148 My Fair Lady Trivia Questions & Answers

Answer: Flowers

Before she goes to Higgins for English lessons Eliza is a flower girl.

Answer: Why Can't the English Learn to Speak?

It is interesting listening to the different types of dialects in the church. There's Eliza's, the Colonel's, the Professor's, and the rest of the people standing there, under the "graceful columns."

Answer: deliciously

Eliza comes to Higgins to ask him to teach her proper English. He responds with this.

Answer: Four and Six

Apparently it wasn't fit for a pig. This information is disclosed during the opening scene when Higgins is taking down her words.

Answer: half a crown

Eliza: "Cheer up, captain. Buy a flower off a poor girl?"
Col. Pickering: "I'm sorry. I haven't any change."
Eliza: "Oh, I can change half a crown. Here, take this for tuppence."
Col. Pickering: "I told you, I'm awfully sorry. I haven't -- Oh, wait a minute. Oh, yes. Here's three ha'pence, if that's any use to you."

Answer: dashing

"At the gate are all the horses waiting for the cue to fly away. What a gripping, absolutely ripping, moment at The Ascot Opening Day." George Cukor, the director of this film, was the oldest winner of a Best Director Oscar (Academy Award) when he won for this film.

Answer: chocolate, eat, coal, heat

"Warm face, warm hands, warm feet. Oh, wouldn't it be loverly. Oh, so loverly sittin' abso-bloomin'-lutely still. I would never budge 'til spring crept over the windowsill." Marni Nixon played Sister Sophia in the "Sound of Music", starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer.

Answer: Audrey Hepburn

Although Julie Andrews was playing the part of Eliza Doolittle on Broadway at the time when this movie was cast, however Audrey Hepburn was cast in the part instead. This was because Audrey was better known than Julie.

Answer: "Aooow and garn"

"Its aooow and garn that keep her in her place, not her wretched clothes or dirty face" Higgins sings this in the song "Why Can't the English". The song is performed in front of an audience of street traders but is mostly addressed to Pickering.

Answer: Spain

After all that hard work, she finally can speak properly. And the three of them must have been hyper as they sang that song. It was funny, though.

Answer: carriage

After Higgins decides to teach Eliza, she decides that maybe she doesn't want to be taught after all, so he chases after her and gives her this little shpiel to convince her.

Answer: 24 and 130

Higgins plays them back for him on his phonograph.

Answer: Cambridge

Street Man: "Hey, uh, tell him where he comes from, you want to go fortune telling."
Prof. Higgins: "Cheltenham, Harrow, Cambridge and, uh, India?"
Col. Pickering: "Quite right!"
Street Man: "Blimey, he ain't a "tec. He's a bloomin' busybody. That's what he is."
Col. Pickering: "If I may ask, sir, do you do this sort of thing for a living at a music hall?"
Prof. Higgins: "Well, I have thought of it. Perhaps I will one day."
Eliza: "He's no gentleman. He ain't, to interfere with a poor girl!"
Col. Pickering: "How do you do it, may I ask?"
Prof. Higgins: "Simple phonetics. The science of speech. That's my profession. Also my hobby."

Answer: rushing

"What a frenzied moment that was. Didn't they maintain an exhausting pace. 'Twas a thrilling, absolutely chilling, running of The Ascot Opening Race." Rex Harrison is one of a handful of actors and actresses that have portrayed the same role in Broadway and in film. Among some of the other actors and actresses are: Yul Brenner ("The King and I"), Humphrey Bogart ("The Petrified Forest"), Dick Van Dyke ("Bye Bye Birdie"), and Juanita Hall ("South Pacific").

Answer: my knee

"Oh, wouldn't it be loverly...Loverly...Loverly...Loverly...Loverly. All I want is a room somewhere. Far away from the cold night air. With one enormous chair. Oh, wouldn't it be loverly." You kind of think to yourself after watching this movie a few times, if she couldn't speak English too well, how come she sang so well? The answer is: it's a movie. Continuing with the Marni Nixon trivia, she was in "Sound of Music", which starred Julie Andrews. Julie Andrews played Eliza Doolittle for many years in the Broadway play with Rex Harrison.

Answer: Chocolate

"Lots of chocolate for me to eat, lots of coal makin' lots of 'eat" These are the things Eliza wishes for.

Answer: Dover

This scene always makes me laugh, when she tells the horse to get a move on. Never fails to humor me.

Answer: small talk

Eliza is introduced to Henry's society friends at Ascot, one of whom is Freddy Enysford-Hill, who is quite smitten with Eliza and finds her common slang phrases charming.

Answer: one shilling

Apparently one shilling to Eliza is equal to 60 or 70 pounds for a millionaire.

Answer: both

Prof. Higgins: "You see this creature with her curbstone English, the English that'll keep her in the gutter 'til the end of her days? Well, sir, in six months, I could pass her off as a duchess at an Embassy ball. I could even get her a job as a lady's maid or a shop assistant...which requires better English."

Answer: done me in

"And I never saw a more enchanting farce. Than the moment when she shouted move your bloomin'--" Rex Harrison starred as Julius Caesar in the major motion picture movie done the year before "My Fair Lady". The movie was called "Cleopatra" and it starred Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra and Richard Burton as Marc Anthony. Rex Harrison's movie contract in "Cleopatra" had a clause stipulating that whenever Richard Burton's picture appeared in an ad, so would his.

Answer: an ordinary

"An average man am I of no eccentric whim who likes to live his life
free of strife doing whatever he thinks is best for him. Well, just an ordinary man." This is one of my two personal favorite songs from this movie, and in both, Rex Harrison sings.

Answer: Colonel Pickering

Wilfrid Hyde-White plays the part of Colonel Pickering. It is Colonel Pickering who pays for Eliza's education.

Answer: To become a lady in a flower shop

Higgins says to Pickering that after he has taught her she could get a job as a ladies' maid but this is not what Eliza wants. She wants to work in a flower shop but a shop will not take her unless she learns to speak better English.