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1. Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee wrote what play about "the Scopes Monkey Trial"?
2. Arthur Miller, who was once married to Marilyn Monroe, wrote what play about the Salem Witch trials?
3. "Murder in the Cathedral" is a 1935 play about the murder (martyrdom?) of Thomas Becket of Canterbury written by whom?
4. James Goldman's play "The Lion in Winter" (1966) is about what historic couple?
5. What was the title of American dramatist Doug Wright's play about the last years of the Marquis de Sade, first produced in the late 1990s?
6. A 1959 play, "The Gang's All Here" depicts the election of a US President whose incompetence and corruption lead to his downfall. Who wrote this play?
7. Irish playwright Seán O'Casey wrote three plays known as "The Dublin Trilogy". Which one was about the Easter Rising of April, 1916?
8. Robert Bolt's play about the English court (which became a successful motion picture), "A Man for All Seasons" portrays what historical figure?
9. The Broadway musical, "The Unsinkable Molly Brown," contains a scene about which nautical tragedy?
10. Maxwell Anderson's play "Anne of the Thousand Days" (which was made into a movie of the same name) was about whom?
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