Make Mine Music Trivia Quiz

Answer: The Martins took chicken eggs from the Coys.

"The Martins and The Coys" was known as a rustic ballad in "Make Mine Music" sung by The King's Men. When the Martins took eggs from the Coys' chicken coop, a feud began. There was only one member of each family left. Grace was a Martin and Henry was a Coy. The two fell in love and were married. The feud started back up again after the two were married.

Answer: Egrets

The Ken Darby singers perform "Blue Bayou" as two egrets play in the water of the Everglades and then fly into the moonlight. "Blue Bayou" is known as a tone poem in "Make Mine Music".

Answer: Malt Shop

Benny Goodman and his orchestra performed "All The Cats Join In" while the story of a teenage girl meeting her boyfriend played. The boyfriend picked up teenagers in his car and they all stopped at the malt shop to dance and eat. "Make Mine Music" referred to this segment as a jazz poem.

Answer: Love of his life

"Without You" was performed by singer Andy Russell and was listed in "Make Mine Music" as a ballad in blue. The short video first showed a "Dear John" letter with rain or tears obscuring the view around the unseen singer.

Answer: Casey struck out.

"Casey at the Bat" was a poem written by Ernest Thayer. The poem was recited by Jerry Colonna for "Make Mine Music". In the movie, Casey struck out of the baseball game after making a big deal about being better than the other players. While everyone was celebrating Spring in the park, Casey was standing in the rain at the baseball field, crying. "Casey at the Bat" was listed in "Make Mine Music" as a musical recitation.

Answer: Real ballet dancers in silhouette

"Make Mine Music" listed the short movie as a ballade ballad. Dinah Shore sang the song "Two Silhouettes" while ballet dancers, David Lichine and Tania Riabouchinskaya danced in silhouette. The process of getting the ballet dancers onto the screen was known as rotoscope, drawing over movie footage to produce a realistic scene.

Answer: Peter captured the wolf.

"Make Mine Music" listed the short film based on the Russian opera, "Peter and the Wolf", as a fairytale with music. Each character in the short film and opera had a musical instrument based on them. Peter was represented by the string quartet, Sascha (the bird) by the flute, Sonya (the duck) by the oboe, Ivan (the cat) by the clarinet, Grandpa by a bassoon, and the wolf by the horns and cymbals.

At movie's end, Peter captured the wolf and Sascha was found to be alive and well and not in the stomach of the wolf.

Answer: Flute

Six musical instruments (drums, piano, bass, cymbal, clarinet, snare) danced to the song "After You've Gone" performed by Benny Goodman and the Goodman Quartet. Each instrument was to represent a member of Benny Goodman and the Goodman Quartet.

Answer: Blue

Johnny Fedora and Alice Bluebonnet met in the window of a department store. They fell in love, but Alice was sold. Johnny was despondent and took the chance to look for Alice when he was also sold. Johnny and Alice saw each other in a crowd, but lost each other again and Johnny roamed the streets looking for Alice. One day, Johnny was picked up by a man and used as a hat for a horse. Alice was sitting on the head of the horse beside Johnny.

They were never parted again. "Make Mine Music" listed the song as a love story.

Answer: Willy was killed.

Word of Willy the singing whale got out to newspapers in a town. An impresario heard Willy sing and thought the whale had swallowed an opera singer. He took a boat and a team of sailors out to kill the whale and rescue the opera singer. Willy imagined singing in different operas and the accolades he would receive. With no help from the astonished sailors, the impresario killed Willy while he was daydreaming. "Make Mine Music" listed the short film under an opera pathetique.