Family Feud
| Submitted by: Pam LDMcEwen@aol.com PREP TIME: Several hours COST: $4.00 for candy from the $1 store FUN: Lots Step 1: QUESTIONS. I polled the YW list, Parents list and the teem list with 25 different questions. After recieving over 100 answers I took the top 4-8 answers and reduced the number of questions to 20. Some questions while sounding good just did not get enough variety to use. The answers to the questions with my comments are below. Step 2: SETTING UP THE GAME. I used Corel Presentations and my computer to set up the questions (I have a laptop and can connect it to a TV). This could also be done with poster boards, I think (be original). At the top of each screen was the question which wasn't revealed until after it had been read. Then the answers were below, covered, with the highest response first and going down the page in descending order. The number of responses was the number of points each answer was worth. Step 3: SETTING UP THE ROOM. We met in a narrow, long room. Down the middle I put 4 standard church classroom tables in a long row. I placed chairs against both walls for the teams to sit on. When a team was answering a question they would line up along the side of the tables while the other team sat in their chaires. This allowed me to walk down one side to ack each person the question. I used a rolled up dish towel with rubberbands around it for a "buzzer". Step 4: PLAYING THE GAME. As the girls arrived we divided them into "families" trying to keep the number of Beehives, MiaMaids and Laurels even on each team. The oldest girl was the "head" of the family. The "head" came to the front where the rolled up towel was and was asked the first question. The first person to grab the towel won the chance to answer. If there answer was the number 1 she would ask her team if they wanted to play or pass. If her answer wasn't the number one her opponent had the right to try and guess a higher answer. Whoever got the higher answer option to play or pass. Once it was decided which team would play each girl would return to her spot in line and the team playing would stand up. PLAY: The team deciding to play would have the right to try and figure out all the answers to the question before missing three times, "strikes" (I used cardboard X's for strikes). I would just go down the line of girls asking each one in turn the question. In each round I started with the girl that was after the one that came to the front. If they received three strikes the other team had the chance to "steal" the points. During "play" no player may help another come up with an answer. I used a time limit of 15 seconds to answer and if no answer was given it would be a strike. PASS: If a team decides to pass the other team must play. A team would decide to do this if they think the question is hard and they can get a chance to steal. STEAL: If the team playing fails to find all the answers before three strikes the opposing team get the chance to steal. All players give the "head" possible answers and then the "head" gives the MC one answer. If the answer is on the board the stealing team gets the points that had been revealed before the steal. If the answer is not on the board the "playing team" gets the points. Time limit of 15 seconds to discuss possible answers. Play continues like this with the next member of the family coming to the front and so on and so forth. After all questions (or a pre-set time) have expired the team with the most points wins. For a prize I bought a couple of bags of gold chocolate coins for the winning team and tootsie roll suckers for everyone. Activity went very well with all involved enjoying it. The questions were just hard enough to allow for lots of attempted steals. QUESTIONS: Disclaimer: There is no scientific basis for these answers, they are all for fun. 1. Where would you like to get married? I changed this to "Which temple would you like to be married in?" Salt Lake Temple (28) Washington DC Temple (8) San Diego Temple (7) Los Angeles Temple (7) Seattle Temple (6) Hawaii Temple (5) 2. What is the most important thing to have at camp? Food/Snacks (21) TP (17) Water (8) Fire/Matches (7) Sleeping Bag (6) Clothes/clean underwear (6) Fun (5) 3. Where is the best place to go on a date? Out to dinner (32) Movie (17) Disneyland/Theme park (7) Picnic (7) Dance (5) Beach (4) Broadway musical/Theatre/Symphony (4) 4. What do you want to be when you grow up? Lots of responses!! Mom/Dad (34) Teacher (10) Doctor (4) Rich (4) Writer/journalist (4) Lawyer (4) Pilot (3) Vet (3) 5. What is the 1st thing you do when you get home? Take off shoes (23) Raid the Fridge/eat (21) Bathroom (20) Check messages/caller ID (8) Sleep/rest (7) Change clothes (6) Put down backpack (5) Homework (4) 6. Which book of scripture comes to mind first? If I were to do this again I would be more specific on this question, but it worked OK. Book of Mormon (38) 1 Nephi (25) Alma (17) Genesis (6) Mosiah (5) Bible (5) 7. What do you think is the best calling? I changed this to "Which organization do you think has the best callings?" and took all the answers and put them in organizations. Young Women's (23) Primary (18) Bishopric (8) Current calling (8) Sunday School (6) Relief Society (6) Scouts/YM (4) Nursery (4) 8. What kind of tooht paste do you use? Crest (47) Colgate (32) Aquafresh (12) Mentadent (6) Amway (4) Aim (3) Rembrant (2) 9. Which personal progress value is easiest to do? Not a lot of different responses so I used only the top three, it was hard enough. Good Works (36) Faith (22) Knowledge (19) Individual Worth (5) Integrity (5) Divine Nature (3) Choice and Accountability (2) 10. What is the best aerobic exercise? Great question, just enough variety. Walking / speed walking (25) Swimming (24) Running / jogging (21) Bike riding (6) Jazz / dance (6) Jumping jacks (4) Step Aerobics (4) Staie stepper (4) 11. What ball sport is the most fun? Basketball (35) Volleyball (29) Softball / Baseball (19) Football (12) Soccer (9) Tennis (3) Racquetball / handball (3) Kickball (3) One of the girls actually guessed this one, I was suprised. 12. What is the most popular color for bedroom walls? A little to easy. White (74) Blue/light blue (16) Off white / cream (11) Pink (4) 13. What did Lehi take into the wilderness? His family (73) Liahona (13) Tents (12) Plates of Brass (6) Camels / Animals (4) 14. What was the first animal Noah took on the arc? Elephants (22) Family (12) I combined all "human" answers Giraffe (10) Birds/Eagle/Dove (9) Cow (9) Aardvarks (6) Dog (5) 15. What is the all-time best Disney animated feature? Beauty and the Beast (20) Lion King (17) Little Mermaid (11) Snow White (10) Cinderella (9) Aladdin (9) Sleeping Beauty (5) Jungle Book (5) 16. Who is the best looney-toons character? Bugs Bunny (39) Taz (20) Tweety Bird (17) Daffy Duck (12) Marvin the Martian (7) Yosemite Sam (5) 17. What is a popular breakfast fruit? Banana (40) Oranges (29) Grapefruit (24) Strawberries (8) Blueberries (3) 18. What is the best time for Sunday meetings? Threw this question out, not enough variety in the answers. Probably would have been better if I had separated the hours from the halfs. 10/10:30 (24) 9/9:30 (15) 11/11:30 (4) 12 (2) 1 (2) 19. What is the ideal bedtime? Also thrown out becaus responsed were to close. 10pm (52) 9pm (26) 11pm (15) 8pm (8) Midnight (5) 3 am (3) 7pm (2) 2 am (2) 1 am (2) 20. What is the most common natural disaster? Would have been to easy except for the two off the wall answers, and yes people did send those in. Flood (50) Tornado (23) Hurricane (10) Earthquake (10) Bad hair day (4) Fire (5) Parents / Kids (4) Lightening / thunderstorm (2) 21. What Jr. High subject is the most popular? Physical education (29) Choir/music/band (16) Art (10) Lunch (9) English (8) History (6) Math (6) Boys/girls (5) 22. Which TV show is the funniest? Thrown out because of to many answers. Home Improvement (23) Seinfeld (10) Americas Funniest Home videos (7) Frasier (6) Simpsons (5) Friends (5) Red Green (4) Bill Cosby (4) 23. What is the ideal number of siblings? Thrown out because of not enough variety. 3 (30) 4 (22) 2 (19) 5 (15) 0 (10) 1 (7) 6 (6) 8 (2) 24. What day of the week is the busiest? I used this as the example question. Monday (37) Wednesday (17) Saturday (17) Sunday (16) Friday (15) Tuesday (10) Thursday (2) 25. Which month of the year is the slowest? I only used 4 but would suggest using 6. January (30) August (14) March (12) October (10) February (9) December (9) More Family Feud Questions
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