Quiz  /  A Night at the Theatre Quiz

  • 1. 
    Between whom does a “merry war” of words go on in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing?

  • Benedick and Beatrice
  • Hero and Claudio
  • Helena and Bertram
  • Hamlet and his mother

  • 2. 
    Which is the oldest theatre still in use in England?

  • Drury Lane Theatre
  • Globe Theatre
  • Royal National Theatre
  • Blackfriars Theatre

  • 3. 
    What was the first permanent theatre in Paris?

  • Théâtre du Marais
  • Théâtre de l’Hôtel de Bourgogne
  • Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier
  • Théâtre National Populaire

  • 4. 
    In which of Shakespeare’s plays do the clowns Feste, Sir Toby Belch, Sir Andrew Aguecheek, and Malvolio appear?

  • Comedy of Errors
  • As You Like It
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream
  • Twelfth Night

  • 5. 
    Which of these plays by Shakespeare uses a statue to reveal a dramatic secret?

  • Titus Andronicus
  • The Winter’s Tale
  • Hamlet
  • King Lear

  • 6. 
    Who is the tragic figure in Arthur Miller’s play Death of a Salesman?

  • Herbert Deever
  • James Tyrone
  • Harry Hope
  • Willy Loman

  • 7. 
    In which of these plays by Shakespeare do witches play an important role?

  • Hamlet
  • Henry V
  • Macbeth
  • Othello

  • 8. 
    Who wrote the theatrical piece The Beggar’s Opera?

  • Lord Byron
  • Alexander Pope
  • Hilaire Belloc
  • John Gay

  • 9. 
    What is the earliest known English play in blank verse?

  • All for Love
  • The Tragicall History of D. Faustus
  • The Faerie Queene
  • Gorboduc

  • 10. 
    Who was the first English actor to be knighted?

  • Henry Irving
  • Richard Burton
  • William Shakespeare
  • Frank Benson

  • 11. 
    Who was a theatrical manager and the founder of the Old Vic theatre as a centre of Shakespearean productions?

  • Tom Patterson
  • Tyrone Guthrie
  • Lilian Baylis
  • Laurence Olivier

  • 12. 
    Which English stage actor founded the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art?

  • John Gielgud
  • Herbert Beerbohm Tree
  • Kenneth Branagh
  • Edward Gordon Craig

  • 13. 
    Which American actor established herself as a major star in the Broadway musical Funny Girl (1964)?

  • Mary Martin
  • Barbra Streisand
  • Sophie Tucker
  • Lena Horne

  • 14. 
    Who wrote the play She Stoops to Conquer?

  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  • Aphra Behn
  • Oliver Goldsmith
  • Oscar Wilde

  • 15. 
    Who was the first of Classical Athens’s great tragic dramatists?

  • Aeschylus
  • Aristotle
  • Sophocles
  • Euripides

  • 16. 
    Who wrote the play The Bald Soprano and thereby helped inaugurate the Theatre of the Absurd?

  • Albert Camus
  • Samuel Beckett
  • Eugène Ionesco
  • Jean Genet

  • 17. 
    What rhetorical mannerism did John Lyly introduce in English literature?

  • euphuism
  • allegory
  • satire
  • irony

  • 18. 
    Who is considered the first of the “Angry Young Men” of the 1950s British stage?

  • John Osborne
  • Arthur Miller
  • Paul Scofield
  • John Gielgud

  • 19. 
    Which playwright created the characters Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski?

  • Lorraine Hansberry
  • Tennessee Williams
  • Arthur Miller
  • Eugene O’Neill

  • 20. 
    Which play by Shakespeare opens with the words “If music be the food of love, play on”?

  • Timon of Athens
  • Twelfth Night
  • As You Like It
  • The Merchant of Venice
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