Q.1
Before he became president, Donald Trump praised the musical American Idiot.
True
False
Q.2
Trump was a one-time Broadway producer. Which one of the following plays on Broadway did Donald Trump produce?
The Biggest Thief in Town
The Egotist
The Liar
The Great Campaign
Largely New York
Paris is Out
Q.3
Which member of the Trump Administration was also once a producer of a Broadway show that flopped, entitled Scandalous?
Kellyanne Conway, counselor to the president
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos
Vice President Mike Pence
Attorney General Jeff Sessions
Q.4
Which of the following performers has not portrayed Donald Trump on stage or screen?
Alec Baldwin
Johnny Depp
Jimmy Fallon
Karen Finley
Meryl Streep
Jon Voight
Q.5
All of the following anti-Trump events occurred around the Inauguration and were organized by theater artists. Which took place in theaters in all fifty states—some fifty in New York City alone—and were in effect short street protests with theatrical flare. (Literally: The protesters held lights.)
Concert for America
Ghostlight Project
The Hillary Speeches Concert
Inaugural Ball at HERE
The Resister Project
Q.6
Which Broadway veteran accepted an invitation to perform at Trump’s inauguration and then, after receiving flak, declined the invitation and apologized to her fans “for my lapse of judgment?”
Jennifer Damiano
Jennifer Holliday
Jennifer Hudson
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Jennifer Simard
Barbra Streisand
Q.7
Saturday Night Live spoofed Trump aide Kellyanne Conway’s ambition with a parody of which Broadway musical
Chicago
Little Shop of Horrors
Urinetown
Wicked
Q.8
True or false: The Trump Culture and Performance Center, located in Istanbul, in February staged "The Diary of a Madman”
True
False
Q.9
What happened this year on the Ides of March?
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attended “Come From Away” on Broadway with 600 friends and allies, as well as Ivanka Trump
U.S. President Trump’s budget plan was released, calling for the elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Both
Q.10
Which late night talk show presented Donald the Musical, with Tim Minchin (Matilda composer) on a swing singing “When I grow up, I will be president and build big walls, ban Muslims, play with Putin’s (bleep)”?
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Late Late Show With James Corden
The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon
Late Night With Seth Meyers
Jimmy Kimmel LIve
Nightline
Q.11
The Public Theater’s production of Julius Caesar depicted a Trump-like figure in the title role, which prompted many protests, and led to some corporations canceling their funding. True or false, Shakespeare companies across the country that had no connection to the Public's production were also the target of angry protests.
True
False
Q.12
All 17 members of The President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, including theater director George C. Wolfe and actor John Lloyd Young, resigned in August to protest President Trump’s comments on the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville. True or false, the first letter of each paragraph in their resignation letter spelled out the word RESIST.
True
False
Q.13
Michael Moore debuted on Broadway in “Terms of My Surrender,” opening in August. True or false: After one performance, he took the audience on buses to an anti-Trump demonstration at Trump Tower.
True
False
Q.14
In a Tweet in October that began “While not at all presidential I must point out…” President Donald Trump falsely called a Broadway show a “TOTAL BOMB” that was “forced to close.” Which show was it?
Hamilton
Latin History for Morons
Paris is Out
Springsteen on Broadway
The Terms of My Surrender
Q.15
Whom has Trump NOT called highly overrated?
Hamilton
Meryl Street
Starlight Express
Q.16
What, according to a Trump Tweet in 2014, is his favorite “art form”?
Architecture
Broadway
Calligraphy
Ceramics
Conceptual art
Deals
Q.17
Two of the following three Pulitzer Prize winning playwrights say they wrote, or are planning to write, a play explicitly inspired by Donald Trump. The third says his latest play is not explicitly about Trump, but does speak to the political process. Which is the one whose play is not explicitly about Trump?
Tony Kushner
Tracy Letts
Robert Schenkkan
Q.18
Harold Pinter wrote a play about the president of the United States nuking the world, recently discovered by his widow.
True
False