Ruth Doan MacDougall

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The Snowy Series: The Husband Bench, or Bev's Book

Jen's Bench Trivia

by Jennifer Davis-Kay

One lengthy quiz for this book!

 

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Question 1: Who tells Bev about husband benches?

A client, Lynne Starling


Question 2: What’s the name of the Diana Lynn movie about the Rose Bowl Queen—and who remembers this, Roger, Bev, or Snowy?

“Peggy,” after Diana Lynn’s character, and Snowy, of course!


Question 3: Match the aftershave with the correct Bev beau: English Leather, Chaps, and Christian Dior; Geoff, Roger, and Frankie.

English Leather: Roger, Chaps: Frankie (and boo! if you got that wrong), Christian Dior: Geoff


Question 4: True or false: Roger saved his Gunthwaite letter sweater; Bev saved her Queen of the Junior Prom dress.

Roger: true, Bev: false


Question 5: On Bev’s birth certificate, Richard’s occupation is listed as __________ and Julia’s as ________.

Poultry farmer and nothing (there was no line for Julia)


Question 6: The “huge and terrifying cow” of Bev’s childhood was named . . . ?

Clover


Question 7: Development! Leicester now boasts a Staples, a Home Depot, and this, which “Snowy [is] particularly boring about.” 

The dreaded Wal-Mart!


Question 8: Name all the faces Bev makes in this book.

Shirley Temple, old crone, yearning-grandmother, Gloria Taylor, coy


Question 9: Which ‘50s song is Trulianne named for, and who made it famous?

“My Truly, Truly Fair,” Guy Mitchell


Question 10: Iwo Jima was “a volcanic island” shaped like what piece of meat?

A Pork chop


Question 11: At Christmas, the moose over Bev’s fireplace wears this.

A red and green scarf knitted by Mimi


Question 12:  Leon and Clem share this favorite ice cream flavor.

Chocolate chip


Question 13: Precocious Clem had this mastered at 18 months!

Toilet Training


Question 14:  What is the secret of Bev’s sublime meatloaf??

Pork Sausage


Question 15: Snowy’s meatloaf comprises two ingredients that Bev considers “disgusting.” What are they?

Ground turkey and wheat germ


Question 16: What became of: Vachon’s?
Roger’s uncle’s store?
Trasks?
Varney’s?

Vachon's is gone; Roger's uncle's store is now a house. Trask's is now the Gunthwaite Conference & Convention Center, and Varney's is now a self-service gas station.


Question 17: Why does Bev switch from downhill to cross-country skiing?  

She can’t stand the loudspeaker music any more.


Question 18: Bev and Roger tour Gunthwaite; what do they have for supper at Hooper’s? 

Bev has a chicken Caesar salad; Roger has the senior-citizen pot-roast dinner, to Bev’s amazement


Question 19: Hooper’s now offers what “really revolting golden oldie”?    

Liver and onions, ughy-phew


Question 20: The style of Bev’s first wedding dress reminds her of which movie actress? 

Audrey Hepburn


Question 21: Yes or no—does Snowy like haggis?

“Better this trip than last,” she says.


Question 22: What is the wording on Bev’s new office sign?

Beverly Lambert, Realtor


Question 23: Bev carries the same flowers at both of her weddings—and they are . . . ?

White roses


Question 24:  What does Gloria Taylor wear to her 45th reunion?

What does Gloria Taylor wear to her 45th reunion?


Question 25: The arrival of which piece of Roger’s furniture is Bev most dreading?

His Berkline recliner


Question 26: Let’s review: Just how do you pronounce “tourtiere”?

That would be "toot-kay"


Question 27: What is the name of Trulianne and Bev’s new business? Bonus: What was its old name?

Lake Region Small Engine Sales and Service
Old name: Doloff's Small Engine Sales and Service


Question 28: What is Leon’s traditional birthday gift to Bev?

A spray of forsythia and retrieving and hanging the wicker porch swing


Question 29: Not white, Bev’s vow-renewal dress is this color.   

Iceberg green


Question 30: Trulianne is briefly employed by this mall restaurant chain. Bonus: What is its motto?

Kitchen Garden; "Fresh and Healthful Nourishment"


Question 31: Roger wanted Bev to obtain which two of Mémère’s recipes?

Mémère’s salmon pie and tourtiere


Question 32: They are Trulianne’s parents.

Everett and Shirley Hughes


Question 33: Who were Roger's senior class officers?

Sonny Poor, President; Gary Fuller, VP; Gloria Taylor, Secretary; we don't know who was treasurer


Question 34:  Roger keeps making this change to Bev’s living room furniture arrangement.

WSwapping the end table beside his armchair for the dropleaf table under the window


Question 35: What entices Bev into a final weekend with Frankie?

The prospect of seeing Sedona and having a psychic reading


Question 36: In Sedona, Bev buys a pendant saying what? ?

"Miracles happen—ask the angels"


Question 37: What does Puddles give Bev on the occasion of her vow renewal?

A travel first-aid kit (shades of the ominously enormous one Puddles provided for Bev's first wedding


Question 38: Bev walks down the aisle to this song . . .

"My One and Only You"


Question 39:  . . . and reads this poem to Roger.   

"A Birthday" by Christina Georgina Rossetti

Last update: October 20 2011 (new page arrangement; text essentially unchanged)