the question number! it did not work. not at all... 

[grams88]

Unlucky Slime Minister 

Welldone Ccexplore, you done well with the questions. That's me a true american , I like that. 

Interesting how you went for Manchester United and that was an excellent choice as many went for that one.  I listen to an amarican prank call website, You may of heard of the (phone losers of america Ccexplore) very funny.

[Simon]

Manchester United was the first international team I thought of. But I couldn't figrue out why that came to mind first. Therefore, I googled for the current title holder of the UEFA cup, Real Madrid.

This is very interesting, because the gut feeling was that the gut feeling wouldn't be other people's gut feeling. Wrong this time!

-- Simon

[Akseli]

Finally my comments of the first 2015 Feud round.
Some of my intentions when making questions: Inside groups couldn’t answer the same answers to gain benefit, semihumorous Wurst-like answers couldn’t win and you couldn't find general consensus to questions via googling or so, though perhaps this issue remained ambiguous in this round (?). Still, I tested all of my questions by googling them and made the questions so that too obvious answers were prevented.

I aimed for mixed questions in their broadness, difficulties and subjects. Questions of this round related to some extent to my interests. The widest and therefore maybe the most difficult questions I thought to be soccer club (Q2), music group (Q6), animation movie (Q9) and FPS game (Q10) questions. The questions with fewest choices were country (Q1), metalloid (Q4), month (Q5) and intercardinal direction (Q12) questions.

Q1, a question with limited choices, and the outcome was nicely spread, not too many hits for the top answer, and not too many only-one answers.

Q2, the difficult soccer club question. For me, there were three real contenders for this one were Barcelona, Real Madrid and Bayern München, that have dominated the last few years in their own series and as well in the international tournaments (the most notable tournament is UEFA Champions League). I was surprised that Barcelona and Bayern got 0 or 1 hits, and didn’t even think about Manchester United to be the one people would think at first, probably due to their minimalistic success recently. Nice job for the people who answered that one!

Q3, most hits for the top answer (11) and therefore unfortunately some people gained under 0,1 points for their answers when no one else answered the same.

Q4, another question with limited choices, and nicely there were few notable choices, so it wasn’t a super clear win for the top answer, like in the earlier question.

Q5. <Akseli> Q5... this probably arouses most discussion
I find messing up with Q5, I should have noticed the state of affairs here. My intention was to ask a month question cutting out the most obvious answers, January and December, that’s why I formulated the question in the way it was. So weird that it might sound, I actually didn’t think the hemisphere thing at all and made therefore a big mistake there, and I’m apologizing because of it. I should have formulated the question in a different way, really.

Q6, the outcome of this question surprised me, I thought that this was too wide and hard and there would be dozens of different answers, but somehow people managed to get a general consensus of a music group that would come to one’s mind if asked.

Q7, a lovely variation here, too. By the way, this was the only question that I somehow didn't remember to answer myself before posting the Feud, and after that I just hurried for a some answer and I received the least points here deservedly.

Q8, a question whose top answer surprised me, really nice! Seems that oak really is that remarkable in the temperate zone that that many answered it?

Q9, maybe the hardest question having at most three same answers. I really thought at first to narrow this question to traditional animation movies or computer animation movies, but didn’t want to ask both of them or only one of them, so in the end I ended up wanting to see what this community would answer to just “Name an animation movie” question.

Q10, this was the question I came first up with if I recall correctly. A nice versatility in the answers! I think I cut Halo out of my choices because it’s limited to few consoles. Good job those who managed to get the top answer here!

Q11, half of the people answered the top answer and half unique answers, interesting.

Q12, a limited choices question. I was somewhat proud of coming up with this kind of clear and unbiased question, but in the end I was suspecting that it still might have been prone to googling, maybe?

I should probably say that I'm Gronkling (just made a new account so I can have my 'new' online-internet name)
and I tried a secret-technique where I related each answer to the question number! it did not work. not at all... 

Here were Gronkling's answers by the way:

My answers are gimmicky so probably won't win but its fun

01) Belize (First country when listed alphabetically for first question)
02) Bayern München (second best team for second question)
03) Dean Koontz (third best selling horror author according to amazon for third question)
04) Arsenic (Forth metalloid for fourth question)
05) May (fifth month for fifth question
06) AC/DC (Created sixth best selling album for sixth question)
07) English (It has seven letters I guess?)
08) Birch (The eighth most common tree is a type of birch apparently for eighth question)
09) Shrek (the ninth highest grossing animated film of all times is one of it's sequels for ninth question)
10) Halo (The tenth best selling fps game is a halo sequel apparently for tenth question)
11) Honey (couldnt think of coolrule(tm) to make this 11 related)
12) Southwest (3rd(South) * 4th(West) = 12th for twelfth question)

Feedback from the contenders was both positive and constructive criticism:

This is partially really hard due to not being a native English speaker, furthermore there's really a lot of options with most of these questions!

I would rather decide when to offer how many cookies or to choose between a female with a fake mustache and a drink-buying male... Being a person who does not care about soccer, leaves horror fiction in book stores, has a rather weird taste in music, cannot remember when he last watched an animation movie and thinks "Who needs FPSs if there is Lemmings?", a great many answers are heavily influenced by google .

<SimonN> normal feud scoring gets fun with many entrants
<SimonN> not such a great deal this time, but it's a fresh round with only FF scoring, very nice
<SimonN> the conga line is still the best quizmaster question of all time, but the feud-scoring-only round is extremely exciting too

<mobius_> I thought the questions were great
NaOH also said (in Lix gaming server room) that the questions were “excellent”.

Clam's and geoo's thoughts from Wednesday the 21st of January 2015
<Clam> it's hard
<SimonN> that's the point, if many join, it's hard to end up either winner or loser, so it doesn't matter
<Clam> it's hard to win if geoo is playing
<SimonN> and all will be happy
<SimonN> so?
<SimonN> be bold and enter what comes to mind first
<SimonN> don't be scared of a strong opponent
<geoo> I can not enter for once if you want...but I find this round too hard, too much common trivial knowledge required that I don't have, so I don't think I'll win
<SimonN> you also should enter
<Clam> I can't answer these without looking things up
<SimonN> you are free to do so
<geoo> ok good, so I'm not the only one
<Clam> imo that shouldn't be required
<Clam> and I studied chemistry
<SimonN> you can do whatever you want, except excessive discussion of the possible answers before resolution

Closing quotes:

<Akseli> mobius_: I was thinking of putting in my next Feud a question: "Name a Justin Bieber song."
<geoo> ok we'll make sure you won't become quizmaster ever again

But seriously, if no one else wants to host, I could to do this again anytime, it was fun.

[namida]

<Akseli> mobius_: I was thinking of putting in my next Feud a question: "Name a Justin Bieber song."

Well, that only has one valid answer: "Nothing", because all Justin Bieber makes is noise.