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Christmas Broadway Pub Quiz: 12 Trivia Questions
A ready-to-read Christmas Broadway quiz for pubs, parties, and theatre nights. Read a question aloud, take guesses, then reveal the answer.
1. Which 2003 Will Ferrell film was adapted into a Broadway musical that opened at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre?
Answer: Elf
2. Who wrote the music for Elf the Musical?
Answer: Matthew Sklar
Chad Beguelin wrote the lyrics.
3. What green character is the title role in a holiday musical that has toured nationally and played limited Broadway runs?
Answer: The Grinch
4. Which San Diego theatre first developed the stage musical How the Grinch Stole Christmas! before it became a holiday touring staple?
Answer: The Old Globe
5. Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol was first published in what year?
Answer: 1843
6. Which Christmas ballet, often staged at Lincoln Center, is a New York holiday tradition closely tied to George Balanchine?
Answer: The Nutcracker
7. Who composed the iconic ballet score for The Nutcracker?
Answer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
8. Irving Berlin's White Christmas, the stage musical based on the 1954 film, features soldiers reuniting at what type of business in Vermont?
Answer: An inn
The Columbia Inn in Pine Tree, Vermont.
9. In Elf the Musical, what is the name of Buddy's love interest?
Answer: Jovie
10. Radio City's annual holiday show starring the Rockettes is officially called what?
Answer: The Christmas Spectacular
11. Which actor played Ebenezer Scrooge in the 2019 Broadway adaptation of A Christmas Carol at the Lyceum Theatre?
Answer: Campbell Scott
12. In How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical, what is the name of the Grinch's dog?
Answer: Max
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