Las Vegas Entertainment Trivia Quiz

Answer: Singers

Celine Dion's "A New Day" residency at Caesars Palace is said to be the one that renewed interest in Las Vegas shows among younger performers. Before it opened in 2003, many of the singers who were given residencies on The Strip were aiming at older audiences but Dion, who was still achieving significant chart success around the world at the time, delivered a different kind of audience.

Despite not getting great reviews at the start of her run, the show broke box office records for Vegas and ran for more than four years.

Answer: Singers

The singer Wayne Newton first performed in Las Vegas as a 15-year-old in 1958 and continued to perform on-and-off for more than fifty years. "Up Close & Personal" was his 2016 show at Bally's Hotel. It acted as a retrospective of his career, including a selection from his huge repetoire of songs, some instrumental performances and video highlights of his time in Vegas.

Answer: Singers

"The Red Piano" was Elton John's first residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace from 2004 to 2009. He performed nearly 250 shows in this residency playing a range of hits from his more than thirty years in the business. Two years after the show ended, John returned to The Colosseum with "The Million Dollar Piano", a residency that would last until 2018.

Answer: Singers

"Britney: Piece of Me" was the first Vegas residency show by Britney Spears. The show started at Planet Hollywood in 2013 and ran for four years. Initially the show was not a retrospective like so many Vegas residencies but concentrated on new material.

However, halfway through the run, as Britney signed on for two more years in residency, the show was re-worked to include many of her worldwide hits from earlier in her career.

Answer: Magic Show

Siegfried Fischbacher and Roy Horn's first came to Las Vegas to perform a magic show in 1967. By 1990 they were headlining their own show at the Mirage resort. They were famous for the use of big cats in their act, particularly white lions and tigers that they raised from cubs. Unfortunately their show came to an end in 2003 when one of the tigers attacked Horn, leaving him with severe injuries and partial paralysis.

Answer: Magic Show

Penn and Teller's comedic magic show first came to Vegas at Bally's in 1993. They moved on to the Hollywood Theatre at the MGM Grand before finding a new home at the Rio in 2001. Their show is notable for the way that the commentary that they provide on stage will often explain how the trick is performed, introducing a healthy dose of skepticism about the methods that illusionists use, all the while pulling off the tricks with astonishing sleight of hand.

Answer: Magic Show

Shin Lim came to public attention through his magic performances on "America's Got Talent", a competition he won in 2018. He followed this up by winning "America's Got Talent: The Champions" a year later. Part of his prize for winning the show was a headline slot at Paris Las Vegas Hotel, which was soon followed by a residency at the Mirage hotel in 2019.

Answer: Magic Show

"The Mentalist" is a show created by magician Gerry McCambridge described as a mix of comedy, magic and mind-reading. He first performed it off-Broadway before bringing it to Las Vegas in 2005. The show has had multiple homes in its history including a residency at Planet Hollywood.

Answer: Impersonator/Tribute Show

"King of Diamonds" is a tribute show featuring impersonator Rob Garrett singing the songs of Neil Diamond. He had been performing his tribute for more than twenty-five years before taking up residency at the Pegasus Showroom in Alexis Park Resort Hotel in 2023. Diamond himself was never in residence in Las Vegas but did do four days of shows to open the Theater For the Performing Arts at the Aladdin Hotel in 1976. One fan in attendance at those shows was a certain Rob Garrett.

Answer: Impersonator/Tribute Show

Though they never called themselves The Rat Pack (Frank Sinatra was known to hate the phrase) it is the one that has stuck to the group of entertainers that included Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr, Dean Martin and Peter Lawford among others. They were regular performers in what they called "The Summit at The Sands" at the Copa Room in the Sands Hotel in the early '60s when they were filming the original "Ocean's 11" (1960) in the city.

For those too young to have seen the legends in their pomp, "The Rat Pack Is Back" was devised with Sinatra, Martin and Davis Jr impersonators singing classic songs of the period. It began its run in 2001 at the Tuscany Suites, which created its own "Copa Room" for it to be shown in (the original having been demolished when The Sands Hotel and Casino was imploded in 1996).

Answer: Impersonator/Tribute Show

"Purple Reign" is the Las Vegas show of Prince impersonator, Jason Tenner. Initially the act was booked to play live various Vegas hotels and bars before becoming a show in its own right, being held at various venues before becoming resident at the Tropicana Hotel in 2017.

Prince had his own residency in Las Vegas, called "Per4ming Live 3121" from 2006 to 2007 at a purpose-built club called 3121 at the Rio Suites.

Answer: Impersonator/Tribute Show

In "Piano Man", impersonator Kyle Martin pays tribute to both Billy Joel and Elton John. Martin started out playing the lead role in the touring Billy Joel jukebox musical "Movin' Out". After that show had ended, Martin devised the "Piano Man" which he brought to the V Theater in Las Vegas after the COVID-19 pandemic, in 2020.

Billy Joel never had a residency in Las Vegas but did provide two tracks for the soundtrack to the movie, "Honeymoon in Vegas" (1992).

Answer: Cirque du Soleil

"Mystère" is one of many shows that Cirque du Soleil, the Canadian circus performers, has put on in Las Vegas. Starting in 1993, the fantasy-themed show was set on a purpose-built set in the Treasure Island resort. In December 2014 it was performed for the 10,000th time.

Answer: Cirque du Soleil

"O" is a homophone for the french "eau" meaning water. It is a show that includes Cirque du Soleil's usual array of acrobats, aerial artists and other circus acts but based in and around water. It started in 1998 at the Bellagio hotel and celebrated its 10,000th performance in 2019.

Answer: Cirque du Soleil

"Kà" premiered at the MGM Grand in 2004. The show is a coming-of-age story of a young pair of twins separated at birth who journey through the world to meet each other. Through their journey they encounter good and evil, inspired by ka, the vital essence from Egyptian mythology that represents the fire that distinguishes the living from the dead.

The production is notable for not having a fixed stage but a giant vertical platform that moves around leaving space for spectacular aerial acrobatics and fight scenes.

Answer: Cirque du Soleil

"Love" uses new mixes of The Beatles' music to tell the biographical tale of the band and its members from childhood to the break-up of the band. Launching in 2006 at The Mirage, it was devised with artistic direction from George Martin, the legendary producer of much of The Beatles' music throughout their career.