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Quiz about My Fair Lady under the microscope

My Fair Lady - under the microscope! Quiz

Think you know the show? Try uncovering these minor details from the stage version of 'My Fair Lady' . . .

A multiple-choice quiz by LemonCurry. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
LemonCurry

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
137,105

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
15

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
8 / 15

Plays
1257

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 15

1. What is Higgins' address? Hint

221B Baker Street

27A Wimpole Street

10 Downing Street

28A Wimpole Street

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Question 2 of 15

2. According to Eliza, how much are French lessons per hour? Hint

18d

2/6d

5 guineas

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Question 3 of 15

3. Where was Eliza's paternal grandmother from? Hint

Hounslow

Wales

Mayfair

Yorkshire

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Question 4 of 15

4. Higgins detects four different influences on Pickering's speech; where does he say Pickering is from? Hint

East Riding, Eton, Oxford, India

Cheltenham, Harrow, Cambridge and India.

Largelady Park, Eton, Cambridge, India

Chiswick, Harrow, Oxford, India

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Question 5 of 15

5. Where was Pickering staying before Higgins invited him to stay with him? Hint

The Ritz

The Diogenes Club

Clarridges

The Carlton

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Question 6 of 15

6. What opera had been staged the night Pickering and Higgins met? Hint

Aida

Tosca

Gotterdammerung

Wagner's Ring Cycle

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Question 7 of 15

7. At some stage in her tutelage, Higgins takes Eliza to which seaside resort? Hint

Weston-Super-Mare

Brighton

Torquay

St Tropez

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Question 8 of 15

8. Who goes by the nickname 'Boozy'? Hint

Brewster Budgin

Doolittle

Mrs Higgins' chauffeur

Zoltan Kaparthy

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Question 9 of 15

9. Where does Mrs Higgins go to greet the vicar? Hint

In the drawing room

In the ballroom with the spanner . . . .

In St Pauls

In the library

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Question 10 of 15

10. What is the Whitehall telephone number for the Home Office? Hint

6534

7244

9523

8839

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Question 11 of 15

11. What was the birthplace of Dr Themistocles Stephanos? Hint

Athens

Lambeth

Chicago

Yorkshire

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Question 12 of 15

12. According to Pickering, how many Indian dialects are there? Hint

350

Over 200

No more than 27

At least 143

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Question 13 of 15

13. What's the name of Doolittle's American benefactor? Hint

Alan Jay Lerner

Elmer T. Neopmuck

Ezra D. Wallingford

Abraham P. Fontbrume

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Question 14 of 15

14. What are the two items that Eliza sends for from her old lodgings? Hint

A bottle of gin and her second-best blanket

Her autographed photograph of Marie Lloyd and and her Persian carpet.

Her collection of Ming vases and her bicycle

Her birdcage and her Chinese fan.

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Question 15 of 15

15. How much money does Higgins give Doolittle on their first meeting? Hint

Ten pounds

Five pounds.

Half a crown

Two guineas

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. What is Higgins' address?

Answer: 27A Wimpole Street

London's Wimpole Street remains a highly respectable address to this day.

2. According to Eliza, how much are French lessons per hour?

Answer: 18d

Eliza's friend took French lessons for eighteen pence an hour from a real French gentleman . . .

3. Where was Eliza's paternal grandmother from?

Answer: Wales

I'm waiting to tell you, I'm willing to tell you, I'm wanting to tell you - that's the Welsh strain (according to Higgins anyway!).

4. Higgins detects four different influences on Pickering's speech; where does he say Pickering is from?

Answer: Cheltenham, Harrow, Cambridge and India.

Pickering had recently returned from military service in India - where he has taken a great interest in Indian dialects.

5. Where was Pickering staying before Higgins invited him to stay with him?

Answer: The Carlton

Upon being told this, Higgins replies, "No you're not; you're staying at 27A Wimpole Street."

6. What opera had been staged the night Pickering and Higgins met?

Answer: Gotterdammerung

"By George," exclaims Pickering, "that's a rackety one!"

7. At some stage in her tutelage, Higgins takes Eliza to which seaside resort?

Answer: Brighton

The only thing we learn about the outing is that Higgins bought a ring for Eliza while there.

8. Who goes by the nickname 'Boozy'?

Answer: Brewster Budgin

Pickering's friend at the Home Office.

9. Where does Mrs Higgins go to greet the vicar?

Answer: In the library

Henry is already in the house so she can't have the two of them in the same room.

10. What is the Whitehall telephone number for the Home Office?

Answer: 7244

Such long, complicated telephone numbers in those days . . . Pickering 'phones the Home Office to seek advice on Eliza's disappearance from Wimpole Street.

11. What was the birthplace of Dr Themistocles Stephanos?

Answer: Yorkshire

According to Zoltan Kaparthy, Dr Stephanos was the son of a Yorkshire watchmaker who "speaks English so villainously that he dare not utter a word of it without betraying his origin".

12. According to Pickering, how many Indian dialects are there?

Answer: Over 200

Higgins himself only has records of over fifty . . .

13. What's the name of Doolittle's American benefactor?

Answer: Ezra D. Wallingford

Higgins informs Wallingford that Alfred P. Doolittle, a common dustman, is one of the most original moralists in England. Wallingford, a keen 'moral reformer' then dies and leaves Doolittle a healthy income . . .

14. What are the two items that Eliza sends for from her old lodgings?

Answer: Her birdcage and her Chinese fan.

"But, she says, never mind about sendin' any clothes!" reports a gleeful Mrs Hopkins.

15. How much money does Higgins give Doolittle on their first meeting?

Answer: Five pounds.

Doolittle refuses to take the offered ten pounds on the grounds that it would make him "feel prudent-like; and then goodbye to happiness." He is more than happy to accept five pounds in order to provide "one good spree for myself and the missus, givin' pleasure to ourselves and employment to others, and satisfaction to you to know it ain't been throwed away."

Source: Author LemonCurry

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