On April 16, the St. Pius X Catholic Center and Parish, located between Grubbs Hall and Horace Mann, hosted a game night centered around the popular television game show Family Feud. There was a Braum’s gift card at stake for the winners.
“At our winter board retreat, I don’t know if it was from watching an episode of Family Feud or not, but we decided to put on one of our own,” commented Riley Vitt, a sophomore finance and accounting major. Vitt helped plan and put on the event, playing music from the show to liven the atmosphere as Father Derek Thome, the chaplain of St. Pius X, served as the host of the event.
The Family Feud at St. Pius X was played almost the same as the game show. Representatives from two teams of five would come up to a stand, and the host would ask a question that was also asked in a survey to non-contestants. Whoever picked the answer that had the most answers from the survey could either let their team play and try to guess everything on the board or pass and let the other team do it if the question could be difficult. Play would continue until a team either filled the board or got three wrong answers, allowing the other team to steal with a right answer and take the points for themselves. Whoever had the most points at the end of four rounds would go on to play Fast Money, where two contestants had to answer the same survey and try to score the most points. The survey questions that were asked were asked to St Pius X students.
St. Pius X played the game like a tournament, with the first match being between Purple Precise, a group of students who strived for precision, and the Old Heads, a team of all seniors. The first question to be asked was a fill in the blank question, where the teams had to guess something to finish the sentence if Fr. Derek had said, “I haven’t (blank) yet.” Round two was about senior psychology major Austin O’Hara, who was on the Old Heads, and to try and guess one of his majors, ranging from things offered at Pittsburg State like construction and psychology, to things not offered like theology. Round three was about famous nicknames of students who worshiped at St. Pius X, while round four was about Fr. Derek again, this time being about national parks he had visited. Purple Precise earned the most points and went on to play Fast Money.
The second game to be played was between Three Brunettes and a Blonde and Running Out of Time. Question one was about the city of Pittsburg as a whole, with the survey asking for the best places to go on a date in the area. Rounds two and three were a little more personal to St. Pius X, with the third round being about the best lunch that the center serves on Wednesdays. Running Out of Time took the win in that match.
With the game running close to the start of the center’s nightly confessionals and mass, a final game wasn’t played. Instead, the people operating the game calculated the Fast Money scores, with Running Out of Time coming through to win the Braum’s gift card. This excitement and joy was felt by everyone, even people who didn’t actively play, like sophomore graphic communications major Haley Burkhart.
“I spend a lot of time at the Newman Center, so I thought it would be a fun thing to do with my friends. It was super fun to watch, I honestly think I had more fun watching than I would’ve if I had participated.”