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59 free High School Musical trivia questions with answers. Get'cha head in the game: this High School Musical trivia quiz covers the whole Wildcats saga. It starts with the 2006 Disney Channel original, moves through the record-breaking Lava Springs summer of High School Musical 2 and the cinema release of Senior Year, then keeps going into Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure, the concert and ice tours, and High School Musical: The Musical: The Series with Olivia Rodrigo. Expect questions on plot points, song titles, cast members and behind-the-scenes facts such as who really sang Troy's parts, whose dog played Boi, and how much Utah paid to keep the third film in Salt Lake City. Around a third are easy enough for anyone who has seen the films once, and the hardest will test lifelong fans. Every answer has been checked against a reference page and the source sentence appears under each question, so you can settle debates on the spot.
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Q 01Who directed and choreographed all three High School Musical films?
Kenny Ortega
He had earlier choreographed Dirty Dancing and Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
Q 02Which Shakespeare play have the writer and many critics called the first film a modern adaptation of?
Romeo and Juliet
Screenwriter Peter Barsocchini got the idea from a high-school basketball teammate who secretly wanted to be a ballet dancer.
Q 03Where do Troy and Gabriella first meet, singing a karaoke duet on New Year's Eve?
A ski lodge
The song is 'Start of Something New', and the lodge is in Utah, where the films were shot.
Q 04The Wildcats' fictional New Mexico school is called ___ High School. Fill in the blank.
East
The fictional school is in New Mexico, but filming took place at a real school of the same name in Salt Lake City.
Q 05In which US state was High School Musical actually filmed?
Utah
The real East High in Salt Lake City became a tourist stop, drawing 40 to 50 visitors a day in the summer of 2007.
Q 06Which academic team does Gabriella join at East High?
Scholastic decathlon
Taylor McKessie captains the team and recruits her after Sharpay leaks Gabriella's academic record.
Q 07Which student composes the school musical's songs and gets Troy and Gabriella their callback?
Kelsi Nielsen
She is described as an underappreciated pianist who is initially shy and subservient to Sharpay.
Q 08What two things does drama teacher Ms. Darbus famously dislike?
Sports and cell phones
She is played by Alyson Reed in all three films.
Q 09Who provided most of Troy's singing voice in the first High School Musical, since Zac Efron is a baritone?
Drew Seeley
Efron did sing the first and last lines of 'Start of Something New' and the opening of 'Breaking Free', and he sang everything himself in the sequel.
Q 10Which song do students sing in the cafeteria as they confess secret passions like baking and hip-hop?
Stick to the Status Quo
Zeke Baylor's secret is baking; he later promises Sharpay a crème brûlée in the post-credits scene.
Q 11Which song do Sharpay and Ryan perform at their callback audition?
Bop to the Top
Their uptempo take on 'What I've Been Looking For' was their first audition; Troy and Gabriella sing the ballad version.
Q 12How do the basketball and decathlon teams free Troy and Gabriella to reach the callback in time?
Kill the gym lights and stage a chem-lab spill
Sharpay had persuaded Ms. Darbus to schedule the callbacks against the championship game and the decathlon.
Q 13What does Zeke give Sharpay in the post-credits scene of the first film?
A bag of cookies
Q 21Where do the Wildcats take summer jobs in High School Musical 2?
A country club
The Evans family's club is called Lava Springs, and its exteriors were shot at Entrada at Snow Canyon in Utah.
Q 22What is the name of the Evans family's resort in High School Musical 2?
Lava Springs
Sharpay orders the manager, Mr. Fulton, to hire Troy, who insists his friends be hired too.
Q 23Which song opens High School Musical 2 as the students count down to summer vacation?
What Time Is It?
It reached number six on the Billboard Hot 100 as the sequel's lead single.
He promises a crème brûlée next; Chris Warren Jr. plays the basketball player who loves to bake.
Q 14Roughly how many US viewers watched the first High School Musical's premiere broadcast?
7.7 million
By 2019 more than 225 million unique viewers worldwide were calculated to have watched it.
Q 15Which lead single from the first film peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100?
Breaking Free
In its second week it leapt from number 86 to number 4, the largest single-week climb in the chart's history up to that point.
Q 16In-universe, the school musical Kelsi writes for the first film is called what?
Twinkle Towne
'Breaking Free' is the duet she wrote for its second act.
Q 17How many copies did the High School Musical DVD sell in six days, a record for a TV film?
1.2 million
It went on sale on May 23, 2006 as the 'Encore Edition' and had sold eight million units by 2010.
Q 18High School Musical was the first feature-length video sold on which digital service, in March 2006?
iTunes
It was a 320x240 download for $9.99, after briefly being mislisted at $1.99.
Q 19Which Disney Channel show's musical episode did Gary Marsh credit for High School Musical getting made?
Even Stevens
That's So Raven followed with its own musical episode, and The Cheetah Girls (2003) is counted as the network's first musical film.
Q 20Roughly how much did the first High School Musical cost to make?
$4.2 million
Its success let Disney Channel raise budgets for later 'tentpole' TV movies.
Q 24Which song does Gabriella sing as she quits her summer job and leaves Troy in High School Musical 2?
Gotta Go My Own Way
Troy answers with 'Bet on It', a number Entertainment Weekly called a 'terrific crisis-of-conscience number'.
Q 25Which song do Ryan and the Wildcats perform during the staff baseball game in High School Musical 2?
I Don't Dance
Gabriella invites Ryan to the game after Sharpay cuts him out of her talent-show act.
Q 26Which song does Ryan hand Troy moments before the talent show, which Troy then sings with Gabriella?
Everyday
Sharpay ends up presenting her brother with the talent-show award.
Q 27Which Disney star makes a cameo as a pool-party guest at the end of High School Musical 2?
Miley Cyrus
Sharpay's Yorkshire terrier Boi is played by a real dog named Manly.
Q 28Whose pet plays Sharpay's Yorkshire terrier, Boi?
Kenny Ortega's
The dog, Manly 'Little Pickles' Ortega, reprised the role in the third film.
Q 29How many US viewers watched the premiere of High School Musical 2, then a record for basic cable?
17.2 million
The previous basic-cable record was an ESPN Monday Night Football game between the Giants and Cowboys.
Q 30Which animated series, with Ashley Tisdale's voice, previewed after High School Musical 2?
Phineas and Ferb
Tisdale voices Candace Flynn in the show.