Q 01/05

In In the Heights, the bodega owner's first name comes from which sight his parents saw arriving in America?

A) A US Navy ship

B) A Coast Guard station

C) The Statue of Liberty

D) A Yankees billboard

Answer · why

A) A US Navy ship

A US Navy ship was one of the first things his parents saw when they reached America, and they turned its lettering into a name. Lin-Manuel Miranda pl...

Q 02/05

Lin-Manuel Miranda, the original stage Usnavi, plays a street vendor selling what in the 2021 film In the Heights?

A) Hot dogs

B) Lottery tickets

C) Roasted peanuts

D) Shaved ice

Answer · why

D) Shaved ice

Shaved ice drenched in fruit syrup, called a piragua, is what his character pushes around the block in a cart. Miranda only took the part after the sc...

Q 03/05

Which actor, the original John Laurens in Hamilton, plays Usnavi in the 2021 film In the Heights?

A) Daveed Diggs

B) Okieriete Onaodowan

C) Anthony Ramos

D) Jordan Fisher

Answer · why

C) Anthony Ramos

Anthony Ramos had already played Usnavi on stage, including a 2018 Kennedy Center production that Lin-Manuel Miranda watched and praised.

Q 04/05

In In the Heights, how much is the winning lottery ticket sold at Usnavi's bodega worth?

A) $9,600

B) $96,000

C) $960,000

D) $9.6 million

Answer · why

B) $96,000

$96,000 is the prize, and it gives the show one of its best-known numbers as the whole block imagines spending it. The 2021 film staged that song at a...

Q 05/05

Which director of Crazy Rich Asians and the Wicked films made the 2021 film In the Heights?

A) Rob Marshall

B) Bill Condon

C) Steven Spielberg

D) Jon M. Chu

Answer · why

D) Jon M. Chu

Jon M. Chu joined the project in 2016 after years of dance films, including two Step Up sequels. He shot most of it on location around 175th Street in...