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Theatre Quiz (Non-Musical) - 3 attributes

I will give 3 attributes of a play and you find the right one!

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

Author
garyjaffe

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
88,912

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
15

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
9 / 15

Plays
1377

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 15

1. 1. An earlobe. 2. The basement. 3. Antique worry-crystals. Hint

Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot"

Margaret Edson's "Wit"

Eugene Ionesco's "Chairs"

Neil Simon's "Rumors"

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Question 2 of 15

2. 1. Evolution. 2. Old-time religion. 3. Two great lawyers. Hint

David Mamet's "Oleanna"

Samuel Beckett's "Endgame"

Tom Stoppard's "Indian Ink"

Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee's "Inherit the Wind"

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Question 3 of 15

3. 1. Physicists. 2. Nazis. 3. The nuclear bomb. Hint

Michael Frayn's "Copenhagen"

Bertolt Brecht's "The Caucasian Chalk Circle"

Steve Martin's "Picasso at the Lapin Agile"

Mrozek's "Tango"

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Question 4 of 15

4. 1. A mansion. 2. A jealous relative. 3. A once-a-month drunk doctor. Hint

Arthur Kopit's "Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad"

Arthur Miller's "All My Sons"

George Bernard Shaw's "Mrs. Warren's Profession"

Anton Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya"

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Question 5 of 15

5. 1. An animal. 2. A successful husband. 3. An unlikely mistress. Hint

Edward Albee's "The Zoo Story"

Edward Albee's "The Goat or Who is Sylvia?"

Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"

Edward Albee's "The American Dream"

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Question 6 of 15

6. 1. A no running water apartment. 2. Lincoln and Booth. 3. Profanities galore. Hint

David Auburn's "Proof"

Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee's "Inherit the Wind"

Suzan Lori-Parks's "Topdog/Underdog"

Edward Albee's "The American Dream"

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Question 7 of 15

7. 1. A street. 2. A tree. 3. Two men. Hint

Herb Gardner's "I'm Not Rappaport"

Peter Shaffer's "Equus"

Tom Stoppard's "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead"

Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot"

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Question 8 of 15

8. 1. A young headstrong and smart woman. 2. Her mother's secret. 3. Banned in Connecticut. Hint

John Ford's "'Tis a Pity She's a Whore"

Mary Zimmerman's "Metamorphoses"

Suzan Lori-Park's "Topdog/Underdog"

George Bernard Shaw's "Mrs. Warren's Profession"

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Question 9 of 15

9. 1. A king dies. 2. A power hungry man. 3. Lots and lots of deaths. Hint

Shakespeare's "Richard III"

All of these

Shakespeare's "Hamlet"

Shakespeare's "Macbeth"

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Question 10 of 15

10. 1. Cancer. 2. John Donne. 3. Popsicles. Hint

Arthur Miller's "A Tale of Two Mondays"

Michael Frayn's "Copenhagen"

Margaret Edson's "Wit"

Mrozek's "Tango"

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Question 11 of 15

11. 1. The Socialists' Club. 2. Medical Marijuana. 3. A Central Park bench. Hint

Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot"

Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia"

Tom Stoppard's "Rosencratz and Guildenstern are Dead"

Herb Gardner's "I'm Not Rappaport"

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Question 12 of 15

12. 1. Rivalry. 2. Questioning of God. 3. Mozart. Hint

Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee's "Inherit the Wind"

Peter Shaffer's "Amadeus"

Anton Chekhov's "Ivanov"

Christopher Marlowe's "Dr. Faustus"

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Question 13 of 15

13. 1. Venus Fly-traps. 2. A very large fish. 3. A stamp and coin collection. Hint

David Rogers's "Boys and Ghouls Together"

Michael Frayn's "Noises Off"

Arthur Kopit's "Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad"

Arthur Miller's "The Crucible"

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Question 14 of 15

14. 1. Waltzing. 2. Architecture. 3. Carnal Embrace. Hint

Tony Kushner's "Angels in America"

Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia"

Steve Martin's "Picasso at the Lapin Agile"

Marsha Norman's "Night Mother"

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Question 15 of 15

15. 1. Picasso. 2. Einstein. 3. The Lapin Agile. Hint

Michael Frayn's "Copenhagen"

Shakespeare's "Othello"

Michael Frayn's "Noises Off"

Steve Martin's "Picasso at the Lapin Agile"

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1. 1. An earlobe. 2. The basement. 3. Antique worry-crystals.

Answer: Neil Simon's "Rumors"

The comedic masterpiece "Rumors," by Neil Simon, involves party guests finding their host upstairs - with a bullet through his earlobe! What transpires is a maniacal romp involving a therapist, a tennis club and priceless worry-crystals (and much, much more!)

2. 1. Evolution. 2. Old-time religion. 3. Two great lawyers.

Answer: Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee's "Inherit the Wind"

Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee tackled a great Roman Circus of a trial involving two of the greatest lawyers of all time and a teacher of Darwinian theory in a sleepy religious town in their classic "Inherit the Wind."

3. 1. Physicists. 2. Nazis. 3. The nuclear bomb.

Answer: Michael Frayn's "Copenhagen"

Michael Frayn's recent hit show "Copenhagen" asks the famous question, "Why did German physicist Heisenberg visit his former Danish colleague Bohr that famous night?"

4. 1. A mansion. 2. A jealous relative. 3. A once-a-month drunk doctor.

Answer: Anton Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya"

Anton Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" is considered to be one of his best works, which include such masterpieces as "The Seagull", "Ivanov", and "The Three Sisters."

5. 1. An animal. 2. A successful husband. 3. An unlikely mistress.

Answer: Edward Albee's "The Goat or Who is Sylvia?"

Edward Albee's recent Best Play winning drama - "The Goat or Who is Sylvia?" is an unlikely story - a succesful husband is having an affair behind his wife's back. With a goat. It explores the meaning of love, animal or human (or both.) Plus, it had Bill Pullman and Mercedes Reuhl in the original cast!

6. 1. A no running water apartment. 2. Lincoln and Booth. 3. Profanities galore.

Answer: Suzan Lori-Parks's "Topdog/Underdog"

This enticing drama of two African American brothers named Booth and Lincoln by their father (as a joke) won the Pulitzer Prize for 2002 and adds another hit to Suzan Lori-Park's victory list.

7. 1. A street. 2. A tree. 3. Two men.

Answer: Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot"

Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" possibly (and quite probably) revolutionized modern theatre with his simple, yet revolutionary and ingenious idea - two men waiting near a street for this guy named Godot... who never comes. Genius, isn't it?

8. 1. A young headstrong and smart woman. 2. Her mother's secret. 3. Banned in Connecticut.

Answer: George Bernard Shaw's "Mrs. Warren's Profession"

George Bernard Shaw's play "Mrs. Warren's Profession" shocked England and America - it was the first play ever to honestly deal with prostitution. And it actually is not risque at all.

9. 1. A king dies. 2. A power hungry man. 3. Lots and lots of deaths.

Answer: All of these

And yet every one of them is a monumentally different play.

10. 1. Cancer. 2. John Donne. 3. Popsicles.

Answer: Margaret Edson's "Wit"

Margaret Edson's play-turned-HBO-film is about a professor of the poetry of John Donne, and how she deals with the fact that she has become a test subject and is slowly dying from her ovarian cancer. It deals with the manner in which she comes to terms with her impending death, and with Donne's famous words "death be not proud".

11. 1. The Socialists' Club. 2. Medical Marijuana. 3. A Central Park bench.

Answer: Herb Gardner's "I'm Not Rappaport"

Herb Gardner mixed comedy with the ultimate despair of senility in his award-winning play, "I'm Not Rappaport." "I'm Not Rappaport" tells the story of aging communist Nat and his crusades to rally the masses and as he assumes different identities to wriggle out of certain situations. Unfortunately his fun and games are taking heavy tolls on his friend Midge and his daughter Clara.

12. 1. Rivalry. 2. Questioning of God. 3. Mozart.

Answer: Peter Shaffer's "Amadeus"

Peter Shaffer's Tony and Oscar award winning masterpiece about the rivalry between Antonio Salieri and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is arguably one of the great classics of the recent century. Its lead role - Salieri - has almost always won an award in the major productions (Paul Scofield won the London Award, Ian McKellen won the Tony, and F. Murray Abraham won the Oscar).

13. 1. Venus Fly-traps. 2. A very large fish. 3. A stamp and coin collection.

Answer: Arthur Kopit's "Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad"

Arthur Kopit redefined farce with his hit "Oh Dad...Sad."

14. 1. Waltzing. 2. Architecture. 3. Carnal Embrace.

Answer: Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia"

Tom Stoppard's epic play "Arcadia," spanning two time periods, became an instant classic on its opening night.

15. 1. Picasso. 2. Einstein. 3. The Lapin Agile.

Answer: Steve Martin's "Picasso at the Lapin Agile"

If you missed Steve Martin's spry and witty comedy about the imaginary meeting of Picasso and Einstein at the bar the Lapin Agile, you've missed one of the greatest subtle and unsubtle comedies of our time.

Source: Author garyjaffe

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