Fiddler on the Roof Quiz for Experts | Movies

Answer: Topol

Chaim Topol (goes by Topol) was born in 1935 in Tel Aviv. He died in 2023. He has also played roles as Galileo and in the "War and Remembrance" series.

Answer: He conjures a dream.

He conjures a very elaborate dream in which Golde's grandmother blesses the union between Motel and Tzeitel and in which Lazar Wolf's first wife curses the union.

Answer: Law and Order

Neva Small has had a few bit parts on "Law and Order". In each episode, she plays a different character.

Answer: She married a man who was not Jewish.

It was very difficult for Tevye to come to terms with his daughter's marriage. His culture taught him that to leave the faith was to desert your people. In the end, he struggles but acknowleges Chava and her husband.

Answer: "God has given you to me"

Motel, until confronting Tevye about his love for Tzeitel is portrayed as a weak, blabbering character. His outburst of song is his proclamation that he has stood up for what he most wanted.

Answer: Five

Tevye often jokingly laments that he has five daughters and no sons.

Answer: Chava

The song sings "little bird, little Chava-leh". "Leh" being an affectionate suffix.

Answer: Sunrise, Sunset

Tevye and Golde are singing about watching their eldest daughter marry.

Answer: Siberia

It was not uncommon for "political dissenters" to be arrested and sent away.

Answer: Double Chin

When Tevye is singing in the barn about his life as a poor man, he asks God if a "vast eternal plan" would be spoilt were he rich.

Answer: The matchmaker

The three eldest daughters, Tzeitel, Hodel, and Chava, sing about their desire for the matchmaker to find them good husbands... and then soon change their minds when they realize that they could also be paired with an undesirable man.

Answer: Lazar Wolf is older than Tevye.

When the two men are inebriated after their celebration, Lazar comments to Tevye that he will soon call him "Papa." Tevye responds that he always wanted a son, but one younger than himself.

Answer: Hodel

When the three girls are singing, they mention the order in which they must be married. Tzeitel first, and then Hodel, and then Chava.

Answer: Tradition

Tevye opens the movie discussing how their village survives and how they have survived for many years. He says, "How did this tradition get started? I'll tell you... I don't know, but it's a tradition."

Answer: Yes

And quite a good show! Bette Midler actually had a brief career playing Tzeitel on broadway.

Answer: Her mother

Chava begins dancing with her mother who passes her on to her two older sisters. Each sister dances for a moment and then moves away to be with their mates. Chava dances with Fyedka and for a moment she is beckoned to choose between the fiddler who represents her culture and Fyedka. She returns to Fyedka. It is a quite beautiful scene.

Answer: A sewing machine

Motel comments that it will take him much less time to make clothes. The machine ensures their financial success (although they are still quite poor).

Answer: Pretty

A young boy looks out of the school house and spies a young girl leaning against a post staring sweetly at him, presumably his future bride.

Answer: Men and women danced together

It was such a new and radical thing to have men and women dancing with each other. The rabbi suitably compromised by holding onto a scarf to dance with Hodel (without touching her).

Answer: three

In a scene all too familiar to Jewish villages across Russia (and the world for that matter), the town was required to leave their home.