Jilted Brides and Grooms Trivia Quiz

Answer: Cotton Eye Joe

Even though its lyrics are sad, the song "Cotton Eye Joe" has a nice fast beat to it. The popular dance is done with couples or in a line, using a crossover kick step. According to Wikipedia, the term "cotton eye" can mean a variety of things, from a person who is drunken to one who is ill.

Answer: While the woman is on her deathbed

On her deathbed, Granny Weatherall drifts in and out of lucidity, remembering her life, her children and her work. The last memory she has before she dies is the one in which her groom leaves her waiting by herself on her wedding day. She just can't seem to shake that memory!

Answer: Alison Krauss

This traditional song is "The Boy Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn", and Alison Krauss sings it with the band Union Station. The song is about a boy who works so hard on his corn crop, just to see the "September frost" destroy it. The young man's intended bride is not so understanding, because she thinks he is lazy and refuses to marry him.

Answer: Great Expectations

In "Great Expectations", we meet Miss Havisham as a twisted old woman, who has stopped all the clocks in her house at twenty to nine, the exact time when she learned that her bridegroom abandoned her on their wedding day. Since that terrible day, she has not gone outside her house into the daylight.

Answer: Dustin Hoffman

Although Dustin Hoffman storms into the wedding and steals away with the bride, he is technically too late: the couple had already said their wedding vows. This romantic and comedy movie, also starring Anne Bancroft and Katherine Ross, was a huge hit.

Answer: His shoe is loosened and he is spat upon.

According to Deuteronomy 25, verse 9, the rejected widow shall "loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit before him; and she shall answer and say, 'So shall it be done to a man that does not build up his brother's house.'" (Dr. J.H. Hertz edition).

Answer: She turns the wedding reception into a charity event.

Apparently, Kyle Paxman knows how to turn a lemon into lemonade. Instead of feeling sorry for herself, she made her wedding reception into a charity event for CARE USA, an international aid agency, and the Vermont Children's Aid Society (by asking her invited guests to write checks to the charity). She used her same wedding hall, flowers and caterer.

Answer: Guys and Dolls

Poor Adelaide! All the stalling from a prospective groom has given her "la grippe" and other "psychosomatic symptoms". In addition, she says in "Adelaide's Lament" that fourteen times she was on her way to Niagara Falls to get married; but fourteen times the groom got off in Saratoga instead, leaving her unmarried. This is a charming musical.

Answer: She has a habit of leaving her grooms at the altar.

In this movie, indecisive Maggie Carpenter leaves several grooms after the altar after she gets cold feet. Richard Gere is an investigative reporter who knows a good story when he hears one, and he tracks her down to her home town of Hale, Maryland (which I believe is a fictional town). Of course, they fall for each other.

Answer: Elizabeth Bennet

Mr. Collins visits the Bennet household, and one of his reasons for visiting is to size up the five sisters as possible wives for himself. After hearing that his first favorite, Jane, is probably already taken, his eye falls on the spunky Elizabeth. She totally rejects his proposal, saying he could "never make me happy".

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