"My Fair Lady" Movie Details Trivia Quiz

Answer: half a crown

Eliza: "Cheer up, captain. Buy a flower off a poor girl?"
Col. Pickering: "I'm sorry. I haven't any change."
Eliza: "Oh, I can change half a crown. Here, take this for tuppence."
Col. Pickering: "I told you, I'm awfully sorry. I haven't -- Oh, wait a minute. Oh, yes. Here's three ha'pence, if that's any use to you."

Answer: Cambridge

Street Man: "Hey, uh, tell him where he comes from, you want to go fortune telling."
Prof. Higgins: "Cheltenham, Harrow, Cambridge and, uh, India?"
Col. Pickering: "Quite right!"
Street Man: "Blimey, he ain't a "tec. He's a bloomin' busybody. That's what he is."
Col. Pickering: "If I may ask, sir, do you do this sort of thing for a living at a music hall?"
Prof. Higgins: "Well, I have thought of it. Perhaps I will one day."
Eliza: "He's no gentleman. He ain't, to interfere with a poor girl!"
Col. Pickering: "How do you do it, may I ask?"
Prof. Higgins: "Simple phonetics. The science of speech. That's my profession. Also my hobby."

Answer: both

Prof. Higgins: "You see this creature with her curbstone English, the English that'll keep her in the gutter 'til the end of her days? Well, sir, in six months, I could pass her off as a duchess at an Embassy ball. I could even get her a job as a lady's maid or a shop assistant...which requires better English."

Answer: Spoken Sanskrit

Col. Pickering: "I, myself, am a student of Indian dialects."
Prof. Higgins: "Are you? Do you know Colonel Pickering, the author ofSpoken Sanskrit?"
Col. Pickering: "I am Colonel Pickering. Who are you?" Colonel Pickering was played by Wilfred Hyde-White.

Answer: Higgins' Universal Alphabet

Prof. Higgins: "I'm Henry Higgins, author of Higgins' Universal Alphabet."
Col. Pickering: "I came from India to meet you."
Prof. Higgins: "I was going to India to meet you!"
Col. Pickering: "Higgins!"
Prof. Higgins: "Pickering!"
Cary Grant, Noel Coward, Michael Redgrave and George Sanders were all considered for the role of Higgins before Rex Harrison was finally chosen to reprise his Broadway role. This information was taken from www.imdb.com's trivia section of this movie.

Answer: Carlton

Col. Pickering: "Higgins!"
Prof. Higgins: "Where are you staying?"
Col. Pickering: "At the Carlton."
Also according to www.imdb.com's trivia section, because of the way Rex Harrison sang & talked during musical numbers, they were unable to prerecord them and have him lip sync so one of the first wireless microphones was rigged up and hidden under his tie.

Answer: 27-A Wimpole Street

First time it's mentioned is when Higgins tells Colonel Pickering that he's not staying at the Carlton, but with him: "No, you're not. You're staying at 27-A Wimpole Street." That's how Eliza found out his address, she overheard him. The second time is when Eliza's father, Alfred, stops by her old place and the guy at the window tells him: "She wants her things sent over...to 27-A Wimpole Street, care of Professor Higgins." And the last time is when Col. Pickering is calling Scotland Yard to report Eliza missing.

Answer: 5 pounds

Alfred: "Just one good spree for meself and the missus, giving pleasure to ourselves and employment to others. And satisfaction to you to know it ain't been throwed away. You couldn't spend it better."
Prof. Higgins: "Oh, this is irresistible. Let's give him ten."
Alfred: "No. The missus wouldn't have the heart to spend ten, governor. Ten pounds is a lot of money. Makes a man feel prudent-like,
and then good-bye to happiness. No, you just give me what I ask, governor. Not a penny less, not a penny more."

Answer: Wales

Prof. Higgins: "You know, Pickering, if we took this man in hand for three months, he could choose between a seat in the cabinet and a popular pulpit in Wales."
Gladys Cooper, who plays Mrs. Higgins (Henry Higgins' mother) in this film, played the same role in the 1963 Hallmark Hall of Fame television version of "Pygmalion", the play on which "My Fair Lady" was based. This is according to www.imdb.com's trivia section.

Answer: Mr. Ezra Wallingford

Prof. Higgins: "Mrs. Pearce, write to Mr. Ezra Wallingford..."
Julie Andrews, who played Eliza on Broadway, was offered the role of Eliza, but Jack Warner refused to hire her when Andrews refused to do a screen test.

Answer: Slavs

Prof. Higgins: "Does the same thing hold true in India, Pickering? This peculiar habit of not only dropping a letter like the letter 'H,' but using it where it doesn't belong, like 'hever' instead of 'ever.' Why is it Slavs, when they learn English, have a tendency to do it with their 'G's? They say 'ling-er' instead of 'lin-ger'.

Then they turn right around and say 'sin-ger' instead of 'sing-er'."

Answer: With blackest moss the flower pots were thickly crusted, one and all.

Prof. Higgins: "Now, I want you to read this, and I want you to enunciate every word...just as if the marbles were not in your mouth. 'With blackest moss, the flower pots...were thickly crusted, one and all.' Each word, clear as a bell."
Eliza: "With bla'est moss, the flower pots--I can't. I can't!"
Col. Pickering: "I say, Higgins, are those pebbles really necessary?"

Answer: Demosthenes

Prof. Higgins: "If they were necessary for Demosthenes, they are necessary for Eliza Doolittle. Go on, Eliza."
Eliza: "With bla'est moss, the flo'er pots...were thik'ly 'usted one and--"
Prof. Higgins: "I can't understand a word. Not a word!"
Eliza: "With bla'est moss, the flo'er pots...were thik'ly 'usted, one and 'ah."
Col. Pickering: "Higgins, perhaps that poem's a little too difficult for the girl. Why don't you try something simpler like 'The Owl and the Pussycat'? Oh-ho, yes, that's a charming one!"
Prof. Higgins: "Well, Pickering, I can't hear a word the girl is saying! What's the matter?"
Eliza: "I swallowed one."
Prof. Higgins: "Oh, it doesn't matter. I got plenty more."

Answer: 3:00 a.m.

Eliza: "I'm so tired! I'm so tired!"
Col. Pickering: "For God's sake, Higgins, it must be 3:00 in the morning. Do be reasonable."
Prof. Higgins: "I am always reasonable. Eliza, if I can go on with a blistering headache, you can. I've got a headache too. Oh, here. I know your head aches. I know you're tired. I know your nerves are as raw as meat in a butcher's window. But think what you're trying to accomplish. Just think what you're dealing with. The majesty and grandeur of the English language; it's the greatest
possession we have. The noblest thoughts that ever flowed through the hearts of men...are contained in its extraordinary, imaginative and musical mixtures of sounds. And that's what you've set yourself out to conquer, Eliza. And conquer it you will."

Answer: Whiteley's

Prof. Higgins: "Well, let's not buy her anything too flowery. I despise those gowns with sort of weeds here and weeds there. We ought to buy something sort of simple and modest and elegant, is what's called for, perhaps with a, with a bow. Yeah, I think that's just right."

Answer: Boxington

Prof. Higgins: "I told Pickering we should've taken her with us. Oh, goodness! Ah!"
Mrs. Higgins: "Mrs. Eynsford-Hill."
Mrs. Eynsford-Hill: "Good afternoon, Mrs. Higgins."
Mrs. Higgins: "You know my son, Henry."
Prof. Higgins: "Oh, how do you do?"
Mrs. Eynsford-Hill: "I've seen you somewhere before."
Prof. Higgins: "I don't know. Oh, it doesn't matter. You better sit down."
Mrs. Higgins: "Lady Boxington."
Prof. Higgins: "Where the devil can they be?"
Mrs. Higgins: "Uh, Lord Boxington." Prof. Higgins: "Ah!"
Mrs. Higgins: "Colonel Pickering, you're just in time for tea."
Col. Pickering: "Thank you, Mrs. Higgins. May I introduce Miss Eliza Doolittle?"
Mrs. Higgins: "My dear Miss Doolittle."
Eliza: "How kind of you to let me come."

Answer: aunt

Eliza: "My aunt died of influenza, so they said, but it's my belief
they done the old woman in."
Audrey Hepburn's singing was dubbed by Marni Nixon, despite Hepburn's lengthy preparation for the role.

Answer: 6 weeks

Col. Pickering: "Do you realize what you've got to try and teach this poor girl within six weeks? You've got to teach her to walk,
talk, address a duke, a lord, a bishop, an ambassador. It's absolutely impo--Higgins, I'm trying to tell you that I want to call off the bet. I know you're a stubborn man, but so am I. This experiment is over, and nothing, short of an order from the King,
could force me to recant. Now, if you'll excuse me. You understand, Higgins? It's over! Higgins. Higgins!"

Answer: Yes

He drinks it in hiding right before they leave. According to www.imdb.com's trivia section, Julie Andrews was the first choice for the role of Eliza Doolittle, but Warner Brothers, who had paid $5.5 million for the rights to the Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe musical, didn't want to risk having a stage actress in the central role of a $17-million film, despite lobbying from Lerner himself.

Answer: Zoltan Karpathy

Theodore Bikel is the actor's name that played the role of Zoltan Karpathy. He is actually hungarian and ends up saying that Eliza was a Hungarian Princess. Also, Isobel Elsom, one of the choices, is the actress that played Mrs. Eynsford-Hill.

Answer: Transylvania

Zoltan Karpathy: "The Queen of Transylvania is here this evening; I'm indispensable to her at these official international parties."

Answer: son of a Yorkshire watchmaker

Zoltan: "The Greek ambassador. Greek, my foot. He pretends not to know any English, but he cannot deceive me. He's the son of a Yorkshire watchmaker."
Prof. Higgins: "Oh!"
Zoltan: "He speaks English so villainously...that he cannot utter a word without betraying his origin. I help him pretend, but I make him pay through the nose. I make them all pay."

Answer: Lord and Lady Clandon

This is the list in the order they were introduced: Viscount and
Viscountess Saxon. Baron and Baroness of Yalstir. Sir Guy and Lady Scot Ackland. The Count and Countess Demereau. Viscount and Viscountess Hillyard. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Lanser. Lord and Lady Clandon. Miss Eliza Doolittle, Colonel Pickering.

Answer: Gregor

Person doing the introductions: "Her Majesty, the Queen of Transylvania...and His Royal Highness, Prince Gregor."

Answer: Where the devil are my slippers?

It's a beautiful ending. After realizing that he's "Grown Accustomed to Her Face" and listening to the only thing he had left of her: the recordings, she comes back. He looks surprised, "Eliza?" and then he states the classic Professor Higgins line: "Where the devil
are my slippers?"
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