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Q 01The film won two Genie Awards in 1984, the top film prizes of which country?
Canada
Canada's Genie Awards honored the film for direction and original screenplay in 1984, reflecting its Ontario shoot and largely Canadian crew.
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
The prize sets off the "Battle of the Lamp", which 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 05Roughly how many boys did the director audition for Ralphie before settling on Peter Billingsley?
8,000
The director saw roughly 8,000 boys for Ralphie; Billingsley had been the first considered, and Sean Astin and Wil Wheaton were among the other hopefuls.
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, whose neon 'Bowling' sign has lost its W, serves the Parkers duck while the waiters mangle 'Deck the Halls'.
Q 07The film's adult-looking-back narration style was later adopted by which TV series?
The Wonder Years
The Wonder Years (1988) used a grown-up Kevin Arnold narrating his childhood, a device widely traced to the film's adult-Ralphie voice-over.
Q 08Which 1966 book is the film 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 directed and co-wrote the film after years of pitching Shepherd's stories to studios; he won the Genie Award for Best Director for it.
Q 10What grade does Ralphie's teacher give his Christmas theme about the air rifle?
C+
The teacher marks the theme C+, crushing Ralphie's fantasy of an A+++++ and a classroom ovation.
Q 11How does Mrs. Parker finally get Randy to eat his dinner?
By playing "mommy's little piggie"
Randy will only eat by playing "mommy's little piggie": face in the plate, snorting through the meal, while the Old Man threatens to use a plumber's helper.
Q 12Which team does the Old Man jokingly refer to as the "Chicago Chipmunks"?
The Bears
The Bears: the Old Man, a diehard fan, sputters that they are the 'Chicago Chipmunks' when their game against Green Bay comes up at dinner.
Q 13In A Christmas Story, the Old Man proudly mispronounces which shipping warning stamped on the crate holding his 'major award'?
'Fragile'
Q 21Who has to be called to free the boy whose tongue is frozen to the flagpole?
The fire department
The fire department, with police in tow, has to unstick him after the class runs back inside at the bell and leaves him there through recess.
Q 22What does the Old Man sadly do with his smashed 'major award'?
Buries it in the backyard
Unable to fix it, the Old Man sadly buries it in the backyard, having first tried to glue it back together while Mrs. Parker hid her giggles.
Q 23What word does Ralphie say that gets his mouth washed out with soap?
'Fudge'
He sounds out 'Fragile' as 'fra-gee-lay' and concludes it must be Italian. The crate holds the leg lamp that goes straight into the family's front window.
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 15The film's director appears in a cameo as which character?
Swede, the neighbor
Co-writer Leigh Brown also sneaks in, as the woman standing in the Santa line.
Q 16What year was the classic holiday film 'A Christmas Story' originally released?
1983
A Christmas Story opened on November 18, 1983, to positive reviews; its marathon TV airings from 1997 onward turned it into a perennial favorite.
Q 17Three of the short stories behind the film were first published in which magazine?
Playboy
The stories were later collected in the 1966 book In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash.
Q 18Who provided the voice narration for the adult Ralphie Parker in 'A Christmas Story'?
Jean Shepherd
The adult Ralphie, who narrates the entire story, is voiced by the film's co-writer and source material author, Jean Shepherd, who also made a cameo appearance in the department store.
Q 19What specific type of air rifle does Ralphie desperately want for Christmas?
Daisy Red Ryder
Ralphie wants a Daisy Red Ryder carbine-action 200-shot range model air rifle; the 'compass in the stock' detail came from Daisy's Buck Jones model, not the Red Ryder.
Q 20What 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.
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 24What 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.
Q 25What gift does Ralphie receive from his Aunt Clara that he describes as a 'pink nightmare'?
A bunny suit
Both Ralphie and the Old Man are appalled, and Mrs. Parker relents: he only has to wear it when Aunt Clara visits.
Q 26Where does Randy famously hide when he thinks the Old Man is going to punish Ralphie?
Under the kitchen sink
Randy hides under the kitchen sink, sobbing 'Daddy's gonna kill Ralphie!'; Mrs. Parker coaxes him out with a glass of milk.
Q 27What was the name of the school bully who tormented Ralphie and his friends?
Scut Farkus
Scut Farkus, with his yellow eyes and coonskin cap, torments the boys until Ralphie snaps and pummels him in the snow.
Q 28What 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 29Which Canadian city hosted the sound-stage filming of the Parker home interiors?
Toronto
The exteriors are Cleveland, Ohio; the tree-buying scene and the Parker house interiors were shot on a Toronto sound stage.
Q 30What brand of soap was used to wash Ralphie's mouth out?
Lifebuoy
Lifebuoy is the brand; the narrator, a self-styled soap connoisseur, preferred Lux and found Palmolive 'piquant'.