Q 01/05

Which Broadway composer shares Lloyd Webber's 22 March birthday?

A) Leonard Bernstein

B) Stephen Sondheim

C) Jerry Herman

D) Cole Porter

Answer · why

B) Stephen Sondheim

Stephen Sondheim. The supposed rivals were born 18 years apart to the day, and at a 1998 London gala they performed together for the first time, spoof...

Q 02/05

Which former James Bond walked out of Lloyd Webber's Aspects of Love weeks before its 1989 premiere?

A) Sean Connery

B) George Lazenby

C) Roger Moore

D) Timothy Dalton

Answer · why

C) Roger Moore

Roger Moore. He withdrew from the lead shortly before the 1989 opening, saying he had come to feel that the musical stage was not for him.

Q 03/05

Lloyd Webber and Rice's first musical, The Likes of Us, told the story of which Victorian founder of children's homes?

A) William Booth

B) Thomas Barnardo

C) Lord Shaftesbury

D) Thomas Coram

Answer · why

B) Thomas Barnardo

Thomas Barnardo. The 1965 show about his work with destitute children never found a backer, so it sat unstaged for 40 years until the pair finally mou...

Q 04/05

Which biblical figure is the hero of the 15-minute pop cantata Lloyd Webber and Rice wrote for a London school in 1968?

A) Jesus

B) Moses

C) Joseph

D) Noah

Answer · why

C) Joseph

Joseph. The piece for the boys of Colet Court grew with each outing, and at its second performance one parent in the audience was the Sunday Times cri...

Q 05/05

Which Jesus Christ Superstar character taunts Jesus in a jaunty vaudeville-style number, daring him to walk across a swimming pool?

A) Judas

B) King Herod

C) Pontius Pilate

D) Caiaphas

Answer · why

B) King Herod

King Herod. His song began as Try It and See, a pop tune the pair wrote as a hopeful for the 1969 Eurovision Song Contest; it missed out, was recorded...