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1 Why did Rene return to Birmingham?
Answer: Her father died

She was working in Washington D.C. when she got a call from her mother, she went back to Birmingham to attend James' funeral and caught up with M.E. in the process.
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2 What was Mary Elizabeth`s maiden name?
Answer: O` Brien

Sims is her married name and Jackson is Rene`s surname. She married Colliar Sims, her childhood sweetheart.
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3 How many kids did M.E. have?
Answer: 3

Originally, M.E. didn't want to get married or have kids, but when she and Colliar started dating she got pregnant so they got married. Her first son Bobby drowned at a pool party when he was 5 years old.
They had 2 other children, Kelly and Davis.
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4 What does Rene Jackson do for a living?
Answer: Lawyer

Rene Jackson`s father was also a lawyer.
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5 Lorraine Toussant
Answer: Rene Jackson

Ms. Toussant's credits include reccuring roles on "Law and Order" And "Murder one."
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6 Who is the writer?
Answer: ME

Mary Elizabeth is married and has two children.
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7 How did Rene and M.E. meet?
Answer: They met in a store over a package of cigarettes

M.E. had pulled this stunt before, the owner caught her, but without the cigarettes, Rene saw what happened, and hid the cigarettes, when they went back out to the bus stop, she gave them back to M.E.
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8 What are the names of Rene`s parents?
Answer: James and Sara

They were married for 50 years until James died.
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9 What is the name of the writer's daughter?
Answer: Kelly

Kelly had a baby.
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10 In "Courage...It Means Heart", Rene was asked by her mother to speak with her cousin because she had joined a cult and her father was furious with her. What cult was it?
Answer: Hinduism

The strange thing is, in that episode, Rene called Buddhism and Hinduism cults. But in "It's A Parent's Job", when she defended a Wicca schoolteacher, she told M.E. that they were "pre-Christian religions".
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11 What year did the girls meet?
Answer: 1962
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12 How did Grandma Otis die?
Answer: She committed suicide

Grandma Otis hated the idea of getting old. She shot herself so M.E. wouldn`t feel obligated to look after her. It was so sad.
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13 Donzaleigh Abetnathy
Answer: Sara Jackson
    Your options: [ Olivia Hackyoung ] [ Maya Goodwin ] [ Sara Jackson ] [ Gail Williams ]
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14 What is the writer's son's name?
Answer: Davis

Davis is not featured as much.
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15 "Quit Being Such A Scaredy Cat" introduced the Lifetime audience to M.E.'s Uncle Jimmy as a Klan leader. How did she come to find out he was in the Klan?
Answer: She and Rene saw him at a rally in the woods

Rene and M.E. sneaked out to the carnival after their parents told them to stay home. They took an off-road path so they wouldn't get caught. They saw lights up ahead, and what they thought to be Lover's Lane was the Klan's rally. M.E. recognized Uncle Jimmy because of a watch he had been wearing earlier that day.
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16 Colliar and M.E.'s old friend Tully pulled a stupid prank at a parade that cost him and 3 other firemen his job, what was it?
Answer: They rode on a float, wearing black face, dressed as hoes and Tully was the rapping hustler

Tully's friends made ugly bimbos.
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17 Who discovered James Jackson, Rene`s father had an affair?
Answer: M.E.

M.E. was doing research for a tribute to James Jackson and while interviewing James` secretary, she discovered they had an affair.
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18 Who is Kelly's husband?
Answer: Ajoni

He is the father of the baby.
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19 When they were little, M.E. pushed Rene into the pool and found out when her hair gets wet, it frizzes up. As punishment, she had to go with her to the hair dressers' and wait out the full treatment. How long did it take to get Rene's hair done?
Answer: 4 hours

"When I wear my hair in its natural style, white people from all over come up and try to touch it," Rene.
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20 What are the names of M.E. and Colliar`s children?
Answer: Bobby, Kelly and Davis

Sadly Bobby died a few years after he was born.
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21 Who is Mary Elizabeth married to?
Answer: Colliar

His name is Colliar Sims.
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22 When a client dies of a heart attack, Rene is obligated to take home the client's ugly dog, what is the dog's name?
Answer: Buddy

"You are one UGLY dog," Sara.
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23 How did Bobby die?
Answer: He drowned in a swimming pool

It was at a party celebrating M.E. and Colliar`s wedding anniversary.
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24 Who is the uncle that Mary Elizabeth did not like?
Answer: Jimmy

He was a racist and a member of the Klan.
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25 Also in "I'm Not Emotional", in the present, Davis had been suspended from school for sexual misconduct. This only added to the argument M.E. and Colliar were having. What were they arguing about?
Answer: Women working in strip clubs

Colliar called the strip club that Rene was fighting against a "gentleman's club", and told M.E. that it was harmless compared to the real raunchy bars. He also added that most women working there were just trying to pay for college, and insisted there was nothing wrong with men going to them.

M.E.: "Hey, maybe Kelly should get a job there, so she can pay for her college education."
Colliar: "No, that's sleazy."
M.E.: "Oh, NOW it's sleazy."
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26 Rene and her mother ponder what the dog's breed could be, what's Rene's guess?
Answer: part hyena

Buddy is absolutely ugly, but at the same time irresistibly cute.
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27 Who are Rene's parents?
Answer: Sarah and James

Her father was also a lawyer.
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28 In "You Really Believe in That Stuff?", M.E. got knocked for a loop when she found out Kelly had become a goth. What was something that worried her the most?
Answer: All of these

M.E. had already lost Grandma Otis because she committed suicide when she was getting Alzheimer's Disease. So when Davis told M.E. that Kelly had become a goth, M.E. worried she might kill herself too.
    Your options: [ Kelly might kill herself ] [ Kelly wasn't going to take her SATs ] [ All of these ] [ Kelly might not get into a good college ]
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29 When was the only time M.E. really went without a cigarette?
Answer: When she was pregnant

She couldn't even win her bet with Rene she could quit smoking for 5 days.
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30 Why did young M.E. hate her Uncle Jimmy?
Answer: He was a member of the Klu Klux Klan.

When Jimmy died, M.E. was glad. She took his KKK talisman that he was buried with and threw it away.
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31 What was ME's brother's name?
Answer: Johnny

He was killed in Vietnam.
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32 In "Don't Say Anything", in the past, M.E. found out Colliar's father hit him. What did his father threaten to hit him with?
Answer: A rope

Here's something to think about, in the 1950s and 60s, it was considered normal to beat children to the point where they couldn't walk if they misbehaved. However, when they did TV shows back then, they did everything that was considered normal, but they never showed parents beating their children, even though back then the term child abuse was practically non-existent.
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33 When M.E. was mugged at work, she told Rene she only remembered his red sneakers, what brand name were they?
Answer: Chuck Taylors

Those things came in dozens of different colors, probably why so many people liked them.
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34 What is the name of the intern at Rene`s law firm?
Answer: Lakeisha

Rene hired her because she saw a lot of herself in Lakeisha.
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35 Who was Rene's brother?
Answer: Elston

He went to Canada because he opposed the war.
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36 In "Heads or Tails", in the past, M.E. and Rene found a homeless woman at Port Dixie. However, she claimed to be a princess, wanted dead by the people of her own estate. Where did she claim to be from?
Answer: Hungary

Marla said she came back to Birmingham, as well as Port Dixie, every spring to see the moonflowers. She also convinced M.E. that she had a magic coin with a man in it who told her what side the coin would land on. Rene was skeptical of every word Marla said, but in the end, something about her visit proved to be magical.
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37 When M.E. and Rene celebrated Birmingham's first integrated 4th of July, James warned Rene not to get any firecrackers since they were dangerous, a fire started in a firework's shack in the park, what caused it?
Answer: M.E. and Rene set off a bottle rocket in the wrong direction

Episode guides will tell you they bought firecrackers and accidentally started the fire, however, M.E. only bought bottle rockets and cherry bombs.
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38 What was the name of Kelly's boyfriend who had a condom drop out of his jacket?
Answer: Jason

Marshall was the boy touching her breast at her 15th birthday party, and Ajoni was her black boyfriend who married her when she became pregnant.
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39 In "It's Not About the Butter, Pt 1", M.E. tells Jimmy she's writing an article about racism. Jimmy says "What you call racism, I call _________."
Answer: New Patriotism

In Part 2, M.E. found out that the group on "New Patrotism" had a bunch of hate sites on the web. Uncle Jimmy, being no exception, had his own website.

M.E.: "This is what the man at your house believes, Daddy, and this is what your 13-year-old grandson was reading at breakfast this morning."
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40 When the girls were little, M.E. thought her neighbor was a murderer who cut off her son's head. It turns out he had to stay inside all day. What was the real reason he was always inside?
Answer: He was an Albino

Turns out he stayed inside all day and played on a swing set at night.
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