Here is quiz with questions of a general nature to get us started...
1. Whose father was a Wesleyan Methodist of the most bigoted and persecuting type?
The King of Utopia
The King of Barataria
The Duke of Pfennig-Halbfennig
The Duke of Dunstable
2. Give the years of birth of Gilbert and Sullivan..
1836 and 1842
1842 and 1853
1839 and 1840
1840 and 1847
3. One female declares ‘grief is joy in masquerade’. Name the song and the opera.
‘I rejoice that it's decided’ (Act 2: The Sorcerer)
‘Sorry her lot that loves too well’ (Act 1: HMS Pinafore
‘The sun whose rays are all ablaze’ (Act 2: The Mikado)
‘When a merry maiden marries’ (Act I: The Gondoliers)
4. Supply the first line of the Sentry's song in ‘Iolanthe’
“Let all our doubts take wing”
“When you find you're a broken-down critter”
“When all night long a chap remains”
“My name is John Wellington Wells”
5. Who sings of “sermons of mystical Germans”?
Reginald Bunthorne
The Mikado of Japan
Sir Marmaduke Pointdextre
Dr Daly
6. Who was “very susceptible”?
The Lord Chancellor
The Wicked Baronet of Ruddigore
The Mikado of Japan
Colonel Calverley
7. “And everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man
And I can't think why.”
Who says this?
King Hildebrand
King Gama
King Paramount
The Pirate King
8. “She may very well pass for forty three in the dusk with the light behind her”.
Which female is this?
The Mikado's Daughter-in-law-Elect
Mabel Stanley
The Rich Attorney's elderly ugly daughter
Lady Jane
9. Who is described as “very knowing, overflowing, easy-going”?
The Duke of Dunstable
The Duke of Pfennig-Halbfennig
The Duke of Plaza-Toro
The Vicar of Ploverleigh
10. Name two comic characters who complain of sleeplessness.
The Lord Chancellor and KoKo
The Lord Chancellor and Reginald Bunthorne
The Lord Chancellor and the Duke of Plaza-Toro
The Lord Chancellor and Major-General Stanley
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