Musical Theatre quiz

More questions about Musical Theatre

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1. 1 Easy

   Why does Professor Henry Higgins agree to tutor Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady?

   Answer: To win a bet

   Why: The wager with Colonel Pickering requires Higgins to pass off a Cockney flower girl as a noble duchess at an embassy ball.

2. 2 Medium

   Why is Anne of Cleves happy to be rejected by Henry?

   Answer: She kept her wealth

   Why: Anne of Cleves outlived Henry VIII and all five of his other wives, and she is the only one of them buried in Westminster Abbey.

3. 3 Hard

   Who is the leader of the student revolutionaries at the barricade?

   Answer: Enjolras

   Why: In Hugo's novel Enjolras is the chief, Combeferre the guide and Courfeyrac the centre; Marius never truly joins their society.

4. 4 Easy

   Why does Scar bitterly resent baby Simba in the musical The Lion King?

   Answer: Simba took his place as heir

   Why: Before Simba's birth, Scar was first in line to the throne of the Pride Lands.

5. 5 Medium

   Why is Jack Kelly obsessed with moving to Santa Fe?

   Answer: To escape the city

   Why: Jack never actually goes: by the finale he stays in New York, and the real 1899 strike ended with publishers buying back unsold papers.

6. 6 Hard

   What is the name of the rival barber Sweeney Todd kills?

   Answer: Adolfo Pirelli

   Why: He claims to have shaved the King of the Two Sicilies, but he is really Daniel O'Higgins, Todd's old apprentice, who tries to blackmail him.