Mama and Olivia, the Early Years
The room in the house where Olivia asked Mama for a baby sister.
What is the laundry room?
The respective years that Mama and Olivia graduated from their doctoral programs.
What is 1996 and 2025?
Mama was an extra in the sequel to this low budget, comedy-horror film about murderous vegetables.
What is Attack of the Killer Tomatoes?
Eleven-year-old Olivia sang this iconic song in a musical where she played a homesick girl from the midwest.
What is Over the Rainbow (from The Wizard of Oz)?
It is a truth universally acknowledged that as postgrads, Mama and Olivia both began devouring books by this author.
Who is Jane Austen?
Mama and little Olivia’s favorite hang-out spot.
What is Barnes & Noble (for story time)? (Also acceptable: public library, Target, any grocery store, the park)
Two possible answers! Identify 1 for full points or 2 for an extra 200 points!
Olivia’s current (and longstanding) favorite books.
What is To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf and/or The Gangster We Are All Looking For by le thi diem thuy?
Little Olivia’s first celebrity crush was this pro athlete (with great hair).
Who is Roger Federer?
An ex-boyfriend dedicated this “chilling” Foreigner song to Mama on the radio c.1980.
What is Cold as Ice?
Over Christmas break, Mama and Olivia watched the entirety of this high-octane, 10-film franchise in reverse order.
What is the Fast and Furious franchise?
Mama worked on this children’s television program, which also became little Olivia’s favorite show.
What is Sesame Street?
This classic drink-snack duo fueled both Mama’s and Olivia’s dissertation-writing processes.
What is coffee and donuts?
Mama’s weapon of choice in her gang days of yore.
What are nunchucks?
This daunting, cinematic track is what Mama would choose as her baseball walk-up song.
What is The Imperial March (Darth Vader’s Theme) by John Williams?
Liv, I *am* your mother.
Some of Mama’s comfort movies (e.g., Twister, Olympus Has Fallen) fall under this film genre.
What are disaster movies?
The song that Mama, Olivia, and Eliza learned hula to.
What is Little Brown Gal?
Two possible answers! Identify 1 for full points or 2 for an extra 200 points!
The forms of distraction Mama picked up during dissertation-writing. (One, an activity. The other, a TV show.)
What is golf and Frasier?
9-year-old Olivia won this contest at the San Diego Zoo.
What is a hula-hoop contest?
When Papa proposed to Mama, he had a harpist play this theme song from a 1980 romantic drama.
What is the theme from Somewhere in Time?
Mama has a personality mug decorated with the catchphrase of this favorite character of hers from the show Suits.
Who is Louis Litt? (You’re about to get LITT UP!)
What Olivia thought Eliza should be named instead.
What is “Oliza”?
Two possible answers! Identify 1 for full points or 2 for an extra 200 points!
The forms of distraction Olivia picked up during dissertation-writing. (One, an activity. The other, a TV show.)
What is worship team and The Lincoln Lawyer (also Suits)?
While Papa runs the Boston Marathon, Mama and Olivia go straight to this famous bakeshop on Newbury Street.
What is Levain Bakery?
Two possible answers! Identify 1 for full points or 2 for an extra 200 points!
These 70s/80s femme-fatale pop throwbacks are what Olivia would choose as her baseball walk-up songs.
What is Killer Queen by Queen and/or Heartbreaker by Pat Benatar?
Back when they first met, Mama told Papa that this was her favorite movie (after Papa said his was The Sound of Music).
What is Conan the Barbarian?