Canadian Snacktime Trilogy by BruceM

Champion(s):

MarcotteM


Runner(s)-Up:

BishopA
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Quiz Description

The first 11 questions share a theme that question 12 reveals.

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Questions:

The name of what genre of music completes these quotes from when the protagonists of How I Met Your Mother found a lost episode of "Underneath the Tunes"? (It's the same word both times.)

Alex Trebek: "That day is now known in music history as the day [BLANK] was born."
Ted: "In 1996? In Canada? That seems right, Trebek."
Marshall: "Give him a break, he's not a music guy."
Geddy Lee: "That day is now known in music history as the day [BLANK] was born."

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grunge

What 2001 movie features Harland Williams as a man who breaks his leg on a half-pipe, Marisa Coughlan as a nurse who builds a rocket-powered wheelchair, Tom Green as an unemployed cartoonist, Eddie Kaye Thomas as the title character, and Rip Torn as a man falsely accused?

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Freddy Got Fingered

What 1992 album by Lyle Lovett includes the songs "I've Been To Memphis" and "You've Been So Good Up To Now"? Its title is made up of the names of three consecutive Old Testament books, and is also a complete sentence.

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Joshua Judges Ruth

Which Sarah McLachlan song plays over the end credits of The Brothers McMullen? "Don't let your life pass you by" is a line from this song's chorus.

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I Will Remember You

Who wrote the 2008 non-fiction book Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth, based on lectures she gave in five different Canadian cities? Martin Tielli (of Rheostatics) wrote and performed most of the soundtrack for the 2012 film version of Payback, which came out 25 years after a novel by this author won the very first Arthur C. Clarke award.

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Margaret Atwood

(Either of two answers is acceptable.) Name either the documentary series (new episodes are still being made) that first appeared on CBC in 1960 and has been hosted since 1979 by David Suzuki, or the epic poem by Lucretius that gave the series its name.

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The Nature of Things, or De Rerum Natura (accept On the Nature of Things)

Which NBC sit-com has a 2008 episode guest-starring Jason Priestley as the title character's cousin? (Spoiler alert: We learn that the title character's wife, Joy, once slept with that cousin.)

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My Name Is Earl

What band, fronted by Gordon Downie and far better known in Canada (14 Juno awards!) than in the U.S., recorded the 1989 hit "New Orleans Is Sinking"? Other songs by this band include "Nautical Disaster" and "Ahead by a Century."

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The Tragically Hip (or just The Hip)

Name the Canadian mockumentary TV series whose title location is in Nova Scotia and whose title characters include Rickey, known for malapropisms like "get two birds stoned"; Julian, a former coke dealer (and current rum and coke aficionado) who hired the camera crew; and Bubbles, who wears distinctive glasses and lives in a tool shed with a whole lot of stray cats. It is also a film franchise, whose titles include The Big Dirty, Countdown to Liquor Day, and Don't Legalize It.

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Trailer Park Boys

(Either of two answers is acceptable.) Name either the 2015 Netflix TV series, narrated by Amy Poehler, whose supporting cast includes "Weird Al" Yankovic as a hypnotist and Jon Hamm as an assassin; or the 2001 movie, a satire of teen sex comedies, that stars Janeane Garofalo as a camp director and David Hyde Pierce as an astrophysics professor. (The TV series is a prequel to the movie.)

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Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp, or Wet Hot American Summer

Which Gordon Lightfoot song (his first single to chart in the U.S.) refers to "an old time movie about a ghost from a wishing well" and "a paperback novel, the kind the drugstore sells" before reaching the troubling conclusion that "the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back"?

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If You Could Read My Mind

Which band recorded the children's album Snacktime!? Thanks to voice overs in the title track ("Canadian Snacktime Trilogy I: Snacktime"), we learn that these famous people mentioned in the first 11 questions have these favorite snacks:

  • Geddy Lee - barbecue potato chips
  • Harland Williams - blueberry pie
  • Lyle Lovett - watermelon
  • Sarah McLachlan - chocolate
  • Martin Tielli - olives
  • David Suzuki - sembei (Japanese crackers)
  • Jason Priestley - macaroni and cheese
  • Gordon Downie - peanut butter and crackers
  • Bubbles (voiced by Mike Smith) - pickled eggs
  • "Weird Al" Yankovic - honey roasted peanuts
  • Janeane Garofalo - microwaved chocolate donuts
  • Gordon Lightfoot - pasta
Getting back to the question, Snacktime! was the last album by this band before the departure of Steven Page.

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Barenaked Ladies