Q 01/05

Which playhouse, built for Gilbert and Sullivan in 1881, was the first public building lit entirely by electricity?

A) Garrick Theatre

B) Criterion Theatre

C) Savoy Theatre

D) Vaudeville Theatre

Answer · why

C) Savoy Theatre

The Savoy Theatre opened with Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience, lit by about 1,200 of Joseph Swan's incandescent lamps, and owner Richard D'Oyly Carte ...

Q 02/05

Wicked's London home since 2006, the Apollo Victoria Theatre, opened in 1930 as what kind of building?

A) A cinema

B) A department store

C) A railway hotel

D) A swimming baths

Answer · why

A) A cinema

A cinema and variety house called the New Victoria when it opened in 1930, the Apollo Victoria turned to musicals with The Sound of Music in 1981 and ...

Q 03/05

Which vehicle famously lands on stage during the American embassy evacuation in Miss Saigon, Drury Lane's 1989 hit?

A) A motorbike

B) A gunboat

C) A cargo plane

D) A helicopter

Answer · why

D) A helicopter

A helicopter lifts the last Americans from the embassy roof while a crowd of abandoned Vietnamese screams in despair, one of the most famous set piece...

Q 04/05

The Phantom of the Opera's Haymarket home switched from Her Majesty's to His Majesty's in 2023 on whose accession?

A) George VI

B) Charles III

C) Edward VIII

D) William IV

Answer · why

B) Charles III

Charles III's accession the previous year triggered the change, under the custom of matching the theatre's name to the monarch's gender, and the Phant...

Q 05/05

Billy Elliot, the Elton John musical, sets a boy's ballet lessons against which 1984–85 dispute in County Durham?

A) The dockers' strike

B) The printers' strike

C) The miners' strike

D) The steelworkers' strike

Answer · why

C) The miners' strike

The miners' strike of 1984–85 tore through the Durham coalfield where the story is set, and Lee Hall based his screenplay partly on A. J. Cronin's 193...