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26 What advice from 'The Godfather' did Joe Fox give Kathleen when she told him her business was in trouble?
Answer: go to the mattresses

To 'go to the mattresses' means to fight back. Kathleen Kelly is convinced that all men are obsessed with 'The Godfather'.
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What is the name of Kathleen's children's book store?




27 At what time was the Storybook Lady reading when Joe and the kids arrived at her shop?
Answer: 3:30

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28 What is Kathleen's store's name?
Answer: Shop Around the Corner

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29 What are the names of the two little girls that Kathleen greets the first time we see her at The Shop Around the Corner?
Answer: Jessica and Maya

The first day we see Kathleen at the Shop Around the Corner, Kathleen flips the open/closed sign to open and opens the door. She then says, "Jessica and Maya, how ARE you today?"
Their mom says, "Can you say Hi to Kathleen?"
Then the two young girls meekly say, "Hi."
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30 What was Joe Fox's handle on the internet?
Answer: NY152

You see it when Kathleen reads her email, and they both talk about what NY152 stands for.
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31 What song is playing during the street fair scene?
Answer: Rockin' Robin

In the director's cut of the DVD, they explain that this scene was actually filmed in early spring and it was pretty cold. The trees had been colorized to look like fall leaves.
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32 What was Joe Fox's e-mail address?
Answer: NY152@aol.com

Kathleen Kelly figured that it wasn't Joe's address.
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33 What drug does Patricia take at night to get to sleep?
Answer: Ultradorm

It practically zonks her out.
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34 How many years was the store open?
Answer: 42

At the end of the movie the sign telling her patrons that they closed the store says it had been serving them for 42 years.
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35 What over-the-counter drug does Patricia use in order to fall asleep right away?
Answer: Ultra-dorm

At Vince's party, Frank confronts Joe Fox about being the destroyer of City Books. He asks him, "how do you sleep at night?" and before Joe can answer, Patricia comes up and says that she uses a great over-the-counter drug: Ultra-dorm. She advises Frank, "don't take the whole thing, just half, and you'll wake up without even the slightest hangover."
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36 During story time at the Shop Around the corner, Kathleen is telling a story of children who put a mouse into their teacher's jar of sweets. What is the name of the teacher?
Answer: Mrs. Pratchett

This is an actual story from the book by Roald Dahl, "BOY: Tales of Childhood." It is a collection of stories about his childhood, including tales about terrible teachers, first automobile rides, and holidays in Norway.
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37 What is the name of Kathleen's children's book store?
Answer: Shop Around the Corner

Her mother actually started the store and Kathleen took ownership of it once her mother died.
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38 Finish the line: Kathleen to Joe: "You are nothing but a _________."
Answer: suit

Kathleen realizes this was a "breakthrough" for her. For the very first time, she knew exactly what to say at the right time.
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39 What was Kathleen Kelly's e-mail address?
Answer: shopgirl

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40 What type of jacket is Frank wearing at the party when he first meets Joe Fox?
Answer: corduroy

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41 What grocery store do both Joe and Kathleen go to regularly?
Answer: Zabar's

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42 When Joe and Kathleen are at the grocery store, there is a rude man behind Kathleen in the checkout line. What is his name?
Answer: Henry

While Joe is trying to persuade Rose, the checkout girl, to run Kathleen's credit card through the machine, Joe says. "Rose. That is a great name, Rose. I'm Joe, this is Kathleen..." and then the rude man interrupts him and shouts, "And I'm Henry!" Joe then looks at Henry to say hello and wish him a Happy Holidays.
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43 Joe and his grandfather shoot pretend guns at one another after Joe announces that a certain bookstore in town is "going under". What is the name of that bookstore?
Answer: City Books

Joe reveals this in the scene where he, his father, and his grandfather are in the office, talking about the new store. This point is repeated at Vince's party, when Kathleen's boyfriend meets Joe and calls him "the destroyer of City Books."
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44 Finish the quote: "Brinkley sleeps on a big green pillow the size of a(n) __________."
Answer: inner tube

He includes it in the first email we see that he writes to her. We don't SEE the exchange but we hear it in Tom Hanks's voice over of the letter.
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45 Who were Joe Fox's boats named after?
Answer: Joe Fox

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46 What does the woman in the elevator want to do when she finally gets out of there?
Answer: speak to her mother

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47 What is the name of Joe's dog?
Answer: Brinkley

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48 On Thanksgiving night, Kathleen, Frank, and the employees of The Shop Around the Corner are singing holiday songs. One of them is about instruments and the sounds they make. What instrument sings with joyful rings?
Answer: violin

The instruments in the song include the violin, which sings with joyful rings, the clarinet, which goes doodily-doodily-doodily-det, and the horn, which sounds so forlorn.
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49 Fox Books has been open 6 days, and Shop around the Corner did how many dollars less than the same week, last year?
Answer: 1200

Birdie reads this information off her computer in the scene where Kathleen is in the shop putting up twinkle lights for the holidays. Kathleen explains that they brought in less business this time because Fox Books is new and a novelty.
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50 "How about meeting Saturday, _ o'clock? There's a place in Riverside Park at __st Street where the ____ curves and there's a garden. You'll find me waiting."
Answer: 4, 91, path

Joe knows that Kathleen is 'shopgirl' so he plays with her and tells her what to write in her e-mails to 'NY152', by the time this e-mail was written, 'The Shop Around The Corner' had been shut down and Joe had become friends with Kathleen. Now, the friendship with Joe and Kathleen is growing, and the friendship between 'NY152' and 'shopgirl' is expanding as well.
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