Family Matters
Lights, Camera, Christmas!
Guns & Pens
Rockin' All the Way
FEAST MODE
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An annual pilgrimage for one adventurous couple, this iconic Texas event is famous for fried food on sticks, Big Tex, and blue-ribbon-dawning livestock.
What is the Texas State Fair?
100
Ralphie desperately wants a Red Ryder BB gun in this endlessly replayed holiday movie.
What is A Christmas Story?
100
Edward Bulwer-Lytton coined the phrase, “The pen is mightier than…” This other deadly weapon.
What is the sword?
100
When you grab the mic at karaoke, the chorus with "streetlights, people" practically sings itself from this Journey anthem.
What is Don't Stop Believin'?
100
On a snowy game day up north, the squeaky bite that makes Cheeseheads grin is this fresh dairy delight.
What are cheese curds?
200
Loved by many but rejected by at least one very vocal family member, this crop ruins more meals than it saves.
What is corn?
200
This holiday comedy features an over-the-top Griswold family light display and a squirrel in the tree.
What is National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation?
200
Writers love these for lists; shooters use them at the range.
What are bullets?
200
George Michael turned sleigh bells into synth bells in 1984 and left his heart under the tree in this evergreen seasonal single.
What is Last Christmas?
200
Silky gravy and glossy sauces owe their texture to the alchemy of flour and fat cooked together under this French name.
What is a Roux?
300
With Ginger, Hula, Bella, and Kaya already on the family pet roster. James and Valerie's newly adopted Siamese cat goes by this name.
What is Suriya?
300
Bill Murray relives the same Christmas Day over and over in this modern, cynical take on A Christmas Carol.
What is Scrooged?
300
A writer might publish in one; a shooter loads rounds from one.
What is a magazine?
300
Couples slow-dance to it every decade, even though Sting swears it isn't romantic. Name The Police's watchful 1983 single.
300
Left home alone during the holidays, Kevin McCallister proudly prepares this boxed comfort food before defending his house.
What is mac & cheese?
400
This ill-advised and explosive campfire moment shocked everyone and guaranteed one man would never live it down.
What is the bean bomb incident?
400
Set mostly in a Los Angeles skyscraper on Christmas Eve, this action film fuels one of the internet’s longest holiday debates.
What is Die Hard?
400
Founded in the 19th century, this American brand first made rifles and later went on to find success making commercial typewriters.
What is Remington?
400
Billy Idol snarls through a not-so-matrimonial anthem whose title sounds seasonally snowy in this 1982 classic.
What White Wedding?
400
This fermented cabbage dish is traditionally eaten on New Year’s Day for good luck.
What is sauerkraut?
500
Stephanie has this many tattoos.
What is 12, I think?
500
Sarah Jessica Parker stars as Meredith, whose Christmas visit with her boyfriend’s family goes painfully off the rails in this holiday film.
500
It measures a firearm’s bore diameter and, figuratively, the quality of a writer’s work.
What is caliber?
500
This rock-and-roll icon’s 1957 Christmas album has remained one of the best-selling holiday records of all time, despite the singer initially resisting recording it.
Who is Elvis Presley?
500
In Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, this bird is famously sent to the Cratchit family to feast upon.
What is a goose?