Kill Me Now Trivia Quiz

Answer: Eponine

Eponine returns to the barricade after delivering a letter to Cosette, despite the danger of the fight, and is shot while pushing Marius out of the way of the bullets. She collapses and Marius sings with her as she dies, finally confessing her unrequited love to him.

Answer: Mushnik

Mr. Mushnik is the florist who owns the shop where Seymour works, and over the course of "Suppertime", the plant convinces Seymour that Mushnik knows too much about their murderous plan. Mushnik needs to go, according to Audrey II, and by the end of the song, Seymour tricks his boss into opening up the plant's man-eating jaws, and stepping inside. "Suppertime" indeed!

Answer: Man of La Mancha

Don Quixote, the title character of "Man of La Mancha" (adapted from the Cervantes novel), is gravely ill after emerging from his extended flight of fancy in which he believed he was a knight-errant in the old epic style. He is reminded of his noble intentions by the woman he had pursued in his daze, and sings his title song once more before succumbing to his illness.

Answer: Make Them Hear You

Coalhouse Walker Jr., distraught over the death of his girlfriend (and mother of his son) Sarah, turns against the town that has mistreated him due to his race. He escalates, ending up in New York holding people hostage, where he realizes that he can't turn himself in without being killed in the process. Rather than risk the lives of his men, he decides to face death, and tells his followers to simply spread the word of the injustices done to them.

Answer: Madame Guillotine

"Madame Guillotine" is the opening song of "The Scarlet Pimpernel", in which the French people lament their downtrodden state under the old regime and the bloody vengeance they have planned in the French Revolution. Meanwhile, their victim cries out in terror, but they are unmoved.

Answer: Moritz

Moritz is the lost and academically inferior student in "Spring Awakening". He works hard with his more bookish friend Melchior and manages to do well on his exams. However, the teachers are determined not to pass him through to the next year, and when his attempt to flee to America doesn't get off the ground, he ends his life.

Answer: Tommy

The Who's "Tommy", originally a concept album and then a musical, begins with Tommy's father killing Tommy's mother's paramour. When the parents realize the child was a witness to this death, they tell him "You Didn't Hear It" in a song with grave psychological consequences for their son.

Answer: Toby

Sweeney Todd has been trying to kill the Judge the whole show, and when the Judge returns to Todd's barber shop to find Johanna, Sweeney finally has his chance. He gets his revenge, but then realizes that Mrs. Lovett has withheld information about his wife Lucy being alive, and kills Mrs. Lovett as well. Toby, who went mad after his captivity with the dead bodies, finds Todd and kills him upon realizing that Todd killed Mrs. Lovett.

Answer: Momma Look Sharp

"Momma Look Sharp" is an elegy for a young soldier whose entire experience of the conflict with Britain was on the battlefield. After an entire show of legislators bickering, this provides the perspective of someone who's seen the true price of the arguments.

Answer: "Empty Chairs at Empty Tables" - Marius

Marius is one of the very lucky few characters to survive the bloodbath of "Les Miserables". The barricade sequence kills the rest of the barricade boys as well as Eponine and Gavroche, while Fantine and Valjean die before and after the barricade, respectively. Marius does sing "Empty Chairs at Empty Tables" in remembrance of his fallen comrades.