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This 1971 musical from Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey ran on Broadway for over 3,000 performances, but is probably not as familiar to many as the 1978 movie version starring Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta. Many of the subsequent revivals have incorporated features of both the original musical and the movie. If you're looking for some Pink Ladies getting all het up over the Greased Lightning on Summer Nights, you've come to the right place.
3 quizzes and 65 trivia questions.
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  The "Grease" Gang    
Multiple Choice
 25 Qns
This quiz is based on the characters from the original stage version of "Grease." The answers to the first 18 questions are the names of major characters in the musical. The next 7 questions are about differences between the show songs and the movie.
Difficult, 25 Qns, musictigress, Feb 15 11
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  Grease - the original stage version    
Multiple Choice
 20 Qns
This is a quiz about the original stage version of 'Grease' - trivia, lyrics and the like.
Tough, 20 Qns, DavidBedford, Mar 09 05
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  Grease--The Stage Version    
Multiple Choice
 20 Qns
The stage version is a little different from the movie, but if you've ever seen either you should do fine on this quiz!
Average, 20 Qns, Morrigan716, Sep 30 09
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trivia question Quick Question
Why does Danny get mad at Patty at the dance?

From Quiz "Grease--The Stage Version"





Grease - The Musical Trivia Questions
1. Who is the leader of the Burger Palace Boys?

From Quiz The "Grease" Gang

Answer: Danny & Danny Zuko & Zuko

This is made clear by Cha-Cha at the dance when she says, "Danny Zuko, the big rod of the Burger Palace boys? I didn't think he saw me here." In the movie, the Burger Palace Boys are called the T-Birds.

2. What are the first words heard in the show, the beginning of the 'Rydell Alma Mater'?

From Quiz Grease - the original stage version

Answer: As I go travelling down life's highway

The school song opens the show, followed rapidly by a parody of it as sung by Danny, Rizzo and co. (which is where the 'dead skunk' lyric comes from). The other lyrics are from the 'Rydell Fight Song' and the title song introduced for the film version.

3. Who primarily sings "Greased Lightning"?

From Quiz The "Grease" Gang

Answer: Kenickie

Again, this was changed in the movie because John Travolta (Danny) mostly sang this song, but in the show Kenickie sings it with the other boys backing him up.

4. In what year did 'Grease' hit Broadway?

From Quiz Grease - the original stage version

Answer: 1972

Although 'Grease' existed from 1970, it didn't reach Broadway until 1972, where it ran for many years, becoming the longest running Broadway show until 'A Chorus Line' (which opened in 1975) took over the crown. The movie version came out in 1978.

5. Which character is the Pink Lady who is nicest to Sandy?

From Quiz The "Grease" Gang

Answer: Frenchy

Frenchy is generally the nicest of the Pink Ladies. She is also Sandy's new next-door neighbor.

6. The girls are called the "Pink Ladies". In the film, the boys are called the "T-Birds", but what is their group called in the original stage show?

From Quiz Grease - the original stage version

Answer: The Burger Palace Boys

The guys are known as the "Burger Palace Boys" because they spend so much time there. Their rivals are the "Flaming Dukes".

7. What is Sonny's last name?

From Quiz Grease--The Stage Version

Answer: LaTierri

8. Who is the teacher who busts Sonny early in the show?

From Quiz The "Grease" Gang

Answer: Miss Lynch

Miss Lynch seems to have it in for Sonny: "Mr. Latierri, aren't you supposed to be in detention right now?"

9. In the song 'Those Magic Changes', what four chords are picked out by Doody?

From Quiz Grease - the original stage version

Answer: C, A minor, F and G seventh

The four chords which underscore the whole song are a reference to a common chord structure in late 1950s popular music. This song is one of several pastiches on various popular forms at the time, others including 'It's Raining on Prom Night', 'Mooning', 'Born to Hand Jive' and 'We Go Together'.

10. Who did Patty Simcox have a crush on?

From Quiz Grease--The Stage Version

Answer: Danny

11. Which Burger Palace Boy is young, naive, and the 'little brother' of the group?

From Quiz The "Grease" Gang

Answer: Doody

Doody sings my favorite song in the whole show, "Those Magic Changes". He also provides some great comedic moments by just being completely ignorant of what's really going on around him.

12. Which character tells Roger that if he drinks too much Coke, his teeth will rot?

From Quiz Grease - the original stage version

Answer: Jan

Jan tells him about a scientist who left a tooth in a glass of Coke, warning him that it dissolved within a week. This slightly odd conversation helps them along the way to realising that they are in love.

13. Who wins the dance contest?

From Quiz Grease--The Stage Version

Answer: Danny and Cha-Cha

14. Which character has a crush on Patty Simcox?

From Quiz The "Grease" Gang

Answer: Eugene

Eugene has a crush on Patty even though she has a crush on Danny.

15. In the movie version, Rizzo's song 'Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee' includes the lyric "Elvis, Elvis, let me be! Get that pelvis far from me!" which is a change from the original version. Which popular actor originally got a name check here?

From Quiz Grease - the original stage version

Answer: Sal Mineo

Sal Mineo, a popular, but now mostly forgotten, crooner of the time got a name check here. "No, no, no, no, Sal Mineo, I would never stoop so low!"

16. Where does Rizzo tell Marty she might be pregnant?

From Quiz Grease--The Stage Version

Answer: Jan's basement

17. Which character is running for Student Council Vice-President?

From Quiz The "Grease" Gang

Answer: Patty

Patty is oblivious to the fact that the Pink Ladies cannot stand her.

18. When Roger turns up late for the rumble, what is he armed with?

From Quiz Grease - the original stage version

Answer: A car aerial

Roger's ineffectual weapon is soon outclassed by Kenickie's baseball bat. You can't help but wonder if he stole the aerial from Greased Lightning, Kenickie's prized car.

19. What is Roger's nickname?

From Quiz Grease--The Stage Version

Answer: Rump

'I'm the mooning champ of Rydell High'.

20. Whose nickname is Rump?

From Quiz The "Grease" Gang

Answer: Roger

The name comes from the fact that Roger's favorite hobby is mooning. He sings the song "Mooning" with Jan. Although it is a song about "showing your bare behind to people", it also reveals the crush that they have on each other.

21. What is the name of Marty's lover in the marines?

From Quiz Grease - the original stage version

Answer: Freddy

Freddy Strulka is Marty's lover, and he sends her extravagant presents from around the world which she describes in her song 'Freddy, My Love'. Sonny Latierri is the Burger Palace Boy she ends up with, Vince Fontaine is the disc jockey who comes on to her at the high school dance, and Johnny Casino is the singer who performs 'Born to Hand Jive' in the same scene.

22. What was Sandy's last name?

From Quiz Grease--The Stage Version

Answer: Dumbrowski

In the movie it is Olson.

23. Who sings the main song featured during the Pink Ladies' slumber party?

From Quiz The "Grease" Gang

Answer: Marty

In the movie, Rizzo sings "Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee" at the slumber party, but in the show that song is sung in the park. Instead, Marty sings "Freddy, My Love".

24. Who does Sandy duet with in the song 'It's Raining on Prom Night'?

From Quiz Grease - the original stage version

Answer: The radio

While sitting at home, dateless, Sandy hears this melancholy song on the radio and joins in. The voice on the radio is often sung by the actress who plays Cha Cha, the amazing dancer who wins the dance contest with Danny. Rizzo gets two solos of her own and joins in on various ensemble numbers. Poor old Miss Lynch is only scripted to sing in the 'Rydell Alma Mater'. It has been known for a character in a musical to sing a duet with himself - in 'The Pajama Game', the leading man sings into a dictaphone and then joins in with himself as he plays the tape back.

25. Whose big solo number is 'Those Magic Changes'?

From Quiz Grease--The Stage Version

Answer: Doody

26. Who goes to the dance with Danny?

From Quiz The "Grease" Gang

Answer: Rizzo

Danny asks Rizzo to go only because he has just gotten into a fight with Sandy and she has gotten into one with Kenickie. However, at the dance Rizzo and Kenickie make up, so Danny ends up dancing with Cha-Cha and eventually wins the Hand-Jive contest with her.

27. Who wrote the songs for the show?

From Quiz Grease - the original stage version

Answer: Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey

Jacobs and Casey wrote the whole show, although various other writers contributed new songs for the film (including the Gibb brothers). Carol Hall wrote the successful musical 'The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas', and Rodgers and Hammerstein would be spinning in their graves at the notion of having written 'Grease'!

28. What were Sandy and Eugene looking for in the park?

From Quiz Grease--The Stage Version

Answer: Leaves

They were hunting leaves for Biology.

29. In the stage musical, who is the only character not at the dance?

From Quiz The "Grease" Gang

Answer: Sandy & Sandy Dumbrowski

Sandy is the only character in the whole show not in the dance scene. Instead, she sits at home and sings "It's Raining on Prom Night" along with the radio.

30. In the opening number to Act Two, 'Shaking at the High School Hop', what word completes the first line: "Well, honky tonk baby get on the ..."

From Quiz Grease - the original stage version

Answer: floor

"... all the cats are yelling, they're shouting for more!" This number is a clear pastiche of such hits as 'At the Hop'.

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