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How Well Do You Know Carol Jean Christensen Doxey Gibson?
November 15, 2002


Please choose the most correct answer.

1. What is Mom’s best kept secret to her successful life?
a) Reading The Daily Herald and The Deseret News religiously and writing to the editor.
b) A kitchen window that looks out at Mount Timp.
c) Playing your violin in a mountain setting frequently.
d) Standing in the mist of Stewart Falls with your arms raised wide above your head, eyes closed, garments showing at your belly and breathing in the misty air.
e) Writing long, verbose notes of gratitude, admonition, counsel and praise to virtually anyone.

2. Aside from her great Christ-like and personal attributes, what is Mom best known for?
a) Her expertise with the violin - 45 years in the Utah Valley Symphony.
b) Her buying habits – “If it’s on sale, buy seven.”
c) Resourcefulness – Looking up long lost cousins to stay with in random locations across the Continental U.S. and Europe.
d) Providing updates on everyone in the Edgemont 7th Ward when you call her from out of state.
e) Receiving and delivering on more wedding invitations than any other soul in Utah County.

3. What is her most embarrassing moment?
a) Being the cause of skid marks in the Crane’s new driveway
b) A sudden need for Imodium AD in Chicago.
c) Leaving her violin for a trucker to find … “Pretty nice gueeeetar lady!”
d) Seeing video of she and Kay Call doing the Mexi-squat-and-lean on minivan running boards.
e) Chasing a screaming Danny out the front door only to find the bishop walking down the sidewalk.

4. What is her funniest experience?
a) “Look LeRoy, Bakersfield already has their Chirstmas lights up! How beautiful!” Dad: “Those are the lights on the side of that semi next to us Carol.”
b) Attempting to speak Spanish
c) Driving the Born-Free through the McDonalds Drive through only to find out the Born-Free is too high.
d) Brushing up against the Deer while showering
e) Mom teaching a person to ski at Timpview High School sledding hill

5. Which story is the most notable? Which one do we hear most?
a) That she and Grandpa and Grandma used to stop and read each plaque or historical market on the side of the road.
b) Why we should all be living in Utah County.
c) That we now have enough professions in the family to start a cross functional, multi-disciplinary business with medical, legal, construction, engineering, marketing, accounting and graphic design services.
d) That we need to have a family reunion with our sixth cousins once or twice removed.
e) “This is a house of order, this is a house of …”

6. In which of the following activities has Mom had a friend or cousin die, be injured or maimed?
a) Riding three and four wheelers or mountain biking at slick rock
b) Riding a snow mobile or Ice skating on a frozen pond
c) Flying small planes
d) Canoeing, boating, waterskiing or floating a river
e) Driving to Salt Lake

7. Which of the following professions did Mom most want to be in?
a) Historian
b) Dietitian
c) Nurse
d) BYU Professor
e) Astronomer
f) Marine biologist
g) Chemist
h) Anthropologist
i) Interior Designer
j) What ever the profession is of the person she’s talking to

8. Which of the following weird conversations with strangers had the most impressive result?
a) The one where she befriended some lady on the Alaska Marine Highway (cruise boat that you put your cars on), talked with her for about two hours and scored some free tickets to the Mt. McKinley Alaskan Roadhouse Revue … and ended up singing solo folk tunes from the ‘ole West next to the piano in front of a crowd of about 100 people.
b) When she was at a BYU/UNLV game in Las Vegas and responded to people behind her that were taunting her about BYU with, “This is the Lord’s team! How can you be saying that! (and proceeded to bear her testimony to them) somehow they were friends by the end of the game.
c) The fact that she has earned six Eagle Scout awards

9. Which of the following is the most crazy thing Mom has insisted upon?
a) Getting the weed deterrent fabric no less than 1/32” away form the edge of the flower bed … because she’s a seamstress and knows precision.
b) That we pull up already laid sod, re-level the soil and re-lay the sod to precision.
c) That the behind the sink area of the master bath be clean before leaving on vacation.
d) That she wipe down the existing framing in the wall of her rental before the sheetrock went up.
e) “I pushed saved and it just vanished!”

10. Which is the most effective piece of exercise equipment Mom has invested in?
a) Schwinn Aerodyne exercise bike
b) Rowing machine
c) Large foam blocks/weights and small trampoline to kick around the family room
d) Cockpit style abdomizer/backdomizer/latissimus dorsi-mizer exerciser
e) Abdoroller

11. Which of the following has mom told her kids they cannot do until they are 80?
a) Hang gliding
b) Owning our own small plane or guns
c) Drive to Salt Lake with friends
d) Ride a motorcycle
e) Swim in the Cranney’s Pool

12. Who is the weirdest person Mom has befriended?
a) Nan Norwine the Tri-Chem Salesperson
b) The nameless Fuller brush man
c) John Kolak
d) Lee Stern
e) Mark Tenney
f) The Danish Norweigian holdover from Mom’s trip
g) Marta from Maine
h) Any association with The Ship Brooklyn
i) Any extended family association with the Christensen Family Reunion
j) Dr. Loveridge


13. What is the most unique name among Mom’s friends?
a) Nola
b) LaVinia
c) Perk
d) Sundee, Milt and Morris
e) Mr. Hilgendorff


14. Which of the following locations/experiences gave Mom her vast experience in knowing about people and cultures out of Utah?
a) Sons, sons-in-law and daughters in law who have served missions all over the world
b) Reading the Daily Herald on a daily basis
c) The 1960 Saquatra trip
d) The diverse peoples who stayed at Aspen Grove
e) Her love of the Encyclopedias


15. Which of the following locations/experiences gave Mom her vast experience in knowing about people and cultures out of Utah? (Parte dos)
a) Covina, California
b) Snake River Canoe Base
c) When her dad lived in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho
d) Going to the Christensen Reunion in Oak City/Delta/Deseret
e) Her travels around the world

16. Which exercise or “Wellness Systems” is mom’s favorite?
a) Sunrider
b) Nutrisystems
c) Slimfast
d) Exercising with Elizabeth Funk and Dad to The Firm.
e) Lee Stern’s lymph node detector (which would create a detailed diagnostic which determined if you were well on your way to fat city)
f) 5-lb bag of gummy bears or bust (“they’re fat free”)
g) Walking with LaVinia
h) Biking with Janet Bradshaw and LaVinia

17. What is or has been Mom’s best nick-name?
a) “CJ”
b) “Red-Wing”
c) “Grammie”

18. What is Mom’s best name-dropping story?
a) ELDER Marion D. Hanks . . . Aspen Grove.
b) My SON-in-law DR. Mark Crane who graduated #1 at UCLA dental School and is now (in a casual fashion) in the BEST orthodontist program in the country.
c) NORTHWESTERN
d) Roy W. Doxey the DEAN of Brigham Young University Religion department
e) My twice removed cousin married Robert Redford

19. What professions has Mom thought her kids should pick up in their spare time?
a) Plumber
b) Doctor
c) Plumber
d) Real Estate Tycoon


20. What is Mom best “no-fail” method to stay awake while driving?
a) Car aerobics
b) Dr. Pepper
c) Roll down the window
d) Turn the volume of the music up
e) Being in the passenger seat and talking in her sleep
f) Keep eating
g) Give your eyelids a rest by closing them a couple minutes
h) Drive faster
i) All of the above
j) None of the above because a “no-fail” method does not exist for Mom

21. As a registered home economist, what is some of Mom’s best counsel on food?
a) “If you get some freezer burned chicken … just put it to the side and pass the plate on.”
b) “We just bought that cheese yesterday! It’s the best you can buy!”
c) “Everyone has a few bugs in their flour! Get over it!
d) “I tell people that every day at the extension!”
e) “You need to nourish your body! I love eggs! I always have!”
f) “These Pantry Pests really do work … you’d be surprised!

22. What is Mom’s best saying?
a) “Just the skeleton crew”
b) “That is a death-trap”
c) “Why don’t we just throw down some sleeping bags …”
d) “This is my favorite cousin …”
e) “Remember who you are!”
f) “It’s on Row #1 where it’s always been.”
g) “Nothin’ but the best!”
h) “Come in if you can get in” (After we just cleaned for 3 straight days)
i) “Why don’t you run down and get some ice cream”
j) “Make it the happiest day!”
k) While asleep in the front passenger seat, “Do you want me to spell you off?”
l) “So, how much they payin’ ya anyway?”
m) Kids: “But Mom, it’s the 7th game of the NBA Finals!” Mom: “Oh shoot, they’ll have 20 more games — turn it off!”
n) “We’ve just been swamped …”
o) “I took prenatal vitamins for all of you … I’m so sorry you all have bad teeth.”
p) “I tried to raise teachers but I guess I got Lawyers.”
q) “Can’t you just stay for ice cream?” (As your kids are screaming)
r) “Time for family band practice!”