William McCulloch of Monroeville is a major fan of the movie "A Christmas Story," so he created this trivia quiz.

Mr. McCulloch, now 75, grew up in West Newton and was the second oldest boy with three brothers and a sister. "We were not allowed in our family to have guns," he said.

So when he was 9, the brothers got together and bought a BB gun and hid it in an outdoor hollow fence railing at a neighbor's house. They would sneak out and shoot birds out of trees and off utility wires, then put it back in its hiding place.

"When I first saw the movie, it immediately took me back to my childhood," he said. "I watch it about twice a year.

"Here was this kid who went to bed with his gun, and we had to hide ours in a hollow fence.

If you're stumped by any of these questions, you can brush up on the movie that airs for 24 hours on TBS beginning at 8 tonight.

Questions

1. In what state did the story take place?

2. What was the last name of the family in the story?

3. What were the names of the two brothers?

4. Name of the street where the family lived?

5. Year and make of the family car?

6. Name of the department store where they visited Santa?

7. What was the name of the school?

8. Name of the teacher?

9. What grade did she give him on his Christmas theme?

10. What remark did she make on the bottom after the grade?

11. Who stuck his tongue on the flagpole?

12. By whom was the tongue removed?

13. Name of the bully?

14. What color were his eyes?

15. How many men were in Black Bart's gang?

16. What did our hero name his gun?

17. How many shots did it hold?

18. What was the name of Lone Ranger's nephew's horse?

19. To his neighbors, how did the father refer to the leg lamp in the window?

20. From what radio program did the elder boy get his decoder ring?

21. What was the decoded message?

22. What caused the furnace to malfunction?

23. What brand of soap did elder boy have to keep in his mouth?

24. Who owned the dogs?

25. What was the name of the magazine in his mother's bedroom?

26. Name of restaurant where they ate Christmas dinner?

27. What was the main course?

28 What Christmas carol did the waiters sing?

29. What did the youngest boy take to bed with him?

30. What did the oldest boy take to bed with him?

Bonus

Author and narrator Jean Shepherd makes a cameo appearance in the movie. Where does he appear and as whom?

Answers

1. Indiana

2. Parker

3. Ralph and Randy

4. Cleveland Street

5. 1937 Oldsmobile

6. Higbee's (actually in Cleveland)

7. Warren G. Harding

8. Miss Shields

9. C+

10. You'll shoot your eye out.

11. Flick

12. Police and firemen

13. Scut Farkus

14. Yellow

15. Six

16. Old Blue

17. 200

18. Victor

19. Major Award

20. "Little Orphan Annie"

21. "Be sure to drink your Ovaltine"

22. A clinker

23. Palmolive

24. Bumpus

25. Look

26. Chop Suey Palace

27. Duck

28. "Deck the Halls"

29. Zeppelin

30. Old Blue

Bonus

Near the end, when the boys arrive at the department store to see Santa and try to join the line, a waiting man tells them, "The line ENDS here. It begins THERE." That man is Jean Shepherd, who wrote the stories the movie is based on. He died in 1999. Incidentally, the woman in line behind Shepherd is his wife, and the film's director, Bob Clark, appears as the neighbor in the street who asks The Old Man about the lamp.