the.com/family feud
Survey says: humanity's average guess, turned into a nightly game show.
means A game show where two families compete to match the most popular answers given by a surveyed group of people, rewarding consensus-guessing over actual knowledge.
from The format descends from a long line of 'name the survey's top answer' quiz shows, with Family Feud itself launched in the late 1970s as a spin-off segment of another game show, built around real survey data collected from ordinary people — the comedy coming from how often family contestants guess wrong about what everyone else thinks.
- debut year
- premiered in 1976, hosted by richard dawson
- the kiss
- dawson kissed every female contestant, a 70s norm
- question source
- answers come from surveys of 100 random people
- longest host
- steve harvey has hosted it since 2010