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Tap - I've Got Happy Feet

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Introduction:
"Is it possible to watch Fred and Ginger without tapping your feet? No, I didn't think so. See if you can answer these tap related questions."


1. Who said, "If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune."
    Fred Astaire
    Gene Kelly
    Loius Armstrong
    Count Basie


2. What talented hoofer missed out on playing next to Bing Crosby in "White Christmas" due to an illness he picked up from a mule?
    Jimmy Slyde
    Gene Kelly
    Donald O'Connor
    Fred Astaire


3. What group starred seven guys from a steel town north of Sydney, Australia?
    Tap Dads
    Stomp
    Men At Work
    Tap Dogs


4. For how long did Richard Gere take tap lessons before he appeared in "Chicago"?
    For three months before filming.
    He had danced when he was younger and took a refresher class for six months before shooting.
    Since he was 10 years old.
    He began tapping in his 40s.


5. The 1985 movie "White Nights" featured Gregory Hines. What other famous dancer was featured in this film?
    Savion Glover
    Mikhail Baryshnikov
    Michael Jackson
    Rudolf Nureyev


6. This man was Fred Astaire's "Ideas Man". He worked with Fred on 17 of his 31 musicals, the last one being "Finian's Rainbow".
    Stumpy Cromer
    Busby Berkeley
    Hermes Pan
    Bob Fosse


7. What Canadian tap dancer married the famous singer Al Jolson?
    Vera-Ellen
    Eleanor Powell
    Ann Miller
    Ruby Keeler


8. Many feel the Irish Jigs and Hornpipes are the hardest of the Irish Clog steps. Up to how many times in 30 seconds can some of these steps hit the floor?
    140
    100
    80
    120


9. Whom was Fred talking about when he said In his autobiography "Steps in Time", "She 'put 'em down like a man', no ricky-ticky-sissy stuff with _______. She really knocked out a tap dance in a class by herself."
    Eleanor Powell
    Ginger Rogers
    Ann Miller
    Vera-Ellen


10. The African-Americans combined their footwork with Irish and British clogging steps to create a style which became what we now call modern tap dance. What was this style called?
    Time Step
    Tip and Tap
    Buck and Wing
    Shim Sham


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