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She lost Family Feud and still got the chicken

Sudden death on Family Feud Canada comes down to one question. There's only one answer, and Eve Dubois is very sure she knows it. more

Neither the Dubois family nor the Tomlin family has reached 300 points, so host Gerry Dee sends them to sudden death, a rare finish on the show. He keeps the rules simple. Whoever gets the one answer wins the game and $10,000.

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Eve Dubois is all smiles as the sudden death question comes up.

“Name Popeye's favorite food,” Dee says. Eve hits the buzzer at once. “Chicken!” She stretches the word out as long as it'll go. She has mixed up the cartoon sailor with the chicken restaurant.

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Sudden death on Family Feud Canada comes down to one question.

It's not chicken. The answer is spinach. Her family's faces fall, and the studio audience roars.

Eve takes it well. She laughs along with the room, and viewers love her for staying so cheerful about it. It is hard to stay mad at someone having that much fun being wrong.

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Eve laughs at her own answer once spinach turns out to be the one.

The loss came with a prize after all. Popeyes, the chicken chain, gave her $10,000 worth of food. She picked chicken, and chicken is what she got.