Winter Solstice
By John Crook
Questions:
1) Allison Janney ("Mom") had a small but memorable role as a frustrated wife in what 1997 movie drama set in 1973 Connecticut and starring Kevin Kline, Joan Allen and Sigourney Weaver?
2) In a song from the holiday favorite "White Christmas," Danny Kaye talks co-star Bing Crosby into joining Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen in Vermont by promising what wintry delight?
3) Aidan Quinn played a young man stricken with AIDS in one of the first TV shows to deal with the illness. What was it called?
4) Based on a British TV hit of the same name, this 1998 romantic comedy series from NBC got a chilly reception from viewers and quickly stumbled. Can you name it?
5) Born Tracy Marrow, this rapper and actor plays Detective Odafin Tutuola on "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit." Name him.
6) What lovingly animated Raymond Briggs holiday fantasy tells of a boy who, after a snowfall, finds an unexpected new friend who takes him to meet Santa Claus?
7) Which veteran of "The John Larroquette Show" later became a regular cast member on "Veronica's Closet"?
8) What 1999 Stephen King miniseries finds a New England town devastated by a blizzard that is a harbinger of doom?
9) Can you name the 1983 all-star movie smash about a reunion of college chums following the suicide of one of their friends?
10) David Jason played Detective Inspector William "Jack" Frost on what popular British TV mystery series?
Answers:
1) "The Ice Storm"
2) "Snow"
3) "An Early Frost"
4) "Cold Feet"
5) Ice-T
6) "The Snowman"
7) Daryl "Chill" Mitchell
8) "Storm of the Century"
9) "The Big Chill"
10) "A Touch of Frost"
|