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Q 01A Christmas Story won two Genie Awards in 1984, the top film prizes of which country?
Canada
Canada's Genie Awards honored it for direction and screenplay, since it was a co-production shot partly north of the border; the directing prize was a tie with David Cronenberg.
Q 02What does Ralphie tell his mother caused the injury near his eye on Christmas morning?
A falling icicle
Ralphie blames a falling icicle; the BB had actually ricocheted off his metal target, knocked off his glasses, and he stepped on them while searching.
Q 03What "major award" does the Old Man win in a newspaper contest?
A lamp shaped like a woman's leg
A lamp shaped like a woman's leg, fishnet stocking and all, is the prize; the 'Battle of the Lamp' ends when Mrs. Parker 'accidentally' breaks it while watering her plant.
Q 04Which of Ralphie's friends gets his tongue stuck to a flagpole after a 'triple-dog dare'?
Flick
Flick's tongue freezes to the flagpole after Schwartz's triple-dog dare; the class then refuses to tell their teacher who dared him.
Q 05Thousands auditioned to play Ralphie; when did Peter Billingsley try out?
Before anyone else
Before anyone else: Billingsley was the first boy seen and won the director over at once, yet thousands more auditioned, Sean Astin and Wil Wheaton among them, before he got the part.
Q 06Where do the Parkers end up eating Christmas dinner after their own is ruined?
Bo Ling's Chop Suey Palace
Bo Ling's Chop Suey Palace owes its name to a neon 'Bowling' sign whose W has gone dark; inside, the waiters mangle 'Deck the Halls' for the Parkers.
Q 07A Christmas Story's adult-looking-back narration style was later used by which TV series?
The Wonder Years
The Wonder Years (1988) had a grown-up Kevin Arnold narrate his boyhood just as the adult Ralphie does, a voice-over style born from Jean Shepherd telling these stories on the radio.
Q 08Which 1966 book is A Christmas Story primarily based on?
In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash
In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash (1966) collects Shepherd's semi-autobiographical stories; the film strings several of them into one 1940s Christmas.
Q 09Who is the director of 'A Christmas Story'?
Bob Clark
Bob Clark heard one of Jean Shepherd's stories on the radio in 1968 and spent more than a decade trying to get the film made.
Q 10What grade does Ralphie's teacher give his Christmas theme about the air rifle?
C+
The teacher marks the theme C+, a long way from Ralphie's daydream in which she swoons over his 'sheer poetry' and awards it an A-plus.
Q 11How does Mrs. Parker finally get Randy to eat his dinner?
By playing "mommy's little piggie"
By playing "mommy's little piggie", Randy snorts his dinner straight off the plate; the Old Man's rival plan was to pry his mouth open with a screwdriver and a plumber's helper.
Q 12Which team does the Old Man jokingly refer to as the "Chicago Chipmunks"?
The Bears
The Bears are no 'terror of the midway' to the Old Man: 'more like the Chicago Chipmunks', he scoffs, a Chicago fan because the family lives just over the line in northwest Indiana.
Q 13In A Christmas Story, the Old Man proudly mispronounces which shipping warning stamped on the crate holding his 'major award'?
'Fragile'
Q 21What does the Old Man sadly do with his smashed 'major award'?
Buries it in the backyard
Buries it in the backyard is all he can do: the house is out of glue, and he is sure his wife 'used up all the glue on purpose'.
Q 22What word does Ralphie say that gets his mouth washed out with soap?
'Fudge'
Ralphie says 'Fudge' (really 'the F-dash-dash-dash word, the queen mother of dirty words') and blames Schwartz, whose mother is heard beating him over the phone.
Q 23What Christmas centerpiece do the Bumpus hounds devour on Christmas Day?
Turkey
The Bumpus hounds devour the turkey; the narrator mourns the lost turkey sandwiches, hash, gravy and gallons of turkey soup, and the family eats out.
He sounds out 'Fragile' as 'fra-gee-lay' and decides it must be Italian, until Mrs. Parker gently tells him what the word actually says.
Q 14What gift does the department store Santa suggest to Ralphie?
A football
Santa suggests a football; a dazed Ralphie nearly accepts before clawing back up the slide to finally ask for his air rifle.
Q 15A Christmas Story's director appears in a cameo as which character?
Swede, the neighbor
Swede, the neighbor who stops in the street to ask what is glowing in the window, is the director himself; all three of the film's screenwriters sneak into it.
Q 16Three of the short stories behind A Christmas Story were first published in which magazine?
Playboy
Playboy ran them between 1964 and 1966, a racy first home for boyhood tales that ended up as a family holiday staple.
Q 17In Ralphie's Wild West daydream, which outlaw does he face down with his trusty air rifle?
Black Bart
Black Bart and his gang are the villains Ralphie holds off with 'Old Blue'; the daydream returns on Christmas morning, when he fires at his target saying, 'Okay, Black Bart, now you get yours.'
Q 18What specific type of air rifle does Ralphie desperately want for Christmas?
Daisy Red Ryder
Daisy Red Ryder is the short form: after blurting out the wrong gift, Ralphie tells Santa he wants 'an official Red Ryder carbine-action 200-shot range model air rifle'.
Q 19What phrase is repeatedly used to warn Ralphie about his desired Christmas gift?
'You'll shoot your eye out!'
'You'll shoot your eye out!' comes from his mother, his teacher, and finally the department store Santa, who says it before shoving Ralphie down the slide.
Q 20Who has to be called to free the boy whose tongue is frozen to the flagpole?
The fire department
The fire department has to free him: when the bell rings the other kids run back inside, and he stays stuck to the pole until the teacher asks where he has got to.
Q 24Which gift from Aunt Clara turns Ralphie into 'a pink nightmare', in the Old Man's words?
A bunny suit
A bunny suit: the Old Man also calls him 'a deranged Easter bunny', and Mrs. Parker relents, so he need only wear it when Aunt Clara visits.
Q 25Where does Randy famously hide when he thinks the Old Man is going to punish Ralphie?
Under the kitchen sink
Under the kitchen sink is where Mrs. Parker finds Randy sobbing that Daddy is going to kill Ralphie; he will not come out, so she hands him a glass of milk and leaves him there.
Q 26Which yellow-eyed bully torments Ralphie and his friends until Ralphie finally snaps?
Scut Farkus
Scut Farkus, in his coonskin cap, terrorizes the boys with his toady in tow until a weeping Ralphie pummels him in the snow.
Q 27What popular radio program's secret message does Ralphie try to decode?
Little Orphan Annie
Little Orphan Annie's radio show sends the coded message; the decoder pin on screen is a genuine 1940 model, a quiet clue to the story's year.
Q 28Which city's sound stage hosted the Parker home interiors for A Christmas Story?
Toronto
Toronto sound stages held the Parker home's rooms; years later the real Cleveland house used for the exteriors was rebuilt inside to match those sets.
Q 29What brand of soap goes in Ralphie's mouth after he blurts out the forbidden word?
Lifebuoy
Lifebuoy gets the worst review from the narrator, a self-styled connoisseur of soap who prefers Lux; in his revenge daydream the Old Man wails, 'I told you not to use Lifebuoy!'
Q 30Which star was considered for the role of the Old Man before Darren McGavin was cast?
Jack Nicholson
Jack Nicholson was considered for the Old Man, but the modest budget could not cover his fee; Darren McGavin was cast instead.