The Little Voice in my Head Trivia Quiz

Answer: Eliza Doolittle

Eliza Doolittle's paramour is her teacher and benefactor, Professor Henry Higgins. Higgins is so caught up in his world of phonetics and academia and, really, his own achievements that the growing affection of the heroine of "My Fair Lady" by Lerner and Loewe goes unnoticed until it appears she will wed Freddie, whom Higgins believes to be a fop and unsuitable for her.

At the end of the musical, all is resolved, and after getting engaged to Freddie, Eliza moves to Mrs Higgins' house and then back to Professor Higgins, where she professes her love for him and he accepts her back.

Answer: Perchik

In Bock and Harnick's "Fiddler on the Roof", Perchik, a nomadic school teacher, arrives in Anatevka and is invited by Tevye to tutor his five daughters, of whom Tzeitel is the eldest. Tzeitel is about to be proposed to by the elderly Lazar Wolf, whom she does not wish to marry. Perchik falls in love with the second eldest sister, Hodel, who is very intelligent and an avid book reader.

He has very strong political motivations, so when he leaves for Kiev, to take part in the marches against the government, she is left behind only with the promise that one day they will marry.

He is put in prison, so she leaves home to be with him and marry him in the prison.

Answer: Elphaba

Elphaba is the heroine in the musical "Wicked" based on the book by Gregory Maguire, which tells the story of "The Wizard of Oz" from the evil witch's perspective and with a back-story. Elphaba is born green because of her mother having an affair with a magic man, who turns out to be the wizard whom Elphaba is so keen to meet until she finds out he's been silencing all the creatures of Oz. Galinda (later shortens her own name to Glinda) is her unwilling room-mate, who only begins to like Elphaba after they both learn magic. Fun fact: Elphaba is thus named because the three syllables sound out the name of the author of the original "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz", L. (El) Frank (Pha) Baum (Ba).

Answer: Curly

This is the ending of the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical "Oklahoma!", where Curly marries Laurie after killing Judd. Judd, the farmhand, was unhealthily infatuated with Laurie but she was scared of him because he kept pornographic images of women in the smokehouse.

After she fires Judd for trying to assault her, she finds comfort in Curly's arms, and they agree to get married. Judd comes to their wedding and attacks Curly with a knife. He eventually falls on his own knife, but not wanting to put a man away on his wedding night, the men of the town enact an illegal trial that finds Curly not guilty of murder. Thus, Curly and Laurie get their happy ending.

Answer: Eponine

This is the story of Eponine from Claude Michel-Schonberg and Alan Boublil's magnum opus "Les Miserables", based on Victor Hugo's novel. Eponine is the unfortunate daughter of the Thenardiers, who own an inn and have custody of Cosette before Valjean arrives to take her away.

They treated her badly, as a serving girl, which Eponine did as well, but never to the extent of her parents. When she has grown up, she comes into contact with Cosette again, but Eponine finds out that Marius, whom she loves, has fallen in love with Cosette.

She dies to save Marius on the barricades, knowing that if Marius was in love with Cosette she'd have to let him go, but she wanted him to be happy.

Answer: The Phantom

The eponymous character from Andrew Lloyd-Webber's "The Phantom of the Opera" based on the novel by Gaston Leroux, is afflicted with a deformed face that means he has to wear a white mask. The woman he refers to is Christine Daae, whom he has taught to sing and nurtured since she was a girl because he loves her and her voice.

When she was a small girl and her father was still alive she used to know a young nobleman called Raoul, whom she later gets engaged to. He is the Phantom's rival for Christine's love, Raoul wins.

Answer: Eva Peron

Eva Peron from "Evita" (Lloyd-Webber), was born an illegitimate daughter to a working class single mother. She had a dislike for the middle class because her father's family were richer than her family and she wasn't allowed into his funeral. She begins her career by sleeping with a Tango singer who takes her to the capital city of Argentina, Buenos Aires.

There she works her way up the social ladder by taking different lovers, eventually marrying the President-to-be Juan Peron. She becomes the First Lady and Vice President of Argentina and a treasure of the nation.

Answer: Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist is the title character in the Lionel Bart musical "Oliver!" based on the Dickens classic. He is a boy who lives in a workhouse who famously asks for "more" (gruel). This leads him to be expelled from the workhouse and sold to a family who run and own a funeral parlour. Oliver is used there until he runs away to London where he meets Fagin and his gang.

Answer: Scaramouche

Scaramouche is a character from the rock musical "We Will Rock You", which is based on the songs of the British band, Queen. At the end of the musical, the rockers find the musical instruments and Scaramouche claims the guitar. Maureen Johnson is a lesbian character from the musical "Rent". Grizabella is the role in "Cats" made famous by Elaine Paige, who is shunned by all the other cats. Portia is one of the ugly stepsisters in the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical of "Cinderella".

Answer: Benjamin Barker

In Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street", Sweeney Todd is the 'nom-de-razor' of Benjamin Barker, who returns from a false sentence to the news that his wife has killed herself because she was raped by Judge Turpin who then took Barker's daughter, Johanna, as his ward and intends to marry her. Tobias is the boy who was Pirelli's apprentice, but after the murder of Pirelli, Mrs Lovett takes him under her wing. Mrs Lovett is the neighbour who has the idea of turning people into pies. Sweeney kills a beggar woman, who turns out to be his wife, so he kills Mrs Lovett.