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This adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's classic story 'The Ugly Duckling' was first performed in 1993, and has been delighting audiences young and old ever since.
2 Honk! quizzes and 35 Honk! trivia questions.
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  "Honk!" A Musical Comedy   popular trivia quiz  
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A cute rendition of the Hans Christian Andersen tale "The Ugly Duckling". An interesting side note: all the characters are animals but do not wear any animal costumes. Quite creative.
Average, 25 Qns, veevy_mccoy, Jul 21 19
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  "Honk!" Songs and Characters    
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How well do you know the lyrics and characters from "Honk!"?
Difficult, 10 Qns, EmberPhoenix, Oct 31 16
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The Bullfrog claims that one day something will be "in". What is he referring to?

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Honk! Trivia Questions
1. As the curtain opens, we see one figure on stage. Which character is this?

From Quiz "Honk!" A Musical Comedy

Answer: Drake

Drake is alone, center stage. He begins to sing "A Poultry Tale" in which Ida and Turkey are first introduced. Ugly doesn't even hatch until the pre-reprise of "Different".

2. What does the cat say when he is hit on the head with a baseball?

From Quiz "Honk!" Songs and Characters

Answer: "Struck out by a foul ball"

The cat has a lot of bird jokes in the musical.

3. Shortly after the first song "A Poultry Tale", Ida tells Drake that it's no good for a duck to look like which animal?

From Quiz "Honk!" A Musical Comedy

Answer: sheep

This is actually the first line after the song. Drake tries to leave Ida so he doesn't have to talk with her but she spots him. "Drake! It's no good paddling away, I've seen you. And it doesn't do for a duck to look sheepish, it confuses the other animals."

4. What does Ugly say after Penny tells him the names the other swans used to call her?

From Quiz "Honk!" Songs and Characters

Answer: Pretty Penny

In this scene Ugly just untangled Penny's leg from a fishing line. He is very shy around her because he likes her.

5. Ida sings about the happiness she has in "The Joy of Motherhood." Who else sings this fun song with her?

From Quiz "Honk!" A Musical Comedy

Answer: Maureen

Ida feels upset because of Drake's poor fathering skills when Maureen comes to cheer her up. Maureen is the only other character present when the ducklings are born. Lowbutt is a hen that we meet in Act Two along with her sidekick cat friend, Queenie. Henrietta is yet another hen.

6. What are the names of the cat and chicken Ugly meets?

From Quiz "Honk!" Songs and Characters

Answer: Queenie and Lowbutt

Queenie and Lowbutt are domesticated animals and are rather spoiled.

7. What is Ugly's first "word"?

From Quiz "Honk!" A Musical Comedy

Answer: honk

Ida is singing about how the egg is different from the rest (it is quite larger because it is a swan's egg and not a duck egg) when all-of-a-sudden it hatches. Ugly rises out of the egg lifting Ida upon her shoulders as a result simultaneously proclaiming his not-yet famous "Honk".

8. In the song "Look at Him" how do the ducklings respond when Ugly asks "Why don't we play with the fishes?"?

From Quiz "Honk!" Songs and Characters

Answer: "Because you'd scare them off"

At the beginning of the play everyone is very rude to Ugly and he even asks them why in this song.

9. "Hold Your Head Up High" chronicles which event between Ida and Ugly?

From Quiz "Honk!" A Musical Comedy

Answer: his first swimming lesson

Drake has already taken the other ducklings for a swim and has left Ida with the egg-sitting. Ugly then hatches and she decides to give him a lesson. It turns out he is a very talented swimmer and she must struggle to keep up with him.

10. Who has the 'red band'?

From Quiz "Honk!" Songs and Characters

Answer: Grace

The red band shows that Grace is the most beautiful animal on the farm and that she is respected by all.

11. Which words does Drake use to see if Ugly was a turkey?

From Quiz "Honk!" A Musical Comedy

Answer: cranberry sauce

Drake and the ducklings return from their swimming lesson. They are shocked and afraid. Drake insists that Ugly is a turkey in which case he says, "Cranberry sauce," to see how he reacts. Ida then says, "See, he didn't even flinch!"

12. What song occurs before Ugly's transformation?

From Quiz "Honk!" Songs and Characters

Answer: 'The Blizzard'

The Blizzard is a very slow song about how Ugly, the Cat and Ida struggle through the snow. The entire song builds up to show that they are facing certain death, but death is left unsaid.

13. Which type of bread are the children throwing into the pond?

From Quiz "Honk!" A Musical Comedy

Answer: French

"I heard the children from the farmhouse are throwing French bread into the water. It sounds tres chic . . ." This is said by Maureen. When all the animals are gathering around trying to enjoy the French treat, Ugly feels excluded and the Cat comes to take advantage of him and persuades Ugly to come with him.

14. What is the red band's name changed to?

From Quiz "Honk!" Songs and Characters

Answer: Cygnet Rings

Grace declares this is in 'Look at Him- Reprise' when she gives Ugly (who isn't ugly anymore) the band.

15. What does the Cat plan on having for dinner?

From Quiz "Honk!" A Musical Comedy

Answer: Duck a' l'Orange

The Cat takes Ugly to his lair where he leafs through a cookbook, " . . . Casserole of Duck, Duck with Cherries, Duck and Chestnuts, Duck and Pineapple, Duck Pate, Duck Pancakes with Plum Sauce, ah here we are, Duck a' l'Orange." At the end of "Play with Your Food" he shoves an orange in Ugly's mouth.

16. What hits the Cat on the head and causes him to fall unconscious?

From Quiz "Honk!" A Musical Comedy

Answer: ball

The children lose control of the ball while the offstage Boy's Voice keeps calling "Duck!" The Cat mistakes this warning as an obvious statement that Ugly is indeed a duck. He then gets hit by the ball in the head and passes out but not before the clever line, "Struck out by a fowl ball."

17. Which song is sung by the entire company about Ugly's getting lost with the Cat? It is sung right before the reporter first films Ida.

From Quiz "Honk!" A Musical Comedy

Answer: The Elegy

"Tonight the ugly duckling sleeps beneath an angel's wings." Ida is left on stage looking off and determined when all-of-a-sudden a film crew appears. It is the worst possible moment for that.

18. Then comes the obnoxious reporter Jay Bird! That part is for either sex so what is the character named if played by a woman?

From Quiz "Honk!" A Musical Comedy

Answer: Maggie Pie

The male is named Jay Bird but the girl is named Maggie Pie. Thus a male would probably wear a blue suit while a female dresses like a magpie.

19. What song does Ida sing when the camera is focusing on her?

From Quiz "Honk!" A Musical Comedy

Answer: Every Tear a Mother Cries

Jay Bird/Maggie Pie leaves with this, "I'm going to leave the final word with Ida, just in case her son is out there watching. But for now this is Jay Bird from "America's Most Feathered" . . . All right Ida, it's all yours . . . " The camera focuses on her and she sings this song.

20. Who is Greylag's senior flight attendant, or mate?

From Quiz "Honk!" A Musical Comedy

Answer: Dot

Greylag is a goose who leads the other geese in a military style. Dot is his wife who acts as a flight attendant during the song "Wild Goose Chase". "Good afternoon, Ladies and Gentlemen. My name is Dot, I am your Senior Flight Attendant and, on behalf of Captain Greylag, I would like to welcome you to this afternoon's flight from Boggy Marshland to some far-flung farm." Barnacles, Snowy, and Pinkfoot are other geese among the countless nameless ones.

21. Where do we find Ugly at the end of Act One?

From Quiz "Honk!" A Musical Comedy

Answer: a cottage

Ugly wanders into the garden of this cottage after seeing the feathers drop from the sky as a result of the geese getting shot. He sees the shadow of the Old Woman so he sneakily enters the cottage.

22. What best describes what Queenie and Lowbutt do all day?

From Quiz "Honk!" A Musical Comedy

Answer: sit and chat

Queenie and Lowbutt are two old animals. Queenie (the cat) and Lowbutt (the hen) don't have much in common except for their common interest of needlepoint. When asked what they do all day Queenie says, "We sit and chat and sit and chat and sometimes I will arch my back and let sparks fly from my fur." Lowbutt then says, "Then we sit and chat and sit and chat and sometimes I will lay an egg." To quote Queenie, "What else is there for civilized folk to do?"

23. Which character appears at the Old Woman's house (Lowbutt and Queenie's owner) disguised as Drake?

From Quiz "Honk!" A Musical Comedy

Answer: Cat

His entire goal throughout this show is to eat Ugly. He comes, disguised as Ugly's father (Drake), in hopes of retrieving Ugly and eating him. When he sees Queenie, though, he discards his disguise and sings a love song with her called "Together".

24. How is Penny, the lovely young swan, stuck?

From Quiz "Honk!" A Musical Comedy

Answer: She is tangled in fishing line.

"I'm Penny. Please, do you think you can untangle me?" Of course Ugly does because he is so kind but is also captivated by her beauty. He has never seen a swan before then.

25. The Bullfrog claims that one day something will be "in". What is he referring to?

From Quiz "Honk!" A Musical Comedy

Answer: ugly

Ugly is feeling particularly down at this point, he feels rather ugly but then he meets the Bullfrog (the only character in the show uglier than he is, but has a good spirit about it). The Bullfrog says, "It's a question of taste. But you mark my words, one day 'ugly' will be 'in'." This leads up to the fun ditty "Warts and All".

26. "Out there somewhere, someone's gonna love you . . . " How? (This is a song).

From Quiz "Honk!" A Musical Comedy

Answer: Warts and All

"Out there somewhere someone's gonna love you: warts and all!" "Together" and "Now I've Seen You" are two other songs from the show. "With Big Kisses" isn't even a song, it's just there to confuse you.

27. In the end, what happens to the Cat?

From Quiz "Honk!" A Musical Comedy

Answer: he goes crazy

The next spring the Cat sees Ugly who is now a swan. The Cat then sings "Melting Moggy". It is a crazy song filled mostly with incoherent phrases. This all happens as a result of chasing Ugly for a year and never getting to eat him. He then says, "I quit! I give up! I surrender! I've been working too hard . . . Take me to the Betty Fur Clinic . . . Aaaarrrgh!" He then runs off stage screaming.

28. In the last scene of the show, what does Grace give to Ugly?

From Quiz "Honk!" A Musical Comedy

Answer: the red band

The red band goes to the most distinguished of birds on the lake. Grace has always worn it but decides that she is getting old and Ugly is indeed fine so she gives it to him. "Wear it with pride, my dear, for you are indeed the finest bird on the lake . . . from this day forth, the Red Band shall be known as the Cygnet Ring!" And they all lived happily ever after . . .

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