Trivia Quiz on Broadway Musicals

1. Who wrote the hit musical West Side Story

A) Stephen Sondheim

B) Andrew Lloyd Webber

C) Leonard bernstein

D) George Gershwin

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2. Broadway 59 music Ordinary Couple, Preludium, Processional

A) West Side Story

B) Phantom of the Opera

C) Les Misérables

D) The Sound of Music

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3. “Oh What A Beautiful Morning” Is The Opening Song To Which Famous Musical

A) The Sound of Music

B) Oklahoma

C) West Side Story

D) Carousel

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4. Who composed the music for the musical Showboat

A) Irving Berlin

B) Richard Rodgers

C) Jerome Kern

D) Cole Porter

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5. What musical play - find a character called Magnolia Hawks

A) Oklahoma!

B) Showboat

C) The King and I

D) Les Misérables

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6. What boxer played the lead in the broadway musical buck white

A) Muhammad ali

B) Mike Tyson

C) Lennox Lewis

D) Floyd Mayweather

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7. From which musical did the songs 'If my friends could see me now' and 'There's got to be something better than this' come

A) Grease

B) Hello, Dolly!

C) Chicago

D) Sweet Charity

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8. Hey Big Spender comes from what musical

A) Cabaret

B) Sweet Charity

C) Les Misérables

D) Chicago

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9. The Boys from Syracuse is based on what Shakespeare play

A) The comedy of errors

B) A Midsummer Night's Dream

C) Much Ado About Nothing

D) The Tempest

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10. Which partnership was responsible for the musical Paint Your Wagon

A) Rodgers & Hammerstein

B) Lerner & Loewe

C) Sondheim & Lapine

D) Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice

E) Gilbert & Sullivan

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11. Which Duo Wrote The Song “You'll Never Walk Alone”?

A) Lennon & McCartney

B) George & Ira Gershwin

C) Rogers & Hammerstein

D) Burt Bacharach & Hal David

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12. In The Song "Oh What A Beautiful Morning" From Oklohoma How High Does The Corn Grow

A) As High As An Elephant's Eye

B) As High As A Mountain's Peak

C) As High As An Elephants Eye

D) As High As The Farmers Field

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13. Which Musical Concerned A Strike At The Sleep Tite Factory In Iowa

A) The Pajama Game (1954)

B) West Side Story (1957)

C) My Fair Lady (1956)

D) The King and I (1951)

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14. Wrote the songs for "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat"

A) Andrew lloyd webber

B) Tim Rice

C) Stephen Sondheim

D) Lin-Manuel Miranda

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15. What Was Rodgers & Hammerstein's First Musical

A) Carousel

B) Oklahoma!

C) South Pacific

D) The King and I

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16. Which Funny Girl Sang About A Re-Cycled Flower In 1966

A) Barbra Streisand (Secondhand Rose)

B) Barbara Striesand (Secondhand Rose)

C) Barbra Streisand (Second Hand Rose)

D) Barbara Walters (Secondhand Rose)

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17. Which Musical Contains The Song, “Oh What A Beautiful Morning”

A) The King and I

B) Oklahoma

C) South Pacific

D) Carousel

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18. Who Composed The Score For Gentleman Prefer Blondes And Funny Girl

A) George Gershwin

B) Jule Styne, Last Of Broadway Giants

C) Richard Rodgers

D) Frank Loesser

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19. "Till There Was You" was originally from which Broadway musical?

A) The Music Man

B) The Sound of Music

C) Oklahoma!

D) Les Misérables

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20. Maya Angelou Made Herself Unavailable For Rehearsals After Working On Which Miusical

A) King - The Musical (1990)

B) Dreamgirls (1981)

C) Cats (1981)

D) Miss Saigon (1989)

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21. Which Musical Opens At Uncle Jocko's Kiddie Show In Seattle

A) Annie

B) Gypsy

C) The Sound of Music

D) Oliver!

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22. The Beatles Song "Till There Was You" was originally from which Broadway musical?

A) The Music Man

B) Bye Bye Birdie

C) West Side Story

D) Oklahoma!

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23. In Which Musical Does The Song Old Man River Feature?

A) The King and I

B) Oklahoma!

C) Porgy and Bess

D) Showboat

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24. Which Musical Did Meat Loaf Appear In As An American Hero In 1969

A) Hair (As Grant)

B) Jesus Christ Superstar

C) The Fantasticks

D) Tommy

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25. Where Was The Setting For "On The Town"

A) New York

B) Chicago

C) Paris

D) Boston

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26. On Which Shakespeare Play Was Kiss Me Kate Based

A) The Tempest

B) Much Ado About Nothing

C) Macbeth

D) The Taming Of The Shrew

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27. Which Big Voiced Singer Is Usually Associated With The Irving Berlin Song "Theres No Business Like Showbusiness"

A) Barbra Streisand

B) Tina Turner

C) Celine Dion

D) Ethel Merman

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28. Who Wrote The Musical "Theres No Business Like Show Business"

A) George Gershwin

B) Irving Berlin

C) Cole Porter

D) Richard Rodgers

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29. On Whose Short Stories Was Guys And Dolls Based

A) Damon Runyan's

B) O. Henry's

C) Raymond Chandler's

D) Edgar Allan Poe's

E) F. Scott Fitzgerald's

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30. Who Wrote The Score To West Side Story

A) Stephen Sondheim

B) John Williams

C) George Gershwin

D) Leonard Bernstein

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31. What broadway musical was inspired by cervantes's 'don quixote'

A) The Phantom of the Opera

B) Les Misérables

C) Rent

D) Man of la

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32. First produced in 1960, which Lerner and Loewe musical contains the songs - What Do the Simple Folk Do and If Ever I Would Leave You

A) My Fair Lady

B) Brigadoon

C) Camelot

D) Paint Your Wagon

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33. The song There is nothing like a dame appears in which musical

A) South Pacific

B) The King and I

C) Oklahoma!

D) The Sound of Music

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34. Who created the musical 'Paint Your Wagon'?

A) Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice

B) Stephen Sondheim

C) Loener and Lowe

D) Rodgers and Hammerstein

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35. Which Musical Opened On Broadway In 1956 And Starred Julie Andrews

A) My Fair Lady

B) The King and I

C) West Side Story

D) Camelot

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36. The song "Matchmaker, Matchmaker" came from which musical play?

A) Hello, Dolly!

B) The Sound of Music

C) West Side Story

D) Fiddler On The Roof

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