Dear Evan Hansen
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50 free Dear Evan Hansen trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Dear Evan Hansen began as a modest new musical about an anxious high school senior and a lie that spirals out of his control. It went on to win Broadway's top prize, tour the world and reach cinemas, and its score still fills audition rooms and playlists. Few recent shows have been argued over as much, which is part of why it rewards a closer look. This quiz covers the story and the people in it: Evan, the Murphys, the classmates who get pulled into his scheme and the parents trying to keep up. It also tests the songs, from the opening number to the closing scenes, by what happens in them and who performs them, so it works as a song and lyric challenge without asking you to recite a line. Behind the curtain there are questions on the writers, the original cast and the actors who followed them, the awards night, the London production and the screen version. The early rounds are for anyone who has seen the show once; the later ones are for people who know the cast album by heart.
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Q 01Which actor won a Tony at 23 for creating the title role in Dear Evan Hansen and reprised it on film?
Ben Platt
Ben Platt was the youngest solo winner of the Tony for leading actor in a musical until Myles Frost took it in 2022. He had been with the show since its first readings in 2014.
Q 02Which songwriting duo, also behind The Greatest Showman, wrote the music and lyrics for Dear Evan Hansen?
Pasek and Paul
Pasek and Paul began writing together as freshmen at the University of Michigan. Benj Pasek usually handles the lyrics and Justin Paul the music, though they share credit for both.
Q 03Dear Evan Hansen's songwriters won an Oscar for the lyrics of City of Stars from which film?
La La Land
La La Land brought them the Best Original Song Oscar in 2017, the same year their stage show won six Tony Awards. The film's melodies were composed by Justin Hurwitz.
Q 04Which institution received a shirt, an arm cast and sheet music from Dear Evan Hansen's Broadway producers?
The Smithsonian
The Smithsonian added the items to its National Museum of American History in 2018, along with a button for The Connor Project and a copy of Evan's letter.
Q 05Which pop star re-recorded Waving Through a Window to promote Dear Evan Hansen's national tour?
Katy Perry
Katy Perry's cover was included on the deluxe edition of the cast album in 2018, beside numbers that had been cut from the show.
Q 06Which Stranger Things actor joined Dear Evan Hansen's final Broadway cast as Evan's sarcastic classmate Jared?
Gaten Matarazzo
Gaten Matarazzo was returning to Broadway, where he had started as a child in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and Les Misérables.
Q 07Defending his casting at 27 in the Dear Evan Hansen film, its star pointed to the grown-up cast of which musical?
Grease
Grease cast actors well past their teens as high school students in 1978, the comparison he made after the first trailer drew complaints about his age.
Q 08Which director of the Dear Evan Hansen film also wrote and directed The Perks of Being a Wallflower?
Stephen Chbosky
Stephen Chbosky had also directed Wonder, and he said his main aim was to preserve the original lead's performance on screen.
Q 09Which Oscar-winning star of Still Alice plays Evan's overworked mother in the Dear Evan Hansen film?
Julianne Moore
Julianne Moore joined the cast in September 2020, and reviewers counted her among the best-received performers in a film that was otherwise panned.
Q 10Which star of Enchanted plays Cynthia Murphy, Connor's mother, in the Dear Evan Hansen film?
Amy Adams
Amy Adams drew one of the film's four Golden Raspberry nominations, even though several critics had praised her performance.
Q 11Who sets Evan the task of writing upbeat letters to himself, the habit that gives Dear Evan Hansen its title?
His therapist
His therapist assigns the letters as daily pep talks, and one that Evan prints at school ends up in Connor's pocket.
Q 12What had Evan fallen from to break the arm he wears in a cast at the start of Dear Evan Hansen?
A tree
A tree fall is the story behind the cast, which his mother urges him to get signed by classmates as a way of starting conversations.
Q 13In Dear Evan Hansen, where does Evan claim he and Connor spent the day he broke his arm?
An apple orchard
An apple orchard the Murphys once visited is the setting of his invented story, and a later crowdfunding campaign aims to reopen it.
Q 21Which anthem closes Act 1 of Dear Evan Hansen as Evan's speech about Connor spreads across social media?
You Will Be Found
You Will Be Found was written for the off-Broadway run, replacing Part of Me, which had closed the act in the very first production.
Q 22In which Dear Evan Hansen trio do Evan and Jared fake a paper trail, with an imagined Connor joining in?
Sincerely, Me
Sincerely, Me returns in Act 2 as a reprise for Connor and Jared, though that version was left off the original cast recording.
Q 23In which Dear Evan Hansen trio do Zoe and her parents each react differently to the proof Evan has faked?
Requiem
Q 14In Dear Evan Hansen, what do Evan and Jared forge to prove that he and Connor were secretly close?
Backdated emails
Backdated emails are shown to the Murphys as proof, which thrills Cynthia but hurts Larry, who feels Connor took his home life for granted.
Q 15Which never-used belonging of Connor's does Larry Murphy hand to Evan in Dear Evan Hansen?
A baseball glove
A baseball glove is the gift, and the two bond over how to break it in during a duet that the film left out.
Q 16In Dear Evan Hansen, how does Jared Kleinman, who neglects to sign Evan's cast, label their relationship?
Family friend
Family friend is the reluctant label he uses, yet he goes on to help Evan and Alana launch The Connor Project.
Q 17At what event in Dear Evan Hansen does Evan suffer a panic attack before his speech spreads online?
A school assembly
A school assembly held in Connor's memory is the setting, and a clip of Evan recovering to finish his speech goes viral.
Q 18In Dear Evan Hansen, what is the day job of Evan's mother, who studies to be a paralegal at night?
Nurse's aide
Nurse's aide shifts and evening classes keep her out of the house, which is why Evan is so often left on his own.
Q 19What of their late son's do the Murphys offer Evan at dinner in Dear Evan Hansen, upsetting his mother?
His college fund
His college fund is the offer, made after Evan lets slip that money is tight at home, and Heidi is hurt that he discussed it.
Q 20How is Larry related to Connor and Zoe in the Dear Evan Hansen film, a change from the stage show?
Their stepfather
Their stepfather, renamed Larry Mora, is who he becomes on screen, whereas the stage character is Connor and Zoe's biological parent.
Requiem took the place of an earlier number, Hiding in Your Hands, which later surfaced on the deluxe cast album.
Q 24Which opening number of Dear Evan Hansen, a duet for the two mothers, was dropped from the film?
Anybody Have a Map?
Anybody Have a Map? was cut because the director wanted the audience to meet every other character through Evan's eyes.
Q 25Which Dear Evan Hansen love duet did Carrie Underwood and Dan + Shay cover for the film soundtrack?
Only Us
Only Us is where the film implies the romance between Evan and Zoe begins, whereas on stage they kiss at the end of Act 1.
Q 26In which Dear Evan Hansen song does Evan finally admit to the Murphys that he made the whole story up?
Words Fail
Words Fail brings back the opening lines of Evan's first solo, bringing his journey full circle.
Q 27In which Dear Evan Hansen solo does Evan's mother recall the day his father moved out?
So Big/So Small
So Big/So Small follows her discovery of Evan's letter online, and it ends with her promise to be there whenever he needs her.
Q 28In which Dear Evan Hansen solo does Evan first describe an invented day out with Connor to the Murphys?
For Forever
For Forever is performed at the Murphys' dinner table, and it returns in Act 2 as a reprise for the Connor of Evan's imagination.
Q 29Dear Evan Hansen's original star first reached filmgoers as the magician Benji in which musical comedy?
Pitch Perfect
Pitch Perfect cast him as the magic-loving Benji Applebaum in 2012, and he returned for the sequel three years later.
Q 30Which actress, Catherine in the 2013 Pippin revival, won a Tony as Evan's mother in Dear Evan Hansen?
Rachel Bay Jones
Rachel Bay Jones played the part from the first production in 2015 until she left the Broadway company in August 2018.