Joey and Mary Alice
What is the relationship between Joey and Mary Alice?
Siblings
What does Grandma try to catch with the cheese?
Fish
What kind of farm do the Cowgills have?
Cow/Dairy
What is the name of the puppy Mary Alice says she brought home?
Skipper
What two things does Mrs. Weidenbach request of Grandma?
1) to enter a pie into the county fair
2) to help with the Centennial Celebration
Where are Joey and Mary Alice from?
Chicago
Name one of Grandma’s crimes.
Fishing with traps; trespassing; stealing a boat
Which lie DOESN’T Grandma tell Ernie Cowgill?
A) She is going on a trip.
B) There was a mouse in her milk.
C) She knew they blew up her mailbox.
D) Joey was a gangster.
C! She never tells them she knows it was them.
What is Junior Stubbs’ job?
Insurance salesman
Who enters the same pie as Grandma at the fair?
Rupert Pennypacker
What does Mary Alice think her parents are doing while Joey and Mary Alice are at their Grandma’s?
Fishing in Wisconsin
What was Grandma's story of how Shotgun Cheatham got his name?
Shotgun Cheatham wanted to shoot quail with the older boys, but accidentally shot a cow instead.
What group of people is NOT welcome in the town?
Drifters
Why is Mrs. Wilcox leaving town?
She couldn't pay the bank.
Who wins “oldest settler”?
Uncle Grady
What does Joey fall in love with?
A car
Who did Grandma work for when she was a girl?
**Bonus: Describe her.
Aunt Puss Chapman
**Old, bald, toothless, etc.
How did Grandma get her revenge on the Cowgill boys?
She catches them trying to break into her house, then she has their dad punish them for the mouse in the milk.
Who has been robbing banks in the mid-west?
John Dillinger
How does Grandma get a blue ribbon?
She takes the ribbon off her hat.
Why did Joey think Grandma was a different woman each summer?
He was growing older and more mature, so Grandma didn't seem so tough or old anymore.
**Bonus: Who did everyone think the items belonged to?
A hat and a quilt
**The Lincolns
Who is the “first Dowdel ever seen in the House of the Lord”? (church)
Joey
Who is the Phantom Brakeman?
Joey
Whose pie actually wins 1st prize?
Grandma's