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This revue-style show features a number of people who have attempted, with varying degrees of success, to assassinate a President of the United States. Stephen Sondheim's music reflects the popular music style of the era associated with each character.
2 Assassins quizzes and 30 Assassins trivia questions.
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  "Assassins" Quiz    
Multiple Choice
 20 Qns
A quiz about my favorite musical of all time, Stephen Sondheim's "Assassins." See how much you know!
Tough, 20 Qns, JackSparrow29, Oct 31 16
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  Stephen Sondheim's "Assassins" Quiz!    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
A quiz on the wonderful Stephen Sondheim musical, "Assassins"!
Average, 10 Qns, TeamRNL, Oct 31 16
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trivia question Quick Question
According to the fairgoers, what does President McKinley enjoy doing in his spare time?

From Quiz ""Assassins" Quiz"





Assassins Trivia Questions
1. In the following, who is the Proprietor describing? "Hey gang, look who's here - There's our pioneer."

From Quiz "Assassins" Quiz

Answer: John Wilkes Booth

John Wilkes Booth is the oldest and first successful assassin. He often plants the idea of assassination in the other assassins' heads.

2. Who played John Wilkes Booth in the original Off-Broadway production?

From Quiz Stephen Sondheim's "Assassins" Quiz!

Answer: Victor Garber

Indeed, Victor Garber played the charismatic, personable young Booth.

3. To whom does Leon Czolgosz profess his love?

From Quiz "Assassins" Quiz

Answer: Emma Goldman

"Unfortunately, I do not have time to be in love with you." - Emma Goldman's response.

4. Who gives the assassins their guns?

From Quiz Stephen Sondheim's "Assassins" Quiz!

Answer: Proprietor

Suprisingly, it is not Hasselhoff but the Proprietor of the carnival game that gives the assassins their guns as he sings "Everybody's Got the Right."

5. To whom is Samuel Byck's first audiotape monologue addressed?

From Quiz "Assassins" Quiz

Answer: Leonard Bernstein

He tells "Lenny" to keep doing what he does best - writing love songs.

6. Who sings "Unworthy of Your Love?"

From Quiz Stephen Sondheim's "Assassins" Quiz!

Answer: Hinckley and Fromme

Hinckley sings to Jodie Foster and Fromme sings to Charles Manson.

7. To whom is John Hinckley talking to in the following phrase: "With one brave, historical act, I will win your love, now and for all eternity."

From Quiz "Assassins" Quiz

Answer: Jodie Foster

He addresses his picture of Jodie during this line, claiming that she will be his Queen and they will live in the White House together.

8. Who did Czolgosz try to kill?

From Quiz Stephen Sondheim's "Assassins" Quiz!

Answer: William McKinley

Czolgosz killed President McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo.

9. Instead of President Ford, who does Sara Jane Moore end up shooting?

From Quiz "Assassins" Quiz

Answer: Her dog

"Your dog? You brought your dog to an assassination?" - Fromme

10. According to "the Gun Song," what do you have to do to change the world?

From Quiz Stephen Sondheim's "Assassins" Quiz!

Answer: Move Your Little Finger

"All you have to do is move your little finger." Just a little finger can change the world.

11. According to the fairgoers, what does President McKinley enjoy doing in his spare time?

From Quiz "Assassins" Quiz

Answer: Collecting coins

"Doesn't the President look marvelous? So round and so prosperous!" - Fairgoer

12. How was Zangara killed?

From Quiz Stephen Sondheim's "Assassins" Quiz!

Answer: Electric Chair

Zangara was electrified for killing Mayor Cermak and shooting at President-Elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

13. "Hunt me down, smear my name, say I did it for the fame - what I did was kill the man who killed my ______."

From Quiz "Assassins" Quiz

Answer: country

Booth stays faithful to the Confederacy even to his death.

14. According to the "Ballad of Guiteau," where is Guiteau going?

From Quiz Stephen Sondheim's "Assassins" Quiz!

Answer: to the Lordy

"I am going to the Lordy, I am so glad." Charles Guiteau is just a little crazy.

15. What fast food restaurant does Samuel Byck buy his hamburger from in his final monologue?

From Quiz "Assassins" Quiz

Answer: Burger King

Unfortunately, it isn't hot enough for him.

16. What is Sam Byck wearing?

From Quiz Stephen Sondheim's "Assassins" Quiz!

Answer: Santa Claus Costume

Sam Byck is wearing a Santa Claus outfit and he tried to kill President Nixon by hijacking a plane and crashing it into the White House.

17. What was Lee Harvey Oswald's Russian name?

From Quiz "Assassins" Quiz

Answer: Alik

His Russian wife claimed that Lee sounded too Chinese, so she nicknamed him Alik.

18. Who did Byck contact before his assassination attempt?

From Quiz Stephen Sondheim's "Assassins" Quiz!

Answer: Leonard Bernstein

Byck's letter to Bernstein details his crazy plan.

19. To what country did Guiteau want to be appointed ambassador?

From Quiz "Assassins" Quiz

Answer: France

He claimed falsely that it was because of him that Garfield was elected in the first place, and therefore he deserved the position as a reward.

20. In the show, who is the last President to be killed?

From Quiz Stephen Sondheim's "Assassins" Quiz!

Answer: John F. Kennedy

In a very powerful scene, the other assassins convince Lee Harvery Oswald to shoot JFK.

21. While he is in the saloon with the other assassins in scene 3, what does Giuseppe Zangara drink?

From Quiz "Assassins" Quiz

Answer: Buttermilk

Zangara suffers from a constant stomachache which he blames on the government.

22. To what show and character does Booth refer to when talking to Oswald?

From Quiz "Assassins" Quiz

Answer: "Death of a Salesman," Willy Loman

"Now, I'm an actor, and I'm a good one, but Willy Loman is a part I could never play - and I don't think you should have to play it either."

23. Who wrote the original song, "I Am Going to the Lordy"?

From Quiz "Assassins" Quiz

Answer: Charles Guiteau

He wrote this song himself, among other things.

24. What does Hinckley break that angers Czolgosz?

From Quiz "Assassins" Quiz

Answer: a bottle

Czolgosz works in a bottle factory with little pay.

25. Samuel Byck sings portions of two songs from "West Side Story." "America" is appropriately one - what is the other?

From Quiz "Assassins" Quiz

Answer: Tonight, Tonight

Both appear during his audiotape monologue to Leonard Bernstein.

26. To what Sousa song is "How I Saved Roosevelt" set?

From Quiz "Assassins" Quiz

Answer: El Capitan

How American!

27. Who does Moore say reminds her of her father?

From Quiz "Assassins" Quiz

Answer: Colonel Sanders

Squeaky and Moore try to put a curse on the Colonel for this reason.

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