Questions

1. Who drew the above picture?
2. What is this kind of drawing called? (Extra Credit: Where did the name come from?)
3. What show is this picture from?
4. What do the "W." and the "S." in "W. S. Gilbert" stand for?
5. Which Gilbert play was briefly banned in England?
6. What was the first G&S collaboration to be performed? What was the last?
7. What was Gilbert's last play, and when was it written? (Hint: It was written the same year as his death.)
8. What does the "S." in "Arthur S. Sullivan" stand for?
9. How old was Sullivan when his first piece was published?
10. What opera did Sullivan write in collaboration with J. Sturgis?
11. What is the second half of the title to...
    • Thespis
    • H. M. S. Pinafore
    • Pirates of Penzance
    • Patience
    • Iolanthe
    • Princess Ida
    • The Mikado
    • Ruddigore
    • The Gondoliers
    • Utopia, Ltd.
    • The Grand Duke
12. What year were the Pennsyngers formed, and by whom?
13. What year marked the beginning of Monty's time with the Pennsyngers?
14. When did the Penn Singers perform their first two-act show, and from what musical did they sing selections?
15. Who changed the name "Pennsyngers" to "Penn Singers" and when?

Answers

1. This was drawn by W. S. Gilbert himself.
2. It is called a Bab Drawing, because that is how Gilbert signed all his art - by using his childhood nickname.
3. H. M. S. Pinafore
4. William Schwenk
5. Gilbert's The Happy Land was banned for portraying caricatures of PM Gladstone and his advisors.
6. The first was Thespis, the last was The Grand Duke.
7. The Hooligan (1911), portrayed a condemned man in a confined cell.
8. Seymour
9. 13 years old
10. Ivanhoe (1891)
11. And the answers are...
    • The Gods Grown Old
    • The Lass Who Loved A Sailor
    • The Slave of Duty
    • Bunthorne's Bride
    • The Peer and the Peri
    • Castle Adamant
    • The Town of Titipu
    • The Witch's Curse
    • The King of Barataria
    • The Flowers of Progress
    • Statuatory Duel
12. In 1957, by Meryl Moss and Edie Herman
13. 1970, when the Pennsyngers performed Monty's "Herodotus Fragments" with the symphony orchestra and the Glee Club.
14. 1972, Jesus Christ Superstar
15. Why, Monty, of course, in 1971.