And the Survey Says
($100) This is the name of the TV game show where families must answer how the audience filled out a survey.
Answer: What is Family Feud? It is a spin-off from Match Game
($100) This country is home to the Champs-Élysées
Answer: What is France? The Champs-Élysées is a main avenue running through Paris. It’s home to top entertainment, shopping, and eateries.
($100) This word refers to both a color and a citrus fruit
Answer: What is orange? Similar fruits include tangerine and tangelo.
($100) In The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy travels on this with her three friends and her dog to find the man behind the curtain
Answer: What is the Yellow Brick Road? The Oxford English Dictionary defines the phrase yellow brick road as denoting a course of action or series of events that leads to a particular outcome or goal.
($100) This is found around a bathtub, a collar, or a finger.
Answer: What is ring? Wisk detergent used to have a “ring around the collar” commercial.
($100) Every year, we fall for pranks on this day.
Answer: What is April 1 or April Fools’ Day? Typical pranks include swapping sugar and salt and placing plastic wrap on the toilet seat.
($200) Survey says this is the top item to go with peanut butter.
Answer: What is jelly? Other answers are chocolate, bananas, Oreos, oats, and celery—in that order.
($200) Sandwiched between Miami and West Palm Beach, this city is a hit with college students during spring break.
Answer: What is Fort Lauderdale? The beaches and sidewalks are wall-to-wall people during spring break.
($200) This is used in sewing and to draw blood.
Answer: What is a needle? The first sewing needles were made from bone
($200) Scarlett’s love walks out on her in this movie, but she remains hopeful, saying, “I’ll go home and I’ll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day!”
Answer: What is Gone with the Wind? Vivien Leigh plays Scarlett, and this is the last line of the film.
($200) Land in the United States is measured in this unit.
Answer: What is acre? In some other parts of the world, it is measured in hectares. One hectare equals 2.47 acres.
($200) In April we bring awareness to this outdoor area reserved for planting.
Answer: What is garden? It is National Garden Month. Enjoy April’s splash of nature, plant something in a garden, or bring some cut flowers indoors to celebrate the month.
($400) Survey says this is the top answer for famous rivalries between brands.
Answer: What is Coke vs. Pepsi? It garnered 38 percent of the vote. The No. 2 answer is McDonald’s vs. Burger King.
($400) It is the capital of Kentucky.
Answer: What is Frankfort? Many bourbon distilleries are located in and around Frankfort.
($400) This is a unit in the alphabet and something you write and mail to someone.
Answer: What is a letter? Since email has become the main way to correspond, it’s a real treat to receive a letter from someone. Fun fact: In 1959, the USPS sent 3,000 pieces of mail from Virginia to Florida via a cruise missile. It took 22 minutes.
($400) He is the proprietor of Café Américain who bumps into his old flame Ilsa in Casablanca.
Answer: Who is Rick? Ilsa flies away from Casablanca with Victor Laszlo, her current flame, at the end of the movie.
($400) This is where the engine connects to an airplane.
Answer: What is wing (or tail)? Some aircraft, such as the Boeing 727, the Douglas DC-10, and the Lockheed 1011, have an additional engine that connects to the tail.
($400) In April, we honor prevention of cruelty to these
Answer: What are animals? We raise awareness about animal cruelty during Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Month.
($600) He was the host of Family Feud from 1976–1985. He made the phrase “survey says” a household phrase.
Answer: Who is Richard Dawson? Dawson was well-known for playing Corporal Peter Newkirk in Hogan’s Heroes as well as being a regular panelist on Match Game.
($600) It is the sister city to Dallas
Answer: What is Fort Worth? It’s known as the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex
($600) This is a loud dog vocalization and the outer part of a tree trunk.
Answer: What is bark? A dog can also whimper. It’s common for a dog to bark and whimper, but when it whimpers, it could mean distress.
($600) Julia Roberts uses her smarts, looks, sass, and determination to foil major polluters in this movie.
Answer: What is Erin Brockovich? The film is based on the true story of Erin Brockovich’s class-action suit against Pacific Gas & Electric Company
($600) This is shared by B.B., Billie Jean, and Larry the former CNN talk-show host.
Answer: What is King? B.B. was a blues guitarist, Billie Jean changed the course of tennis for women players, and Larry King hosted Larry King Live from 1985 to 2010.
($600) All month long, we honor this genre of music that has its roots in blues.
Answer: What is jazz? Jazz Appreciation Month honors the genre’s influence of a combination of American, European, and West African music. It first arrived on American shores in New Orleans
($800) Survey says this is the top food you would buy at a carnival or state fair.
Answer: What is cotton candy? It won by only one point, and corn dog was the runner-up.
($800) This is the snowiest city in Arizona according to National Weather Service statistics. As of 2018, it was averaging 101.7 inches of snow per year.
Answer: What is Flagstaff? Flagstaff’s snowiest winter on record was 210 inches in 1972–73.
($800) This is to refuse someone entry and a place that serves alcoholic beverages.
Answer: What is bar? Some people who cause problems at a bar are barred from returning to the bar.
($800) Ben Stiller plays Greg Focker, who meets his future in-laws. Robert De Niro plays his fiancée’s father, a retired CIA operative, and sets Greg up with traps and tests engineered for failure.
Answer: What is Meet the Parents? In the movie, De Niro’s character has an office full of technological equipment, including a lie detector and other CIA toys.
($800) Short nickname used by North Americans for a person from the United Kingdom.
Answer: What is Brit? The Brit is also a music award, so Brits do not typically call each other Brits.
($800) During April, we honor this nut associated with southern cooking and baking.
Answer: What is pecan? It is the only nut native to North America and is grown primarily in the Midwest and South.
($1,000) Survey says this is the top song with the word love in the title.
Answer: What is “Love Me Tender”? The popular Elvis tune is followed by Dolly Parton’s “I Will Always Love You,” which Whitney Houston made a worldwide phenomenon.
($1,000) It is the largest interior city in Alaska.
Answer: What is Fairbanks? You can catch spectacular views of the northern lights, aka the aurora borealis, from August to April. You can also catch the midnight sun from mid-May through July.
($1,000) This is a type of currency and the opposite of soft.
Answer: What is hard? Hard currency is considered stable and is backed by the government.
($1,000) Rivals John Gustafson (Jack Lemmon) and Max Goldman (Walter Matthau) are long-time neighbors. When Ariel Truax (Ann-Margret) moves into the neighborhood, they try to outdo each other to vie for her affection in this movie.
Answer: What is Grumpy Old Men? In an outtake of Walter Matthau in the bathtub, he improvises, “If I’d known there was going to be a nude scene, I would’ve asked for an extra million.” Everyone found it so funny that they included it in the theatrical trailer.
($1,000) This is a term for playing music for donations in a public place, such as a sidewalk or park.
Answer: What is busking? Amplification is not always allowed, and typically drums and saxophones are not allowed. Some people bring their pets with them when street performing.
($1,000) In the United States, we celebrate this coin on April 1.
Answer: What is the penny? It’s National One-Cent Day. At one time, the penny was mostly zinc, with only 2.75 percent copper.