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Wicked Musical Pub Quiz: 12 Trivia Questions
A ready-to-read Wicked quiz for pubs, parties, and theatre nights. Read a question aloud, take guesses, then reveal the answer.
1. What is the name of the green-skinned witch at the center of Wicked?
Answer: Elphaba
Her name is a nod to L. Frank Baum's initials: L.F.B.
2. Who wrote the novel Wicked that inspired the musical?
Answer: Gregory Maguire
3. Which composer and lyricist wrote the score for Wicked?
Answer: Stephen Schwartz
4. What song does Elphaba sing as she rises above the stage on a broom?
Answer: Defying Gravity
5. What is Glinda's full first name in the musical?
Answer: Galinda (she later shortens it to Glinda)
6. In what year did Wicked open on Broadway?
Answer: 2003
7. Which Broadway theatre has been Wicked's long-running New York home?
Answer: The Gershwin Theatre
8. Who originated the role of Elphaba on Broadway?
Answer: Idina Menzel
9. Who originated the role of Glinda on Broadway?
Answer: Kristin Chenoweth
10. What is the name of the talking goat professor at Shiz University?
Answer: Doctor Dillamond
11. Which character becomes the Scarecrow by the end of the story's framing?
Answer: Fiyero
12. What single word opens Elphaba's recurring musical theme about her future, first heard in "The Wizard and I"?
Answer: Unlimited
"Unlimited" is a recurring motif rather than a stand-alone song: it returns in "Defying Gravity" and is inverted as "I'm limited" in "For Good." Composer Stephen Schwartz built the phrase on the first seven notes of "Over the Rainbow" as a hidden nod to The Wizard of Oz.
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