93 My Fair Lady Trivia Questions & Answers

Answer: Flowers

Before she goes to Higgins for English lessons Eliza is a flower girl.

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."

Answer: deliciously

Eliza comes to Higgins to ask him to teach her proper English. He responds with this.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

Answer: 24 and 130

Higgins plays them back for him on his phonograph.

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").

Answer: Chocolate

"Lots of chocolate for me to eat, lots of coal makin' lots of 'eat" These are the things Eliza wishes for.

Answer: Dover

This scene always makes me laugh, when she tells the horse to get a move on. Never fails to humor me.

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.

Answer: one shilling

Apparently one shilling to Eliza is equal to 60 or 70 pounds for a millionaire.

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."

Answer: Colonel Pickering

Wilfrid Hyde-White plays the part of Colonel Pickering. It is Colonel Pickering who pays for Eliza's education.

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.

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.

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.

Answer: seven and six

To start a new life as a lady in a florist's shop.

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.

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.

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.

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.