The Hamilton Quiz

Q.1

Which honor or award has either Lin-Manuel Miranda and/or his musical Hamilton not received? *

Emmy
Grammy
MacArthur “Genius” Award
Olivier Award
Pulitzer Prize
Tony
"World's Greatest Leaders" List from Fortune Magazine
Honorary Knighthood by the Queen of England

Q.2

Where was Lin-Manuel Miranda on vacation when he read historian Ron Chernow’s biography of Alexander Hamilton that inspired Miranda to write about the Founding Father?

England
Hamilton, Bermuda
Hamilton, Canada
Hamilton College
Hamilton, Montana
Hamilton, New York
Mexico
Puerto Rico
Scotland

Q.3

Where did Miranda debut the first song he wrote for what was then called the Hamilton Mixtape?

Ars Nova
Lincoln Center
Powerhouse Theater at Vassar
The White House

Q.4

Before it even opened Off-Broadway at the Public Theater in February, 2015, Hamilton received enthusiastic praise from reigning musical theater composers Stephen Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd Webber

True
False

Q.5

Before it opened on Broadway In August, 2015, a series of conservative politicians and columnists dismissed Hamilton for its non-traditional casting and other issues.

True
False

Q.6

Hamilton opened on Broadway in August, 2015, the first show of the season. Which of the following statements if any was NOT in one or another professional review of the show?

Do whatever you have to do short of grand larceny to score a ticket to Hamilton.
I am loath to tell people to mortgage their houses and lease their children to acquire tickets to a hit Broadway show. But 'Hamilton’…might just about be worth it
It is nothing short of a masterpiece, destined to change Broadway forever
It's all like nothing you've ever heard or seen before.
With 'Hamilton,' Broadway is officially the coolest place on the planet. And the smartest. And most exhilarating.
Does 'Hamilton' live up to all — any — of this hype? And does it need to? From my perspective, the answers are, respectively, a definite no and a solid yes.
All of these statements were in professional reviews
None of these statements were in professional reviews

Q.7

The ten-dollar Founding Father without a father got a lot farther by?

Working a lot harder
Being a lot smarter
Being a self-starter
All of the above
None of the above

Q.8

The song “You’ll Be Back” by King George III gives musical nods to?

Adele
The Beatles
Gilbert and Sullivan
Mozart
Tupac Shakur

Q.9

Which of these Hamilton cast members made their Broadway debut with the show?

Daveed Diggs
Renee Elise Goldsberry
Leslie Odom Jr.
Okieriete Onaodowan
They all did
None were

Q.10

Lin-Manuel Miranda is an avid Tweeter, gaining (as of this writing) more than 400,000 followers. Which hashtag has he not used?

#EduHam
#Force4Ham
#Ham4Ham
#Hamildoc
#Hamiltome
#Hamiltone
#Hamiltunes
#YayHamlet

Q.11

Which Hamilton-related event did not occur in January, 2016?

The first #Ham4Ham digital lottery on January 5 drew more than 50,000 entries for 21 seats, crashing the website.
The producers announced a national tour of Hamilton that would begin in 2017 in San Francisco and Los Angeles.
The director of Hamilton directed Grease Live on TV.
At the raptly attended Hamilton panel discussion at BroadwayCon, the captioner kept on writing “raping” when the performers on stage talked about “rapping.”
A “Crime Scene” column reported on the daily sale of counterfeit Hamilton tickets, ripping off both tourists and New Yorkers alike for hundreds of dollars.
“Hamilton” was affected by the blizzard as much as any other show, with attendance dropping below 100 percent and gross income below a million dollars for the first time since it began performances on Broadway last July.

Q.12

The Hamilton cast recording won a Grammy in February for Best Musical Theater Album. What is not true about its win?

The performance of the opening number from Hamilton marked the first time the Grammy awards show broadcast from a Broadway theater live via satellite.
Hamilton is the first Grammy-winning Broadway cast album to contain rap music
Lin-Manuel Miranda rapped his entire acceptance speech on the air.
Miranda’s speech included mentions of Jeanine Tesori, the composer of Fun Home, and Harnick and Bock, the creators of Fiddler on the Roof.
Cast member Anthony Ramos held aloft a Puerto Rican flag during the speech

Q.13

True or false. There is one scene from the musical that Miranda purposefully left off the cast recording..

True
False

Q.14

Which was not true if any about Lin-Manuel Miranda in March?

President Barack Obama challenged him to a freestyle rap in the Rose Garden of the White House
He met with Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew, whom he had been lobbying to keep Hamilton on the ten-dollar bill. Lew told him “You’re going to be very happy.”
He spoke about gender equality for an hour with the U.N. women’s goodwill ambassador (and Harry Potter actress) Emma Watson.
He wrote an Op-Ed article in the New York Times calling on Congress to help bail out Puerto Rico
He sang bars from Hamilton -- "I do, I do, I do, I do!” -- to accompany a pre-show marriage proposal between two Hamilton theatergoers who had requested a backstage tour.
None of this is true
All of this is true

Q.15

“Hamilton The Revolution,” the book about the musical, was published in April. True or false, the book’s co-author Jeremy McCarter writes that Alexander Hamilton would have admired the musical, which he says doesn’t just dramatize his revolution; it continues it.

True
False

Q.16

The musical’s director Tommy Kail is quoted in the book as saying “The four grandparents of the show are Sweeney Todd, Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita and Gypsy”

True
False

Q.17

In the book, Miranda says that his wife's favorite line is “I’m a trust fund baby, you can trust me." Which character says it?

Aaron Burr
The Marquis de Lafayette
Alexander Hamilton
Thomas Jefferson
King George III

Q.18

Which song does Miranda say in the book is the most “ambitious” in his musical, “and that’s saying a lot”?

Alexander Hamilton
My Shot
The Room Where It Happens
Satisfied
Wait for It

Q.19

In May, Hamilton received 16 Tony Award nominations, reportedly more than any other show in the award’s 70-year history. What show’s record did it break?

Billy Elliot
The Phantom of the Opera
The Producers
Billy Elliot and the Producers
The Producers and Phantom of the Opera

Q.20

First Lady Michelle Obama called Hamilton “the best piece of art in any form that I have ever seen in my life.” *

True
False