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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Trivia Quiz

I found it unbelievable that I could find no quizzes about this great American play, so I thought I'd put one together. All answers are based on the Dramatist Play Service, Inc. publication of the play.

A multiple-choice quiz by durikaj. Estimated time: 6 mins.

Author
durikaj

Time
6 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
216,318

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
25

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
14 / 25

Plays
770

Last 3 plays: Guest 204 (18/25), Johnmcmanners (25/25), Guest 73 (16/25).

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Question 1 of 25

1. Who is the first character onstage at the beginning of the play? Hint

Sookey

Gooper

Maggie

Brick

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Question 2 of 25

2. What did the children throw at Maggie at the dinner table, causing her to go up to her bedroom? Hint

Peas drenched with gravy

Hot buttered biscuit

Buttered cob of corn

Rare roast beef

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Question 3 of 25

3. Who are the two sons of Big Daddy and Ida Pollitt? Hint

Brick and Baugh

Gooper and Brick

Brick and Lacey

Gooper and Baugh

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Question 4 of 25

4. Several of the characters in the play speak on the phone with Miss Sally. Who is Miss Sally? Hint

Big Mama's sister

Mae's mother

Maggie's mother

Big Daddy's sister

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Question 5 of 25

5. "Big Mama" is called all of the following during the course of the play EXCEPT for what? Hint

Ida

What's Your Name

Mommy

Grandma Pollitt

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Question 6 of 25

6. What is the name of the trophy that Maggie won for intercollegiate archery at Ole Miss? Hint

The Robin Hood Trophy

The Diana Trophy

The William Tell Trophy

It didn't have a name

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Question 7 of 25

7. How many children do Mae and Gooper have as of the beginning of the play? Hint

Six

None

Four

Five

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Question 8 of 25

8. What is Gooper Pollitt's occupation? Hint

Attorney

Plantation Foreman

Mechanic

He doesn't have a job

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Question 9 of 25

9. What does Brick call the liquor cabinet in his room? Hint

The Bar

The Sidelines

The Trough

Echo Spring

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Question 10 of 25

10. What word does Big Daddy most often use when he's disgusted with something? Hint

Horse-hocky

Bull

Crap

Mendacity

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Question 11 of 25

11. What does Big Daddy call the trip that he and Big Mama took to Europe? Hint

The Flea Market

They didn't take a trip to Europe

The Road to Marrakesh

The Cook's Tour

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Question 12 of 25

12. What aspect of Marrakesh does Big Daddy NOT relate to Brick during his story about Europe? Hint

That he was propositioned by a four year old girl

That it's a walled city

All the dirt and sand

That it's in Morocco

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Question 13 of 25

13. Brick played what position on the college and pro football teams? Hint

Running Back

Wide Receiver

Tight End

Quarterback

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Question 14 of 25

14. True or False: Brick held Skipper in his arms while Skipper died.

True

False

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Question 15 of 25

15. How many months pregnant is Maggie at the beginning of the play? Hint

She is not pregnant

Four months

One month

Five months

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Question 16 of 25

16. Who is Big Daddy's favorite member of the family? Hint

Mae

Big Mama

Brick

Gooper

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Question 17 of 25

17. What is the condition that Dr. Baugh tells Big Daddy he has after the laboratory results come back from the clinic? Hint

Lung Cancer

Spastic Colon

Colon Cancer

Lou Gherig's Disease

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Question 18 of 25

18. What are the names of the men who owned the plantation before Big Daddy? Hint

Lacey Jenkins and Sookey Wilson

Jack Ochello and Peter Straw

Jack Straw and Peter Ochello

Jack Strello and Peter Wilson

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Question 19 of 25

19. What does Big Daddy smell when he comes into the room after the family conference in Act 3? Hint

Liquor

Mendacity

Food

The air after the storm

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Question 20 of 25

20. It is implied in the script that Big Daddy intends to leave his fortune to Mae and Gooper.

True

False

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Question 21 of 25

21. How did Brick break his ankle? Hint

He fell down the stairs while drunk

A lineman fell on it during a football scrimmage

Tripped while trying to jump hurdles

Someone broke it with a pool cue in a bar fight

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Question 22 of 25

22. What material is Big Daddy's robe (the one that Maggie bought on behalf of Brick as a birthday present)? Hint

Silk

It wasn't a robe, it was slippers

Cotton

Cashmere

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Question 23 of 25

23. Which two characters are playing croquet in the yard during Act 1? Hint

Lacey and Sookey

Doc Baugh and Reverend Tooker

Mae and Gooper

Big Mama and Reverend Tooker

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Question 24 of 25

24. Dr. Baugh mentions a "cure" for alcoholism. What is it called? Hint

The Richardson Cure

The Keely Cure

The Davis Treatment

The Roosevelt Treatment

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Question 25 of 25

25. Who says the last line of the play? Hint

Doctor Baugh

Maggie

Big Mama

Big Daddy

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Nov 19 2024 : Guest 204: 18/25
Nov 18 2024 : Johnmcmanners: 25/25
Nov 12 2024 : Guest 73: 16/25
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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Who is the first character onstage at the beginning of the play?

Answer: Brick

At the beginning of Act 1 Brick is taking a shower. Maggie then enters to begin the main action of the scene.

2. What did the children throw at Maggie at the dinner table, causing her to go up to her bedroom?

Answer: Hot buttered biscuit

Maggie refers to the children as "No-neck monsters" several times in Act 1.

3. Who are the two sons of Big Daddy and Ida Pollitt?

Answer: Gooper and Brick

Gooper is older by eight years.

4. Several of the characters in the play speak on the phone with Miss Sally. Who is Miss Sally?

Answer: Big Daddy's sister

According to Big Daddy (in Act 2), Miss Sally is his "old maid sister."

5. "Big Mama" is called all of the following during the course of the play EXCEPT for what?

Answer: Grandma Pollitt

Big Daddy calls her Ida throughout Act 2, and refers to her as "What's Your Name" near the end of Act 3. Mae refers to her as "Mommy" in Act 3. The grandchildren call her Big Mama.

6. What is the name of the trophy that Maggie won for intercollegiate archery at Ole Miss?

Answer: The Diana Trophy

The trophy was actually a bow. Mae brings it to Maggie and asks her to put it away so that Mae's children won't be tempted to hurt someone with it.

7. How many children do Mae and Gooper have as of the beginning of the play?

Answer: Five

Mae and Gooper have Dixie, Trixie, Buster, Sonny and Polly, and Mae is pregnant with a sixth child. For reasons unknown, Polly never appears onstage in the play.

8. What is Gooper Pollitt's occupation?

Answer: Attorney

Gooper is a corporate lawyer with a practice in Memphis. Brick, his younger brother, is a former pro football quarterback and unemployed sports announcer.

9. What does Brick call the liquor cabinet in his room?

Answer: Echo Spring

He calls it Echo Spring in reference to the Echo Spring Southern Bourbon that fills the cabinet.

10. What word does Big Daddy most often use when he's disgusted with something?

Answer: Crap

Big Mama verifies this in Act 3.

11. What does Big Daddy call the trip that he and Big Mama took to Europe?

Answer: The Cook's Tour

In Act 2, Big Daddy describes the Cook's Tour to Brick, saying that he'd never had such a lousy time in his life.

12. What aspect of Marrakesh does Big Daddy NOT relate to Brick during his story about Europe?

Answer: All the dirt and sand

Big Daddy relates a story where a woman with a four year old girl encouraged her to try to get money from Big Daddy by doing something sexual to him. Big Daddy is still disgusted by the memory.

13. Brick played what position on the college and pro football teams?

Answer: Quarterback

Brick was the quarterback, and his best friend, Skipper, was a receiver, though it's never stated exactly what position Skipper played.

14. True or False: Brick held Skipper in his arms while Skipper died.

Answer: False

The last time Brick spoke to Skipper was on the phone when a drunken Skipper tried to profess his love for Brick. Brick hung up on him without a word, and Skipper died sometime later from heart failure brought on, in part, by alcoholism.

15. How many months pregnant is Maggie at the beginning of the play?

Answer: She is not pregnant

Maggie and Brick haven't slept together since Skipper died. Maggie wants Brick to sire a baby so that she and Brick can share in Big Daddy's fortune when he dies.

16. Who is Big Daddy's favorite member of the family?

Answer: Brick

In Act 2, Big Daddy says the following about the others:

Gooper and Mae: "I hate Gooper....and that bitch Mae."
Big Mama: "I haven't been able to stand the sight, sound or smell of that woman for forty years."

17. What is the condition that Dr. Baugh tells Big Daddy he has after the laboratory results come back from the clinic?

Answer: Spastic Colon

Big Daddy actually has cancer, but he is told the lie that he has nothing but a "spastic colon" before his 65th birthday party. Brick reveals the truth to Big Daddy at the end of Act 2.

18. What are the names of the men who owned the plantation before Big Daddy?

Answer: Jack Straw and Peter Ochello

Lacey and Sookey are workers at Big Daddy's plantation. Jack Straw and Peter Ochello apparently hired Big Daddy when he was 10 years old, and Big Daddy saw the plantation grow to 28,000 acres.

19. What does Big Daddy smell when he comes into the room after the family conference in Act 3?

Answer: Mendacity

He says that the mendacity smells "like Death."

20. It is implied in the script that Big Daddy intends to leave his fortune to Mae and Gooper.

Answer: False

It is implied that he will leave the fortune to Brick and Maggie, after Maggie has fooled him into believing that she is pregnant with Brick's child. He tells Gooper that he wants to see his lawyer in the morning, then goes to the roof to look over his lands one last time before giving them away.

21. How did Brick break his ankle?

Answer: Tripped while trying to jump hurdles

Big Daddy asks if he failed to jump the high hurdles because he was drunk, to which Brick replies: "Sober I wouldn't have tried to jump the LOW ones!"

22. What material is Big Daddy's robe (the one that Maggie bought on behalf of Brick as a birthday present)?

Answer: Cashmere

Actually, Maggie gives him Chinese slippers as her gift to Big Daddy, but buys the cashmere robe so that Brick has something to give Big Daddy.

23. Which two characters are playing croquet in the yard during Act 1?

Answer: Doc Baugh and Reverend Tooker

We hear the croquet game offstage as Brick and Maggie talk in their bedroom.

24. Dr. Baugh mentions a "cure" for alcoholism. What is it called?

Answer: The Keely Cure

The family (minus Big Daddy) are discussing Brick's alcoholism and Doc Baugh brings this up, then says that nowadays they just give a pill that makes you lose interest.

25. Who says the last line of the play?

Answer: Maggie

Maggie: "Oh you weak, and beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you -- gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of -- and I can! I'm determined to do it -- and nothing's more determined than a cat on a tin roof -- is there? Is there, baby?"

There are multiple versions of the script for various revivals, and some of them have a slightly different finish, with Brick responding to Maggie's question.

Source: Author durikaj

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