> > The category was something like "Ways in which humans are different than monkeys"
> >
> > The last answer.... Opposable thumbs.
>
> My favorite Family Feud story goes like this:
>
> Dawson: "Name a question like 'how old are you?' that--"
>
> Contestant on Family #2: *buzzing in* "Eighteen."
>
> Dawson: (turning to the board) "Eighteen!"
>
> *BUZZ!*
>
> Right in here there is chit-chat with the contestant that gave the wrong answer -- in all fairness, Dawson hadn't yet finished the question -- and the contestant said something about being 18, or being nearly 18, or whatever. Anyway, Dawson turns to the contestant for Family #1, an older woman, and reads the question to her.
>
> Dawson: "Name a question like 'how old are you?' that many people will answer with a lie."
>
> Contestant on Family #1: "Fifty."
>
> Dawson: (blinks; doesn't even go through the motions of seeing if that answer's on the board) "Now I'm going to have to give them [Family #2] another chance." (turns to the *next* family member on Family #2) "Name a question like 'how old are you?' that many people will answer with a lie."
>
> Next contestant on Family #2: "Thirty-nine."

Maybe they don't pick their contestants based on intelligence.

You have to remember that Dawson was in a prison camp in Germany for a long time, during which nobody kissed him.
Howard