Autocomplete Word Game

You’re listening to A Way with Words, the show about language and how we use it.

I’m Grant Barrett.

And I’m Martha Barnette.

And it’s time for our quiz with our quiz guy, John Chaneski.

Hi, John.

Hi, John.

Hi, Martha.

Hi, Grant.

I have some good news.

I just started working on a new comedy game show for TruTV called Paid Off with Michael Torpy.

Ooh, cool.

So congratulations.

Yeah, so I’m very looking forward to it.

I thought it would be fun to look at one of my favorite game show style games for today’s quiz.

So this is something you may have heard of.

It’s called Google Feud.

In Google Feud, you’re given the start of a common Google search.

And it’s up to you to guess the top 10 words or phrases that Google would auto-complete that search.

Okay.

For example, it might say, why does my arm blank, blank, blank, blank.

And the top 10 answers are hidden beneath the question.

You have to guess how Google would auto-complete it.

Now, the top three answers to why does my arm are?

Hurt.

Hurt is number one.

Yes, ache is number three, and twitch is number two.

And there’s ten, and sometimes they’re very funny and weird and strange.

Sometimes the answers are very surprising.

Let’s try a few.

Now, you guys can sort of write down your answers separate and compare them if you want.

Here’s the first one.

Do fish ever blank?

Walk?

Sleep.

Sleep is the number one answer.

There we go.

Martha’s got it.

Do fish ever sleep?

And I’ll tell you the rest.

Do fish ever get thirsty?

Do fish ever drown?

Oh, my Lord.

Okay.

Valid question.

I’m totally Googling all this later.

You realize you just wasted half my day, right?

Yeah, let’s try.

Here’s another one.

Why did they build the blank?

Pyramids.

Yeah.

Pyramids is number one.

Any other guesses?

I would say pyramids too, yeah.

Great Wall, probably.

Great Wall is in the top ten.

However, number three is Panama Canal.

Okay, good.

And number two is why did they build the Titanic?

I thought there’s actually a good reason for that.

They kind of wanted to get from one place to the other.

Yeah, number two, Panama Canal, that has a lot of people doing homework.

That’s true.

Yeah, exactly.

When is a good time to blank?

Think about life moments on this one.

Get married.

Buy.

Buy a house, yeah.

Buy a house is number three.

What about buy plane tickets?

No.

A lot of those might be up there, but I only have the top couple in front of me.

Here’s a good time to give you the answers.

When is a good time to buy a house?

When is a good time to have a baby?

When is a good time to buy a car?

That’s similar to your plane ticket one.

People want to know when’s a good time.

Is it safe to eat raw?

Fish.

Shrimp.

Salmon is number four.

I’ll give you that one.

Okay.

Beef.

Or meat.

No.

No.

Tuna.

Puffer fish.

No.

Carrots.

No.

Is it safe to eat raw potatoes?

That’s number three.

Is it safe to eat raw cookie dough?

That’s a very valid question.

Sure, yeah.

Is it safe to eat raw eggs?

Oh, of course.

Everyone knows the answer to cookie dough is yes.

Just don’t Google it.

That’s our quiz for this week.

You guys were fantastic.

Thank you, John.

That was fun.

Thanks, John.

Really appreciate it.

Take care, everybody.

Thanks, guys.

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