Trivia For August 18, 2026

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Live Theater

Question 1:

What award that recognizes 'excellence in live Broadway theatre' is presented by the American Theatre Wing and the Broadway League?

Tony

  • The awards are named for Antoinette "Tony" Perry, an actress, producer, theatre director and administrator who was co-founder and secretary of the American Theatre Wing.

Question 2:

Fill in the blank: The rule that a loaded rifle introduced in the first act of a play, must go off by the end is known as "______ Gun", after the famed dramatist.

Chekhov's

  • Chekhov's Gun is a narrative principle stating that every element in a story must be necessary, and irrelevant elements should be removed.

Question 3:

Which 1964 Broadway musical features the songs "Matchmaker, Matchmaker", "If I Were a Rich Man" and "Sunrise, Sunset"?

Fiddler on the Roof

  • The musical is based on a series of short stories by Sholem Aleichem, about a Jewish milkman trying to maintain his religious and cultural traditions in a Russian village at the turn of the 20th century.

Question 4:

Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1913) and Saint Joan (1923) are some of the over sixty plays written by this renowned playwright.

George Bernard Shaw

  • With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw was considered the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Question 5:

The volatile relationship between George and Martha fuels the conflict in this 1962 play by Edward Albee.

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

  • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? won both the 1963 Tony Award for Best Play and the 1962–1963 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play. The film version, starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, would win five Oscars.

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