Are my kids okay?
Rachel used to do this to her stuffed animals in order to take care of them
What is cut their hair/groom them?
This is the name of one of the many countries Nana says her side of the family was from (multiple answers are accepted here)
What is Madagascar, Bahamas, Poland?
This is the reason Mom gives for initially giving Dad a chance and going on a date with him in his Residency
What is Richard looked like a foreign grad because he was tan after returning from vacation?
This was Pumpkin's favorite place to take a nap when someone was laying down
What is the neck?
In a family ensemble, Dad would orchestrate the musical styling of this song in car rides, where Thomas would repeat the phrase "so good" twice and Rachel would resolve the phrase by singing a guttural "HUHHH”.
What is I Feel Good by James Brown?
Thomas did this to the 2008 Toyota Camry and subsequently tried to hide it in plain sight by parking in the driveway with a certain side facing the street
What is parallel parked into a brick wall and scratched the entire right side of it?
This is the color/style of the tournament jacket Brian won in 2025 that he wont shut up about and wants to remind everyone that Richard has not won a tournament jacket
What is the color blue pin stripe sears sucker?
(Brian requested this as a followup to his question in Shuman Lore)
How many plaques on the wall of Burlington Country Club have the name Brian Shuman written on it as a legacy and how many plaques does Richard have at his golf club with his name on it?
What is 4 (with a trophy) and 0?
In a feat of idiocy and athleticism, Lucky would try to sit on this precarious spot in the Amherst house?
What is the top of the door to the basement?
Inevitably, every drive down to cape cod included this song on the playlist. Finish these lyrics: “ Now that you have gone, theres no other. Tempted by the fruit of another. _______________”
What is “tempted but the truth is discovered”?
As of today, Rachel has had this many concussions
What is 3 (diagnosed)? extra points if you can describe how any of them occurred
Brownie famously did this when Richard was being forced to play with the older brothers in the snow?
What is sit in front of the sled and not move until the took Richard off the sled?
This award was the only one that Richard was not able to win upon graduating Rivers Academy, as it went to Jeff Schmidt.
What is the English Award?
After getting sick, Molly stopped eating this food as it was used as a form of trickery by her humans
What is Banana?
This is the number of minutes that they say is used to measure a year in the show-stopping number "Seasons of Love" from Rent
What is 525,600 minutes?
There is video evidence of Thomas reading this book in the bathtub as a child
What is Scooby Doo and the Hex Files?
This is the name of the PARTNER Pop worked with to found the BU School of Dental Medicine
Who is Henry M. Goldman?
This is the reason Richard did not follow through on getting engaged and marrying a previous girlfriend who's mom cooked amazing Jewish food
What is she was going to have her dad pay for the whole thing
These are the names of all 7 of the pets Elie, Richard, Thomas and Rachel have had (starting at the conception of the family).
Who is Scootsie, Shu-cat, Lucky, Pumpkin, Rembrant, Nugget, Molly
In Jackson 5's hit song "ABC", these are the three branches of the learning tree that always used to trip up Richard when singing along
What are reading, writing, and arithmatic?
These two people stood up Thomas and Rachel for a high school dance
Who are Will Sanford and Emily Rand?
This is the estimated range of the amount of money Lou owes family members and the government (as of today)?
1M to govt + 250k to pop +250k to Jody + a few k from Brian = over 1.5M
This is the age at which Dad seemed to emotionally stagnate for nearly half of my lifetime, of which we would all constantly remind each other
What is 4?
This is the name of the neighborhood dog that barked every day for nearly 18 years at the Amherst House
Who is Lucy?
Finish these lyrics of this Richard Shuman fave:
"You can get along if you try to be strong, but youll never be strong! Cuz youre a _______________"
Bonus points if you can name the two singers
What is "youre a rich girl, and youve gone too far, cuz you know it dont matter anyway"
by Daryl Hall & John Oates