Q 01/05

Pharaoh in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is usually played in the style of which rock and roll star?

A) Buddy Holly

B) Chuck Berry

C) Elvis Presley

D) Little Richard

Answer · why

C) Elvis Presley

Elvis Presley is the model for Pharaoh, who describes his troubling dreams in a rock and roll number called Song of the King.

Q 02/05

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat began in 1968 as a 15-minute piece written for which performers?

A) A school choir

B) A church youth club

C) A student drama club

D) A BBC radio cast

Answer · why

A) A school choir

A school choir at Colet Court in London sang the first version, after its music teacher asked two unknown young writers for something new to perform.

Q 03/05

Which Australian soap star topped the UK chart in 1991 with a song from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat?

A) Craig McLachlan

B) Jason Donovan

C) Guy Pearce

D) Stefan Dennis

Answer · why

B) Jason Donovan

Jason Donovan was playing the lead at the London Palladium when his single spent two weeks at number one. In 2019 he returned to the same stage as Pha...

Q 04/05

Which sitcom's character borrows the coat from a tour of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and gets arrested?

A) Will & Grace

B) Friends

C) Cheers

D) Seinfeld

Answer · why

D) Seinfeld

Seinfeld sent Kramer backstage in the episode The Wig Master, where he takes a copy of the coat from wardrobe and is arrested while wearing it.

Q 05/05

Which composer wrote the music for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat while still a teenager?

A) Andrew Lloyd Webber

B) Claude-Michel Schönberg

C) Richard Rodgers

D) Leonard Bernstein

Answer · why

A) Andrew Lloyd Webber

Andrew Lloyd Webber was 19 when the piece was first sung in 1968, long before Cats and The Phantom of the Opera made his name.