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Welcome to This Awful/Awesome Life! My name is Frances Joyce. I am the publisher and editor of this magazine. We'll be exploring different topics each month to inform, entertain and inspire you. Meet new authors, sharpen your brain and pick up a few tips on life, love, entertaining and business. Enjoy and please share!

The August 2021 Quiz - Six Degrees of Separation with a Back to School Twist

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This month’s quiz was challenging to create. I knew I wanted to feature an element of back to school but struggled with the right format. There are so many movies and TV shows about kids going back to school or kids in school that I suffered instant overload. Should I try to create six degrees of separation between actors using school-themed movies/TV shows or connect a movie to a TV show using actors and other school-related works? Should I ask our readers to match the actor with the films about school they are best known for? Should I take another approach and match the movie/TV show to the decade it’s set in? The possibilities are endless.

After much deliberation, I decided to stick with my original idea which means the 57 movies and TV shows plus their stars I listed for this quiz will be deleted and you’ll have a lot of thinking to do.

Match the actors using school-themed movies or TV shows and their co-stars from these movies/shows only. You can use a spouse or relative to make a connection but the spouse/relative must connect to the next person by a school-themed movie/TV show. You want to connect the two actors listed in 6 moves or less.

Example: Blake Lively and Eugene Levy - Blake Lively is married to Ryan Reynolds who stars in National Lampoon’s Van Wilder with Tara Reid who is in American Pie with Eugene Levy.

Answers to this quiz can be found on the last page of this issue ( Next Month in This Awful Awesome Life - September 2021) or by clicking this link, https://www.thisawfulawesomelife.com/home/2021/7/31/next-month-in-this-awful-awesome-life-september-2021

Good luck!

1.       Robin Williams and Mila Kunis

2.       Alexis Bledel and Ben Savage

3.       Laurence Fishburne and Billy Bob Thornton

4.       Rebel Wilson and Emma Watson

5.       Reese Witherspoon and Amy Smart

6.       Drew Barrymore and Julia Roberts

7.       Kevin Bacon and Molly Ringwald

8.       Michelle Pfeiffer and Arnold Schwarzenegger 

9.       Alan Ruck and Ashley Johnson

10.   Michael J. Fox and Connie Britton

Animal House Image:

By Official website, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9269760

National Lampoon’s Van Wilder Image:

By The poster art can or could be obtained from National Lampoon Inc and Artisan Entertainment., Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18007448

Boy Meets World Image:

By Self-made screencap., Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=30012480

 

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