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It's the most popular forum game about most popular answers! We're back in time for Christmas 2017 and a Happy New Year 2018.
The Quizmaster account is always run by a normal forum member; it's merely to keep game-related private messages sorted apart from normal private messages.
How to play
- Anybody may play! Freely drop in and out after each round.
- Look near the end of the thread for the most recent round.
- Try to answer each question with the most popular answer given among all players. For example, if the quizmaster asks "Name a pet", what do you think most players would say? Dog? Cat? Capybara? Answer with what you deem most popular.
- Send your answers to the Quizmaster by private forum message.
- As long as the Quizmaster hasn't scored the round, you may change your answers by sending another private message with a new complete set of answers.
- After 5-7 days, the Quizmaster will reveal and score everybody's answers. Until then, please don't discuss your secret answers.
Scoring
For each answer, you get (number of people that gave your answer) / (number of people that gave the most popular answer). Example for "Name a pet" with 14 players:
5 players said "capybara": worth 5/5 points = 1 full point.
5 players said "cat": worth 5/5 points = 1 full point.
3 players said "dog": worth 3/5 points, a fractional value.
1 player said "ant": worth only 1/5 points.
Subclass rule: When all As are Bs, but not all Bs are As, then A and B are entirely separate answers. E.g., "oak" and "tree" are separate answers. It's part of the game to decide how specific you want to be. But synonyms are lumped together as one answer.
Your scores are tallied across all questions for the round. Highest total wins!
-- Simon
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Christmas round! This round is over, look near the end of thread for the newest round.
1. Name a musical instrument.
2. Name a Christmas present for a 7-year-old.
3. Name a Christmas present for a 70-year-old.
4. Name a type of cheese.
5. Name a Christmas song.
6. Name a pastime in snowy weather.
7. Name a hard video game.
8. Name a food that goes well with coffee or hot chocolate.
9. Name a typical color of a Christmas tree ornament.
10. Name a profession that works during the holidays.
-- Simon
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Cool Family feud is back. :)
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I also hope to see the "Pointless" variant where the least popular answer wins. Those are fun due to the next level of tactical thinking required!
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I also hope to see the "Pointless" variant where the least popular answer wins. Those are fun due to the next level of tactical thinking required!
I like that aspect of it also :)
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Results for the Christmas feud! We had a whopping 18 players this time.
1. Name a musical instrument.
Piano (1 pt) - Simon, Akseli, kieranmillar, geoo, grams88, Nepster, LemSteven
Guitar (0.71 pts) - namida, Flopsy, Nessy, Yung Gotenks, Erkki-Pekka
Trumpet (0.43 pts) - Crane, Raymanni, DeadOnArrival
Drums (0.14 pts) - bsmith
Flute (0.14 pts) - Dullstar
Saxhorn (0.14 pts) - mobius
2. Name a Christmas present for a 7-year-old.
Legos (1 pt) - bsmith, Raymanni, Dullstar, DeadOnArrival, Erkki-Pekka
Toy/Toys (0.80 pts) - Akseli, geoo, grams88, Nepster
Toy train (0.40 pts) - namida, Crane
Video game (0.40 pts) - Simon, Nessy
Bicycle (0.20 pts) - LemSteven
Diapers (0.20 pts) - mobius
Nintendo Switch (0.20 pts) - Yung Gotenks
Toy gun (0.20 pts) - kieranmillar
Toy truck (0.20 pts) - Flopsy
3. Name a Christmas present for a 70-year-old.
Bottle of wine (1 pt) - namida, Crane, geoo
Sweater/Jumper (1 pt) - kieranmillar, Dullstar, LemSteven
Socks (0.67 pts) - Simon, bsmith
Alcohol (0.33 pts) - grams88
Bottle of whiskey (0.33 pts) - Flopsy
Chocolate (0.33 pts) - DeadOnArrival
Clothing (0.33 pts) - Nessy
Crossword puzzles (0.33 pts) - Erkki-Pekka
Defibrillator (0.33 pts) - Akseli
Diapers (0.33 pts) - mobius
Family picture (0.33 pts) - Yung Gotenks
Greeting card (0.33 pts) - Nepster
Mug (0.33 pts) - Raymanni
4. Name a type of cheese.
Cheddar (1 pt) - Simon, namida, Crane, Akseli, kieranmillar, bsmith, geoo, grams88, Raymanni, Nepster, LemSteven
Swiss (0.27 pts) - Nessy, Yung Gotenks, Dullstar
Blue cheese (0.09 pts) - Erkki-Pekka
Brie (0.09 pts) - DeadOnArrival
Gorgonzola (0.09 pts) - mobius
Mozzarella (0.09 pts) - Flopsy
5. Name a Christmas song.
Jingle Bells (1 pt) - Simon, Crane, Flopsy, bsmith, Nessy, geoo, mobius, grams88, Nepster
We Wish You a Merry Christmas (0.22 pts) - kieranmillar, Raymanni
White Christmas (0.22 pts) - Akseli, LemSteven
All I Want for Christmas Is You (0.11 pts) - Yung Gotenks
Carol of the Bells (0.11 pts) - Erkki-Pekka
Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer (0.11 pts) - namida
Last Christmas (0.11 pts) - DeadOnArrival
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (0.11 pts) - Dullstar
6. Name an activity in snowy weather.
Skiing (1 pt) - namida, Akseli, geoo, Nepster, LemSteven, DeadOnArrival
Building a snowman (0.83 pts) - Simon, Crane, bsmith, mobius, Raymanni
Snowball fight (0.50 pts) - kieranmillar, Nessy, Dullstar
Board games (0.17 pts) - Erkki-Pekka
Making snow angels (0.17 pts) - Yung Gotenks
Skating (0.17 pts) - grams88
Tobogganing (0.17 pts) - Flopsy
7. Name a hard video game.
Dark Souls (1 pt) - Akseli, Flopsy, grams88, DeadOnArrival, Erkki-Pekka
Lemmings (1 pt) - namida, bsmith, mobius, Nepster, LemSteven
Castlevania III (0.20 pts) - Yung Gotenks
Cave Story (0.20 pts) - Dullstar
Cuphead (0.20 pts) - Crane
Ghosts ‘n’ Goblins (0.20 pts) - Nessy
Jazz Jackrabbit (0.20 pts) - geoo
Super Mario Bros (0.20 pts) - Raymanni
Super Meat Boy (0.20 pts) - kieranmillar
Touhou (0.20 pts) - Simon
8. Name what goes well with coffee or hot chocoloate.
Cookies/Biscuits/Graham crackers (1 pt) - namida, Crane, kieranmillar, bsmith, Nessy, grams88, Yung Gotenks
Cake (0.43 pts) - Simon, geoo, Nepster
Donuts (0.43 pts) - Flopsy, mobius, LemSteven
Marshmallows (0.29 pts) - Dullstar, Erkki-Pekka
Bread (0.14 pts) - Akseli
Cinnamon roll (0.14 pts) - DeadOnArrival
Gingerbread (0.14 pts) - Raymanni
9. Name a typical color of Christmas tree ornaments.
Red (1 pt) - Simon, namida, Crane, Akseli, kieranmillar, bsmith, Nessy, mobius, grams88, Raymanni, Yung Gotenks, Nepster, Dullstar, LemSteven, DeadOnArrival, Erkki-Pekka
Gold (0.12 pts) - Flopsy, geoo
10. Name a profession that works during the holidays.
Doctor/paramedic (1 pt) - Flopsy, grams88, Dullstar, DeadOnArrival
Nurse (0.75 pts) - Simon, bsmith, Erkki-Pekka
Retail worker/Store clerk (0.75 pts) - Nessy, mobius, Yung Gotenks
Santa Claus (0.50 pts) - Akseli, Nepster
Cleaner (0.25 pts) - Crane
Conductor/Driver of public transport (0.25 pts) - geoo
Emergency telephone dudes (0.25 pts) - Raymanni
Firefighter (0.25 pts) - LemSteven
Police (0.25 pts) - namida
Road Gritter (0.25 pts) - kieranmillar
Results
1. bsmith (8.39)
2. grams88 (8.30)
3. Nepster (8.06)
4. namida (7.48)
5. Simon (7.28)
6. Crane (7.11)
7. LemSteven (7.10)
8. Akseli (7.00)
9. geoo (6.80)
10. kieranmillar (6.37)
11. Nessy (6.17)
12. DeadOnArrival (6.11)
13. mobius (5.78)
14. Dullstar (5.51)
15. Erkki-Pekka (5.45)
16. Raymanni (5.41)
17. Flopsy (5.06)
18. Yung Gotenks (4.75)
Erkki-Pekka and DeadOnArrival are Akseli's siblings, they don't have accounts on the forum. This has to be the feud with the most entries of all time on Lemmings Forums!
Thanks for participating everybody! Congrats to bsmith for the win, and don't fret if you aren't near the top.
Who would like to host the next game? bsmith has first dibs, otherwise just post if you're interested. I have a spreadsheet and a Python script to help score the feud.
Synonyms
Sweater/Jumper was an easy merge, both are a long-sleeved pullover.
Cookies/Biscuits suffers from American English vs. British English ambiguities. I've merged them because of this google hit: "In the US, a cookie covers both what the British would call a biscuit and a cookie." This merge was substantial for the rankings.
A Graham cracker seems to be a certain type of American cookie, but it's really so close to the British biscuit that I've lumped it together with Cookies/Biscuits. This merge had no effect on the rankings whatsoever.
Doctors/paramedics/E.R. doctors are merged three-way because most doctors active during the holidays are indeed the emergency doctors. The paramedics are extremely close to this, even though they aren't doctor proper.
Nurses and the emergency telephone dudes are different enough from those three that I didn't merge either the nurse or the dude with anything.
-- Simon
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Wow looks like a lot of participants for this one. I think you are right Simon that must be a record. Welldone to Bsmith for winning that one, :thumbsup: that will have to be an extra special win for bsmith especially with the amount of players. :thumbsup:
I like how a lot of people mentioned lemmings for the hard computer game section. It was one of those games that gives you a great sense of achievement once you complete it for the first time.
I quite like a lot of the christmas songs that got mentioned.
Oh I wonder how it would of scored if someone said Jaffa cake for the ( Name what goes well with coffee or hot chocoloate). There was a whole argument that took place with people saying that's not a biscuit and others were saying that is a biscuit. I don't want to get people started on this one.
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I won! :lem-mindblown: Yay! Really good set of questions, most questions had multiple 'obvious' answers so guessing was tricky. I actually thought of people in my family that fit the questions and answered accordingly; for example, one of my cousins is a RN so I answered Nurse for question 10.
I would like to host the next game. I can have set ready tomorrow.
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A new round of Family Feud is now open.
1: Name a root vegetable.
2: Name something highly flammable.
3: Name something normally found in the air.
4: Name a kind of watercraft which needs only one person to operate it.
5: Name a kind of salt.
6: Name something commonly kept in a barrel.
7: Name one of the seven metals of antiquity.
8: Name something that has one battery in it.
9: Name a piece of furniture.
10: Name an internet error that would stop you from visiting a website.
Submissions for answers will be accepted through Wednesday January 3rd.
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We had 10 players participate in this round of Family Feud.
1: Name a root vegetable.
Carrot (1 pt): Simon, Proxima, Raymanni, Nepster, grams88, Akseli, ccexplore
Potato (0.29 pt): Nessy, LemSteven
Turnip (0.14 pt): Flopsy
2: Name something highly flammable.
Gas/Gasoline/Petrol (1 pt): Simon, Flopsy, grams88, Akseli, Nessy, LemSteven, ccexplore
Oil (0.29 pt): Raymanni, Nepster
Wodden Bridge (0.14 pt): Proxima
** Petrol and gasoline have been merged since they are different terms (US vs UK) for the same thing.
3: Name something normally found in the air.
Clouds (1 pt): Simon, Flopsy, Nepster, LemSteven
Oxygen (0.5 pt): Raymanni, Akseli
Airplane (0.5 pt): grams88, ccexplore
Bird (0.25 pt): Proxima
Dust (0.25 pt): Nessy
4: Name a kind of watercraft which needs only one person to operate it.
Boat (1 pt): Nepster, grams88, Akseli
Ski Jet/Jet Ski (0.67 pt): Nessy, LemSteven
Kayak (0.33 pt): Simon
Canoe (0.33 pt): Proxima
Motorboat (0.33 pt): Raymanni
Speedboat (0.33 pt): Flopsy
Rowboat (0.33 pt): ccexplore
5: Name a kind of salt.
Sea Salt (1 pt): Raymanni, Flopsy, grams88, Nessy, LemSteven, ccexplore
NaCl/Sodium Chloride (0.33 pt): Simon, Proxima
Salt (0.17 pt): Nepster
Common salt (0.17 pt): Akseli
** Common salt does contain sodium chloride but is not pure so the subclass rule split them into different answers.
6: Name something commonly kept in a barrel.
Wine (1 pt): Simon, grams88, Akseli, ccexplore
Beer (0.75 pt): Raymanni, Flopsy, Nepster
Doom (0.25 pt): Proxima
Alcohol (0.25 pt): Nessy
Whiskey (0.25 pt): LemSteven
7: Name one of the seven metals of antiquity.
Gold (1 pt): Simon, Proxima, Raymanni, Flopsy, Nepster, grams88, Akseli, ccexplore
Bronze (0.13 pt): Nessy
Iron (0.13 pt): LemSteven
8: Name something that has one battery in it.
Cellphone/Mobile phone (1 pt): Simon, Nepster, ccexplore
Flashlight (0.67 pt): Raymanni, LemSteven
Car (0.67 pt): Flopsy, Nessy
Remote Control (0.67 pt): grams88, Akseli
Flying Battery Zone (0.33 pt): Proxima
9: Name a piece of furniture.
Chair (1 pt): Simon, Raymanni, Nepster, LemSteven
Table (0.75 pt): Proxima, Akseli, Nessy
Sofa (0.5 pt): Flopsy, grams88
Desk (0.25 pt): ccexplore
10: Name an internet error that would stop you from visiting a website.
404 Not Found Error (1 pt): Simon, Proxima, Raymanni, Flopsy, Nepster, grams88, Akseli, Nessy, LemSteven, ccexplore
Results:
1 (tie): Simon, grams88 (8.67 pt)
3: Nepster (8.2 pt)
4 (tie): Akseli, ccexplore (8.08 pt)
6: Raymanni (7.54 pt)
7: Flopsy (7.39 pt)
8: LemSteven (6.99 pt)
9: Nessy (5.99 pt)
10: Proxima (5.39 pt)
We have a tie! Congrats to Simon and grams88 for their win!
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Thanks for the round! I mulled over several answers before submitting.
I'd give grams88 first dips since I've already hosted last time. Otherwise, anybody may step forward.
4: Name a kind of watercraft which needs only one person to operate it.
Boat (1 pt)
5: Name a kind of salt.
Salt (0.17 pt)
The feud has a unique way of handling tricky questions. Sometimes, the extremely general "boat" is excellent, my hunch was that "boat" was far too general, it captures almost any watercraft larger than a raft. But with the salt, you have to be specific again.
I've attached a spreadsheet for feud evaluation. I should have really done this earlier, maybe bsmith would have liked to use it, too. >_>
If you have Python installed, you can export the spreadsheet to a.csv and run the Python script in the same directory. The script prints to standard output a readily-formatted post.
-- Simon
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Oh cool a tie, I might pass the rod to Simon on this one, if Simon wants to host another one or someone else would like to host. That was an interesting one. Actually the boat answer seemed to work out not bad, I noticed many people were giving different answers to that one, it seemed like the general answer worked out not bad there. :thumbsup::thumbsup:
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Who would like to host? grams and I would like to pass for now. You can use the spreadsheet, but don't have to; you can always score manually.
-- Simon
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New round! Send your answers to the Quizmaster via PM.
1. Name a fun class in school.
2. Name an item that a teacher might throw at a student who sleeps in class.
3. Name a capital letter of the alphabet that is complicated for kids to write properly.
4. Name two English words that are often mistakenly written together as one word.
5. Name a well-known building in Europe.
6. Name an animal common in Africa.
7. Name the key on your computer keyboard that will break first from overuse.
8. Name a level from DOS Lemmings 1 where new players get stuck.
9. Name something found in a refrigerator.
10. Give, in centimeters, the total span of Dr. Robotnik's mustache (https://www.google.com/search?q=dr.+robotnik&tbm=isch) (distance from left tip to right tip), assuming Dr. Robotnik is as tall as an average human adult male.
-- Simon
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This one seems a tricky one, it will be interesting to see how this one ends.
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I think if a teacher throws anything in class these days, it will be a quick trip to the unemployment office, if not the magistrate's court!
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I think you are right with that one Crane, if you remember that game (heart of darkness) I think the teacher shoved Andy the kid into the cupboard.
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We have 10 answers so far! I'll resolve the feud in two days, on Friday 00:00 UTC.
-- Simon
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1. Name a fun class in school.
Mathematics (1 pt) -- Simon, geoo, Akseli, Proxima, bsmith
Science (0.60 pts) -- Flopsy, LemSteven, Nessy
Drama (0.20 pts) -- grams88
Music (0.20 pts) -- Crane
mathematics! (sports sucks!)
2. Name an item that a teacher might throw at a student who sleeps in class.
Eraser (1 pt) -- Akseli, Nessy, bsmith
Blackboard eraser (0.67 pts) -- Simon, Proxima
Book (0.33 pts) -- grams88
Chalk (0.33 pts) -- Crane
Keys (0.33 pts) -- geoo
Paper clip (0.33 pts) -- LemSteven
Screwed-up paper (0.33 pts) -- Flopsy
I assume "eraser" means the rubber-erasers for pencil lines, not the sponge-like chalkboard/blackboard erasers. Thus, no merge with those.
Our teacher actually did that [throw keys], not for sleeping in class though. Fortunately her aim was not very precise.
3. Name a capital letter of the alphabet that is complicated for kids to write properly.
G (1 pt) -- Simon, Flopsy, LemSteven, Proxima
B (0.50 pts) -- grams88, bsmith
A (0.25 pts) -- geoo
K (0.25 pts) -- Crane
Q (0.25 pts) -- Akseli
S (0.25 pts) -- Nessy
(http://troublesdapprentissage.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Gar%C3%A7on-qui-%C3%A9crit-sur-tableau-1024x680-300x199.jpg)
4. Name two English words that are often mistakenly written together as one word.
A lot (1 pt) -- Simon, Proxima, Nessy
All together (0.33 pts) -- Crane
As well (0.33 pts) -- Flopsy
Back route (0.33 pts) -- Akseli
Going to (0.33 pts) -- LemSteven
Lemmings Forums (0.33 pts) -- geoo
Will not (0.33 pts) -- bsmith
You tube (0.33 pts) -- grams88
(http://grammarstammer.weebly.com/uploads/8/8/7/3/8873760/7477821.jpg)
5. Name a well-known building in Europe.
Eiffel Tower (1 pt) -- Simon, geoo, Akseli, Crane, Flopsy, LemSteven, grams88, Proxima, Nessy
Leaning Tower of Pisa (0.11 pts) -- bsmith
6. Name an animal common in Africa.
Lion (1 pt) -- geoo, Akseli, Crane, Flopsy, grams88
Elephant (0.80 pts) -- Simon, LemSteven, Nessy, bsmith
Chameleon (0.20 pts) -- Proxima
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Cecil_the_lion_at_Hwange_National_Park_%284516560206%29.jpg/330px-Cecil_the_lion_at_Hwange_National_Park_%284516560206%29.jpg)
7. Name the key on your computer keyboard that will break first from overuse.
Space (1 pt) -- Simon, geoo, Akseli, Crane, Flopsy, LemSteven, grams88, bsmith
E (0.12 pts) -- Nessy
Q (0.12 pts) -- Proxima
8. Name a level from DOS Lemmings 1 where new players get stuck.
Postcard from Lemmingland (1 pt) -- Simon, geoo, Crane, Flopsy, LemSteven, grams88, Proxima, Nessy, bsmith
Keep Your Hair on Mr. Lemming (0.11 pts) -- Akseli
(http://78.media.tumblr.com/5a6e060e9b1ab63db299411e4d72f7d7/tumblr_inline_niw8ocP5u11t0ktpa.png)
9. Name something found in a refrigerator.
Milk (1 pt) -- Crane, Flopsy, LemSteven, grams88, Proxima, Nessy, bsmith
Cheese (0.29 pts) -- Simon, geoo
Butter (0.14 pts) -- Akseli
With the refrigerator question, I've recycled verbatim a question from the most famous round of Family Feud on American television: Name an animal with 3 letters in its name -- Alligator. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdVuEpD9_IY) But I didn't notice this before Crane mentioned it in his answer, and thus failed to hit top answer (milk) from the show myself!
mouldy cream cheese (my flat mate had 5 tubs of that in his shelf recently) -- for feud scoring purposes, leave out the "mouldy cream"
10. Give the total span of Dr. Robotnik's mustache.
50 cm (1 pt) -- Simon, Akseli, LemSteven
20 cm (0.33 pts) -- geoo
200 cm (0.33 pts) -- Nessy
24 cm (0.33 pts) -- Flopsy
30 cm (0.33 pts) -- Crane
37 cm (0.33 pts) -- grams88
42 cm (0.33 pts) -- Proxima
60 cm (0.33 pts) -- bsmith
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/74/Oldrobotnik.jpg/170px-Oldrobotnik.jpg)
10) 37 cm (Might be way off with this one)
It's in the ballpark for sure, but maybe such strangely odd number that others won't guess exactly.
Results
1. Simon (8.75)
2. LemSteven (8.07)
3. Flopsy (7.60)
4. Proxima (7.33)
5. Nessy (7.11)
6. bsmith (7.08)
7. Akseli (6.84)
8. grams88 (6.70)
9. geoo (6.54)
10. Crane (6.45)
I've won my own feud. >_> The next Quizmaster could verify from the Quizmaster's message inbox that I submitted first and didn't change answers since.
LemSteven made a great second place and thus gets the honors of hosting the next feud! Thanks to everybody for participating.
-- Simon
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The next Quizmaster could verify from the Quizmaster's message inbox that I submitted first and didn't change answers since.
Confirmed.
I'll have the next Feud ready in a day or two.
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7. Name the key on your computer keyboard that will break first from overuse.
Space (1 pt) -- Simon, geoo, Akseli, Crane, Flopsy, LemSteven, grams88, bsmith
E (0.12 pts) -- Nessy
Q (0.12 pts) -- Proxima
Very interesting. Of all my keyboards, 'W' is the very first key to break/wear of the most.
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1. Name a fun class in school.
Mathematics (1 pt) -- Simon, geoo, Akseli, Proxima, bsmith
It's maybe not astonishing here but somehow funny that maths was the top answer since the cliché seems to be the contrary that it's most disliked.
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That's the reason why I avoided saying Mathematics myself. I adore the subject, but I've been threatened with physical violence for talking passionately about it.
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That's the reason why I avoided saying Mathematics myself. I adore the subject, but I've been threatened with physical violence for talking passionately about it.
:D:D:D
"Keep Your Hair on Mr. Lemming" --I seem to recall Simon and maybe someone else saying they got stuck on that one when they were very young.
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Well done Simon
I was sort of tempted to say mathematics then I started thinking maybe sports or PE then I went for Drama. It would be interesting to see what would come up as the worst subject.
I like how you posted some pictures as well there Simon. :)
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That's the reason why I avoided saying Mathematics myself. I adore the subject, but I've been threatened with physical violence for talking passionately about it.
:D:D:D
"Keep Your Hair on Mr. Lemming" --I seem to recall Simon and maybe someone else saying they got stuck on that one when they were very young.
I got stuck on it, but I was only 5 at the time - can you blame me?
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Time for the next round! As always, PM your answers to the Quizmaster (https://www.lemmingsforums.net/index.php?action=pm;sa=send;u=142).
1: Name a yellow fruit.
2: Name a sport in the Winter Olympics.
3: Name a European river.
4: Name any level from Lemmings or ONML that has the word “Lemming” or “Lemmings” in the title.
5: Name an expensive car.
6: Name a Valentine’s Day gift.
7: Name a prop that a magician might use.
8: Name an animal that starts with the letter "M".
9: Name a card game that is not played in casinos.
10: Which of the original eight Lemmings skills is the most underused?
Answers will be accepted until 00:00 UTC 2/17.
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I hadn't realised Family Feud was going again!
I'll play!
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The results are in! We had a total of 11 players in this round.
1: Name a yellow fruit.
Banana (1 pt.) -- LemSteven, Proxima, Simon, Flopsy, NaOH, Crane, bsmith, grams88, 607, Nihilist Comedy Hour, Nessy
I deliberately recycled this question from an infamous incident on the TV show, in which the contestant gave the answer, "Orange". bsmith also pointed this out when giving his answer.
I'm shocked nobody went with the other obvious answer of "Lemon".
2: Name a sport in the Winter Olympics.
Skiing (1 pt.) -- Proxima, Flopsy, NaOH, Crane, bsmith, grams88, Nessy
Figure Skating (0.29 pt.) -- LemSteven, 607
Biathlon (0.14 pt.) -- Simon
Luge (0.14 pt.) -- Nihilist Comedy Hour
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Wilmot-ski-racer-cmsc.jpg/292px-Wilmot-ski-racer-cmsc.jpg)
3: Name a European river.
Rhine (1 pt.) -- NaOH, Crane, bsmith, 607, Nessy
Danube (0.6 pt.) -- LemSteven, Proxima, grams88
Volga (0.2 pt.) -- Simon
Seine (0.2 pt.) -- Flopsy
Rubicon (0.2 pt.) -- Nihilist Comedy Hour
4: Name any level from Lemmings or ONML that has the word “Lemming” or “Lemmings” in the title.
Keep your hair on Mr. Lemming (1 pt.) -- Proxima, Crane, 607, Nessy
Down And Out Lemmings (0.75 pt.) -- LemSteven, Simon, grams88
Postcard from Lemmingland (0.25 pt.) -- Flopsy
Smile if you love lemmings (0.25 pt.) -- NaOH
Turn around young lemmings (0.25 pt.) -- bsmith
Origins and Lemmings (0.25 pt.) -- Nihilist Comedy Hour
607 noted that "Keep your hair on Mr. Lemming" was mentioned in the last round. That may very well have led to it becoming the most popular answer this time, beating out what I thought was the more obvious “Down And Out Lemmings”.
5: Name an expensive car
Ferrari (1 pt.) -- LemSteven, Simon, Crane, grams88, Nihilist Comedy Hour, Nessy
Porsche (0.17 pt.) -- Proxima
Rolls Royce (0.17 pt.) -- Flopsy
Tesla (0.17 pt.) -- NaOH
Corvette (0.17 pt.) -- bsmith
Bugatti (0.17 pt.) -- 607
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/LaFerrari_in_Beverly_Hills_%2814563979888%29.jpg/180px-LaFerrari_in_Beverly_Hills_%2814563979888%29.jpg)
6: Name a Valentine’s Day gift.
Chocolate (1 pt.) -- Proxima, Simon, NaOH, bsmith, Nessy
Flowers (0.6 pt.) -- LemSteven, grams88, Nihilist Comedy Hour
Roses (0.6 pt.) -- Flopsy, Crane, 607
Since many floral arrangements do not include roses, "Flowers" and "Roses" were considered separate answers per the subclass rule.
7: Name a prop that a magician might use.
(Magic) Wand (1 pt.) -- LemSteven, Proxima, Simon, Crane, Nihilist Comedy Hour, Nessy
Hat (0.83 pt.) -- Flopsy, NaOH, bsmith, grams88, 607
I merged "Hat", "Magic Hat", and "Top Hat" as synonyms, since a magician traditionally wears a top hat.
8: Name an animal that starts with the letter "M".
Mouse (1 pt.) -- Proxima, Simon, Flopsy, NaOH, grams88, 607, Nihilist Comedy Hour
Monkey (0.29 pt.) -- LemSteven, Nessy
Meerkat (0.14 pt.) -- Crane
Moose (0.14 pt.) -- bsmith
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Mouse-19-Dec-2004.jpg/120px-Mouse-19-Dec-2004.jpg)
9: Name a card game that is not played in casinos.
Bridge (1 pt.) -- LemSteven, Simon, bsmith
Solitaire (1 pt.) -- Flopsy, grams88, Nessy
Cassino (0.33 pt.) -- Proxima
Magic: The Gathering (0.33 pt.) -- NaOH
Snap (0.33 pt.) -- Crane
Uno (0.33 pt.) -- 607
Go Fish (0.33 pt.) -- Nihilist Comedy Hour
10: Which of the original eight Lemmings skills is the most underused?
Floater (1 pt.) -- Simon, Flopsy, NaOH, grams88, Nessy
Miner (0.4 pt.) -- LemSteven, 607
Bomber (0.4 pt.) -- Proxima, bsmith
Climber (0.4 pt.) -- Crane, Nihilist Comedy Hour
This was the question I was most eager to see the results from. Statistically, the Miner is the least allotted skill in Lemmings and ONML, but Floater ended up being the most popular answer.
Results:
1: Nessy (9.29)
2: grams88 (8.78)
3: Simon (8.09)
4: NaOH (7.58)
5: Proxima (7.50)
6: Crane (7.48)
7: Flopsy (7.05)
8: LemSteven (6.92)
9: bsmith (6.79)
10: 607 (6.62)
11: Nihilist Comedy Hour (5.93)
Nessy is our winner with a very impressive score of 9.29, getting the top answer on 9 out of 10 questions! He wins first dibs on hosting the next round. grams88 takes second with 8.78 points, and Simon finishes third with 8.09 points. Thanks everyone for playing!
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Awesome! I can't believe I won :thumbsup:
I'll go ahead and host the next round. I should have it ready by next week :)
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I never knew the Donau was called 'Danube' in English. I didn't even recognise it. :P
Huh, I didn't even think of magic wand, surprisingly.
Looking forward to the next round! I hope I won't forget to check for it.
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Well done Nessy, that is some score you got for that one. :thumbsup:
I liked the card game question, it gets you thinking that one. It seemed to be between bridge or solitaire, I was thinking about hearts, spades which are two very good card games. Actually all the card games that got mentioned for that question are all very good card games.
For the first question I was about to say lemon then but I was thinking to myself there must be a more obvious answer to this one. There was a family fortunes UK game I remember playing but from what I remember about the game was whenever you were to type in the answer you had to spell it correctly. I think I was getting penalised for not getting the right spelling. :lix-sad:
Looking forward to the next one.
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Come one, come all! Lemmings and Lix all over the world! It's time for the next round of Family Feud!
1: Name a famous captain in the Star Trek universe.
2: Inspiried by a Valentine's Day passed, name an official Lemmings 1 level that a Lemming and Lix would go out on a date to.
3: Name a cryptid creature that Cryptozoologists (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptozoology) study.
4: Name a forum member (still active or not) that makes really hard Lemmings/Lix levels.
5: Name a punctuation mark in English people always use incorrectly.
6: Name a fan-made (non-official) Lemmings/Lix final rank name.
7: Name a reason why someone going on a long car trip needs to stop at least once during the trip.
8: Name a NeoLemmix object (not terrain) level designers use to remove backroutes.
9: Name a puzzle indie game.
10: Name a Lemmings 1 or Oh No! More Lemmings! level that is named after a movie.
Don't forget to submit your answers via PM to the incredibly handsome, witty, and million-dollar smile Quizmaster (https://www.lemmingsforums.net/index.php?action=profile;u=142)!
All submissions will be accepted until February 26, 23:00 UTC
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Aw, I forgot to click the button to save the message in 'Sent Items'. Why is that not default?... <.<
I'd appreciate it if the Quizmaster could send the message back to me, so I can keep my answers and considerations. :)
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save the message in 'Sent Items'. Why is that not default?... <.<
My messages -> Send message. Preferences -> Change settings. Enable "save copy in my outbox by default".
Yes, this is really dumb and it should always save. But I don't dare to hack the forum before Nessy has come up with a way to version-control the forum software.
-- Simon
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The Quizmaster is very happy. He has a total of 11 submissions so far!
Don't forget that anyone that wants to participate still has the entire weekend to submit their answers.
@607: I have sent you answers back as per your request. The Quizmaster always looks out for his players :)
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I wonder if we got more submissions for this one. It's actually quite fun the family feuds. I like being competitive, I think there are good ways and bad ways to competition. There was an interesting article I found about competition in general and in the article it was talking about bad traits in competition. Only problem is I can't seem to find the article again.
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Annnnnd we have the results! We had a total of 15 players in this time. The Quizmaster is very happy about this!
1: Name a famous captain in the Star Trek universe.
Captain James T. Kirk (1 pt) -- Akseli, Proxima, NaOH, Flopsy, grams88, Crane, 607, Raymanni, bsmith, ccexplore
Captain John L. Picard (0.50 pt) -- mobius, Colorful Arty, Simon, Nihilist Comedy Hour, geoo
Sorry mobius, but Kirk came out on top in the end.
Captain Picard, by far, the best Captain. The rest are a joke compared to Picard. They might as well be piloting sail boats
2: Inspiried by a Valentine's Day passed, name an official Lemmings 1 level that a Lemming and Lix would go out on a date to.
Just Dig! (1 pt) -- NaOH, Colorful Arty, Crane, 607
Nightmare on Lem Street / The Great Lemming Caper (0.75 pt) -- Proxima, Flopsy, bsmith
The Art Gallery (0.75 pt) -- Simon, Nihilist Comedy Hour, ccexplore
Rendezvous at the Mountain (0.50 pt) -- Akseli, geoo
Builders Will Help You Here (0.25 pt) -- grams88
Smile if you love lemmings (0.25 pt) -- Raymanni
Walk the Webrope (0.25 pt) -- mobius
Non-feud answer would be Tea Time in the Ball Country, but I doubt people will name non-Dos levels.
Where it all began!
other ones that sound possible:
rainbow island
what an awesome level
come on over to my place -- okay maybe not a date, more like what happens after they got drunk at a bar... ;):lix-wink:
3: Name a cryptid creature that Cryptozoologists study.
Bigfoot (1 pt) -- mobius, Akseli, NaOH, Flopsy, Colorful Arty, grams88, Nihilist Comedy Hour, Raymanni, bsmith, ccexplore
Loch Ness Monster / Nessie (0.20 pt) -- Proxima, Simon
Dragons (0.10 pt) -- Crane
Unicorn (0.10 pt) -- 607
Chupacabra (0.10 pt) -- geoo
4: Name a forum member (still active or not) that makes really hard Lemmings/Lix levels.
Nepster (1 pt) -- mobius, Akseli, Proxima, Colorful Arty, Simon
Simon (0.60 pt) -- grams88, Nihilist Comedy Hour, 607
geoo (0.20 pt) -- NaOH
Clam (0.20 pt) -- Flopsy
Pieuw (0.20 pt) -- Crane
Raymanni (0.20 pt) -- Raymanni
IchoTolot (0.20 pt) -- geoo
namida (0.20 pt) -- bsmith
ccexplore (0.20 pt) -- ccexplore
5: Name a punctuation mark in English people always use incorrectly.
Semicolon (1 pt) -- mobius, NaOH, Flopsy, Nihilist Comedy Hour, 607
Comma (1 pt) -- Akseli, Colorful Arty, Simon, geoo, bsmith
Apostrophe (1 pt) -- Proxima, grams88, Crane, Raymanni, ccexplore
6: Name a fan-made (non-official) Lemmings/Lix final rank name.
Hopeless (1 pt) -- Proxima, NaOH, geoo, ccexplore
Nightmare! / Nightmare (0.50 pt) -- Colorful Arty, Simon
Maso (0.25 pt) -- mobius
Black Hole (0.25 pt) -- Akseli
Sharp (0.25 pt) -- Flopsy
Simple Levels (0.25 pt) -- grams88
Armageddon (0.25 pt) -- Crane
Don't Know one (0.25 pt) -- Nihilist Comedy Hour
Psycho (0.25 pt) -- 607
Migraine (0.25 pt) -- Raymanni
Lunatic (0.25 pt) -- bsmith
7: Name a reason why someone going on a long car trip needs to stop at least once during the trip.
Use the toilet / Washroom break (1 pt) -- mobius, Akseli, Proxima, NaOH, Flopsy, Colorful Arty, Simon, grams88, Crane, 607, Raymanni, geoo, bsmith, ccexplore
Get gas (0.07 pt) -- Nihilist Comedy Hour
8: Name a NeoLemmix object (not terrain) level designers use to remove backroutes.
One-way Arrows (1 pt) -- Flopsy, Colorful Arty, Simon, ccexplore
Traps (0.75 pt) -- Akseli, NaOH, Raymanni
Pick-up skill (0.50 pt) -- mobius, Proxima
Solid Ceiling (0.25 pt) -- grams88
Steel (0.25 pt) -- Crane
Teleporters (0.25 pt) -- Nihilist Comedy Hour
One-Way-Left Field (0.25 pt) -- 607
Fire (0.25 pt) -- geoo
Water (0.25 pt) -- bsmith
9: Name a puzzle indie game.
FEZ (1 pt) -- mobius, Akseli, Raymanni
Deadly Rooms of Death (1 pt) -- Proxima, bsmith, ccexplore
Braid (1 pt) -- NaOH, Crane, geoo
Lix (0.67 pt) -- Colorful Arty, Simon
Lemmings (0.33 pt) -- Flopsy
The Pedestrian (0.33 pt) -- grams88
HuniePop (0.33 pt) -- Nihilist Comedy Hour
Tetris (0.33 pt) -- 607
10: Name a Lemmings 1 or Oh No! More Lemmings! level that is named after a movie.
Nightmare on Lem Street (1 pt) -- mobius, Proxima, NaOH, Colorful Arty, Crane, Raymanni, bsmith, ccexplore
Mary Poppins' Land (0.13 pt) -- Akseli
Honey I Saved The Lemmings (0.13 pt) -- Flopsy
Gone with the Lemming (0.13 pt) -- Simon
Citizen Lemming (0.13 pt) -- grams88
Island of the Wicker People (0.13 pt) -- Nihilist Comedy Hour
Just Dig! (0.13 pt) -- 607
The Thunderlemmings are go (0.13 pt) -- geoo
Final Scores
1: ccexplore (8.95)
2: NaOH (8.95)
3: Colorful Arty (8.67)
4: Proxima (8.45)
5: Akseli (7.63)
6: mobius (7.50)
7: bsmith (7.45)
8: Raymanni (7.45)
9: Crane (6.80)
10: Simon (6.75)
11: Flopsy (6.66)
12: grams88 (5.81)
13: geoo (5.68)
14: 607 (5.66)
15: Nihilist Comedy Hour (4.88)
We have a tie! Congratulations to ccexplore and NaOH for their victory in this round of Family Feud!
Until next time, this was the incredibly handsome, witty, and million-dollar smile Quizmaster!
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6: Name a fan-made (non-official) Lemmings/Lix final rank name.
Nightmare! / Nightmare (0.50 pt) -- Colorful Arty, Simon
Should these be separated? They are different ranks; Nightmare! is the final rank of Lemmings Reunion; Nightmare is the final rank of Rubix's Lix levels.
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Hehe, this was fun. I'm surprised about the perfect split for the punctuation mark question! Its really surprising, how punctuation can be abused; so many different ways.
I'd rather let ccx host the next one if that's okay.
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Hmm, kind of wondering if there's some way to make it work for me and NaOH to come up with 5 questions each for the next round, if only to make it easier and faster to get the next round going. The only issue is I think one of us would have to abstain from answering (I'm fine with that being me) in order to prove no influence from seeing the other's answers. Thoughts?
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6: Name a fan-made (non-official) Lemmings/Lix final rank name.
Nightmare! / Nightmare (0.50 pt) -- Colorful Arty, Simon
Should these be separated? They are different ranks; Nightmare! is the final rank of Lemmings Reunion; Nightmare is the final rank of Rubix's Lix levels.
@Proxima: Good catch, but the question was asking only for the name that someone would give to their final rank, not the final rank of a specific pack. This is why they were scored the same. For example, "Hopeless" can be the name of a final rank for several packs, so it would not be practical to separate them. Sorry if it wasn't clear :(
@ccexplore: I like that idea, but we'll have to talk to NaOH about this because she mentioned that she wanted to pass it along to you.
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But in the case of "Hopeless", there are multiple final ranks with the same name. "Nightmare!" and "Nightmare" are different ranks with different names.
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I can understand what you're trying to say now. To be honest I'm not sure now, maybe someone else can chime in?
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Hmm, kind of wondering if there's some way to make it work for me and NaOH to come up with 5 questions each for the next round, if only to make it easier and faster to get the next round going.
This is loony. Let's do it!
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Next round is finally ready! Send your answers to the Quizmaster via PM by no later than 00:00 UTC March 9.
1. How many players will participate in this round?
2. Give an example of a large number.
3. Name a month with 31 days.
4. Name a fruit with large seed(s).
5. Submit a forum emote (aka smiley/emoticon) that is related to the Olympic games.
6. Name an Oscar category (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Awards#Current_categories) whose associated* films/features rarely show up* in another category.
(*associated/show up: either the film/feature itself was nominated for the category, or was the work of the people being nominated for the category, or the thing being nominated was used by the film/feature)
7. What is a way that someone can stay warm while being inside?
8. Name an energy source for a power plant.
9. Name a mathematical function.
10. Which key on the keyboard is used the least?
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I made a minor edit to make it very clear what I mean by "associated" or "showed up" (same meaning) on #6, although it's basically exactly how most people would read it I think. Basically a category can be for a film/feature itself, for people, or for a thing, but even in the other two cases, each nominee is also linked to a specific film/feature.
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Friendly reminder that the current feud round ends in less than 24 hours! I will probably not actually start scoring them until at least a few hours later than the stated deadline, and may accept late submissions, but to guarantee your scoring, do please try to submit before the stated deadline of March 9 00:00:00 UTC.
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Alright, time for the reveal!
1. How many players will participate in this round? (ccexplore)
15 (1 pt) - ccexplore, Akseli, bsmith, grams88
10 (1 pt) - Simon, Nihilist Comedy Hour, Crane, geoo
0 (0.25 pt) - 607
I mean... "0"? :P It really does seem like the most obvious answer, here. Besides perhaps the number of participants from the previous round.
10 (because it's a hard round)
geoo's intuition was practically dead-on: initially only 8 players participated including yours truly, with all submission arriving within 1-2 days after questions were posted. Then we finally had geoo's late submission arriving just as I was about to wrap up scoring.
2. Give an example of a large number. (NaOH)
one million/million/a million (1 pt) - Simon, Akseli, 607
googolplex (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googolplex) (1 pt) - ccexplore, Crane, geoo
one billion/1 billion (0.67 pt) - Nihilist Comedy Hour, bsmith
100 (0.33 pt) - grams88
"Who wants to be a millionaire?" Apparently a good number of you. :P
3. Name a month with 31 days. (NaOH)
January (1 pt) - Nihilist Comedy Hour, Akseli, Crane, 607, grams88, geoo
March (0.5 pt) - ccexplore, Simon, bsmith
4. Name a fruit with large seed(s). (ccexplore)
peach (1 pt) - ccexplore, bsmith, 607
avocado (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avocado) (0.67 pt) - Simon, geoo
grapefruit (0.33 pt) - Nihilist Comedy Hour
coconut (0.33 pt) - Akseli
watermelon (0.33 pt) - Crane
loquat (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loquat) (0.33 pt) - grams88
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Loquat_in_plate.jpg/307px-Loquat_in_plate.jpg) (http://luv2garden.com/img.php?img=loquat.jpg)(loquats)
The Mango has a gigantic seed, but maybe that's not as well-known as the Avocado. At least with the Avocado seed, the internet loves to argue whether you should eat the seed or not!
Wait, you can eat the avocado seed?!?!? :lem-mindblown:
I think some of you misread "large" as "many" (eg. watermelon). Avocado did come to my mind actually, but wasn't sure if it's as well known of a fruit for feud purposes.
5. Submit a forum emote (aka smiley/emoticon) that is related to the Olympic games. (NaOH)
:tal-gold: (1 pt) - ccexplore, Simon, Nihilist Comedy Hour, Akseli, bsmith, grams88
8-) (0.17 pt) - Crane
:thumbsup: (0.17 pt) - 607
:8(): (0.17 pt) - geoo
I'm torn between :tal-gold: and :thumbsup: because obviously :tal-gold: is factually best, but :thumbsup: is related too and sticks out clearly from all other smileys
(those talismans are not real emotes)
6. Name an Oscar category whose associated films/features rarely show up in another category. (ccexplore)
Best Foreign Language Film (1 pt) - ccexplore, Simon
Best Animated Feature (1 pt) - Nihilist Comedy Hour, Akseli
Best Documentary Feature (0.5 pt) - bsmith
Best Animated Short Film (0.5 pt) - Crane
Best Documentary Short Subject (0.5 pt) - 607
Best Picture (0.5 pt) - grams88
Best soundtrack [Best Original Score] (0.5 pt) - geoo
I think the award categories so often being split between "short" and "feature" hurted some people here score-wise.
By the way, Best Animated Feature often had a nominee (usually from Pixar/Disney/Dreamworks) that also had a Best Original Song nomination. And often one of the Best Picture nominees also got a Best Original Score nomination.
7. What is a way that someone can stay warm while being inside? (NaOH)
blanket/wear a blanket/blanket over you (1 pt) - Nihilist Comedy Hour, bsmith, grams88
heater/room heating/turn on the heating (1 pt) - ccexplore, Simon, geoo
log-fire (0.33 pt) - Akseli
central heating (0.33 pt) - Crane
wear clothes (0.33 pt) - 607
The various heating answers gave me so much grief wrt subclass rule. :( I think "central heating" is technically slightly more specific than "heating" in general, though it is common enough for indoor heating that maybe one should argue is synonym? "Heater" is just any device that produces heat (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/heater) (and I basically meant heating in general even though the answer I typed in is "heater"), so I would count it as synonym for general heating. "Room heating" is not exactly the typical phrasing in my parts of the world, I'm reading it as indoor heating in general, and therefore another synonym for "heating" in context of given question.
If anyone feels strongly about all that, feel free to argue your case and I'll consider re-scoring if you change my mind. I did verify though that changing "central heating" to synonym scoring with the rest of heating answers does not affect the top 3 rankings, but does move Crane up one ranking.
Besides Room heating, another excellent answer is Booze. Most of the Lemmings Forums should have reached drinking age, but several geeks shun all alcohol.
8. Name an energy source for a power plant. (ccexplore)
nuclear/nuclear fission/nuclear energy (1 pt) - ccexplore, Crane, 607, geoo
coal (0.75 pt) - Simon, Nihilist Comedy Hour, bsmith
fossil fuel (0.25 pt) - Akseli
oil (0.25 pt) - grams88
9. Name a mathematical function. (NaOH)
sin/sine (1 pt) - ccexplore, Simon, bsmith, Crane, geoo
squared (0.2 pt) - Nihilist Comedy Hour
constant function (0.2 pt) - Akseli
addition (0.2 pt) - 607
square root (0.2 pt) - grams88
10. Which key on the keyboard is used the least? (ccexplore)
` ~ (1 pt) - ccexplore, bsmith
scroll lock (1 pt) - Simon, 607
insert (0.5 pt) - Nihilist Comedy Hour
num lock (0.5 pt) - Akseli
q (0.5 pt) - Crane
PrintScreen/Sysrq (0.5 pt) - grams88
menu key (0.5 pt) - geoo
Unsurprisingly, lots of opinions here (and variety of answers). I actually have no clue what the "real" answer is.
MS Excel reacts to Scroll Lock, I hope this feature is not prevalently known across the Feud players here. Insert and Caps Lock may be less useful than Scroll Lock, but people press them by accident all the time.
non-Feud answer... it's probably Scroll Lock, but I can see people choosing letters first
My real answer: Pause/Break. My Feud answer: "Scroll Lock".
sometimes the Sysrq is on the same key as the printscreen
menu key (even though I do use it myself to avoid touching the mouse)
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Results:
1. ccexplore (9.50) :tal-gold:
2. Simon (8.92) :tal-silver:
3. bsmith (8.42) :tal-bronze:
4. geoo (7.83)
5. Nihilist Comedy Hour (7.45)
6. Crane (6.83)
7. Akseli (6.62)
8. 607 (6.45)
9. grams88 (6.12)
Yay me. :-\ In case you're wondering, geoo's late entry pushed Simon's score past bsmith's and widened the gap between me and Simon.
Anyhow, Simon gets to host the next round or pass the honor to someone else. Thanks everyone for participating! :thumbsup:
Also special thanks to NaOH for helping with half the questions. 8-) Not sure if it made things easier or harder?
-- ccexplore
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9. Name a mathematical function. (NaOH)
sin/sine (1 pt) - ccexplore, Simon, bsmith, Crane, geoo
squared (0.2 pt) - Nihilist Comedy Hour
constant function (0.2 pt) - Akseli
addition (0.2 pt) - 607
square root (0.2 pt) - grams88
I'm surprised that nobody took the identity function.
10. Which key on the keyboard is used the least? (ccexplore)
` ~ (1 pt) - ccexplore, bsmith
That's not fully unproblematic since different language layouts have different sign combinations and the signs on other keys. But since it's about the key and not the sign I think it could be ok; I assume it's based upon American layout?
I would actually put "central heating" to all the various heating stuff. But since I didn't participate I won't judge.
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Nice round, tricky questions! I would have lumped central heating with the other heatings, but it's handy that it wouldn't have impacted the top-3 ranking.
bsmith, if you would like to host, feel free to go ahead! Otherwise, I'll try to have a feud going by Sunday evening.
-- Simon
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Welldone to Ccexplore for winning that one.
I probably would of lumped central heating with the other heatings as well. A good family feud round, not the best for myself, hehe. Oh that was a tricky question with the what key is used the least, we got to see Ccexplore's evil side, only kidding. I would say most of the answers given are quite good ones and one of those ones might be the actual answer but then again is there an actual real answer to that one.
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New feud! Send your answers to the Quizmaster via PM before Tuesday, March 20th, 00:00 UTC.
1. Name an animal that lives in the forest.
2. If you had magical powers, what would you use them for?
3. Name a word that programmers might say often.
4. Name a sport that requires at least two balls.
5. Name something that you can collect.
6. Name an invention older than 1,000 years.
7. Name a location that is often robbed in heist movies.
8. For how long do you attempt a single hard custom Lemmings level before taking a break?
9. Name a color of sexy underwear.
10. After Akseli lights a gigantic log-fire in the middle of his Finnish wooden cabin to stay warm, how many minutes does it take for the fire department to arrive?
-- Simon
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I got a clarification request: "Define magical powers." Answer: A magical power can produce arbitrary effects that may violate conventional physics in any way.
-- Simon
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Oops, I interpreted 'mathematical function' as 'mathematical operation', which lead me to 'Addition'. :P
The new Feud looks fun! I'll try to submit answers later this evening.
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Oops, I interpreted 'mathematical function' as 'mathematical operation', which lead me to 'Addition'. :P
As far as I know is addition a function with two arguments.
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Another clarification request: "For 4... I want to clarify... do the balls have to be in play simultaneously, or can it be like [...] there's often another [ball] in the player's pocket [...]?" -- At least two balls should have an impact on the game mechanics. If the sport remains playable by the rules even without such replacement balls, it shouldn't qualify as "requiring at least two balls".
-- Simon
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I wonder how we are doing for participants in this round of family feud.
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Hi! I'm behind by 3 days to resolve the feud. x_X
Just in time hopefully.
No problems, you submitted 15 minutes before the deadline; especially no problems because I score late. :8():
Really? and people think my round's hard??!?! :XD:
1. Name an animal that lives in the forest.
Bear (1 pt) -- Simon, Raymanni, Crane, Akseli, NaOH, 607, grams88
Deer (0.14 pts) -- ccexplore
Monkeys (0.14 pts) -- Nessy
Porcupine (0.14 pts) -- geoo
porcupine (not sure if this is even true)
"A bear." Hopefully people won't say 'brown bear'. :P
2. If you had magical powers, what would you use them for?
Flight (1 pt) -- Crane, Akseli, grams88
Profit/spawn money (0.67 pts) -- Raymanni, NaOH
World peace (0.67 pts) -- geoo, ccexplore
Fight crime (0.33 pts) -- Nessy
Saving people (0.33 pts) -- 607
Teleportation (0.33 pts) -- Simon
grams88 gave two answers, I could have scored it as either "Flight" or "Saving people", and both match others' answers. I chose to score it as "Flight" because everything else is in parentheses and the question wasn't 100 % obvious whether you should give a superpower itself or its long-term benefit to people.
2) Flying (Saving someone from a burning building)
world peace (it's not about what would it be, but what would you use them for)
Hard to imagine what people would answer here. I suppose what it's most often used for in media is "Saving people."
world peace ["get everything I want" also seems like a good answer, but not sure if everyone who goes for a selfish answer will say quite that. Whereas "world peace" seems like a pretty standard altruistic answer, hoping enough people will go for this?]
3. Name a word that programmers might say often.
Bug (1 pt) -- Akseli, Nessy, ccexplore
Code (0.67 pts) -- Simon, NaOH
Algorithm (0.33 pts) -- grams88
Compile (0.33 pts) -- Crane
If (0.33 pts) -- 607
Variable (0.33 pts) -- Raymanni
f*ck (0.33 pts) -- geoo
Variable (or any swear words)
Interesting. :P There are so many ways to go about this, and none seem obvious... :P I'll go with an often used expression: "If".
bug ["null", "string" etc. seems like good answers but probably not well-known enough for non-programmers; "bug" seems like something even non-programmers could pick]
4. Name a sport that requires at least two balls.
Pool (1 pt) -- geoo, 607, ccexplore, grams88
Billiards (0.75 pts) -- Raymanni, Akseli, Nessy
Bowles (0.25 pts) -- Crane
Croquet (0.25 pts) -- NaOH
Snooker (0.25 pts) -- Simon
Proxima and I agree that Pool and Pool Billiards are synonyms, and that "Billards" is the superclass of Snooker and Pool.
Billiard (I was only thinking of traditional ball games, but then realized billiard and pool are sports too)
5. Name something that you can collect.
Stamps (1 pt) -- Simon, Raymanni, geoo, Akseli, NaOH, 607, ccexplore, grams88
Coins (0.12 pts) -- Crane
Pokemon (0.12 pts) -- Nessy
Pokemon (not sure if this answer will be popular... but it's all I can think of :8():)
"Post Stamps" is what I think many people collect. Personally, I've seen many people collect Hot Wheels cars... but that's probably just a certain group of people, while post stamp collecting covers multiple demographics.
6. Name an invention older than 1,000 years.
Wheel (1 pt) -- Simon, Raymanni, geoo, Crane, NaOH, Nessy, 607
Fire (0.29 pts) -- Akseli, ccexplore
Boat (0.14 pts) -- grams88
"The wheel". I was going for 'fire' at first, but I'm not sure if most would see that as an invention.
7. Name a location that is often robbed in heist movies.
Bank (1 pt) -- Simon, Raymanni, geoo, Crane, Akseli, NaOH, Nessy, 607, grams88
Museum (0.11 pts) -- ccexplore
museum ["bank" is first thing that came to mind, except actual heist movies generally have more interesting targets than that. I'm very tempted to answer "vault"/"safe room" or similar because regardless of the actual building, the thing being stolen is typically stored in such a location inside the building. But not sure is popular enough for feud purposes...]
8. For how long do you attempt a single hard custom Lemmings level before taking a break?
1 hour (1 pt) -- geoo, Crane, NaOH, Nessy, 607
30 minutes (0.60 pts) -- Simon, Akseli, grams88
1 day (0.20 pts) -- ccexplore
3 hours (0.20 pts) -- Raymanni
Depends. I think my record is 3 hours straight. So 3 hours.
9. Name a color of sexy underwear.
Pink (1 pt) -- Simon, geoo, Akseli, ccexplore, grams88
Red (0.60 pts) -- Raymanni, Crane, 607
Black (0.40 pts) -- NaOH, Nessy
Red :lix-blush:
Pffft. :P "Red", I'd say.
10. How many minutes does it take for the Finnish fire department to arrive?
10 minutes (1 pt) -- geoo, NaOH
Never (1 pt) -- Raymanni, ccexplore
1 minute (0.50 pts) -- grams88
15 minutes (0.50 pts) -- Simon
30 minutes (0.50 pts) -- Nessy
5 minutes (0.50 pts) -- Crane
6 minutes (0.50 pts) -- 607
60 minutes (0.50 pts) -- Akseli
10 minutes (efficient Finnish fire brigade)
Five minutes (Haha!)
10, the number of this question even.
30 minutes (poor Akseli!:P)
I really wouldn't know what to go for, here... even 0 doesn't seem like an obvious choice. :P I've Googled 'how long does it take for the fire department to arrive', so let's go with the answer I found there... "Six".
1 minute (Akseli is probably going to kill me) :scared:
They can't arrive because all roads are blocked by the snow within a 10km radius. Akselin talo palaa ja hän kuolee yksin hankeen. :devil:
Google translate: The house of the ax is burning and she dies in the project alone. :devil:
Results
1. geoo (8.143)
2. Akseli (8.136)
3. NaOH (7.983)
4. 607 (7.767)
5. grams88 (7.576)
6. Raymanni (7.550)
7. Simon (7.350)
8. Crane (6.808)
9. ccexplore (6.406)
10. Nessy (6.251)
This is the closest finish we've ever had: geoo tops the list 0.007 points ahead of Akseli. I had to change the numeric precision of the spreadsheet from 2 to 3 decimal places to show the difference.
Congrats to all participants!
-- Simon
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That was tough but fun. Congrats geoo! :)
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Interesting that so many converged onto the bear for #1. I kinda went with animals that I would likely see in real life in my corner. I've only seen the bear either in the zoo or once in Alaska.
#6 and #7 I clearly should've just gone with first-instinct answers. :XD: But I still think bank heists are more common on TV than movies? Even the train probably gets robbed more in Westerns than actual banks I think?
For #10 I was hoping for hopefully at least one other person picking the "never" answer, which fortunately did work out. What I had in mind though was that either there was no fire (the question never explicitly said things got bad), or Akseli put it out himself.
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I forgot to say something about #8. I should've asked for a clarification but it wasn't clear to me if a "break" simply means something as simple as "I need to go to the bathroom" vs "I am actually choosing to put aside that level for maybe a day or so, and either try another level or just do something else, and hoping to get a fresher look by the time I do decide to try the level again".
Obviously my "1 day" answer has the latter in mind; I'm not that crazy/obsessed to skip eating, peeing and sleeping even for a tough level. I swear! :P
I'm guessing most of everyone else are probably reading it as the former--any interruption that temporarily takes you away from the computer/level, but you may resume as soon as that interruption is taken care of.
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I think that's the first time I've done remotely well in one of these. :P
I don't know why I couldn't think of "Code" or "Bug". >.< Now that I know these, I can think of two other possible answers: "Test" or "Run". But both of those weren't submitted by anyone either. :P
I'm guessing most of everyone else are probably reading it as the former--any interruption that temporarily takes you away from the computer/level, but you may resume as soon as that interruption is taken care of.
I actually did interpret it as the second, interestingly. However, I thought "1 hour" was a nice 'round' choice (as opposed to my '6 minutes'... :P), and it would actually be fairly close to what I'd do, probably. I'm not at all a hardcore Lemmings player, though. ;)
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A smoking gentleman capybara and fascinated Captain Viridian will host the next round of Family Feud!
1. Name a metric unit prefix.
2. What's your least favourite skill in Lemmings 1?
3. Name an animal with 4 letters.
4. When will Simon get his PhD (he's currently finishing his thesis)?
5. Name a Justin Bieber song.
6. Name a Greek goddess.
7. Name a Lemmings Forums member that hasn't been active for a long time.
8. A policeman caught you crossing a red light. What do you say to him?
9. Name a Finnish word.
10. Name anything that could distract Simon during his Jazz Jackrabbit speedrun attempts.
Send your answers to Quizmaster via PM until next Monday the 2nd of April 18:00 UTC!
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Thanks for the pm, I'd rather not miss this.
Some of these are rather tricky, though... :P 7 seems especially tricky for me because I'm not well acquainted with this forum, and 10 seems tricky for me because I am very well acquainted with Simon's runs, but many other players might not be. :P
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I also made it a thing to never get into anything remotely associated with Justin Bieber (I tend not to like pop music anyway), so now you're making me learn about him!!
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Here are the results! 17 people participated, Julian is Simon’s brother.
1. Name a metric unit prefix.
kilo (1 pt) -- Akseli, 607, Simon, ccexplore, Proxima, Nepster
centi (0.50 pts) -- namida, Nessy, Julian
metre (0.33 pts) -- Crane, kieranmillar
milli (0.33 pts) -- bsmith, grams88
femto (0.17 pts) -- SQron188
giga (0.17 pts) -- geoo
gram (0.17 pts) -- IchoTolot
micro (0.17 pts) -- Raymanni
2. What's your least favourite skill in Lemmings 1?
bomber / (timed) exploder (1 pt) -- Crane, bsmith, Nessy, Simon, ccexplore, grams88, Nepster, Julian
floater (0.62 pts) -- geoo, namida, Akseli, kieranmillar, Proxima
builder (0.25 pts) -- 607, IchoTolot
blocker (0.12 pts) -- Raymanni
miner (0.12 pts) -- SQron188
floater, Simon thinks it's useless (or blocker, for all the lovely glitches)
Blocker (I'm assuming geoo will answer this too.)
Bomber [When it was timed it didn't have the puzzle-ly power it has now in fan-made levels :)]
Hm... that's a hard one, because I think all original skills are quite good. :P I'll go with "Builder", because I've heard they're overused.
3. Name an animal with 4 letters.
bear (1 pt) -- Akseli, bsmith, Simon, ccexplore, Raymanni, Julian
fish (0.50 pts) -- Nessy, Nepster, IchoTolot
lion (0.33 pts) -- namida, grams88
alligator (0.17 pts) -- 607
bird (0.17 pts) -- SQron188
deer (0.17 pts) -- Proxima
degu (0.17 pts) -- geoo
frog (0.17 pts) -- Crane
mole (0.17 pts) -- kieranmillar
Bear (We had Bear in that in the last feud, it was very popular. Frog is very tempting but I'm not sure how many remember it from the Alligator TV feud episode.)
Degu (I wonder if people remember bear from the last round)
Frog (what else?!)
"Alligator", I guess. ;) Or Frog, perhaps? Hm... I think if people don't look it up, they might indeed go with Alligator. I wonder how many people will pick something other than Frog and Alligator. ;)
4. When will Simon get his PhD (he's currently finishing his thesis)?
never (1 pt) -- geoo, Akseli, Proxima, Nepster
1 year (0.50 pts) -- Crane, grams88
next year / 2019 (0.50 pts) -- ccexplore, Julian
2020 (0.50 pts) -- namida, 607
In 5 months (0.25 pts) -- Raymanni
In 6 months (0.25 pts) -- Nessy
May 2018 (0.25 pts) -- bsmith
Summer 2018 (0.25 pts) -- Simon
When he finishes his thesis (0.25 pts) -- kieranmillar
soon (0.25 pts) -- SQron188
waaaaay later than he should have ;P (0.25 pts) -- IchoTolot
Six months [Disclaimer: forget popularity I have no idea how realistic this answer is]
never (for feud purposes only)
1 year (That's a top qualification, hope all goes well for Simon) :thumbsup:
"2020". Just because it looks nice. :P
5. Name a Justin Bieber song.
Baby (1 pt) -- geoo, namida, Akseli, 607, kieranmillar, ccexplore, grams88, Raymanni, SQron188, IchoTolot
Sorry (0.50 pts) -- bsmith, Nessy, Simon, Nepster, Julian
My World (0.10 pts) -- Crane
You're so vain (0.10 pts) -- Proxima
Sorry [On another note: the Brick tileset is not overused; Justin Bieber jokes are. Seriously get a life people! :lix-evil:]
You're So Vain (I know he didn't sing this, but it's the first song that comes to mind when I hear his name :P )
“Baby". That seems obvious to me, so I wonder how this will turn out.
6. Name a Greek goddess.
Athena (1 pt) -- Crane, 607, bsmith, Nessy, ccexplore, Nepster, Julian
Aphrodite (0.86 pts) -- geoo, namida, Akseli, kieranmillar, Raymanni, IchoTolot
Artemis (0.29 pts) -- Proxima, SQron188
Hera (0.14 pts) -- Simon
Zeus (0.14 pts) -- grams88
"Athens". Hm... that was instant for me, but now I'm afraid more people might go for Aphrodite. I think they'll surely come out on top; poor Hera. But nah, let's go for Athens, she's way cooler. ;)
Athena (but wonder how many would say "Venus" even though she's Roman)
7. Name a Lemmings Forums member that hasn't been active for a long time.
Clam (1 pt) -- Akseli, Simon, grams88, Proxima
Insane Steve (0.75 pts) -- geoo, Nessy, ccexplore
namida (0.50 pts) -- namida, 607
Gronkling (0.25 pts) -- IchoTolot
Mindless (0.25 pts) -- kieranmillar
Pooty (0.25 pts) -- Raymanni
ProbLem (0.25 pts) -- SQron188
Ramon (0.25 pts) -- bsmith
pass [he doesn't know any forum history] (0.25 pts) -- Julian
pieuw (0.25 pts) -- Crane
tseug (0.25 pts) -- Nepster
Clam :8(): ( Now I could be wrong but I was wondering if Clam is doing more behind the scene things. Oh good question, I have a few members I can think of but what one would top the list). A few names I have in mind might be (Prob lem, Adam, Mindless)
"Namida". That's probably untrue, but I wouldn't know what else to say. Actually, I think we might have got this question before, in an old round? I'm not sure, I won't bother trying to look it up. :P
Insane Steve (tough one, hard to tell what the newer members would pick)
8. A policeman caught you crossing a red light. What do you say to him?
sorry / I’m sorry / I’m very sorry officer (1 pt) -- Crane, Akseli, 607, ccexplore, grams88, Raymanni, Nepster
I'm colorblind (0.43 pts) -- geoo, Proxima, IchoTolot
It was still green/yellow when I entered the junction! (0.29 pts) -- Simon, Julian
hello / hello officer (0.29 pts) -- namida, bsmith
I didn't see the light! (0.14 pts) -- Nessy
It's my first day (0.14 pts) -- kieranmillar
When crossing the road, it is always at one's own risk and own resposibility. I save mine and the drivers' time. (0.14 pts) -- SQron188
It was still green when I entered the junction! (Also traffic lights are questionable design. When users try to bypass the semaphore, it's a hint that the junction should be designed lock-free.)
9. Name a Finnish word.
perkele [dammit] (1 pt) -- Simon, Proxima, IchoTolot
sauna [sauna] (1 pt) -- 607, grams88, Nepster
Hei [hey] (0.67 pts) -- Crane, kieranmillar
Suomi [Finland] (0.67 pts) -- Akseli, Nessy
jääkaappi [refrigerator] (0.67 pts) -- geoo, Raymanni
Suomalainen [Finnish as a nationality] (0.33 pts) -- ccexplore
hyvää päivää [good afternoon] (0.33 pts) -- SQron188
joku [someone] (0.33 pts) -- namida
kalsarikännit [underpants drunkenness, see quote by Julian] (0.33 pts) -- Julian
poyta [pöytä, table] (0.33 pts) -- bsmith
Perkele (Jääkaappi is a strong second choice. I learned it from the back of a frozen pizza package.)
Jääkaappi (Solely based on the fact that at least geoo and Simon know this too, alongside with 'makkara' and 'laulu'.)
Kalsarikännit (Getting drunk at home in your underwear with no intention of going out.)
I had a tough time here, but then I found out "Sauna" is Finnish. That seems like a good choice, then.
Suomalainen ("Finnish" courtesy of Google translate, although fiddling with it more suggest it's not exactly the wording you'd use for the language itself, but most people won't go any farther for feud purposes)
10. Name anything that could distract Simon during his Jazz Jackrabbit speedrun attempts.
Lix fanfiction by JudgementalSkeleton / inventing Lix fanfiction (1 pt) -- Nessy, SQron188
chat messages / Twitch chat (1 pt) -- 607, Simon
computer crashing (1 pt) -- ccexplore, grams88
A freshly found new glitch in the game (0.50 pts) -- IchoTolot
Eva Earlong (0.50 pts) -- Proxima
Someone's eating noises (0.50 pts) -- geoo
Talking about things you want to hear Simon say to you. e.g. I want Simon to teach me Linux. (0.50 pts) -- Raymanni
Typing his name in IRC (0.50 pts) -- kieranmillar
aliens attack (0.50 pts) -- Julian
antivirus program (0.50 pts) -- bsmith
earthquake (0.50 pts) -- namida
nothing (0.50 pts) -- Nepster
pizza deliverer (0.50 pts) -- Akseli
telephone ringing (0.50 pts) -- Crane
"Chat messages". I am sometimes afraid my own messages will distract him, but he seems to know when to read them. ;)
Simon will tell the truth now:
Twitch Chat (Twitch Chat is very general answer but there is really little elsel. I live in a 1-man apartment and there is no distraction, especially because I plan things around the stream. Doorbell hasn't ever rung during runs. I don't remember whether the phone has ever rung but I wouldn't answer the phone.)
Results
1. Akseli (8.65)
2. ccexplore (8.58)
3. Nepster (7.75)
4. 607 (7.42)
5. grams88 (7.31)
6. Simon (7.18)
7. Nessy (6.31)
8. geoo (6.16)
9. Proxima (6.11)
10. Julian (5.87)
11. Raymanni (5.82)
12. Crane (5.52)
13. bsmith (5.45)
14. namida (5.43)
15. IchoTolot (5.20)
16. kieranmillar (4.79)
17. SQron188 (3.72)
Thanks for participating! If you want, you can now speculate which questions were by geoo and which were by Akseli!
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Hmm, I'm guessing question 1, 4, 7, 8 and 10 as geoo's, assuming an even spread of questions between the two. Even though it's totally flimsy reasoning, I'm excluding questions 2 and 3 since geoo had commented on his answers, and including 4 and 10 due to being Simon-related. Question 1 feels technical enough to be more geoo than Akseli, Bieber for questions 5 seems very unlikely to be geoo (then again I wouldn't guess Akseli either unless I missed some major epic IRC chat session), and the Finnish question 9 has to be Akseli. Then I flip a coin basically.
[Alternate guess: 1, 3, 5, 6, 9 as Akseli's because their phrasings are all short and direct.]
I actually totally forgot about Clam when it came to question 7, so I guess in that sense the answer is indeed very correct sadly. :( tseug was my first gut answer but I suspected it is too obscure especially for the many recent members.
I refrained from answering "never" wrt Simon's PhD since that felt more like the old, long-running in-joke amongst the long-timers here (and the parentheses in the question would especially seem to suggest to new members here that Simon is indeed close), and I expected there would be a lot more non-long-timers participating this round. But I should've figured that the people who didn't answer "never" would have too much a spread of different answers compare to those who stuck with "never".
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Fun feud, lots of variety in the answers. Very hard questions.
I was surprised Hera scored minimum points but the others are all strong answers.
I guess that 1 (metric), 5 (Bieber), 6 (goddess), 8 (police), 10 (runs) are from Akseli and 2, 3, 4, 7, 9 are from geoo.
-- Simon
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I'm guessing the alligator answer was a reference to this piece of gold Simon or someone showed me in the IRC a while ago :laugh: :laugh:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdVuEpD9_IY
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ccx has sensible-feeling reasonings, my previous Feud indeed had short questions (https://www.lemmingsforums.net/index.php?topic=2009.msg49032#msg49032). However, Simon guessed 80% right.
1. Name a metric unit prefix. - Akseli
2. What's your least favourite skill in Lemmings 1? - geoo
3. Name an animal with 4 letters. - geoo
4. When will Simon get his PhD (he's currently finishing his thesis)? - geoo
5. Name a Justin Bieber song. - Akseli
6. Name a Greek goddess. - Akseli
7. Name a Lemmings Forums member that hasn't been active for a long time. - Akseli
8. A policeman caught you crossing a red light. What do you say to him? - geoo
9. Name a Finnish word. - geoo
10. Name anything that could distract Simon during his Jazz Jackrabbit speedrun attempts. - Akseli
My comments:
Q1 - [20:18:09] <SimonN> "metre" wtf, and it got several answers
Good variety in answers, even though I thought this to be "an easier" question and set it as a number 1. I am a natural sciences student, I like unit prefixes. :P
Q5 - I got this "aha moment" from the discussion about my 2015 Feud from #lix IRC channel Monday the 26th of January 2015:
[23:05:31] <mobius_> Minim should be banned for mentioning One Direction
[23:06:16] <Akseli> mobius_: I was thinking of putting in my next Feud a question: "Name a Justin Bieber song."
[23:06:38] <geoo> ok we'll make sure you won't become quizmaster ever again
Q6 - [20:23:54] <SimonN> wtf Hera is minimum answer, what has everybody been smoking
Another standard question. There was the risk of answering Roman equivalents of gods for example, like ccx mentioned, or seemingly even male gods, like grams88 answered. I agree with Simon, I briefly considered Hera, she's the queen of Greek gods after all, but thoght that Aphrodite would be better known for her relation to love and planet Venus, for example. I'm surprised that Athena got that many answers.
Q7 and Q10 - Deviant questions compared to my earlier Feud questions, now forum related ones. People were marveling the enormous diversity in answers that Q10 generated in the lix IRC chat, I concur.
[20:29:10] <SimonN> Eva Earlong is quality answer
[20:30:35] <SimonN> I'm surprised how inventive people are here
[20:32:04] <SimonN> the pizza delivery is a strong answer but I have deliberately never ordered Pizza immediately before the runs, only once before the Lix
[20:33:39] <SimonN> earthquake, there are no earthquakes here; and computer crash and antivirus are unlikely on Linux
[20:34:04] <SimonN> not even a power outage cut my computer time within the recent 10 years, it's really rare
[20:34:20] <SimonN> Lix fanfiction is strong because it's true
geoo's Q4:
I refrained from answering "never" wrt Simon's PhD since that felt more like the old, long-running in-joke amongst the long-timers here (and the parentheses in the question would especially seem to suggest to new members here that Simon is indeed close), and I expected there would be a lot more non-long-timers participating this round. But I should've figured that the people who didn't answer "never" would have too much a spread of different answers compare to those who stuck with "never".
[21:17:28] <Akseli> I think that if and when next time a Feud question begins with a word "When", "never" should be not allowed to answer
[21:17:54] <Akseli> too dumb a shortcut for a questions about time
[21:17:56] <SimonN> because it's so compelling? Hm
[21:18:31] <SimonN> "name a state in Cntral America", that's easy, Mexico, "Hint: Mexico is not part of Central America and can't be an answer."
[21:20:06] <SimonN> It's certainly possible to forbid answers and threaten with zero points
[21:21:10] <Akseli> I don't even know if it's allowed
[21:21:38] <Akseli> the most popular answer is the most popular even if it would be a factual error or something else
[21:21:38] <SimonN> the Quizmaster can bend the rules as long as he explains everything nonstandard thoroughly
[21:22:35] <Akseli> you asked "Name a jump and run game other than Super Mario" I guess
[21:23:33] <SimonN> yeah, I ran a round where I thought of questions with obvious first answers, and then forbid those answers
[21:23:44] <Akseli> yes, good
geoo and I have the password for Quizmaster if someone wants to host next round, I'm not that willing to do it immediately again even though I ended up at the top of the scoreboard in half my own Feud.. :o
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You'd think there would be more "nothing" answers for #10, I wonder if the question's phrasing may have played a factor there (ie. if it had started with "What could distract..." like #4 started with "When...", would that have encouraged more "nothing" answers?).
[Then again, maybe "aliens attack" should be considered a synonym for "nothing" in the context of that question. :P]
There definitely seems to be a general gender bias when it comes to pop culture/general knowledge of Greek mythology, I think most people can name Gods much more readily than Goddesses. While I don't remember exactly where I picked up Athena (maybe it's just easier to remember given Athens is an actual place), I definitely cannot remember Hera off top of my head for example, without looking it up.
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Welldone to Akseli for winning that one. That was a good round of family feud, thanks Geoo and Akseli
I think I done it again, today we were watching the chase and I answered a question which I thought was 100% right then once I found out I had the wrong answer, I realised I read the question wrong. I think I made the same mistake again by misreading the question about the greek goddess. :)
Good questions which get you thinking.
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I'm really glad Pallas beat Aphrodite. ;)
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Family Feud! These questions are by Forestidia and Simon. Only Simon, not Forestidia, will participate (immediately, so that he can't see what anybody else will answer).
1. Name a species of large cats.
2. Name a DOS platforming game.
3. Name the average number of skills (total skill usages available) in a Lemmings/Lix/NeoLemmix level.
4. Name a country in Africa.
5. Name the cutest rodent species.
6. Name a destructive skill in Lemmings/Lix/NeoLemmix.
7. You're having a restaurant meal. What is your side dish?
8. Name a species of fish that makes a popular dish.
9. State a tautology.
10. The Lemming and the Lix went to Just Dig for their first date (https://www.lemmingsforums.net/index.php?topic=3626.msg69751#msg69751), the level where it all started. What pick-up line did the Lemming say to the Lix?
The feud will close on Friday, August 24th, 00:00 UTC . Send a PM to the Quizmaster with your answers, trying to match the most popular answer between all players.
-- Simon
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We have 7 entries so far. Everybody else can still send answers to the Quizmaster! The round will close in 16 hours.
-- Simon
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The results are in!
1. Name a species of large (big) cats.
Lion (1 pt) -- Simon, Gronkling, Crane, SQron188, Akseli
Tiger (0.40 pts) -- IchoTolot, Raymanni
1. Tiger (I assume you mean 'big cats')
2. Name a DOS platforming game.
Commander Keen (1 pt) -- Simon, IchoTolot, Crane, Akseli, Raymanni
Jazz Jackrabbit (0.20 pts) -- Gronkling
Prehistorik 2 (0.20 pts) -- SQron188
3. Name the average number of skills in a level.
10 (1 pt) -- Gronkling, IchoTolot, SQron188
4 (0.33 pts) -- Raymanni
8 (0.33 pts) -- Crane
15 (0.33 pts) -- Simon
20 (0.33 pts) -- Akseli
4. Name a country in Africa.
Egypt (1 pt) -- Simon, IchoTolot, SQron188, Akseli, Raymanni
Mozambique (0.20 pts) -- Crane
South Africa (0.20 pts) -- Gronkling
5. Name the cutest rodent species.
Lemming (1 pt) -- Gronkling, Akseli, Raymanni
Guinea pig (0.33 pts) -- Simon
Mouse (0.33 pts) -- Crane
Rabbit (0.33 pts) -- IchoTolot
Squirrel (0.33 pts) -- SQron188
5. squirrel (I don't remember the full species name, don't shoot me)
Rabbit is factually incorrect by modern biology. Still, rabbits were considered rodents in earlier centuries, and feud scoring is independent from factual truth anyway.
6. Name a destructive skill.
Basher (1 pt) -- Gronkling, IchoTolot, Raymanni
Bomber/Exploder (0.67 pts) -- Crane, SQron188
Miner (0.67 pts) -- Simon, Akseli
6. BOMBER
7. What is your restaurant side dish?
Chips/Fries (1 pt) -- IchoTolot, Crane
Potatoes (1 pt) -- Simon, Akseli
Greek salad (0.50 pts) -- SQron188
Nothing (0.50 pts) -- Raymanni
Salad (0.50 pts) -- Gronkling
It was conceivable to merge Salad and Greek salad, but there are so many different types of salad that the subclass rule should stand here.
8. Name a species of fish that makes a popular dish.
Salmon (1 pt) -- Simon, IchoTolot, Akseli, Raymanni
Cod (0.75 pts) -- Gronkling, Crane, SQron188
Very close.
9. State a tautology.
The lemming is a lemming. / Lemmings are lemmings. (1 pt) -- Simon, Akseli
People die when they are killed. / If it’s in stock, we have it. (1 pt) -- SQron188, Raymanni
A or not-A (0.50 pts) -- IchoTolot
ATM Machine (0.50 pts) -- Gronkling
They arrived one after the other in succession. (0.50 pts) -- Crane
Only the two self-equalities (A = A) with the lemmings were easy to merge.
People die when they are killed. / If it’s in stock, we have it: These sentences are still merged because of their structural similarity: Both are if-then, both are true once you know the common-sense meanings of all words.
Both (ATM Machine) and (They arrived one after the other in succession.) duplicate information. We didn't merge these because they arise from vastly different cognitive phenomena: (ATM machine) ignores the meaning of the abbreviation, the other can be a stylistic figure. This was a hard decision.
(https://i.imgflip.com/stjgq.jpg)
IchoTolot wins the sad-Tiger award by Forestidia for stating a tautology from propositional logic, i.e., a tautology in the strictest meaning of the word tautology, yet scoring minimum points for the factually best answer.
If it's in stock, we have it! (https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/949/1*6huYVvJJIpACKOHZp4nptg.jpeg) (Thank you google)
9. "They arrived one after the other in succession" (I know - Google! It's hard to think of one when asked)
10. What pick-up line did the Lemming say to the Lix?
Let’s go! (1 pt) -- Akseli, Raymanni
Do you know the mating call of the clam :8():? (0.50 pts) -- IchoTolot
I dig you. :lix-sick::sick::lix-sick::sick::lix-sick::sick: (0.50 pts) -- Gronkling
Nice hair! (0.50 pts) -- Simon
No pick-up lines, they both just dug. (0.50 pts) -- SQron188
Wanna go down? (0.50 pts) -- Crane
10.)
Lemming: "Do you know the mating call of the clam :8():?"
Lix: "No, what's it like?"
The Lemming holds both his arms horizontal on top of each other before his head, opens them quickly like a clam and then he says with haste:
Lemming: "Ey, wanna smash?!?"
*Then he closes his clam-arms again.*
If the line worked is up to your imagination. :XD:
Results
1. Akseli (9.000)
2. Raymanni (8.230)
3. Simon (7.833)
4. IchoTolot (7.730)
5. SQron188 (6.950)
6. Gronkling (6.650)
7. Crane (6.283)
Akseli is miles ahead of the bunch, congrats! Thanks to everybody for playing.
Akseli, do you want to host the next round? Who else would like to?
(http://www.lixgame.com/etc/quizmaster-akseli.png)
-- Simon
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Were the emojis in Gronkling's #10 answer part of what he typed in his answer PM, vs. commentary inserted by QuizMaster? ???
Sadly I was too preoccupied this week to participate, but looks very interesting especially those tough questions at the end.
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The emojis were part of the answer. :lix-grin: Although I've only considered the text for merging with other answers.
-- Simon
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That was an interesting but fun feud. :P (I noticed something; I'm not actually included in the scoring, but all my answers are the same as grams88's. Was there an error or just a typo? ???)
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I just noticed there :). I think that must of been yourself Raymanni :thumbsup:, I never took part in this family feud due to lots of things happening but it looked a fun and an interesting round.
Welldone to Akseli for winning that one. :thumbsup:
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Right, I wrote grams88 whenever I should have written Raymanni. I've fixed the scoring post. Thanks for noticing!
-- Simon
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More fixes: I merged "Lemming" and "Lemmings" for the rodent question. We asked for a species, and neither "Lemming" nor "Lemmings" clarifies whether it's the video game creature or the real-life rodent; thus, they're equal.
Raymanni +0.5 points, all non-Lemmings answerers -0.16 points.
Compared to my initial erroneous scoring, instead of grams88 in 4th, we now have Raymanni in 2nd. :lix-blush:
-- Simon
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Aw yes, the wonders of rescoring. :8():
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Come out of hiding everyone, it's time for a random mixed bag of questions.
Send your answers to the Quizmaster via PM, the deadline is next Tuesday, September 4th, 00:00 UTC.
1. Name a PS1 platformer (2D/3D, only one game, not a series)
2. Pick one letter from the word 'Lemmings'
3. Name a ground type Pokemon (It can also have a secondary type)
4. Name a web browser software
5. What's the mortal enemy of Lemmings?
6. Pick a bone from the human skeleton
7. Name an english palindrome
8. Name a school subject which is stereotypically disliked by students
9. What's the perfect breakfast?
10. Come up with a name for the Quizmaster avatar character:
(https://i.imgur.com/Ga9rYIy.png)
I don't really remember older feuds, so let's hope there aren't any dublicate questions by accident. ;)
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That's a wrap! We had a whopping 10 participants this time. :thumbsup:
1. Name a PS1 platformer (2D/3D, only one game, not a whole series)
Crash Bandicoot (1 pt) -- Raymanni, Crane, Akseli, SQron188, namida
Rayman (0.40 pt) -- IchoTolot, Nessy
The Adventures of Lomax (0.40 pt) -- Simon, ccexplore
Croc: Legend of Gobbos (0.20 pt) -- Gronkling
Imaginary bonus points to IchoTolot and Nessy.
2. Pick one letter from the word 'Lemmings'
L (1 pt) -- Crane, Akseli, SQron188, Simon, Gronkling, IchoTolot, Nessy, ccexplore
M (0.25 pt) -- Raymanni, namida
3. Name a ground type Pokemon (It can also have a secondary type)
Geodude (1 pt) -- Raymanni, Simon, IchoTolot
Diglett (1 pt) -- Gronkling, Namida, Nessy
Sandshrew (1 pt) -- Akseli, SQron188, ccexplore
Golem (0.33 pt) -- Crane
4. Name a web browser
Mozilla Firefox (1 pt) -- Raymanni, SQron188, Simon, Namida, IchoTolot
Google Chrome (1 pt) -- Crane, Akseli, Gronkling, Nessy, ccexplore
5. What's the mortal enemy of Lemmings?
Water (1 pt) -- Raymanni, IchoTolot, ccexplore
:8(): (0.67 pt) -- Simon, Gronkling
Weasels (0.67 pt) -- namida, Nessy
Fire (0.33 pt) -- Crane
Chameleon (0.33 pt) -- Akseli
The Time Limit (0.33 pt) -- SQron188
5. The ever-so-lovely Clam :8(): (I'm tempted to say: Players who aren't as strong at solving. They have no qualms nuking 20 lems, compare this with the clam who only ever snatches the odd lem or two. But that answer seems too far out of the box.)
6. Name a bone from the human skeleton
Skull/Cranium (1 pt) -- Raymanni, Gronkling, namida, IchoTolot, Nessy
Femur/Thigh Bone (0.60 pt) -- Crane, Akseli, ccexplore
Tibia (0.20 pt) -- SQron188
Humerus (0.20 pt) -- Simon
7. Name an english palindrome
Mom (1 pt) -- Akseli, SQron188
Boob (1 pt) -- Gronkling, IchoTolot
A (1 pt) -- Simon, namida
Level (0.50 pt) -- Nessy
Race car (0.50 pt) -- Crane
Was it a cat I saw? (0.50 pt) -- Raymanni
Madam (0.50 pt) -- ccexplore
8. Name a school subject which is stereotypically disliked by students
Mathematics (1 pt) -- Crane, Akseli, SQron188, Simon, Gronkling, IchoTolot, Nessy, ccexplore
History (0.13 pt) -- namida
PE (0.13 pt) -- Raymanni
I'm surprised how many people here hate mathematics. :8():
8. Math (This is hard. Many forumers like math, and math even became top answer for "Name a fun subject in school.")
9. What's a perfect breakfast?
Bacon and eggs [+ tea] (1 pt) -- Crane, Akseli, SQron188
Toast (0.67 pt) -- namida, IchoTolot
Scrambled Eggs (0.33 pt) -- Simon
Cereal (0.33 pt) -- Gronkling
Pancakes (0.33 pt) -- Nessy
Bread and orange juice (0.33 pt) -- Raymanni
Porridge (0.33 pt) -- ccexplore
9. heck, i dunno, I've never had the perfect breakfast but here's a guess: bacon and eggs along with tea
9. porridge (for Feud purposes only esp w/ Akseli being QuizMaster)
10. Come up with a name for the Quizmaster avatar character
Steve (1 pt) -- Raymanni, Akseli, Gronkling
Quizzy McQuizface (0.33 pt) -- Crane
Hank Cheeseburger (0.33 pt) -- SQron188
Frank (0.33 pt) -- Simon
Quizmaster (0.33 pt) -- namida
Horst (0.33 pt) -- IchoTolot
Alex Terbek Jr. (0.33 pt) -- Nessy
Q (0.33 pt) -- ccexplore
10. Frank (I'm always reminded by a real-life friend's quote: Der Kerl hat Schultern wie ein Kleiderschrank! Translates to: That guy has shoulders like a wardrobe closet! And "Frank" with German pronunciation rhymes with "Schrank".)
(https://i.imgur.com/EkIXOaL.png)
Final scores:
1. Akseli (8.93) :tal-gold:
2. IchoTolot (8.40) :tal-silver:
3. Gronkling (8.20) :tal-bronze:
4. SQron188 (7.87)
5. Nessy (7.23)
6. Raymanni (7.21)
7. ccexplore (7.17)
8. Crane (7.10)
9. namida (7.04)
10. Simon (6.93)
There was a last second contender just as I finished writing this post. This turned the tables majorly and caused Akseli to push to the top. Congrats! (Let's hope it didn't also mess up with my calculations)
That was a very tight round. Thanks to evereyone who participated! :thumbsup:
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Clarification: I don't hate math, but I thought it would be the popular answer. ;P I actually liked math back in school!
(But I am still no great supporter of university math ;))
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10. Come up with a name for the Quizmaster avatar character
Hank Cheeseburger (0.33 pt) -- SQron188
I answered that because the Polish version of Family Feud (Familiada) is hosted by a dude called Karol Starsburger.
(https://i.imgur.com/EkIXOaL.png)
I presume this is to do with my answer, good effort! :)
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There was a last second contender just as I finished writing this post. This turned the tables majorly and caused Akseli to push to the top.
That was probably me, I definitely submitted well after the 9/4 0:00 UTC deadline. :-[ Do you remember what the rankings would've looked like without the last second contender?
I'm curious how many people actually answered the Pokémon question without looking it up on the web? As I recall "sandshrew" was from two websites that were top hits from Google search for "ground type pokemon" (no quotes). (Specifically hit #1 (https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Ground_(type)#Pure_Ground-type_Pok.C3.A9mon) and hit #2 (https://pokemondb.net/type/ground).) Both websites have the sandshrew as the first one listed, so I figured on picking that.
For some of the other Pokémon answers, was there somehow a recent IRC thread involved? Either that, or Pokémon was more popular amongst the regulars here than I thought. :o
The bone one was tricky. Technically speaking (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bones_of_the_human_skeleton#Skull_(cranium_and_mandible)) the skull is actually 22 bones and even the cranium is apparently 8 bones, though I'm well aware this is irrelevant feud-wise and some people would still answer "skull". Then again, skull is also not your stereotypical "thin and long" shape you'd expect when you ask someone to draw a bone, so I wasn't really sure if that was a good pick. At one point I actually considered answering "rib" since it'd look more like a "stereotypical bone" and also the only other thing I can actually name off top of my head. Kinda glad I didn't though given the other answers.
Palindrome was interesting. I arrived at "madam" essentially via the first thing mentioned in the Wikipedia article about palindromes. But after I submitted all my answers, it did occur to me that technically "a" or any one-letter word would also count, and I suspect I wasn't the only one who might've thought that way. But being already a late submission I don't want to bother with amending my already late answers again (there were other questions I suspect I wouldn't do well on anyway and don't have other answers ready, so really why bother on one).
I don't hate math at all, but I believe there's a general sense that some people "aren't good with numbers" and thus would especially dislike math. I suspect they wouldn't like some of the science subjects very much either. Of course in reality every subject gets hated by someone, and some people probably hate every school subject, just as the reverse will be true for some people.
I can't believe I didn't think of Crane's Quizzy McQuizface (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boaty_McBoatface), that was rather obvious in hindsight, though apparently not actually all that popular amongst the answers. "Steve" on the other hand feels like I missed something again on IRC maybe? ???
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Either that, or Pokémon was more popular amongst the regulars here than I thought. :o
I played Pokemon yellow as a teenager. The first boss opens Geodude and is nasty to fight with what you have by then. No rock pokemon appear earlier.
The bone one was tricky. Technically speaking (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bones_of_the_human_skeleton#Skull_(cranium_and_mandible)) the skull is actually 22 bones and even the cranium is apparently 8 bones,
Hah, I too didn't want to answer Skull for this reason, and I lacked the gut to ignore the definitions.
"Steve" on the other hand feels like I missed something again on IRC maybe? ???
The US TV feud show's host is Steve Harvey. He doesn't look at all like this quizmaster, but he's connected with the feud for sure. I wonder how many have seen US feuds? Excerpts upload frequently on youtube.
-- Simon
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I usually train a Nidoran to handle Brock with Double Kick when I play Yellow. Red and Blue versions have it easier as their available starters all fare better against Brock than Pikachu does.
I should jump into one of these Feud rounds sometime...
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Quizzy McQuizface (0.33 pt) -- Crane
I was actually very tempted to give this answer, but thought no one else would. O_O
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August 24 round:
#3: Average number of skills per level - 10-20 it's probably most often, 15 seems good but for Feud purposes I answered an even number there, 20.
#9: Tautology - A really hard one.
#10: Pick-up line - The first thing that came to my mind immediately was "Let's go!" and that seemed surprisingly fitting that I didn't even bother to try to come up with anything else. :P
Previous round:
#3: Ground type Pokémon - I'm familiar with Pokémon series and Sandshrew was my initial thought, I recalled it's the first in the numbering order and I confirmed this with Google.
#4: Web browser - I've always used Firefox but still somehow think that Chrome is more popular? A good question because of the even spread answers. :P
#5: Mortal enemy of Lemmings - This is a question that's asked years ago before, but I didn't care for searching the exact Feud to look at the answers. I remember "water" winning that round back then and me answering "chameleon", but I still remained here with my previous answer again, and water end up winning yet again as well. :P Oh well.
#6: Bone - Same here, I thought skull briefly but went for thigh bone because it's really just a single bone.
#7: English palindrome - A really hard question! Nessy's "level" is pretty creative here.
#9: Perfect breakfast - I thought of answering porridge here but changed it to more "generic" answer eggs and bacon just before sending my answers. Btw, I wasn't the Feud host this time like ccx supposed in his message, but Raymanni was, that many players guessed right from the Quizmaster avatar (no Captain Viridian there, but hovering Rayman's hands there). (I still think porridge is the perfect breakfast ;) )
#10: Quizmaster avatar name - No IRC discussion here (except mobius has sometimes mentioned watching the Family Feud show once in a while), I knew that Steve Harvey is the current host of Family Feud TV show and based my answer solely on that fact, even though he wouldn't resemble Quizmaster avatar by his appearance. I was pretty surprised that there were other "Steve" answers.
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Do you remember what the rankings would've looked like without the last second contender?
If I recall, IchoTolot was the winner before your answers. Your Google Chrome answer also made question 4 a tie. ;)
"Steve" on the other hand feels like I missed something again on IRC maybe?
Steve was the most generic name that almost instantly popped into my mind. I didn't even know that there was an actual feud host named Steve.
I was surprised how many people answered mathematics in question 8. I was sure PE would win. :P
Would you like to host the next round, Axseli?
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Would you like to host the next round, Axseli?
Okay, I could try. I'm dry from ideas but let's see if I can come up with something. :XD:
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This was a fun round :)
My answer for #5 was actually inspired by the game Lemmings Revolution where the Weasels were the main antagonist. They are shown to hate the Lemmings as they even watch old movies of their misadventures and they build the actual levels in the game. A clever answer would have been "us" or "Lemmings Forums" because we are still building levels for them :devil:
My answer for #8 doesn't represent my own personal opinions. I love math and hated P.E. My answer was mostly going off of the fact that a lot of people I know are always saying they hate math.
As for #10 I was just being silly :P, but yeah Steve Harvey is the current host of American Family Feud and it probably would have been a more logical answer for me regardless.
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I was sure PE would win. :P
Maybe different countries/places have different standards when it comes to PE in school? I don't really remember much about PE in my school days in America (note: your mileage may vary depending on which state or even town in US, and of course standards also evolve over time), but I want to say it wasn't all that vigorous; I'm not even sure I remember how many days a week we even have PE especially by high school, I feel like maybe 2 days? Basically at some point, if you want to do sports for real, you join an after-school team for the particular sport in question (eg. football). I think with the low standard for PE, I'm not really sure you can actually fail it short of truancy or disobedience (and if there are justifiable medical conditions involved, your parents can probably make an arrangement with the school to excuse you from PE altogether).
I sucked at sports especially anything involving a ball, but somehow that didn't make PE a total nightmare for me during my school days. At the same time I guess it's nice to take a break from sitting in classrooms. I think very few if any people would say they love PE, but it didn't seem bad enough to reach the level of dread or hate. I can imagine though that a more vigorous standard with more balls can indeed make things miserable for some.
Also, colleges here look for your scores on exams like SATs and ACTs. Math is part of those exams, PE most definitely isn't. :P If you want to maximize your chances at a good/competitive college but have a weakness in math, you'd still have to power through it one way or another just like lots of people have to power through annoying vocabulary learning for those exams.
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I knew math would be the most popular answer because it's the stereotypical first response that most think of for that question. I didn't like PE though; I'd hide behind the bleachers whenever dodgeball came up.
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Maths was and still is my favourite subject, to the point that I've been threatened with violence by friends for daring to talk about it in my adult life. It's sad that so many people don't like it. It's the language of the Universe.
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Another round!
1. Name a time in clock hours when a dinner is eaten.
2. Name a comic series.
3. Name a geometric shape in three-dimensional space.
4. Name a board game other than chess.
5. Name a fast food restaurant other than McDonald's.
6. Name a science fiction author.
7. Name a material for a clothing.
8. Name a sports video game series.
9. Name a weather condition that makes people avoid going out.
10. In years, what is an average age for a person visiting Lemmings forums?
Make sure to send your answers to Quizmaster via PM before next Sunday the 16th of September 18:00 UTC.
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We have the results! 13 people participated, DeadOnArrival is my sister.
1. Name a time in clock hours when a dinner is eaten.
6 pm / 18:00 (1 pt) -- IchoTolot, mobius, namida, Flopsy, Nessy, Crane, ccexplore
5 pm / 17:00 (0,57 pts) -- Akseli, SQron188, grams88, DeadOnArrival
7 pm / 19:00 (0,29 pts) -- bsmith, Simon
19:00 (Unless you're single and a student, in which case, 06:00.)
2. Name a comic series.
Spider-Man (1 pt) -- SQron188, grams88, Nessy, DeadOnArrival
Superman (0,75 pts) -- Akseli, Simon, ccexplore
Batman (0,75 pts) -- IchoTolot, namida, Flopsy
Garfield (0,25 pts) – bsmith
Peanuts (0,25 pts) -- mobius
Marvel Comics (0,25 pts) – Crane
3. Name a geometric shape in three-dimensional space.
cube (1 pt) -- bsmith, IchoTolot, SQron188, grams88, namida, Flopsy, Nessy, Simon
ball / sphere (0,50 pts) -- Akseli, Crane, DeadOnArrival, ccexplore
polygon (0,13 pts)—mobius
Cube (Sphere could be a serious contender to Cube, let's see. Point, Empty set, or All of R^3 seem like more natural answers, but not good for the feud.)
4. Name a board game other than chess.
checkers / draughts (1 pt) -- bsmith, SQron188, mobius, namida, Flopsy, Crane, DeadOnArrival, ccexplore
Monopoly (0,63 pts) -- Akseli, IchoTolot, grams88, Nessy, Simon
Monopoly (the real answer should be Go, but I feel that Go is a weak feud answer)
4) Monopoly (Actually monopoly can be a very unfair game if everyone gangs up on you, need to hear Simon's opinion on this one)
5. Name a fast food restaurant other than McDonald's.
Burger King (1 pt) -- bsmith, IchoTolot, namida, Flopsy, Nessy, Simon, Crane, ccexplore
Subway (0,25 pts) -- Akseli, grams88
KFC (0,25 pts) -- SQron188, DeadOnArrival
Dairy Queen (0,13 pts) – mobius
5. Burger King
(Surprisingly hard to guess this one! Will talk more about it on the forums once the round is over and scored.)
6. Name a science fiction author.
Isaac Asimov (1 pts) -- IchoTolot, grams88, mobius, ccexplore
Douglas Adams (0,75 pts) -- namida, Simon, DeadOnArrival
Jules Verne (0,5 pts) -- Akseli, Flopsy
Peter Telep (0,25 pts) – bsmith
George Lucas (0,25 pts) -- SQron188
Ray Bradbury (0,25 pts) – Nessy
Arthur C. Clarke (0,25 pts) – Crane
Douglas Adams (I don't like the Hitchhiker much, but it's extremely well-known. Star Wars or Star Trek are more popular science fiction, but those are known for their shows, not books.)
7. Name a material for a clothing.
cotton (1 pt) -- Akseli, bsmith, SQron188, mobius, Flopsy, Simon, Crane, DeadOnArrival, ccexplore
wool (0,11 pts) -- IchoTolot
silk (0,11 pts) -- grams88
cloth (0,11 pts) -- namida
denim (0,11 pts)—Nessy
8. Name a sports video game series.
FIFA (1 pt) -- Akseli, IchoTolot, SQron188, grams88, Flopsy, Nessy, Simon, Crane, DeadOnArrival, ccexplore
Madden NFL (0,30 pts) -- bsmith, mobius, namida
FIFA (Quote Flopsy: People play only two video games! Call of Duty and FIFA! It sucks! Hey dude, let's come over to my place to play FIFA! Nobody ever plays anything else!)
9. Name a weather condition that makes people avoid going out.
rain (1 pt) -- Akseli, bsmith, IchoTolot, SQron188, grams88, Flopsy, Simon, Crane, DeadOnArrival, ccexplore
hurricane (0,20 pts) -- mobius, namida
thunder/lightning storm (0,10 pts) – Nessy
10. In years, what is an average age for a person visiting Lemmings forums?
25 (1 pt) -- IchoTolot, SQron188, mobius, namida, Flopsy, Nessy, Crane, DeadOnArrival
30 (0,38 pts) -- Akseli, bsmith, Simon
27 (0,13 pts) -- grams88
20 (0,13 pts) – ccexplore
30 (Both 30 and 25 seem good feud answers, but 25 feels slightly too young already. Old gramps remembers his vivid youth where he would have put 20.)
10. 20 (though I suspect the real answer is probably higher, sigh)
Results:
1. Flopsy -- 9,25 :tal-gold:
2. IchoTolot -- 8,49 :tal-silver:
3. ccexplore -- 8,38 :tal-bronze:
4. SQron188 -- 8,07
4. DeadOnArrival -- 8,07
6. Crane -- 8,00
7. Simon -- 7,79
8. namida -- 7,11
9. Nessy -- 7,09
10. grams88 -- 6,68
11. Akseli -- 6,57
12. bsmith -- 6,46
13. mobius -- 6,00
Flopsy manages to find the top answer in 8 different questions and triumphs on the top of the scoreboard, congratulations Flopsy! :thumbsup: And thank you everyone for participating!
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Excellent feud, many hard questions where I had to decide between a few strong answers each. Thanks!
Congrats to Flopsy for this win by large margin!
-- Simon
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I have to give my sincere apologies to möbius, but "polygon" is an incorrect answer, because it is specifically planar, hence is a geometric shape in two-dimensional space. The 3D equivalent is a polyhedron. Even so, I would argue that "polygon" and "polyhedron" are too broad, since they encompass almost all shapes in their respective dimensions (generally excluding anything with a circular face such as a cylinder, and those based off n-spheres) - for example, a pentagon, hexagon, tetragon (square) and trigon (triangle) are all polygons, as are more complex shapes such as a pentagram, while a tetrahedron, hexahedron (cube), octahedron, dodecahedron and icosahedron are all polyhedra.
George Lucas is a little shaky as an author, but it is stated that he wrote Episode IV of Star Wars, so I guess it counts.
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I have to give my sincere apologies to möbius, but "polygon" is an incorrect answer <snip>
Well not that correctness matters in feud, but if we are being really pedantic about it, the question as worded technically only says (or at least can be read as) the geometric shape has to live in 3D space, not that the shape itself has to necessarily occupy all 3 dimensions. But yeah, we know what you mean.
I'm a little annoyed at myself for not going with my gut answer of "cube". I was counting on more people like Simon to pick sphere.
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Fast food was tough because within the US, there are so many choices (many more than the ones that are global, eg. mobius's Diary Queen) to guess who'd pick what. And yet, many feud participants here are non-US, and then I also don't have a firm sense of which ones are popular (or even present!) overseas--everyone knows McDonalds are everywhere, but then which one is 2nd or 3rd? Too bad Starbucks isn't fast food. :P
I did end up looking up Wikipedia, which mentioned "Burger King" both in its intro paragraph, and later in the "globalization" section with some numbers that look like it may indeed be 2nd in terms of number of oversea locations. Then again, the picture in that section depicted KFC and Pizza Hut instead.
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Comic question was interesting because of the (probably unintended) ambiguity. As I suspected (because it crossed my mind when considering answers), some people picked answers of the Sunday newspaper comics variety. I wasn't sure if they do that overseas of US or whether they are still called "comics", plus newspapers are a dying medium anyway (can't remember the last time I read one!). So the superhero, Marvel/DC variety of comics seem a much safer bet, especially with the movies being rather saturated with them the last few years.
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FIFA (Quote Flopsy: People play only two video games! Call of Duty and FIFA! It sucks! Hey dude, let's come over to my place to play FIFA! Nobody ever plays anything else!)
Well if you're in the US, then at least FIFA will usually be out of the picture, possibly replaced by Madden NFL.
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For the age question, I guess I'm still thinking (or maybe more precisely, fooling myself into thinking) a good portion of the newer members are still in their school/college days. But that is probably not realistic for a game this old.
The answers do get me curious as to how many are over 30 at this point? I most definitely am (in fact in a few years I'd hit 40). On the other hand, I'm not even 100% sure if Simon is over 30 yet or not (though I'm pretty sure very close to it even if not over)?
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I did end up looking up Wikipedia, which mentioned "Burger King" both in its intro paragraph, and later in the "globalization" section with some numbers that look like it may indeed be 2nd in terms of number of oversea locations. Then again, the picture in that section depicted KFC and Pizza Hut instead.
I don't know about anywhere else, but here in NZ "Burger King" would generally be the second place to come to mind when "McDonalds" is given as a first example.
One interesting point though - Australian users would very likely overlook "Burger King" as a possible answer, as it's known as "Hungry Jacks" there (trademark issues, I believe).
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The answers do get me curious as to how many are over 30 at this point? I most definitely am (in fact in a few years I'd hit 40). On the other hand, I'm not even 100% sure if Simon is over 30 yet or not (though I'm pretty sure very close to it even if not over)?
Forum users' birth years topic (https://www.lemmingsforums.net/index.php?topic=2033.0)
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I missed another round. >.<
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George Lucas is a little shaky as an author, but it is stated that he wrote Episode IV of Star Wars, so I guess it counts.
I didn't realise that the question required participants to name a book author but I'm a layman on the subject anyway.
In any case, here's hoping for another jolly round of the old Feud!