Q 01/05

What do Nick and Honey finally learn about the son George and Martha describe in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

A) He died in infancy

B) They invented him

C) He was adopted

D) He lives abroad

Answer · why

B) They invented him

They invented him: unable to have children, the couple made the boy up early in their marriage and kept him going as a private game. George ends it on...

Q 02/05

When George aims a gun at Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, what pops out of the barrel?

A) A Chinese parasol

B) A bunch of silk roses

C) A white flag

D) A champagne cork

Answer · why

A) A Chinese parasol

A Chinese parasol springs from the gun, and everyone finds it extremely funny. Moments earlier George had slipped away while Martha told an embarrassi...

Q 03/05

In the 1966 film Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, the title song is sung to which nursery-rhyme melody?

A) London Bridge

B) Three Blind Mice

C) Mulberry Bush

D) Pop Goes the Weasel

Answer · why

C) Mulberry Bush

Mulberry Bush carries the words in the film and in most stage versions: Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush is in the public domain, unlike the Disney ...

Q 04/05

Which Cold War standoff began just three days after Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf opened on Broadway?

A) The Bay of Pigs invasion

B) The Berlin Wall crisis

C) The U-2 spy plane incident

D) The Cuban Missile Crisis

Answer · why

D) The Cuban Missile Crisis

The Cuban Missile Crisis began on 16 October 1962, three days after opening night at the Billy Rose Theatre, so the play's first weeks on Broadway coi...

Q 05/05

What happened after the Pulitzer drama jury chose Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf for the 1963 prize?

A) No award was made

B) The author refused it

C) The award was shared

D) It was later revoked

Answer · why

A) No award was made

No award was made: the advisory board objected to the play's profanity and sexual themes and overruled its own jury. Both jurors resigned in protest.