| Question | Answer |
| Question: When was theater said to have started? | answer: Caveman times
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Question2: What happened in the year 534 B.C.? | Answer: First theater festival
| Question3: What does the word tragos mean? | Answer: "goat song"
| Questions4: What is the skene? | Answer:it is a part of the Greek stage and like a dressing room
| Question5: What was the mekhane used for? | Answer: it is a crane that was used for lowering actors down onto the stage
| Question6: When was the first stone permeate theater built in Rome? | Answer: 55 B.C.
| Question7: Who put a ban on the theater during the Medieval times? | Answer: The (Roman Catholic) Church
| Questions8: Stories about Jesus turning water into wine were considered what type of play? | Answer: Mystery Plays
| Question9:Saint plays were plays based off of legends of who? | Answer: Saints
| Question10: What is a group of people who has the same job as you called? | Answer: Guild
| Question11: What are the two parts of a pageant wagon used for? | Answer: Upper level-stage area, Lower level-dressing room
| Question12: What time period was right after the Medieval Period? | Answer: Renaissance
| Question13: Renaissance means what? | Answer: Rebirth
| Question14: What big improvement to the theater did we get during the Renaissance? | Answer: Colored lighting
| Questions15: Where did Opera originate? | Answer: Italy
| Question16: Christopher Marlow wrote what play? | Answer: Doctor Faustus
| Question17: Ben Jonson wrote the play titled what? | Answer:Everyman in his humor
| Question18: Who is considered to the be the most known play write of all time? | Answer: William Shakespeare
| Question19: What year was William Shakespeare born? | Answer: 1564
| Question20: True or False-William Shakespeare's home town was Stadford-upon-avon? | Answer: True
| Question21: The plague was a deadly infection that swept across England, what was the other name it was known as? | Answer: The Black Death
| Question22: The lost years of Shakespeare are the called the lost years because... | Answer: We do not know what he was doing or what he was up to during that time period
| Question23: What was the name of William Shakespeare's wife? | Answer: Anne Hathaway
| Question24: True or False-William Shakespeare had 3 children? | Answer: True
| Question25: True or False-William Shakespeare's son died at the age of 5? | Answer: false-he died at the age of 11(Hamnet)
| Question26:What is the title of the play of Shakespeare's that is said to be cursed? | Answer: Macbeth
| Question27:The Globe Theater is located where(country and town)? | Answer: London England
| Question28:What year did Shakespeare die? | Answer:161
| Question29: What is unique about the day Shakespeare died? | Answer: He died on his birthday
| Question30: Where do the people who pay the lowest ticket prices sit/stand at the Globe theater? | Answer: the Pit
| Question31:The people who stand in the pit are called what? | Answer: Groundlings
| Question32: True or false-the seating galleries were NOT protected from the rain by a roof? | Answer: False
| Question33: True or False-the inner-above was used for balcony scenes? | Answer: True
| Question34: Zeami Motokiyo created which Asian theater? | Answer: Noh Theater
| Question35: Noh stages have no set pieces on them except the painting of what at the back of the stage? | Answer: a pine tree
| Question36: Which Asian theater type is known for being extremely slow? | Answer:Noh Theater
| Question37: Kabuki theater is known for which technical element? | Answer: its makeup
| Question38: The word Hanamichi(a walk way out into the audience) means what in the Kabuki theater? | Flower path
| Question39: Bunraku is also known as what? | Answer: Japanese doll Theater
| Question40: What are the Bunraku puppets made out of? | Answer: Wood
| Question41: Actors Equity Association was founded in what year? | Answer 1913
| Question42: After World War I, we got the first university course in theater. Before this time, who was in charge of teaching theater? | Answer: the english department, but you only really read the plays
| Question43:Harold Clurman, Stella Adler and Lee Strasuburg created what? | Answer: The Group Theater
| Question44: Who was Konstantin Stanislavsky? | Answer: A Russian Director, creator of the Magic If and Method Acting
| Question45:What is the Magic If? | Answer: An acting technique where the actor asked them selfs if I was this character how I would act
| Question46: Edwin Booth was known for what? | Answer: A romantic actor and being the brother of John Wilkes Booth who killed Abraham Lincoln
| Question47: The play the Hairy Ape was written by who? | Answer: Eugene O'Neil
| Question48: The play "Waiting for Lefty" was written by who? | Answer: Clifford Odets
| Question49: Arthur Miller wrote what play after the Salem Witch Trials? | Answer: The Crucible
| Question50: Arthur Miller was married to what big superstar actress? | Answer Marilyn Monroe
| Question51:Lorraine Hansberry wrote the play called what? | Answer: A Raisin in the Sun
| Question52: What play did Susan Glaspell wright? | Answer: Trifles
| Question53: Into the Woods is a musical in how many acts? | Answer: Two Acts
| Question54: In the musical into the woods, what happens to the Witches powers at the end of Act One? | Answer: she looses them because she traded beauty for power |
