My Fair Lady Trivia Questions & Answers

Answer: Mr. Ezra Wallingford

Prof. Higgins: "Mrs. Pearce, write to Mr. Ezra Wallingford..."
Julie Andrews, who played Eliza on Broadway, was offered the role of Eliza, but Jack Warner refused to hire her when Andrews refused to do a screen test.

Answer: bed

Higgins trains Eliza to pronounce her A's correctly by making her say the practice sentence, "The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain" over and over again.

Answer: Hugh

He mentions it during the phone call to Scotland Yard.

Answer: Slavs

Prof. Higgins: "Does the same thing hold true in India, Pickering? This peculiar habit of not only dropping a letter like the letter 'H,' but using it where it doesn't belong, like 'hever' instead of 'ever.' Why is it Slavs, when they learn English, have a tendency to do it with their 'G's? They say 'ling-er' instead of 'lin-ger'. Then they turn right around and say 'sin-ger' instead of 'sing-er'."

Answer: fit

Higgins advises Eliza to go back to her old dream of work in a flower shop, but she feels now that they have elevated her to too high a status; she's a lady now, she can't get a common job.

Answer: Lord and Lady Boxington

Appropriate, since they are in her "box" at the races.

Answer: With blackest moss the flower pots were thickly crusted, one and all.

Prof. Higgins: "Now, I want you to read this, and I want you to enunciate every word...just as if the marbles were not in your mouth. 'With blackest moss, the flower pots...were thickly crusted, one and all.' Each word, clear as a bell."
Eliza: "With bla'est moss, the flower pots--I can't. I can't!"
Col. Pickering: "I say, Higgins, are those pebbles really necessary?"

Answer: agitating

Higgins is enraged when he discovers Eliza is missing. As Pickering telephones the police, Higgins goes into a tirade about women.

Answer: Dover

And she watches the race, yelling "Come on, Dover! Move yer bloomin' arse!"

Answer: henry

Henry goes to Ascot to show off the progress he's made with Eliza; his mother isn't particularly pleased to see him.

Answer: lilac

This is Freddie's song. Watch during the first singing and in the background you will see the lamplighter lighting the street lamps. An excellent touch.

Answer: 3:00 a.m.

Eliza: "I'm so tired! I'm so tired!"
Col. Pickering: "For God's sake, Higgins, it must be 3:00 in the morning. Do be reasonable."
Prof. Higgins: "I am always reasonable. Eliza, if I can go on with a blistering headache, you can. I've got a headache too. Oh, here. I know your head aches. I know you're tired. I know your nerves are as raw as meat in a butcher's window. But think what you're trying to accomplish. Just think what you're dealing with. The majesty and grandeur of the English language; it's the greatest
possession we have. The noblest thoughts that ever flowed through the hearts of men...are contained in its extraordinary, imaginative and musical mixtures of sounds. And that's what you've set yourself out to conquer, Eliza. And conquer it you will."

Answer: good character

Pickering and Higgins discuss the advantages and disadvantages to marriage. Higgins vows that he will never let any woman in his life.

Answer: Wimpole

27-A Wimpole Street is Higgins' exact address. It is said a couple of times in the movie. Freddie sings this song as he waits outside for a glimpse of Eliza.

Answer: Whiteley's

Prof. Higgins: "Well, let's not buy her anything too flowery. I despise those gowns with sort of weeds here and weeds there. We ought to buy something sort of simple and modest and elegant, is what's called for, perhaps with a, with a bow. Yeah, I think that's just right."

Answer: time

It is just before the embassy ball and Pickering is incredibly nervous, but Higgins appears to be calm and complacent.

Answer: Lord and Lady Clandan

Higgins is introduced alone after Eliza and the Colonel.

Answer: Boxington

Prof. Higgins: "I told Pickering we should've taken her with us. Oh, goodness! Ah!"
Mrs. Higgins: "Mrs. Eynsford-Hill."
Mrs. Eynsford-Hill: "Good afternoon, Mrs. Higgins."
Mrs. Higgins: "You know my son, Henry."
Prof. Higgins: "Oh, how do you do?"
Mrs. Eynsford-Hill: "I've seen you somewhere before."
Prof. Higgins: "I don't know. Oh, it doesn't matter. You better sit down."
Mrs. Higgins: "Lady Boxington."
Prof. Higgins: "Where the devil can they be?"
Mrs. Higgins: "Uh, Lord Boxington." Prof. Higgins: "Ah!"
Mrs. Higgins: "Colonel Pickering, you're just in time for tea."
Col. Pickering: "Thank you, Mrs. Higgins. May I introduce Miss Eliza Doolittle?"
Mrs. Higgins: "My dear Miss Doolittle."
Eliza: "How kind of you to let me come."

Answer: imposterologist

He says it when Karpathy is explaining how he has the ears of Royalty.

Answer: aunt

Eliza: "My aunt died of influenza, so they said, but it's my belief
they done the old woman in."
Audrey Hepburn's singing was dubbed by Marni Nixon, despite Hepburn's lengthy preparation for the role.

Answer: difference

Higgins asks Eliza why she left and why she is so upset, and she tells him how much it bothered her that he was so rude all the time.

Answer: 21

"Brown eyes, brown hair...brown, brown, brown." Higgins provides this information and Eliza's age as he is hurriedly dressing to go find her.

Answer: 6 weeks

Col. Pickering: "Do you realize what you've got to try and teach this poor girl within six weeks? You've got to teach her to walk,
talk, address a duke, a lord, a bishop, an ambassador. It's absolutely impo--Higgins, I'm trying to tell you that I want to call off the bet. I know you're a stubborn man, but so am I. This experiment is over, and nothing, short of an order from the King,
could force me to recant. Now, if you'll excuse me. You understand, Higgins? It's over! Higgins. Higgins!"

Answer: Whitehall 7244

I wonder if this is really the number? He tells the operator this number when Higgins tells him to call the Home Office.