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Quiz about Showtunes About Food
Quiz about Showtunes About Food

Showtunes About Food Trivia Quiz


Another one of my showtunes theme quizzes. These songs all involve food. I give you the lyric, you tell me the show.

A multiple-choice quiz by Jacifan. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Author
Jacifan
Time
5 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
189,730
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Tough
Avg Score
6 / 10
Plays
980
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Question 1 of 10
1. "Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard! While we're in the mood -- Cold jelly and custard!" Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. "No denying times is hard, sir, even harder than the worst pies in London - only lard and nothing more. Is that just revolting? All greasy and gritty! It looks like it's molting and tastes like... well, pity!" Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. "First come codfish chowder, cooked in iron kettles, onions floating on the top, curling up in petals, throwed in ribbons of salted pork - an old New England trick - and lapped it all up with a clamshell, tied on to a bayberry stick." Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. "Bring on the soup dish, bring on the cup. Bring on the bacon and fill me up." Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. "For a candied sweet or a pickled beet, step up to my smorgasbord." Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. "Some lovely girls have done wonders with turkey stuffin's, but I have found the one who can really make corn muffins!" Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. "For a cool orange juice or a bagel, on the soft, green cylindrical stools sit the fools, drinking cinnamon coffee or decaffeinated tea." Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. "You both been invited on a date, two courses handed to us on a plate. We'll have you raw, won't be long to wait, seeing you're already brown." Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. "I am Iowa born and bred, and on Iowa corn I'm fed, not to mention barley, wheat and rye." Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. "Have an eggroll, Mr. Goldstone. Have a napkin, have a chopstick, have a chair. Have a spare rib, Mr. Goldstone. Any spare that I can spare I'll be glad to share!" Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. "Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard! While we're in the mood -- Cold jelly and custard!"

Answer: Oliver!

From "Food, Glorious Food". In this song, a group of orphaned boys who toil at a workhouse sing about what they wish for the most - food.
2. "No denying times is hard, sir, even harder than the worst pies in London - only lard and nothing more. Is that just revolting? All greasy and gritty! It looks like it's molting and tastes like... well, pity!"

Answer: Sweeney Todd

From "The Worst Pies In London", a comedic song about the difficulty of baking good meat pies with the price of meat being as high as it is.
3. "First come codfish chowder, cooked in iron kettles, onions floating on the top, curling up in petals, throwed in ribbons of salted pork - an old New England trick - and lapped it all up with a clamshell, tied on to a bayberry stick."

Answer: Carousel

From "A Real Nice Clambake", sung after a clambake. The song details the delicious food they ate and how they "all had a real good time".
4. "Bring on the soup dish, bring on the cup. Bring on the bacon and fill me up."

Answer: You're a Good Man Charlie Brown

From "Suppertime", where Snoopy dances and sings joyously on seeing that Charlie Brown has not forgotten to bring him dinner.
5. "For a candied sweet or a pickled beet, step up to my smorgasbord."

Answer: On the Town

From "I Can Cook Too", in which a girl tries to seduce the man she loves by comparing herself to several different kinds of dishes and claiming she "can cook".
6. "Some lovely girls have done wonders with turkey stuffin's, but I have found the one who can really make corn muffins!"

Answer: Of Thee I Sing

From "Some Girls Can Bake a Pie". Presidential candidate John P. Wintergreen was supposed to fall in love with the winner of a beauty contest, according to his campaign. But when he falls in love with someone else instead, the beauty contest winner demands to know why. His response - his love, Mary, can make corn muffins.
7. "For a cool orange juice or a bagel, on the soft, green cylindrical stools sit the fools, drinking cinnamon coffee or decaffeinated tea."

Answer: tick...tick...BOOM!

From "Sunday", a song about a diner and the people eating there.
8. "You both been invited on a date, two courses handed to us on a plate. We'll have you raw, won't be long to wait, seeing you're already brown."

Answer: The Lion King

From "Chow Down", where the hyenas anticipate eating Simba and Nala, talking about how delicious they'll taste.
9. "I am Iowa born and bred, and on Iowa corn I'm fed, not to mention barley, wheat and rye."

Answer: State Fair

From "All I Owe Ioway", sung by the attendees of the Iowa State Fair. The song praises Iowa for, among other things, her crops and meats.
10. "Have an eggroll, Mr. Goldstone. Have a napkin, have a chopstick, have a chair. Have a spare rib, Mr. Goldstone. Any spare that I can spare I'll be glad to share!"

Answer: Gypsy

From "Mr. Goldstone". In this song, Mama Rose discovers that a Mr. Goldstone is willing to give her the chance to put her daughter into show business. Absolutely delighted, she offers him some of the food they're eating.
Source: Author Jacifan

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