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1 What does Eliza sell?
Answer: Flowers

Before she goes to Higgins for English lessons Eliza is a flower girl.
Question Reference: Quiz: Eliza Doolittle.
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At the Embassy Ball Eliza is found to be a fraud. According to Zoltan Karpathy who is she really supposed to be?




2 What song does Professor Higgins sing at the beginning?
Answer: Why Can't the English Learn to Speak?

It is interesting listening to the different types of dialects in the church. There's Eliza's, the Colonel's, the Professor's, and the rest of the people standing there, under the "graceful columns."
3 "She's so _____ low. So horribly dirty."
Answer: deliciously

Eliza comes to Higgins to ask him to teach her proper English. He responds with this.
4 How much did Eliza pay for rent in Lisson Grove?
Answer: Four and Six

Apparently it wasn't fit for a pig. This information is disclosed during the opening scene when Higgins is taking down her words.
5 At the beginning of the movie, Eliza is trying to sell some flowers when it's starting to rain. What is the amount of money Eliza says she can change?
Answer: half a crown

Eliza: "Cheer up, captain. Buy a flower off a poor girl?"
Col. Pickering: "I'm sorry. I haven't any change."
Eliza: "Oh, I can change half a crown. Here, take this for tuppence."
Col. Pickering: "I told you, I'm awfully sorry. I haven't -- Oh, wait a minute. Oh, yes. Here's three ha'pence, if that's any use to you."
6 Who is the gorgeous leading lady in 'My Fair Lady'?
Answer: Audrey Hepburn

Although Julie Andrews was playing the part of Eliza Doolittle on Broadway at the time when this movie was cast, however Audrey Hepburn was cast in the part instead. This was because Audrey was better known than Julie.
Question Reference: Quiz: My Fair Lady.
7 Higgins deplores Eliza's English. What are the words that Higgins says will "keep her in her place"?
Answer: "Aooow and garn"

"Its aooow and garn that keep her in her place, not her wretched clothes or dirty face" Higgins sings this in the song "Why Can't the English". The song is performed in front of an audience of street traders but is mostly addressed to Pickering.
Question Reference: Quiz: Eliza Doolittle.
8 After Eliza finally learns how to speak properly, she, the Professor, and the Colonel all sing a song. "The Rain in _____."
Answer: Spain

After all that hard work, she finally can speak properly. And the three of them must have been hyper as they sang that song. It was funny, though.
9 When Higgins hit the tuning fork, how many vowel sounds does Pickering hear, and how many where there actually, according to Higgins?
Answer: 24 and 130

Higgins plays them back for him on his phonograph.
10 "Pulses ___________. Faces flushing. Heartbeats speed up. I have never been so keyed up. Any second now they'll begin to run. Hark, a bell is ringing they are springing forward. Look, it has begun."
Answer: rushing

"What a frenzied moment that was. Didn't they maintain an exhausting pace. 'Twas a thrilling, absolutely chilling, running of The Ascot Opening Race." Rex Harrison is one of a handful of actors and actresses that have portrayed the same role in Broadway and in film. Among some of the other actors and actresses are: Yul Brenner ("The King and I"), Humphrey Bogart ("The Petrified Forest"), Dick Van Dyke ("Bye Bye Birdie"), and Juanita Hall ("South Pacific").
11 What does Eliza Doolittle do for a living before meeting Henry Higgins?
Answer: Sells Flowers

Question Reference: Quiz: My Fair Lady.
12 What sort of food does Eliza want in the song, "Wouldn't it be Loverly"?
Answer: Chocolate

"Lots of chocolate for me to eat, lots of coal makin' lots of 'eat" These are the things Eliza wishes for.
Question Reference: Quiz: Eliza Doolittle.
13 What is the name of the horse that Eliza cheers for at the horse races?
Answer: Dover

This scene always makes me laugh, when she tells the horse to get a move on. Never fails to humor me.
14 "It's the new _____. You do it so awfully well."
Answer: small talk

Eliza is introduced to Henry's society friends at Ascot, one of whom is Freddy Enysford-Hill, who is quite smitten with Eliza and finds her common slang phrases charming.
15 How much does Eliza offer to pay Higgins for lessons?
Answer: one shilling

Apparently one shilling to Eliza is equal to 60 or 70 pounds for a millionaire.
16 What job requires better English than a duchess at an Embassy Ball, according to Professor Higgins?
Answer: both

Prof. Higgins: "You see this creature with her curbstone English, the English that'll keep her in the gutter 'til the end of her days? Well, sir, in six months, I could pass her off as a duchess at an Embassy ball. I could even get her a job as a lady's maid or a shop assistant...which requires better English."
17 What is the name of the man that Henry Higgins meets on the street in the beginning of the film?
Answer: Colonel Pickering

Wilfrid Hyde-White plays the part of Colonel Pickering. It is Colonel Pickering who pays for Eliza's education.
Question Reference: Quiz: My Fair Lady.
18 When Eliza goes to see Higgins what reason does she give for wanting to learn to speak better English?
Answer: To become a lady in a flower shop

Higgins says to Pickering that after he has taught her she could get a job as a ladies' maid but this is not what Eliza wants. She wants to work in a flower shop but a shop will not take her unless she learns to speak better English.
Question Reference: Quiz: Eliza Doolittle.
19 What is the name of the young man that falls for Eliza?
Answer: Freddie

The two of them sure would look good together.
By the way, the person that plays Freddie also plays Sherlock Holmes from the PBS version, now out on DVD.
20 "Why _____ a woman be more like a man?"
Answer: can't

After Eliza runs away, Higgins gives a soliloquy on the differences between males and females and why the former are far superior.
21 How much does Higgins say Eliza will receive as a gift if she succeeds?
Answer: seven and six

To start a new life as a lady in a florist's shop.
22 What was Colonel Pickering the author of?
Answer: Spoken Sanskrit

Col. Pickering: "I, myself, am a student of Indian dialects."
Prof. Higgins: "Are you? Do you know Colonel Pickering, the author ofSpoken Sanskrit?"
Col. Pickering: "I am Colonel Pickering. Who are you?" Colonel Pickering was played by Wilfred Hyde-White.
23 'My Fair Lady' was adapted from what story?
Answer: Pygmalion

"My Fair Lady" is a musical adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's 1912 play "Pygmalion" that had played successfully on Broadway from 1956 to 1962. Shaw's plot was derived from Latin poet Ovid's story (in the Metamorphoses) about a character named Pygmalion who fell in love with a beautiful ivory statue of a woman. In later Greek tradition, his prayers to Venus that the beloved statue - Galatea - would come to life came true so that they could marry.
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24 "I ain't done nothin' wrong by speaking to the gentleman. I've a right to sell flowers if I keep off the kerb. I'm a respectable girl: _____, I never spoke to him 'cept so far as to buy a flower off me."
Answer: so help me

Eliza first meets Higgins when a friend informs her that "there's a bloke takin' down every blessed word you're sayin'." She thinks he's a policeman going to arrest her, and starts screaming in panic.
25 How much would Alfred sell Eliza for if Higgins' intentions weren't honourable?
Answer: 50 Pounds

Since Higgins' intentions are honourable, he only wants five pounds for him and the mizzus. 10 Pounds is too much, the mizzus would want to save it; but five is just right to have a bit of fun on.