Venue Cymru Theatre Quiz - Round 3
Venue Cymru Theatre Quiz
Test your knowledge of theatre and musical history with the Venue Cymru Theatre Quiz! This engaging quiz offers a mix of questions about plays, actors, and memorable songs that will challenge both theatre enthusiasts and casual fans.
Join in for an entertaining experience and see how much you really know!
- 20 questions
- Multiple choice answers
- Fun for all ages
1: What do you call the part of a theatre performance where the audience gets the background details to what they are about to watch?
Encore
Finale
Prologue
Epilogue
2: Which play is said to carry bad luck if it is spoken in a theatre by someone who isn’t appearing in a production of that play or in rehearsal for it?
The Caretaker
Macbeth
The Woman in White
Caucasian Chalk Circle
3: Complete this lyric to a song from ‘The Lion King’ show - I'm gonna be the …… event / Like no king was before’
Top
Big
Best
Mane
4: In the musical Oliver what is the name of Bill Sikes’ dog?
Buster
Bullseye
Bouncer
Bobby
5: In which decade did the Agatha Christie play ‘The Mousetrap’ open in London’s West End?
1930's
1940's
1950's
1960's
6: Barbra Streisand played the lead role in the musical ‘Funny Girl’ on stage and on screen. Who did she portray?
Ethel Merman
Greta Garbo
Fanny Brice
7: Which composer and actor lived in a flat above the theatre which now bears his name?
John Gielgud
Stephen Sondheim
Ivor Novello
Noël Coward
8: In the 1980s a song called ‘Tetris’ by Doctor Spin reached Number 6 in the UK charts. Best known for musicals, what is Doctor Spin’s real name?
Stephen Schwartz
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Leonard Bernstein
Jonathan Larson
9: Which Pope, before becoming the head of the Catholic Church, was a writer and had a play performed at a London theatre?
Pope Benedict XV
Pope Pius XII
Pope John Paul II
Pope Benedict
10: Name the American singer-songwriter who wrote a musical based on Greek myth that won eight Tony awards and one Grammy award.
Sara Bareilles
Anais Mitchell
Cyndi Lauper
Nell Benjamin
11: How many daughters does Shakespeare’s King Lear have?
5
4
3
2
12: The role of Maureen Johnson in the show ‘Rent’ was played by which artist in the original production?
Patti LuPone
Anna-Leigh Ashford
Idina Menzel
Keala Settle
13: Complete this line from the title song to a 1970s musical which later became an Oscar-winning film ‘Life is a …….. Old chum, come to the …….’
Cabaret
Party
Parade
Circus
14: Name the writer behind ‘Who’s Afraid of Virgina Woolf?'
Edward Albee
Truman Capote
Tennessee Williams
Arthur Miller
15: Who is regarded as the first professional woman playwright?
Mary Pix
Catherine Trotter
Susannah Centlivre
Aphra Behn
16: Which show won Best New Musical at the Olivier Awards in 2019?
Fun Home
Come From Away
Six
Tina
17: Where is the UK’s oldest working theatre?
Cardiff
Liverpool
Bristol
Newcastle
18: In which 2015 Shakespeare production did Judi Dench perform on stage alongside Kenneth Branagh?
Hamlet
The Taming of the Shrew
A Winter's Tale
Twelfth Night
19: Complete this line from a song from Les Mis ‘I will never rest / Till then, this I swear / This I swear by the ……..’
Gods
Stars
20: In a theatre auditorium, where would the orchestra usually sit?
The Wings
The Pit
The Apron
Offstage
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