You’re at the face-off. The question is, “Name an author most people learn about in high school.” You take like fifteen minutes to come up with “Mark Twain,” fifth on the list, so the idiot across from you gets a free shot at the question, and she goes, “I can’t think of anything,” and Dawson’s like, “Something, come on,” and she goes, “…Louis J., what about…no, I don’t know.” [Buzz.]
When that happens, here’s what you don’t say: “We’re going to play. I’m not even going to ask them.” No! You pass it to the moron who couldn’t even think of one thing to say at the face-off! God!
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Actually, I kind of agree with the strategy: If Dumb Family #1 gets at least one or two more on the board (and with three strikes, perhaps even one more answer could be show) and that cuts down on the odds that Dumb Family #2 could get a valid response even with discussion.
Am I reading way too much into this? Yes? Good answer!
After playing a marathon round of SNES “Family Feud”, it doesn’t really matter how you play it if the other side is completely clueless. If you think other people on their team are competent, but not good, you should play. If they have only one (really) good player, you should pass in order to mitigate.
John Steinbeck?
Depends on where the face-off-er was in the pecking order and how many English majors you have in the family. Buntings play that shit.
…Hemingway.
They face-off-er could be the one dud in the team, so it’s a hard call and does Shakespeare count as an author?
I’d guess Fitzgerald or Salinger or Ellison, but then again I went to an “arty” high school in NYC. I would be the player who got all the “Bitch, you getting ALL the strikes!” looks, and then the pity ‘Good answer’ claps.
Yeah, I can’t remember all of them. Shakespeare, Twain, Poe, Hemingway…and then I forget the others. I probably would have guessed Robert Frost, Arthur Miller, and maybe Faulkner, but I went to high school in Canada, in the ’90s, so I would be pretty useless on that one.
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