Family Feud is a long-running American television game show that first aired in 1976, built around two families guessing the most popular answers to survey questions. A wrong answer earns a strike, and the harsh buzzer became one of the programme's most recognisable cues. As clips from the show circulated online, creators lifted that buzz as shorthand for any obvious failure, using it in quiz parodies, reaction videos and fail compilations. Its meaning needs no explanation, which is why it still works far outside the original game show format.
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The Family Feud question buzzer sound effect, the short wrong answer buzz from the TV game show, used for bad guesses, quiz fails and awkward mistakes.
This clip is the sharp question buzzer heard on Family Feud when a contestant gives an answer that is not on the board. It is a short, harsh electronic buzz, loud and flat, with no music or voice underneath, lasting just long enough to feel like a public rejection. The sound cuts straight through a confident moment and turns it into an instant fail. Viewers recognise it immediately as a strike, so even without any picture it makes a bad guess, a wrong prediction or an embarrassing mistake feel final, funny and impossible to argue with.
