"The Sound of Music" Lyrics Part 1 Quiz

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1. Fill in the Blank from the song "The Sound of Music": "The hills are alive with the sound of music, with songs they have sung, for a ________ years."

Answer: thousand

"The hills fill my heart, with the sound of music. My heart wants to sing every song it hears." On www.imdb.com, in the trivia section of this movie, they mention the fact that Julie Andrews was extremely cold because of the amount of times she had to run up and down the mountain.

2. Fill in the Blank: "My heart wants to beat like the wings of the birds that ____ from the lake to the trees. My heart wants to sigh like a chime that flies from a church on a breeze."

Answer: rise

"To laugh like a brook when it trips and falls over stones on its way. To sing through the night, like a lark who is learning to pray."
When we see Julie Andrews dancing on the mountain from an aerial point of view we don't know that she was getting knocked over because of the wind produced from the helicopter that was being used for these shots. This is according to www.imdb.com's trivia section.

3. Fill in the Blank: "I go to the hills when my heart is ______. I know I will hear what I heard before."

Answer: lonely

"My heart will be blessed with the sound of music and I'll sing once more." This is one of the songs that is later sung by the children when Maria goes away.

4. In the Abbey the nuns' chorus sings this song about Julie Andrews' character, "Maria". Fill in the Blank: "She climbs a tree and scrapes her knee. Her dress has got a ____. She waltzes on her way to mass and whistles on the stair."

Answer: tear

"And underneath her wimple she has curlers in her hair! I even heard her singing in the abbey." Interesting anecdote is that the actress that played Sister Sophia is Marni Nixon, who has an incredible singing voice. She dubbed Audrey Hepburn's voice in almost every song from the movie "My Fair Lady". Julie Andrews played Eliza Doolittle for many years in the Broadway version of "My Fair Lady".

5. Fill in the Blank: "She's always late for chapel, but her penitence is real. She's always late for everything, except for every ____."

Answer: meal

"I hate to have to say it but I very firmly feel. Maria's not an asset to the abbey! I'd like to say a word in her behalf. Maria makes me laugh!" It's really impressive the singing voices assembled here by the Nuns! The singing at the wedding and at the end of the movie is proof of their singing abilities.

6. Fill in the Blank: "How do you solve a problem like Maria? How do you catch a cloud and pin it down? How do you find a word that means Maria? A flibbertigibbet! A willo' the wisp! A _____!"

Answer: clown

"Many a thing you know you'd like to tell her, many a thing she ought to understand. But how do you make her stay and listen to all you say. How do you keep a wave upon the sand? Oh, how do you solve a problem like Maria? How do you hold a moonbeam in your hand?" Sister Sophia (Marni Nixon) sings the "A Willo' the Wisp!" part and "But her penitence is real!"

7. Fill in the Blank: "When I'm with her I'm confused, out of focus and bemused, and I never know exactly where I am. Unpredictable as _______, she's as flighty as a feather, she's a darling, she's a demon, she's a lamb."

Answer: weather

"She'd out-pester any pest, drive a hornet from his nest, she can throw a whirling dervish out of whirl. She is gentle. She is wild. She's a riddle. She's a child. She's a headache! She's an angel! She's a girl." Later, upon meeting Maria, Captain von Trapp asks her, "Fraulein, were you this much trouble at the Abbey?". Maria responds, "Oh, much more sir!"

8. The next song is when Maria is approaching the von Trapp Home, it's called "I Have Confidence". Fill in the Blank: "It could be so exciting, to be out in the world, to be free! My heart should be wildly rejoicing. Oh, what's the matter with me? I've always longed for ___________, to do the things I've never dared."

Answer: adventure

"Now here I'm facing adventure then why am I so scared? A captain with seven children... What's so fearsome about that?"

9. Fill in the Blank: "Oh, I must stop these doubts, all these worries. If I don't I just know I'll turn back! I must dream of the things I am seeking. I am seeking the _______ I lack."

Answer: courage

"The courage to serve them with reliance, face my mistakes without defiance. Show them I'm worthy and while I show them, I'll show me!"

10. Fill in the Blank: "So, let them bring on all their ________, I'll do better than my best. I have confidence they'll put me to the test! But I'll make them see I have confidence in me."

Answer: problems

"Somehow I will impress them. I will be firm, but kind. And all those children, heaven bless them, they will look up to me! And mind me with each step I am more certain ... Everything will turn out fine I have confidence the world can all be mine. They'll have to agree I have confidence in me." Who would've known she would later lose this confidence and run back to the abbey.

11. Fill in the blank with the correct answer: "I have confidence in sunshine. I have confidence in rain. I have confidence that ________ will come again."

Answer: spring

"Besides which you see I have confidence in me."

12. Fill in the blank with the correct answer: "Strength doesn't lie in numbers. Strength doesn't lie in wealth. Strength lies in nights of peaceful ___________. When you wake up -- Wake Up! It's healthy!"

Answer: slumbers

"All I trust I leave my heart to. All I trust becomes my own. I have confidence in confidence alone. I have confidence in confidence alone. Besides which you see I have confidence in me!" According to imdb.com's trivia section there is a cameo appearance by the real Maria Von Trapp in this scene.

She is the elder of two women dressed in Austrian peasant garb who walk by in the background as Maria walks through the brick archway.

13. The next four questions are about the lyrics from the song "Sixteen Going on Seventeen" sung and danced to by Dan Truhitte and Charmian Carr who played Rolf Gruber and Liesl von Trapp. Fill in the blank with the correct answer in each question. "You wait, little girl, on an empty _______ for fate to turn the light on. Your life, little girl, is an empty page that men will want to write on."

Answer: stage

"LIESL: "To write on."
ROLFE: "You are sixteen going on seventeen, Baby, it's time to think. Better beware, be canny and careful, Baby, you're on the brink." This song was shot in the gazebo and was one of the last ones to be filmed.

14. Choose the best answer that fills the blank: "You are sixteen going on seventeen, __________ will fall in line. Eager young lads and roues and cads will offer you food and wine."

Answer: fellows

"Totally unprepared are you to face a world of men. Timid and shy and scared are you of things beyond your ken. You need someone older an wiser telling you what to do. I am seventeen going on eighteen I'll take care of you." According to imdb.com's trivia section, on the first take of the taping of this song, Charmian Carr (Liesl) slipped while leaping across a bench, and fell through a pane of glass.

15. "I am sixteen going on seventeen, I know that I'm naive. Fellows I meet may tell me I'm ______ and willingly I believe."

Answer: sweet

"I am sixteen going on seventeen, innocent as a rose. Bachelor dandies, drinkers of brandies, what do I know of those?" Continuing with the Charmian Carr leg injury stated in the answer for the previous question, although she was not badly injured, her ankle was hurt and the scene was later shot with her leg wrapped and makeup covering the bandages.

16. "Totally unprepared am I to face a world of men. _______ and shy and scared am I of things beyond my ken."

Answer: Timid

"I need someone older and wiser telling me what to do. You are seventeen going on eighteen, I'll depend on you." This was Daniel Truhitte's (Rolf) only motion picture appearance, quite a big one!

17. The next four questions are about the lyrics from the song "My Favorite Things" sung and performed by Julie Andrews. Fill in the blank with the correct answers in every question. "Uh .. well, let me see, nice things. Daffodils. Green meadows. Skies full of stars. Raindrops on _______ and whiskers on kittens ..."

Answer: roses

"Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens. Brown paper packages tied up with strings. These are a few of my favorite things." Audrey Hepburn was originally considered for the role of Maria.

18. "Cream-colored ponies and crisp apple streudels. Doorbells and sleigh bells and ___________ with noodles. Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings. These are a few of my favorite things."

Answer: schnitzel

"Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes. Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes. Silver white winters that melt into springs. These are a few of my favorite things." Debbie Turner, Marta von Trapp, had many loose teeth during filming. When they fell out, they were replaced with false teeth.

19. "When the dog bites. When the bee stings. When I'm feeling sad. I simply remember my favorite things and then I don't feel so ____."

Answer: bad

At this point there is an exchange between Maria and the children. "Does it really work? Of course it does. You try it. What things do you like? Pussy willows! Christmas! Bunny rabbits! Snakes! Chocolate icing! No school! Telegrams! Birthday presents! Any presents! Yes! Ladybugs! What? Cats! Rats! A good sneeze! Ah-choo! Gesundheit! See what fun it is?"

20. "Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens. Bright copper ________ and warm woolen mittens. Brown paper packages tied up with strings. These are a few of my favorite things."

Answer: kettles

"Cream-colored ponies and crisp apple streudels. Doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles. Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings. These are a few of my favorite things. Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes. Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes. Silver white winters that melt into springs.

These are a few of my favorite things. When the dog bi--" This is when Captain von Trapp enters and Maria ends up deciding to make the kids' clothes from the curtains.

21. The next five questions are based on lyrics from the song "Do-Re-Mi" sung and performed by Julie Andrews, Charmian Carr, Nicholas Hammond, Heather Menzies, Duane Chase, Angela Cartwright, Debbie Turner and Kym Karath (Maria and the children). Fill in the blank with the correct answer: "Let's start at the very beginning. A very good place to start. When you read you begin with ..." GRETL: "A-B-C" MARIA: "When you sing you begin with ___________."

Answer: do-re-mi

THE CHILDREN: "Do-re-mi".
MARIA: "Do-re-mi. The first three notes just happen to be - Do-re-mi."
THE CHILDREN: "Do-re-mi".
MARIA: "Do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti" (spoken) "Oh, let's see if I can make it easier. Mmm ..." This song is so burnt into many Americans' minds that many people know the notes to sing because of it.

22. "Doe, a deer, a female deer. Ray, a drop of _____________. Me, a name I call myself. Far, a long, long way to run."

Answer: golden sun

"Sew, a needle pulling thread. La, a note to follow Sew. Tea, a drink with jam and bread. That will bring us back to Do (oh-oh-oh)" Nicholas Hammond, who played Friedrich von Trapp, has brown hair, and had to undergo several painful hair bleaching treatments before and during filming to make his hair blond.

23. This part of the song is spoken by Maria to the children. Fill in the blank with the correct answer. "Now, children, do-re-mi-fa-so and so on are only the tools we use to build a song. Once you have these notes in your heads, you can sing a __________ different tunes by mixing them up."

Answer: million

"Like this. Uh ...So Do La Fa Mi Do Re. Can you do that?" CHILDREN: "So Do La Fa Mi Do Re." MARIA: "So Do La Ti Do Re Do." CHILDREN: "So Do La Ti Do Re Do." This is how and when Maria breaks the ice with the kids finally and teaches them the basics that will help them in their real life story. They sang for many years to earn a living once they came to the United States.

24. "BRIGITTA: "But it doesn't mean anything." MARIA: "So we put in words. One word for every note. Like this...When you know the notes to sing you can sing most __________."

Answer: anything

"When you know the notes to sing. You can sing most anything. Doe, a deer, a female deer. Ray, a drop of golden sun. Me, a name I call myself. Far, a long, long way to run. Sew, a needle pulling thread. La, a note to follow Sew. Tea, a drink with jam and bread. That will bring us back to Do." Among kids that auditioned to play one of the von Trapp children were Kurt Russell, Richard Dreyfuss, Nancy Cartwright, and the four eldest Osmond Brothers, (Alan, Jay, Merrill, and Wayne).

25. Choose the correct sequence that fills in the blank: "Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do. __________." CHILDREN: "Do Mi Mi, Mi So So, Re Fa Fa, La Ti Ti."

Answer: Do Ti La So Fa Mi Re

"When you know the notes to sing. You can sing most ..." MARIA AND THE CHILDREN: "... anything!" Doe, a deer, a female deer. Ray, a drop of golden sun. Me, a name I call myself. Far, a long, long way to run. Sew, a needle pulling thread. La, a note to follow Sew. Tea, a drink with jam and bread. That will bring us back to..." After seeing the serious faces of the kids at the beginning it's nice to see them so happy while learning to sing. Hope you enjoyed taking the quiz as much as I did in making it. Thank you for taking the quiz and be sure to take part 2!

Source: Author kirkyt1

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This will challenge the knowledge you have of the songs in this movie! This is the first part, be sure to play part 2! Enjoy the quiz!

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