Family Feud. The Game Show, that is.

Among the dozens or so game shows on TV, I get to watch the Family Feud, occasionally. Now, the show is being hosted by John O'Hurley, he, of the Seinfeld Show (Boss of Elaine), and co-champion in the very first edition of Dancing with the Stars.

I enjoy watching Family Feud, US edition, because the answers could be hilarious at times.

I saw a re-run a while back, in which the two families were asked: "Name four famous people named Jessica."

The top answer was Jessica Simpson, followed by Jessica Alba. Then there was Jessica Biel.

I think, both families missed the fourth famous Jessica. One family answered Jessica Tandy, but it was wrong. The people who were surveyed named Sarah Jessica Parker (of Sex in the City) as the fourth famous Jessica.

There's a Family Feud, Philippine edition, hosted by actor Richard Gomez and which has enjoyed success in the ratings game. Now, if the same question were to be asked in the Philippine franchise, "name four famous people named Jessica, who would you include?"

Maybe Jessica Soho of the GMA News. Or, I'd even say, Jessica Zafra, a fiction writer, a Palanca awardee for her story Portents, and as she describes herself, semi-famous.

Jessica Zafra enjoys a large audience/readership for her blog, newspaper columns and stories. She also co-published two magazines in the mid-90's, Flip and Manila Envelope, and her Twisted Books have been a best-seller. I love reading her work.

Another game show which I enjoy watching is called Password, now hosted by Reggis Philbin. I remember watching the old Password/Clue back home on Uncle Bob's Channel 7, during the 70's.

In Password, two teams, each made up of one celebrity and one contestant, go head to head to guess clues to secret "passwords." One person on each team has the words, and has to use synonyms or related words to help their partner guess the passwords.

The clue-giver and guesser swap roles after each round, and halfway through the game the celebrities swap partners. Each team plays four rounds, guessing up to five words within a 30 second time limit.

Password is a game show which allows viewers to think and to participate. The word-correlation thing is a fantastic mind-exercise, a could-be-deterrent to onset of Alzheimer's.

But my favorite of all game shows is the Jeopardy. Questions can get ultra - tough or give- away, and I watch it also to learn from Alex Trebek the correct pronunciation of hard-to-say words, especially, those French ones.