Family Feud 2015

[Quizmaster]

So, it's time to see our results!

Standard-Scoring Questions

1. Name a utensil used for eating.

Fork - 7 people (1 point)
Akseli, Clam, geoo, IchoTolot, namida, NaOH, Simon

Spoon - 3 people (0.43 points)
grams88, Minim, Nepster

2. Name a type of video input connector you might find on a TV.

HDMI - 6 people (1 point)
Akseli, grams88, IchoTolot, namida, NaOH, Simon

VGA - 3 people (0.5 points)
geoo, Minim, Nepster

AV - 1 person (0.17 points)
Clam

3. Name a Linux distribution.

Ubuntu - 8 people (1 point)
Akseli, Clam, geoo, IchoTolot, Minim, namida, NaOH, Nepster

64 Studio ( ) - 1 person (0.13 points)
grams88

Debian - 1 person (0.13 points)
Simon

4. Name a natural hair color.

Blonde - 5 people (1 point)
Clam, grams88, IchoTolot, Minim, Simon

Black - 3 people (0.6 points)
Akseli, geoo, NaOH

Brown - 2 people (0.4 points)
namida, Nepster

5. Name an input device on a PC.

Keyboard - 5 people (1 point)
Akseli, Clam, grams88, NaOH, Nepster

Mouse - 4 people (0.8 points)
geoo, Minim, namida, Simon

CD - 1 person (0.2 points)
IchoTolot

6. Name a web browser.
For this question, I considered "Google" and "Chrome" to be equivalent, as I would assume that to someone who isn't aware of the distinction, when they say "Google" they're refering to Chrome in this context.

Firefox - 6 people (1 point)
Akseli, geoo, IchoTolot, NaOH, Nepster, Simon

Chrome - 3 people (0.5 points)
Clam, Minim, namida

Internet Explorer - 1 person (0.17 points)
grams88

7. Name an animal that has a shell.

Clam - 5 people (1 point)
Akseli, Clam, geoo, Nepster, Simon

Snail - 3 people (0.6 points)
grams88, Minim, NaOH

Turtle - 2 people (0.4 points)
IchoTolot, namida

8. Name a vehicle that can travel on water.

Boat - 7 people (1 point)
Akseli, geoo, grams88, Minim, namida, NaOH, Nepster

Ship - 2 people (0.29 points)
Clam, Simon

Hovercraft - 1 person (0.14 points)
IchoTolot

9. Name a potentially deadly weapon.
For this one, I have treated "nuke" and "nuclear bomb" as equivalent. I don't think I need to explain why.

Gun - 7 people (1 point)
Akseli, Clam, geoo, grams88, IchoTolot, namida, Nepster

Nuclear Bomb - 2 people (0.29 points)
Minim, Simon

Sword - 1 person (0.14 points)
NaOH

10. Name one of the first 7 levels in original Lemmings.

Everyone answered "Just Dig!" to this one. 1 point each.

Total scores for standard-scoring questions

Akseli - 9.60
geoo - 8.90
NaOH - 8.34
Nepster - 8.33
namida - 8.10
Clam - 7.96
IchoTolot - 7.74
Simon - 7.51
grams88 - 7.33
Minim - 7.12

Inverse-Scoring Questions

As with last time, the answers will be ordered from highest scoring to lowest scoring; not most popular to least popular.

11. Name a country in the former Soviet Union.

Unique answers (1 point each)
Clam: Estonia
Simon: Kazakhstan

Moldova - 2 people (0.66 points each)
IchoTolot, namida

Tajikistan - 3 people (0.33 points each)
Akseli, geoo, NaOH

Russia - 3 people (0.33 points each)
grams88, Minim, Nepster

Acceptable answers: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan

12. Name a final level of a single-player rank in any official, non-demo version of original Lemmings.

Unique answers (1 point each)
Minim: Lock Up Your Lemmings <most versions, Fun 30>

We All Fall Down <most versions, Taxing 30> - 2 people (0.66 points)
Akseli, Clam

Sega Five <Sega Master System, Taxing 30> - 2 people (0.66 points)
geoo, namida

Rendezvous at the Mountain <most versions, Mayhem 30> - 2 people (0.66 points)
grams88, NaOH

Don't Follow Me <Sega Genesis, Tricky 30> - 3 people (0.33 points)
IchoTolot, Nepster, Simon

Acceptable answers: Too many to list.

13. Name one of the five main family members on The Simpsons.

Unique answers (1 point each)
Akseli: Marge Simpson

Lisa Simpson - 2 people (0.66 points)
Clam, NaOH

Maggie Simpson - 2 people (0.66 points)
Minim, Nepster

Bart Simpson - 2 people (0.66 points)
namida, Simon

Homer Simpson - 3 people (0.33 points)
geoo, grams88, IchoTolot

Acceptable answers: Homer Simpson, Bart Simpson, Lisa Simpson, Marge Simpson, Maggie Simpson (of course, I didn't require people actually include the "Simpson" surname - most didn't)

14. Name a book in the Harry Potter series.

I accepted answers along the lines of "the first one" etc for this. I didn't count them as seperate answers from someone who actually named (using the same example) the first book in the series, though.

Unique answers (1 point each)
grams88: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
namida: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Nepster: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - 2 people (0.66 points)
Akseli, NaOH

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - 2 people (0.66 points)
geoo, IchoTolot

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - 3 people (0.33 points)
Clam, Minim, Simon

Acceptable answers: Harry Potter and the... ...Philosopher's Stone (/ Sorcerer's Stone), ...Chamber of Secrets, ...Prisoner of Azkaban, ...Goblet of Fire, ...Order of the Phoenix, ...Half-Blood Prince, ...Deathly Hallows.

15. Name a current global moderator (not an administrator) on this website.

Clam - 3 people (1 point)
Clam, NaOH, Simon

Akseli - 7 people (0.43 points)
Akseli, geoo, grams88, IchoTolot, Minim, namida, Nepster

Acceptable answers: Akseli, Clam

Total scores for inverse-scoring questions

Clam - 3.65
namida - 3.41
Simon - 3.32
NaOH - 3.31
Akseli - 3.08
grams88, Minim, Nepster - 2.75
geoo, IchoTolot - 2.41

Total Scores

Akseli - 12.68
NaOH - 11.65
Clam - 11.61
namida - 11.51
geoo - 11.31
Nepster - 11.08
Simon - 10.83
IchoTolot - 10.15
grams88 - 10.08
Minim - 9.87



Another great round! Hope you enjoyed it; I shall pass the Quizmaster role onto someone else now.

[namida]

I'd like to mention a big (and non-serious) "screw you" to geoo; who chose Sega Five just so I wouldn't get a full point in that question. (The submission PM literally said something along the lines of "Sega Five, to stop namida getting a full point" - complete with another struck-out level name before it.) Although this was still a safer bet than what I was going to go with otherwise - We All Fall Down, which was chosen by two other people.

Also, damn at Firefox being the most popular browser answer! It was the first thought for me too (since it's what I use xD), but I chose Chrome because I thought it would be more popular.

Anyway, I've contacted the first person who asked about hosting the next round to see if they still want to; if they don't, I'll contact the other person who asked (I'm too lazy to check who did/didn't say it publicly, hence the avoidance of names here).

[IchoTolot]

Omg   "input device" not sth you put in a computer   Brainslug hit me hard there! I should have read this question a bit more carefully

[grams88]

That was an interesting round, Welldone to Akseli for winning that one.

It looks like the british have not done too well in this round. Still as always very close scores between many of us. Now I had to be very careful with the (Name a vehicle that can travel on water) as I ws thinking ship at first then I realised that boat might be a better answer. I remember an episode from columbo where columbo was talking about a ship but kept on calling it a boat and the captain corrected him by saying it's not a boat, it's a ship. (Good question)

 The input device question, you had to think what one would be more popular the (Mouse or the keyboard). Could of went either way to be honest.

I like the inverse questions where you have to think of something that is not going to be picked a lot. Someone ould do a full round where every question is an inverse one.

[Quizmaster]

Welcome to a new round of Family Feud!

Almost standard scoring questions:
The first 10 questions score almost normally, except that one possible answer per question is explicitely forbidden. If you give the forbidden answer, you score zero points on that question.

1. Name a popular forum game, except Family Feud.
2. Name a Nobel Prize winner, except Albert Einstein.
3. Name the title of a fantasy novel, except Harry Potter.
4. Name a roman emperor, except Gaius Julius Caesar.
5. Name a music key, except C-major.
6. Name a sport that does not use a ball, except chess.
7. Name a politician, except Barack Obama.
8. Name a flower, except rose.
9. Name a lemmings smiley, except .
10. Guess who is hosting this round of Family Feud, except Quizmaster.

Inverse scoring questions:
As in the last two rounds, the goal is to give the least popular answer, but an answer that is factually incorrect or outright disregards the question will get zero points. However, you will be notified of such answers and have the opportunity to change them.

11. Name one of the five fingers on a hand.
12. Name a white chess piece.
13. Name a prime number less than 20.
14. Name one of the cardinal directions.
15. Name one of the tribes in Lemmings 2.

This round ends Sunday, June 7th. The deadline will be extended if new answers are still handed in around that time. Have fun and good luck!

@Proxima: After resolving this round, I will send you the password for the Quizmaster account to host the next round.

[Proxima]

4. Name a roman emperor, except Caesar.

Caesar was a title, not the name of any emperor.

[Quizmaster]

Thanks Proxima. I changed it to Gaius Julius Caesar. I am well aware of the fact, that this is still a factually incorrect answer. However this is rather irrelevant for Family Feud purposes.

[ccexplore]

Without giving away too much, some people (not just the QuizMaster or namida who of course also knows directly being the previous QuizMaster to pass on the password) may have an arguable advantage on question #10, at least in terms of determining the "true" answer.  Of course the scoring demands the most popular answer rather than the true answer, but the true answer might still potentially serve as a decent "safe answer" that is only available to certain people and may therefore confer a minor advantage.  Then again, it is only an advantage if enough people know what I'm talking about and believes enough of other people would make use of that answer, so maybe it's not even that safe of an answer (in the same way that answering a feud question in previous rounds based on QuizMaster's identity had not proven to be a reliably strategy).

Anyhow, on balance I won't advocate throwing away the question (if nothing else, varying performances on other questions will likely overwhelm whatever minor advantages are available for question #10), but I'm definitely curious to see how things do end up turning out with that question.

[namida]

Well, I didn't feel the actual identity of them was the best answer to use, so... make what you will of that.

[ccexplore]

Is the current round ready to be resolved?

[Quizmaster]

Yes it is ready to be resolved, but your Quizmaster is very busy right now. Expect the results tomorrow.

[Quizmaster]

(Almost) Standard-Scoring Questions

1. Name a popular forum game, except Family Feud.
Zendo - 9 people (1 point)
  607, Akseli, bsmith, ccexplore, clam, geoo, Nepster, Proxima, Simon

Ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer - 1 person (0.11 points)
  namida

Explanation: The answers Zendo and Zendo/Eleusis are counted as equivalent. Zendo and Eleusis have (slightly) different rules, but it is clear from the Lemmings forums context, that both answers point to the same actual game.

2. Name a Nobel Prize winner, except Albert Einstein.
Marie Curie - 4 people (1 point)
  bsmith, geoo, Nepster, Proxima

Nelson Mandela - 2 people (0.5 points)
  607, ccexplore

Niels Bohr - 1 person (0.25 points)
  Simon

Barack Obama - 1 person (0.25 points)
  namida

John Nash - 1 person (0.25 points)
  clam

Wilhelm Röntgen - 1 person (0.25 points)
  Akseli

3. Name the title of a fantasy novel, except Harry Potter.
Lord of the Rings - everyone (1 point)

4. Name a roman emperor, except Gaius Julius Caesar.
Augustus - 6 people (1 point)
  607, Akseli, ccexplore, clam, geoo, Simon

Nero - 4 people (0.67 points)
  bsmith, namida, Nepster, Proxima

5. Name a music key, except C-major.
C minor - 6 people (1 point)
  607, Akseli, bsmith, geoo, Nepster, Simon

C sharp minor - 1 person (0.17 points)
  Proxima

D minor - 1 person (0.17 points)
  namida

D major - 1 person (0.17 points)
  ccexplore

G major - 1 person (0.17 points)
  clam

6. Name a sport that does not use a ball, except chess.
Ice hockey - 3 people (1 point)
  Akseli, clam, namida

Hockey - 1 person (0.33 points)
  bsmith

Running  - 1 person (0.33 points)
  geoo

Marathon - 1 person (0.33 points)
  Proxima

Cycling - 1 person (0.33 points)
  Nepster

Boxing - 1 person (0.33 points)
  Simon

Car racing - 1 person (0.33 points)
  607

Swimming - 1 person (0.33 points)
  ccexplore

Explanation: Marathon is a subclass of Running.

running (it's so tedious Simon considers culling it)

7. Name a politician, except Barack Obama.
George W. Bush - 4 people (1 point)
  bsmith, geoo, Proxima, Simon

Hillary Clinton - 2 people (0.5 points)
  clam, Nepster

Vladimir Putin - 2 people (0.5 points)
  Akseli, namida

George Bush - 1 person (0.25 points)
  ccexplore

George Washington - 1 person (0.25 points)
  607

Explanation: George Bush may refer to George Bush senior or to Geroge W. Bush. So Geroge W. Bush is a subclass of George Bush. (Huh, that last sentence sounds very weird )

8. Name a flower, except rose.
tulip - 3 people (1 point)
   607, geoo, Nepster

violet - 3 people (1 point)
  bsmith, ccexplore, Simon

kalmia - 1 person (0.33 points)
  namida

lily - 1 person (0.33 points)
  clam

daisy - 1 person (0.33 points)
  Proxima

sunflower - 1 person (0.33 points)
  Akseli

9. Name a lemmings smiley, except .
- 3 people (1 point)
  bsmith, ccexplore, clam

- 2 people (0.67 points)
  Proxima, Simon

- 2 people (0.67 points)
  Akseli, geoo

- 1 person (0.33 points)
  607

- 1 person (0.33 points)
  Nepster

- 1 person (0.33 points)
  namida

10. Guess who is hosting this round of Family Feud, except Quizmaster.
namida - 5 people (1 point)
  607, Akseli, clam, geoo, Simon

ccexplore - 2 people (0.4 points)
  bsmith, namida

Simon - 1 person (0.2 points)
  ccexplore

Akseli - 1 person (0.2 points)
  Nepster

mobius - 1 person (0.2 points)
  Proxima

I think this is a big fat ploy and namida is hosting again. Though maybe he'd deem it too impolite to prioritize himself over Proxima, so it could be Nepster instead. I'm pretty sure it's not Simon due to the extendable deadline, but he might still be the most popular answer.

...and a few days later...

I have the hunch that the Quizmaster might be IchoTolot (or maybe Nepster, but I think IchoTolot more likely), but I'll stick with namida as my answer for question 10.

IP address lookup of any users, a feature available only to moderators and admins, reveal with near certainty Nepster as the host.  Frankly it is much harder to guess what the popular answer may turn out to be.   Very tempted to try the correct answer but unsure if enough people are aware of the feature for such a strategy...

This round was indeed hosted by Nepster. Turns out that knowing the correct answer (ccexplore, namida and Nepster) proved to be a disadvantage!

Total scores for standard-scoring questions
geoo - 9.00
bsmith - 8.40
Simon - 8.25
Akseli - 7.75
607 - 7.41
clam - 7.25
Nepster - 7.03
ccexplore - 6.45
Proxima - 6.37
namida - 4.76


Inverse-Scoring Questions

11. Name one of the five fingers on a hand.
pinky - 1 person (1 point)
  geoo

thumb - 1 person (1 point)
  ccexplore

middle finger - 3 people (0.33 points)
  namida, Proxima, Simon

index finger - 5 people (0.2 points)
  607, Akseli, bsmith, clam, Nepster

12. Name a white chess piece.
Queen - 1 person (1 point)
  ccexplore

Rook - 1 person (1 point)
  geoo

Queen's Knight's Pawn - 1 person (1 point)
  Proxima

Bishop - 2 people (0.5 points)
  namida, Nepster

King - 5 people (0.2 points)
  607, Akseli, bsmith, clam, Simon

And an extra cookie for Proxima for finding a loophole in my question by specifying exactly one of the eight pawns. Not that it mattered in any way...

13. Name a prime number less than 20.
2 - 1 person (1 point)
  ccexplore

7 - 1 person (1 point)
  Nepster

11 - 1 person (1 point)
  607

13 - 2 people (0.5 points)
  Akseli, Simon

17 - 2 people (0.5 points)
  bsmith, namida

5 - 3 people (0.33 points)
  clam, geoo, Proxima

14. Name one of the cardinal directions.
west - 1 person (1 point)
  geoo

south - 2 people (0.5 points)
  Akseli, clam

east - 3 people (0.33 points)
  bsmith, Proxima, Simon

north - 4 people (0.25 points)
  607, ccexplore, namida, Nepster

Explanation: I got answers of the form "NNW - if not allowed then NW - if both not allowed then N". Directions like NNW are called secondary-intercardinal and directions like NW are called intercardinal, so neither is factually correct and the remaining answer N was taken.

15. Name one of the tribes in Lemmings 2.
Shadow - 1 person (1 point)
  bsmith

Sport - 1 person (1 point)
  Nepster

Highland - 1 person (1 point)
  Proxima

Medieval - 1 person (1 point)
  Simon

Cavelem - 2 person (0.5 points)
  607, Akseli

Classic - 2 person (0.5 points)
  ccexplore, namida

Polar - 2 person (0.5 points)
  clam, geoo

Total scores for inverse-scoring questions
geoo - 3.83
ccexplore - 3.75
Proxima - 2.99
Nepster - 2.95
Simon - 2.36
bsmith - 2.23
607 - 2.15
namida - 2.08
Akseli - 1.90
clam - 1.73

Total Scores
geoo - 12.83
bsmith - 10.63
Simon - 10.61
ccexplore - 10.20
Nepster - 9.98
Akseli - 9.65
607 - 9.56
Proxima - 9.36
clam - 8.98
namida - 6.84


Congratulations to geoo for scoring extremely well in this hard Family Feud round and to bsmith placing second in his very first participation. Thanks everyone for joining.

[Nepster]

I am very curious, why namida turned out to be the most popular answer to Q10? He explicitely announced that he would not be the host this time!

[Simon]

why namida turned out to be the most popular answer to Q10? He explicitely announced that he would not be the host this time!

Nobody else underlines.

And namida liked the second-answers round, and would have liked more participation on that.

Thanks for hosting!

-- Simon

[geoo]

I feel like the inverse questions are quite reliant on luck and a bit of psychology, so I think I was mostly just lucky to score well on that one.

I didn't think of that when I answered Q8, but with a Dutch guy here (607) there was a good chance at least someone else would answer that too.

I'm surprised that is not the most popular answer for Q9, it's just the simple answer of taking the opposite, which worked perfectly well on Q5.

As for Q10, the comma in the following quote kinda gave away to me that it was one of the Germans, but I suspected IchiTolot to be more likely to write like this than Nepster for no particular reason:

I am well aware of the fact, that this is still a factually incorrect answer.

Actually, after I send my hunch to the quizmaster, I realized I could just check the IPs and then confirmed that it was Nepster, but I didn't want to adjust my answer upon that knowledge.