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88 free Family Feud trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
50 free Family Feud trivia questions with answers. You probably remember the awkward answers and hilarious family dynamics, but do you know the deeper lore of Family Feud? This quiz dives into the show's history, legendary episodes, and behind-the-scenes trivia that even casual fans miss. Let's see how much of a true feud fanatic you really are!
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Q 01Steve Harvey famously announced the wrong winner live on air while hosting which 2015 pageant?
Miss Universe
Miss Universe 2015 ended with Harvey crowning Miss Colombia, then coming back on stage to say he had made a mistake and that Miss Philippines, Pia Wurtzbach, was the real winner.
Q 02Family Feud premiered in July 1976 as part of which network's daytime lineup?
ABC
ABC launched it on July 12, 1976, and within a year it was the top-rated game show in daytime television, strong enough to earn a second, syndicated evening edition.
Q 03Which word opens the classic Family Feud survey prompt, as in '___ something you take to the beach'?
Name
Name: prompts such as 'Name something you expect to see on the streets at Christmas' are left wide open because players must guess what most people said, not what is correct.
Q 04How many people are surveyed to create the answers on Family Feud?
100
100 people answer every survey, which is why hosts open a round with 'We asked 100 people'; now and then the hundred are a chosen group, such as 100 men or 100 kids.
Q 05On 1970s Family Feud, what happened to a family that won $25,000?
It retired
It retired as champion: network rules of the day capped what one family could win, so a winning run ended at the limit rather than with a defeat.
Q 06How many strikes does a family get before control passes to the other family?
3
3 strikes end a family's turn and hand the other side one chance to steal; a strike is charged for an answer the survey did not give, or for no answer at all.
Q 07Family Feud's 1999–2002 host won a 2016 Emmy playing a matriarch on which FX comedy?
Baskets
Baskets gave the comedian the part of Christine Baskets, which he said he based on his own mother, trying to be the woman rather than a man playing one.
Q 08Original host Richard Dawson became famous for routinely doing what to Family Feud's female contestants?
Kissing them
Kissing them began, he said, as a kiss for luck to steady a nervous contestant; when critics objected he asked viewers to vote by mail, and they overwhelmingly told him to carry on.
Q 09In Family Feud's Fast Money, what does the host say when the second player repeats the first player's answer?
Try again
Try again forces a fresh answer, and it is why the second player waits out of earshot during the first turn: they cannot know which answers are already taken.
Q 10On Family Feud, what combined Fast Money score must two teammates reach to win the grand prize?
200 points
200 points is the target: both players answer the same five questions in turn and only the combined total counts, so a weak first turn can still be rescued by the second.
Q 11Which comedian hosted the 1988 revival of Family Feud on CBS and in syndication until 1994?
Ray Combs
Ray Combs fronted both editions; CBS dropped its daytime show in 1993, and a year later the syndicated one replaced him with the man he had succeeded, Richard Dawson.
Q 12Grant Denyer, a Gold Logie winner in 2018, hosted which country's revival of Family Feud from 2014?
Australia
Australia: Network Ten revived the show in 2014 with Denyer, who won the Gold Logie, the country's top TV popularity award, in 2018, the very year the daily series ended.
Q 13What happens when the opposing family successfully 'steals' on Family Feud?
They take the round's points
Q 21Which Home Improvement star hosted Family Feud from 2002 to 2006?
Richard Karn
Richard Karn, Al Borland to Tim Allen's Tim Taylor, took over in 2002, and his arrival brought back returning champions, who could now stay for up to five days.
Q 22Which Seinfeld actor hosted Family Feud from 2006 to 2010, right before Steve Harvey?
John O'Hurley
John O'Hurley, Seinfeld's J. Peterman, hosted four seasons and later said he left partly because the show was turning to ribald humour and he wanted it kept family-friendly.
Q 23On Family Feud, what flashes on screen when a family's answer is not on the board?
A red X
They take the round's points: one right answer steals everything the other family had banked, while a miss leaves the whole bank with the family that struck out.
Q 14In a Family Feud Face-Off, what decides control when the first buzz misses the top answer?
The higher-ranked survey answer
The higher-ranked survey answer wins control; if neither reply is on the board at all, the question moves along both families until somebody finds one.
Q 15How many family members typically make up each team on Family Feud?
5
5 relatives make up a team, led by a captain at the head of the line; the one exception was the 1994-95 season, when teams were cut to four.
Q 16What comedian and actor hosted Family Feud from 1999 to 2002?
Louie Anderson
Louie Anderson fronted the 1999 revival and wanted Richard Dawson on his first episode as a salute, but Dawson's manager turned the invitation down without even asking his client.
Q 17Which two-word phrase does the host use to cue a reveal on the Family Feud board?
Survey says
Survey says is the host's cue for the board to flip an answer or sound the buzzer, and it is familiar enough that entertainment reporters open stories about the show with it.
Q 18In Family Feud's Fast Money, what may a stumped player do?
Pass and return
Pass and return: the clock allows 20 seconds for five questions, 25 for the second player, so a skipped question is heard again only if time is left.
Q 19From 1983 to 1985, a Family Feud family could win $100 by pulling what off a small plastic tree?
A Tootsie Roll Pop
A Tootsie Roll Pop: the last player in line drew one from the tree on their turn, and a black mark on the bottom of the stick meant $100, whatever happened in the game.
Q 20On Celebrity Family Feud, what is the prize money typically donated to?
A charity each team chooses
A charity each team chooses gets the money: winning Fast Money is worth $25,000 to it, and a team that falls short in the round still sends it $10,000.
A red X flashes with a loud buzzer for every miss, and silence earns one too: a player who cannot come up with an answer in time is charged a strike just the same.
Q 24Since 2010, what has been the standard Fast Money grand prize on Family Feud?
$20,000
$20,000 has been the standard prize since Steve Harvey arrived in 2010, when the show dropped a one-season experiment that let families build a bigger jackpot before the game.
Q 25When the Hatfields and McCoys met on Family Feud in 1979, which animal was kept on stage?
A pig
A pig shared the stage with the two families all week; their real feud had been inflamed a century earlier by a court case over who owned some hogs.
Q 26Who was Family Feud's announcer for its first two runs, from 1976 to 1995?
Gene Wood
Gene Wood announced both runs after starting out as a stand-up comic, for a time in a double act with Bill Dana, and briefly hosting a game show himself, Beat the Clock.
Q 27Which production company, also behind American Idol and America's Got Talent, owns the Family Feud format?
Fremantle
Fremantle inherited the format when its forerunner, Pearson Television, bought the American company holding the show's library in 1997; the group was rebranded in 2001.
Q 28Before Family Feud, Richard Dawson played Corporal Peter Newkirk on which classic sitcom?
Hogan's Heroes
Hogan's Heroes, the POW-camp comedy, made him a familiar face as its Cockney corporal; Dawson liked to joke that the show ran six years, longer than the war itself.
Q 29As a Family Feud game moves from round to round, what happens to the number of answers hidden on the board?
It goes down
It goes down: each new survey hides fewer answers while the stakes rise, so a family in control has less room for error before it strikes out.
Q 30What determines the point value of each answer on the Family Feud board?
How many survey respondents gave it
How many survey respondents gave it sets the score, one point per person, and an answer needs at least two people behind it to appear at all, so a board rarely adds up to the full survey.