Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Let's start with the opening chorus.
"If you think we are worked by strings,
Like a Japanese _____,
You don't understand these things:
It is simply Court etiquette."
2. Nanki-Poo enters, carrying a "native guitar" on his back and a bundle of ballads in his hand.
"A wandering minstrel I -
A thing of shreds and patches,
Of ballads, songs and _____,
And dreamy lullaby!"
3. Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner, sings:
"As some day it may happen that a victim must be found,
I've got a little list, I've got a little list
Of society offenders who might well be underground,
And who never would be ____, who never would be ____."
Provide the one word that fills in both blanks and use proper spelling.
4. Most people know this little ditty:
"Three little maids from school are we,
Pert as a schoolgirl well can be,
Filled to the brim with girlish ____,
Three little maids from school!"
5. Another trio (this time of men) says that they wouldn't much care:
"To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock,
In a pestilential prison with a life-long lock,
Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock,
From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big, black ____!"
6. Katisha does not manage to complete this sentence, but what does she want to say about Nanki-Poo?
"In vain you interrupt with this tornado!
He is the only son of your _____!"
7. "A more humane Mikado never
Did in Japan exist,
To nobody second,
I'm certainly reckoned,
A true _______."
8. "B should be happy!
Oh, so happy!
Laughing, ha ha!
Chaffing, ha ha!
_____ quaffing, ha ha ha!"
9. Ko-Ko says to Katisha:
"Are you old enough to marry, do you think?
Won't you wait till you are eighty in the shade?
There's a fascination frantic
In a ruin that's romantic
Do you think you are sufficiently _____?"
10. Grand finale:
"For he's gone and married Yum-Yum,
Your anger pray bury,
For all will be merry,
I think you had better _____,
And join our expressions of glee."
Source: Author
askpau
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