Stepfamily/Blended Family Trivia

The Perfect Combination

By Paula Green

National Step Family Day is celebrated on September 16. It is often called a “blended family,” where parents, siblings, and extended family members work together to try and create a happy environment.

This month, we’ll look at a few blended families in films and on television. Yours, Mine & Ours is a 2005 film starring Dennis Quaid and Rene Russo with a blended family of 18 children. It is a remake of the 1968 movie of the same name. It was based on the 1965 book Who Gets the Drumstick?

In the movie, The Parent Trap, identical twin girls are separated at birth but meet at a camp unbeknown to their divorced parents. The girls switch places to meet the parent they never knew.

Step Brothers is a 2008 American comedy film that follows Brennan (Will Ferrell) and Dale (John C. Reilly), two grown men have to live together as brothers after their single parents marry each other.

On the TV front, The Brady Bunch revolves around the life of a blended family, which comes together when Mike Brady (Robert Reed), the father of three sons, marries Carol Martin (Florence Henderson), the mother of three girls.

Step by Step was a sitcom that starred Patrick Duffy and Suzanne Somers as single parents Frank and Carol, who have three children who wed and formed a blended family.

Drake & Josh was a sitcom about two step-brothers, Drake (Drake Bell) and Josh (Josh Peck), whose parents married one another. ABC’s TV series Modern Family follows the adventures of the extended Tucker-Pritchett-Dunphy clan.

The book My Blended Family is about five-year-old Carter. It revolves around Carter’s life and his friends who are in blended/ stepfamilies. Since we’ve glanced at blended families, we must step into this household mixture query. Get set to don those thinking caps because it is time to get a little trivial.

1. Lucille Ball starred in the 1968 film Yours, Mine & Ours . Who was her male costar?

2. The 1993 movie Step Monster starred Robin Riker and Corey Feldman, and this actor portrayed the father.

3. Doris Day and Brian Keith starred in this 1968 film, where a widow with three son marries a widower with a teenage daughter.

4. Drake & Josh aired on television from 2004 to 2007, what network did it run on?

5. In the 1998 film Stepmom, Susan Sarandon and Ed Harris star as a divorced couple, Jackie and Luke Harrison. Who portrays the stepmother, Isabel Kelly?

6. What is Frank’s (Patrick Duffy) last name in the TV show Step By Step?

7. In 1995, The Brady Bunch movie was released. Gary Cole played Mike Brady; who portrayed the role of Carol?

8. Mary Steenburgen and Will Ferrell star in Step Brothers . The duo also both star in this holiday film about a blended family.

9. In the TV show Full House a widower’s brother-in-law and best friend move in to help him raise his three girls. What was the name of its spin-off series that involves family blending?

10. Name the television show that ran for one season about a grumpy New York cop and his wife who adopt five rowdy foster children.

11. This TV sitcom was similar to The Parent Trap movie, identical twin sisters separated at birth are reunited as teenagers.

12. In this film, Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore are single parents who go on a lousy blind date. They end up at the same safari resort with their kids and are forced to stay together.

13. The TV show, My Two Dads starred Greg Evigan, Staci Keanan, and this actor.

14. Name the TV drama that follows the lives of siblings Kevin, Kate, and Randall, and their parents Jack and Rebecca Pearson.

15. Major Dad revolves around a Marine who marries a reporter, he becomes the stepfather of her three girls. Who stars as Major Dad? n

Sources: nationaldaycalendar.com/national-step-family-day-september-16/, blendedforlife.com/tv-shows-about-blended-families/, tvovermind.com/shows-that-celebrate-blended-families/, www.families.com/ great-movies-for-blended-families, themoviedb.org/keyword/212795blended-family/tv