A Christmas Story by BruceM

Champion(s):

AlexanderD
Say hi to your mum for me. :)


Runner(s)-Up:

DuffyM


Quiz Description

You'll shoot your eye out, kid!

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Questions:

What two-word brand name, taken by Daisy Outdoor Products from the name of a comic strip cowboy, completes this sentence from Ralphie Parker's theme paper?

"What I want is a [BLANK] BB gun with a compass in the stock and this thing which tells time."

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Red Ryder

What item does Ralphie's theme specifically call out as not a very good Christmas present? Higbees' department store Santa later suggests this to Ralphie:

"How about a nice [BLANK]?"

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football

What magazine was published by Cowles Media until 1971 and once employed Stanley Kubrick as a photographer? Early in the movie, Ralphie slips an ad for his desired Christmas gift into his mom's copy of this magazine.

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Look

What is the name of the Lone Ranger's nephew's horse? ("How the hell did you know that?" "Everybody knows that!") The name of this horse, as one of the "great characters in American literature," helps the Old Man win a "major award."

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Victor

Which Christmas carol does the Parker family sing in the car on the way home from buying a Christmas tree, immediately before the flat tire scene?

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Jingle Bells

Which Tchaikovsky work accompanies Ralphie's fantasy of Miss Shields giving his theme an A+++++? In the fantasy, Miss Shields opens Ralphie's paper just as this overture slows down and changes key from B minor its D-flat "love theme."

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Romeo and Juliet

What six-word phrase is the first message Ralphie decodes after his Little Orphan Annie secret society decoder pin arrives in the mail? ("A crummy commercial?!")

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Be Sure To Drink Your Ovaltine

What word (it's the same word each time) fills in the blank in each of these sentences from this acrimonious exchange?

"Get the [BLANK]."

"We're out of [BLANK]."

"You used up all the [BLANK] on purpose!"

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glue

What brand name was associated with the tagline "motorists wise" in old radio ads? The Old Man receives a can of this car cleaning wax on Christmas morning, after asking "didn't I get a tie this year?" but before having a blue bowling ball dropped into his lap.

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Simoniz

What 1966 novel by Jean Shepherd provides the source material for A Christmas Story? You may provide either the four-word short title or the eight-word full title.

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In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash

What 1983 movie, subtitled "The Next Day," pits the Angel Beach High Shakespeare Festival against Bubba Flavel's "Righteous Flock" and the local KKK? Bob Clark directed this film immediately before directing A Christmas Story.

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Porky's II (do not accept "Porky's" or "Porky's Revenge")

What 2009 movie was Peter Billingsley's own directorial debut, over 25 years after Billingsley played Ralphie? Filmed on Bora Bora, it stars Vince Vaughn, Jason Bateman, Jon Favreau, Kristin Davis, and Kristen Bell, among others.

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Couples Retreat