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Here you will find quizzes on stage musicals whose titles start with the letter F, and for which we do not have enough quizzes to justify setting up a separate category for each one. If you find a favorite musical here, perhaps you'd like to write another quiz on it, so it can have a category of its own.
6 F Musicals quizzes and 90 F Musicals trivia questions.
1.
  A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Something for everyone: a COMEDY TONIGHT!
Average, 10 Qns, youngjewdork04, Mar 16 05
Average
youngjewdork04
778 plays
2.
  "Funny Girl"- the Broadway Musical    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
"Funny Girl" was a highly fictionalized musical based on the life of vaudeville legend Fanny Brice. The show introduced much of the world to another legend, Barbra Streisand. (The answers to this quiz are found solely in the stage version.)
Tough, 10 Qns, shawneedean, Jan 25 10
Tough
shawneedean
195 plays
3.
  All About "Flower Drum Song"    
Multiple Choice
 20 Qns
All about Rodgers and Hammerstein's eighth musical play.
Tough, 20 Qns, dmnemaine, Oct 29 07
Tough
dmnemaine
314 plays
4.
  Forever Plaid!    
Multiple Choice
 20 Qns
"Forever Plaid" is a witty and nostalgic show about a group of singers who come back to life for one night. They do their first and last performance for the audience. Quite the show and full of laughs.
Tough, 20 Qns, amahl2002, May 07 08
Tough
amahl2002
162 plays
5.
  Freeborn John    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
A quiz all about Rev Hammer's "Freeborn John".
Tough, 10 Qns, freeborn, Nov 10 13
Tough
freeborn
141 plays
6.
  Falsettos    
Multiple Choice
 20 Qns
Hello, welcome to my quiz. I hope you like it. The first ten questions are from the first act and the last ten are from the second act. If you can answer all of the questions right then you are a true 'Falsettos' fan.
Tough, 20 Qns, Harborkid, Jan 31 21
Tough
Harborkid
Jan 31 21
533 plays
trivia question Quick Question
According to the song "Bonny Besses", what colour dresses are the bonny besses wearing?

From Quiz "Freeborn John"





F Musicals Trivia Questions
1. As the show opens, Fanny awaits Nick in her dressing room. Who brings Fanny her costume?

From Quiz "Funny Girl"- the Broadway Musical

Answer: Emma, her maid

The show is told in flashback, so the opening and the finale are actually set in the same period of time.

2. At the top of the show when Frankie asks Sparky to go over the lyrics, what does Sparky sing?

From Quiz Forever Plaid!

Answer: Love is a Long and Slender Thing

Frankie then hits Sparky as Jinx chimes in with his line, "He's gonna be hacking around like that all night."

3. In what year did "Flower Drum Song" open on Broadway?

From Quiz All About "Flower Drum Song"

Answer: 1958

"Flower Drum Song" is based on C.Y. Lee's novel, "The Flower Drum Song", about the Chinese in San Francisco's Chinatown.

4. Who plays the drunken cavalier in "Elizabeth's Great Gallop"?

From Quiz Freeborn John

Answer: Simon Friend

This song takes place when Elizabeth Lilbourne rides to London to try to free her husband from the Tower of London.

5. Along with Mrs. Strakosh, Mrs. O'Malley and Mrs. Brice, who is the fourth card player in the first flashback scene of the show?

From Quiz "Funny Girl"- the Broadway Musical

Answer: Mrs. Meeker

Mrs. Strakosh, the epitome of a nosy neighbor, was played by Jean Stapleton (aka Edith Bunker) in the original Broadway cast.

6. In "Three Coins," whose name do the Plaids not know?

From Quiz Forever Plaid!

Answer: The pianist

Frankie asks Sparky, Sparky asks Smudge, Smudge asks Jinx, and Jinx runs to the pianist to ask his/her name. The ripple travels back to Frankie who tells the audience the pianist's name.

7. In the song "You Are Beautiful", what river valley does the singer see the flower boat in?

From Quiz All About "Flower Drum Song"

Answer: the Hwang Ho (Yellow)

"Hwang Ho" was a Westernization of Huang He, the second longest river in China. It is also known as the Yellow River. It is called the Yellow River because of the yellowish color caused by the muddy water in the lower part of the river. (Information taken from Wikipedia)

8. Finish the lyric - "They'll bury us down further in the" ...

From Quiz Freeborn John

Answer: Ground

From the song "Burford Stomp".

9. "A befuddled old man, abroad now, in search of his children stolen in infancy by PIRATES!"

From Quiz A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

Answer: Erroneus

"Second time around!"

10. In the song "If a Girl Isn't Pretty", Mrs. Strakosh sings of Fanny's "incidentals". To what is she referring?

From Quiz "Funny Girl"- the Broadway Musical

Answer: her bosom

As the song says: "When a girl's incidentals are no bigger than two lentils, then to me that doesn't spell success!"

11. In which song does Sparky start the choreography too soon?

From Quiz Forever Plaid!

Answer: Gotta Be This or That

Sparky starts the moves earlier than the rest of the Plaids. However, in "No Not Much," Jinx starts his singing too early.

12. During which war is the musical set?

From Quiz Freeborn John

Answer: English Civil War

The war took place between 1625-1649.

13. Slave to the son of Senex.

From Quiz A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

Answer: Pseudolus

"Pseudolus is probably my favorite character in the piece. A role of enormous variety and nuance. AND played by an actor of such... well... let me put it this way: I play the part."

14. In the song, 'A Tight Knit Family', what does Marvin say they will probably do?

From Quiz Falsettos

Answer: fight

'I'm sure we'll probably fight.'

15. According to Linda Low in "I Enjoy Being A Girl", what is she wearing when she hears "a complimentary whistle"?

From Quiz All About "Flower Drum Song"

Answer: a bikini

Linda Low is Sammy's girlfriend. She is completely American, and the total opposite of Mei Li. She goes after Wang Ta for two reasons -- to make Sammy jealous, and the Wang money.

16. What was Freeborn John's real name?

From Quiz Freeborn John

Answer: John Lilbourne

He was the leader of the Levellers and a soldier in Oliver Cromwell' New Model Army.

17. The virgin courtesan whom Hero loves.

From Quiz A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

Answer: Philia

She's lovely. All she is is lovely.

18. In the song 'Love Is Blind', who puts valentines in Trina's coat?

From Quiz Falsettos

Answer: Marvin

19. What does Fanny recommend when Nick complains about his ruffled shirt?

From Quiz "Funny Girl"- the Broadway Musical

Answer: starch

Nick's ruffled shirt is made from handkerchief linen which "goes rather limp".

20. What item does Smudge want to use in the song "Crazy 'Bout Ya Baby"?

From Quiz Forever Plaid!

Answer: Plumbers helpers

Although they are merely long-handled plungers, Frankie calls them plumbers helpers. Throughout the song, the Plaids pretend to use them as microphones.

21. The second time we hear "A Hundred Million Miracles", Mei Li sings it while she is doing something for Master Wang. What is it that she does for him?

From Quiz All About "Flower Drum Song"

Answer: beats his back

Master Wang has a "cough" that comes up whenever he doesn't get his own way. Mei Li's back beating is supposed good for the cough.

22. Where was the musical first performed?

From Quiz Freeborn John

Answer: Beautiful Days Festival

It was performed on each of the three nights in 2005 and was a huge hit. The video of the live performance was also shown at the same festival the next year. Beautiful Days is held in Escot Park, Devon every summer.

23. Alright... on to the plot! What does Hero promise his slave if the slave can get Hero the girl of his dreams?

From Quiz A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

Answer: his freedom

"Say it!" "Free!" "Sing it!" "Free!" "Spell it!" "F-R-double E!" "No, the long way." "F-R-E-E! Free!"

24. In the song 'The Thrill of First Love', what does Whizzer have unlimited knowledge of?

From Quiz Falsettos

Answer: dreck

25. Complete this lyric from Fanny's Ziegfeld Follies debut: "You ask your looking glass, what is it makes you so exquisite? The answer to your query _______..."

From Quiz "Funny Girl"- the Broadway Musical

Answer: comes back dearie

Fanny was so insecure about singing her own praises, she stuffed a pillow under her wedding gown to appear pregnant- quite risque for that era!

26. What is the correct order of lines that Sparky says in the song "The Osterizer School of Harmonic Theory"?

From Quiz Forever Plaid!

Answer: Blend, Puree, Mix, Chop

Unfortunately, I could not remember the order of these lines when I played Sparky so I made up an acronym. Bread Pans May Chip. It may be corny, but it helped me remember my lines.

27. In the song "I Am Going To Like It Here", why does Mei Li say that she "loves the place"?

From Quiz All About "Flower Drum Song"

Answer: because of Wang Ta, the father's first son

Mei Li meets Wang Ta, and it is love at first sight -- for Mei Li anyway. Ta has himself involved with Linda Low, and isn't thinking about Mei Li.

28. Finish the lyric - "Come out of here my..."

From Quiz Freeborn John

Answer: people

From the song "Pillory Scene" sung by Rev Hammer as Freeborn John.

29. What is Pseudolus's problem once he attains Hysterium's potion book?

From Quiz A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

Answer: He remembers that he can't read.

He can't read, so he calls Hero out to call off the pages for him.

30. What type of business does Fanny's mother operate?

From Quiz "Funny Girl"- the Broadway Musical

Answer: a saloon

The real Fanny Brice's mother did, indeed, run a very successful saloon, making her and Mr. Brice quite well-to-do for their neighborhood.

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