December 17, 2004

Trivia Answer: A Journey of Mimi, Tom and Benito

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If anyone knows if there is a Mimi Slocum-type character living in Georgetown, we want to interview her. As you can see from this colorful scene from "Igby Goes Down," Susan Sarandon, playing the pill-popping, neurotic Georgetown socialite Mimi Slocum is sitting on her maid. Though most of "Igby Goes Down" takes place in New York, the scenes involving sheltered affluence in Georgetown is always entertaining. (Do good Georgetown children kill their mothers, as in "Igby"?)

So if you've seen "Igby," you probably recognized the hospital scene at the George Washington University hospital, named in honor of Ronald Reagan, who recovered from the 1981 assassination attempt on his life at the Washington Hilton. So to answer the first clue, that is the connection between Reagan and Sarandon.

So what about the second clue, the Road to "Irreparable Loss"?

Well, Tom Hanks starred in the "Road to Perdition" with Jude Law and Jennifer Jason Leigh. But Hanks' going barefoot in the park refers to the bad 1980s movie "The Man With One Red Shoe," a comedy-of-sorts set in Washington. If you did enough Google searching, you may have discovered that the movie had a scene filmed at Dupont Circle.

Anyone working at the Watergate (we're looking at you, National Journal folks), could probably get the third clue really easily. As long as you could figure out that Helmut Schellhardt played Mexican President Benito Juarez in the 1988 movie "Präriejäger in Mexiko: Benito Juarez," you could figure out that the statue to Benito Juarez stands at the intersection of Virginia and New Hampshire avenues. (We practically gave that away with our imbedded hints ...)

So to put that all three clues together, what is the common avenue they share? Simple geography gives us the answer: New Hampshire Avenue.

Congrats to Audrey who claimed the free drink, but wasn't able to clinch the bonus opportunity for a second drink. What is Sookie's last name? (Another "Igby" reference.) Sookie Sapperstein.

Claire Danes (Sookie): "What kind of name is Igby?"
Kieran Culkin (Igby): "One that a person named Sookie is in no position to question."

Thanks for playing, everyone. More photos from last night's happy hour over at Information Leafblower.


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Comments (3)

That was really, ReAlLy, really hard!!!!

 

Mike, I had no idea you were so into 80s movies. :-)

 

Ahhh, those clues were sort of easy, "circus troll"

 
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