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Showtunes About Food Trivia Quiz

Another one of my showtunes theme quizzes. These songs all involve food. I give you the lyric, you tell me the show.

A multiple-choice quiz by Jacifan. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
Jacifan

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
189,730

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
6 / 10

Plays
982

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. "Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard! While we're in the mood -- Cold jelly and custard!" Hint

Godspell

The Fantasticks

Nunsense

Oliver!

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Question 2 of 10

2. "No denying times is hard, sir, even harder than the worst pies in London - only lard and nothing more. Is that just revolting? All greasy and gritty! It looks like it's molting and tastes like... well, pity!" Hint

Bat Boy

Sweeney Todd

You're a Good Man Charlie Brown

Little Shop of Horrors

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Question 3 of 10

3. "First come codfish chowder, cooked in iron kettles, onions floating on the top, curling up in petals, throwed in ribbons of salted pork - an old New England trick - and lapped it all up with a clamshell, tied on to a bayberry stick." Hint

Carousel

Pippin

By Jeeves

Little Shop of Horrors

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Question 4 of 10

4. "Bring on the soup dish, bring on the cup. Bring on the bacon and fill me up." Hint

You're a Good Man Charlie Brown

Assassins

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

Bat Boy

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Question 5 of 10

5. "For a candied sweet or a pickled beet, step up to my smorgasbord." Hint

Little Shop of Horrors

Into the Woods

On the Town

Company

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Question 6 of 10

6. "Some lovely girls have done wonders with turkey stuffin's, but I have found the one who can really make corn muffins!" Hint

The Fantasticks

Of Thee I Sing

Into the Woods

And the World Goes 'Round

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Question 7 of 10

7. "For a cool orange juice or a bagel, on the soft, green cylindrical stools sit the fools, drinking cinnamon coffee or decaffeinated tea." Hint

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

You're a Good Man Charlie Brown

Forever Plaid

tick...tick...BOOM!

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Question 8 of 10

8. "You both been invited on a date, two courses handed to us on a plate. We'll have you raw, won't be long to wait, seeing you're already brown." Hint

Once On This Island

Baby

Snoopy

The Lion King

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Question 9 of 10

9. "I am Iowa born and bred, and on Iowa corn I'm fed, not to mention barley, wheat and rye." Hint

Closer Than Ever

Working

The Music Man

State Fair

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Question 10 of 10

10. "Have an eggroll, Mr. Goldstone. Have a napkin, have a chopstick, have a chair. Have a spare rib, Mr. Goldstone. Any spare that I can spare I'll be glad to share!" Hint

Gypsy

Zombie Prom

Sunday in the Park With George

Les Miserables

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. "Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard! While we're in the mood -- Cold jelly and custard!"

Answer: Oliver!

From "Food, Glorious Food". In this song, a group of orphaned boys who toil at a workhouse sing about what they wish for the most - food.

Answer: Sweeney Todd

From "The Worst Pies In London", a comedic song about the difficulty of baking good meat pies with the price of meat being as high as it is.

Answer: Carousel

From "A Real Nice Clambake", sung after a clambake. The song details the delicious food they ate and how they "all had a real good time".

4. "Bring on the soup dish, bring on the cup. Bring on the bacon and fill me up."

Answer: You're a Good Man Charlie Brown

From "Suppertime", where Snoopy dances and sings joyously on seeing that Charlie Brown has not forgotten to bring him dinner.

5. "For a candied sweet or a pickled beet, step up to my smorgasbord."

Answer: On the Town

From "I Can Cook Too", in which a girl tries to seduce the man she loves by comparing herself to several different kinds of dishes and claiming she "can cook".

6. "Some lovely girls have done wonders with turkey stuffin's, but I have found the one who can really make corn muffins!"

Answer: Of Thee I Sing

From "Some Girls Can Bake a Pie". Presidential candidate John P. Wintergreen was supposed to fall in love with the winner of a beauty contest, according to his campaign. But when he falls in love with someone else instead, the beauty contest winner demands to know why. His response - his love, Mary, can make corn muffins.

7. "For a cool orange juice or a bagel, on the soft, green cylindrical stools sit the fools, drinking cinnamon coffee or decaffeinated tea."

Answer: tick...tick...BOOM!

From "Sunday", a song about a diner and the people eating there.

8. "You both been invited on a date, two courses handed to us on a plate. We'll have you raw, won't be long to wait, seeing you're already brown."

Answer: The Lion King

From "Chow Down", where the hyenas anticipate eating Simba and Nala, talking about how delicious they'll taste.

9. "I am Iowa born and bred, and on Iowa corn I'm fed, not to mention barley, wheat and rye."

Answer: State Fair

From "All I Owe Ioway", sung by the attendees of the Iowa State Fair. The song praises Iowa for, among other things, her crops and meats.

10. "Have an eggroll, Mr. Goldstone. Have a napkin, have a chopstick, have a chair. Have a spare rib, Mr. Goldstone. Any spare that I can spare I'll be glad to share!"

Answer: Gypsy

From "Mr. Goldstone". In this song, Mama Rose discovers that a Mr. Goldstone is willing to give her the chance to put her daughter into show business. Absolutely delighted, she offers him some of the food they're eating.

Source: Author Jacifan

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