Annie Trivia
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This Annie trivia quiz has 49 free questions with answers and covers every version of the red-headed orphan: Harold Gray's 1924 comic strip, the 1977 Broadway musical by Charles Strouse, Martin Charnin and Thomas Meehan, the 1982 John Huston film with Carol Burnett and Aileen Quinn, the 1999 Wonderful World of Disney movie, the 2014 Quvenzhané Wallis remake and NBC's Annie Live! in 2021. Questions cover the plot (Miss Hannigan, Rooster and Lily, Grace Farrell, the locket, the $50,000 reward and FDR's cabinet), the songs, the record Broadway run, the girl who was replaced after a week, the actress who went on to Sex and the City, and the sequels that flopped. It suits theatre kids, school productions and anyone who has been humming 'Tomorrow' since childhood. Every answer was checked against a reference page and each question carries the sentence that supports it.
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Q 01The musical Annie is based on a 1924 comic strip created by which cartoonist?
Harold Gray
Harold Gray first called his strip 'Little Orphan Otto'; the title was changed before its 1924 launch, and he went on drawing Annie until his death in 1968.
Q 02Who wrote the music for Annie?
Charles Strouse
Charles Strouse composed the score. It was his second comic-strip musical: his 1966 Superman show had a short Broadway run, while this one became his biggest hit.
Q 03In Annie, which orphan does Annie comfort after a nightmare in the opening scene?
Molly
Molly, the youngest at six, wakes from a bad dream and Annie soothes her by singing 'Maybe', her own fantasy of the parents she hopes will come back.
Q 04Which Annie song do Miss Hannigan, Rooster and Lily sing?
Easy Street
Easy Street is the trio's daydream of getting rich: Rooster has just worked out how to turn Warbucks's plan to adopt Annie to their own advantage.
Q 05Before Broadway, Annie had its world premiere in 1976 at which Connecticut theatre?
Goodspeed Opera House
The Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam staged the premiere in August 1976; within a week the producers had replaced their first Annie as not tough enough for the part.
Q 06Who became Broadway's original Annie after taking over the title role during the Connecticut try-out?
Andrea McArdle
Andrea McArdle, then playing the orphan Pepper in the Connecticut try-out, replaced Kristen Vigard in the title role and earned a Tony nomination at 13.
Q 07Which future TV star took over the title role in Annie on Broadway in March 1979?
Sarah Jessica Parker
Sarah Jessica Parker began in the small orphan role of July before taking over the title role in March 1979, playing Annie for about a year.
Q 08In Annie, the shanty town is named after which president?
Hoover
Hoover. The residents of the Hooverville, ruined by the Depression, raise a sarcastic toast to him in the song 'We'd Like to Thank You, Herbert Hoover'.
Q 09What is Daddy Warbucks's first name in Annie?
Oliver
Oliver Warbucks had expected the orphan to be a boy and is put out to find a girl in his mansion; 'Daddy' is what Annie comes to call the billionaire who adopts her.
Q 10In the stage musical Annie, Grace Farrell picks an orphan to spend which holiday at Warbucks's mansion?
Christmas
Christmas at the mansion is meant to be a short treat arranged by Grace Farrell, Warbucks's secretary, but by the holiday itself the billionaire has adopted Annie.
Q 11What is the name of the stray dog Annie adopts?
Sandy
She fools a policeman into believing the dog is hers by calling out the name. Sandy was one of the few comic-strip elements Meehan kept.
Q 12In the musical Annie, which agency does Warbucks call in to find Annie's parents?
The FBI
The FBI takes the case and learns that her parents died years ago, which exposes the couple who turn up to claim Warbucks's $50,000 reward as frauds.
Q 13Why does Annie cry when Warbucks offers to replace her broken locket?
It is all her parents left her
It is all her parents left her: they kept the other half of the broken locket, and their note promised they would come back for her.
Q 21Who directed the 1982 film version of Annie?
John Huston
John Huston directed the film at 75; the veteran of The Maltese Falcon and The African Queen had never made a musical before.
Q 22Who played the orphanage keeper in the 1982 film of Annie?
Carol Burnett
Carol Burnett played Miss Hannigan, who gets a change of heart the stage show never gave her: she tries to stop Rooster when he turns murderous.
Q 23Who played Daddy Warbucks in the 1982 film of Annie?
Albert Finney
Albert Finney played Daddy Warbucks; the film dropped the character's stage ballad 'Something Was Missing' and gave its cast new songs written for the screen instead.
Q 14Which US president appears in the musical Annie and is inspired by her optimism?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt and his cabinet join Annie in a reprise of her signature song, and in the show's telling her optimism inspires the New Deal.
Q 15In Annie, who sings 'You're Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile' with the Boylan Sisters?
Bert Healy
Bert Healy, a radio host, sings it on the air while Warbucks is on his show appealing for Annie's parents; back at the orphanage the girls copy the whole routine.
Q 16Which Annie song reuses a tune its composer first wrote for a 1970 short film?
Tomorrow
Tomorrow began as a different song: the composer wrote the tune, with other words, for the short film Replay, then reused the melody in the musical.
Q 17Which song from Annie did Jay-Z sample for a 1998 hit single?
It's the Hard Knock Life
It's the Hard Knock Life supplied the orphans' chorus that Jay-Z looped for 'Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)'; sixteen years later he co-produced the 2014 film of the musical.
Q 18Annie premiered in London's West End in 1978 at which theatre?
Victoria Palace Theatre
The Victoria Palace Theatre hosted the London opening in 1978; Broadway's original Annie crossed the Atlantic to play the first 40 performances before British girls took over.
Q 19The 1997 Broadway revival of Annie, marking its 20th anniversary, cast which singer as the orphanage keeper?
Nell Carter
Nell Carter played Miss Hannigan; the revival's young Annie, who had won the part in a Macy's contest, was fired two weeks before the Broadway opening and replaced by a castmate.
Q 20In the sequel Annie Warbucks, what must Daddy Warbucks do to keep Annie?
Marry
Marry within 60 days: a child-welfare commissioner rules that the newly adopted Annie needs a proper mother, which sends Warbucks on a whirlwind search for a bride.
Q 24Which song was written for the 1982 film of Annie rather than the stage musical?
Let's Go to the Movies
'Let's Go to the Movies' sends Warbucks, Grace and Annie off to Radio City Music Hall; it was written for the film, which dropped the stage number 'N.Y.C.'.
Q 25Where were the Warbucks mansion scenes of the 1982 film Annie shot?
Monmouth University, New Jersey
Monmouth University, New Jersey, lent its Shadow Lawn building in West Long Branch, so a college hall stands in for a billionaire's New York home.
Q 26Who played the title role in the 1982 film of Annie, chosen from thousands of girls?
Aileen Quinn
Aileen Quinn was picked after casting calls in the United States, Canada and Europe, and found herself leading a cast of Hollywood veterans.
Q 27The 1982 film Annie received two Oscar nominations, one for its song score and one for what?
Art Direction
Art Direction was the other nomination; it lost to Gandhi, and the score award went to Victor/Victoria, so the film left empty-handed.
Q 28In the 1982 film Annie, Warbucks's bodyguards are the Asp and which turban-wearing giant?
Punjab
Punjab, played by Geoffrey Holder, rescues Annie from the raised drawbridge in the film's climax; he and the Asp both come from the comic strip.
Q 29The 1999 TV movie of Annie aired as part of which anthology series?
The Wonderful World of Disney
The Wonderful World of Disney aired it on ABC in November 1999; Rob Marshall's version put back stage numbers the 1982 film had cut, such as 'N.Y.C.'.
Q 30Who played the con-artist Rooster in the 1999 TV film of Annie?
Alan Cumming
Alan Cumming played Rooster, who poses as Annie's long-lost father, 'Ralph Mudge', to claim Warbucks's reward, and means to get rid of her once the money is his.