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186 free Wicked trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
50 free Wicked trivia questions with answers. From the green-skinned girl who defied gravity to the pop stars who brought her to the big screen, Wicked has captivated audiences for over two decades. Whether you know every word to "Popular" or just saw the 2024 film, this quiz covers it all — the Broadway original, the blockbuster movie, Gregory Maguire's novel, the iconic songs, and the real stories behind the curtain. How well do you really know the Land of Oz?
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Q 01Which opening-weekend record did Wicked (2024) set?
Largest opening for a film based on a Broadway musical
It was the largest opening for a film based on a Broadway musical, more than tripling the mark Into the Woods had held for a decade and outrunning early tracking that had pointed to $85 million at most.
Q 02At which London theatre did Wicked open in the West End in 2006?
Apollo Victoria Theatre
The Apollo Victoria Theatre has housed Wicked since September 2006, and the small changes to dialogue, choreography and effects made for London were later adopted by the Broadway production and the US tours.
Q 03What is the title of the 2005 second book in The Wicked Years novel series?
Son of a Witch
Son of a Witch follows Elphaba's son as he grows up, and Maguire dedicated it to the cast of the Broadway musical that his first Oz novel had inspired.
Q 04In which city did Wicked have its pre-Broadway tryout in 2003?
San Francisco
San Francisco hosted the tryout in mid-2003; Stephen Schwartz then insisted on three months of rewrites before New York, time that book writer Winnie Holzman said made the show work.
Q 05Which song from the 1972 musical Pippin was written by the composer who later wrote Wicked?
Corner of the Sky
'Corner of the Sky' is Pippin's song about searching for his purpose, and it escaped the theatre at once: the Jackson 5 released their own version as a single in October 1972.
Q 06Which New Kids on the Block singer played Fiyero in Wicked on Broadway in 2004?
Joey McIntyre
Joey McIntyre, the youngest New Kid, made his Broadway debut as Fiyero, stepping in when the role's originator left to try out a new musical, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
Q 07What is the Grimmerie in Wicked?
A spell book
The Grimmerie is a spell book that only a gifted sorcerer can read: the Wizard cannot make sense of it himself, which is why he needs Elphaba, who reads it at first sight.
Q 08Which Harry Potter actress was London's first Madame Morrible in Wicked in 2006?
Miriam Margolyes
Miriam Margolyes, Professor Sprout in the Harry Potter films, opened the West End production as Madame Morrible and then crossed the Atlantic to play the part on Broadway in 2008.
Q 09Which solo does Elphaba sing after Madame Morrible singles her out for special treatment at Shiz?
The Wizard and I
In 'The Wizard and I' Elphaba pictures all of Oz one day holding a celebration that is all to do with her; the audience already knows what that celebration will really be for.
Q 10Who plays Madame Morrible in the 2024 Wicked movie?
Michelle Yeoh
Michelle Yeoh was announced in 2022 as Shiz's headmistress, Morrible's job on stage, but the films hand that post to a new character and make Morrible a dean instead.
Q 11The 2024 Wicked movie covers roughly which portion of the stage musical?
Act One only
The film covers Act One only: Jon M. Chu split the story in two because squeezing it into one movie meant 'doing some real damage to it', so the first part stops where theatre audiences take their interval.
Q 12Why does Elphaba return to the Emerald City in Act Two of Wicked?
To free the Wizard's monkey servants
To free the Wizard's monkey servants: he catches her at it, lets them go of his own accord, and very nearly talks her into joining him.
Q 13Who directed the original Broadway production of Wicked?
Joe Mantello
Q 21How are Elphaba and Glinda first thrown together at Shiz University?
They are made roommates
They are made roommates when Madame Morrible puts the popular newcomer in with Elphaba, and the pair take an instant dislike to each other that slowly turns into the story's central friendship.
Q 22Which ballad does Elphaba sing alone, sure that Fiyero has chosen Glinda instead of her?
I'm Not That Girl
'I'm Not That Girl' is Elphaba's quiet lament in Act One; in Act Two the tables turn, and it is Glinda who sings the reprise when Fiyero leaves her for Elphaba.
Q 23What happens to Fiyero at the end of Wicked?
Joe Mantello did win a directing Tony on the night Wicked lost Best Musical, but for another show entirely: a Sondheim revival that was the ceremony's biggest winner.
Q 14Which number opens Wicked, sung by Glinda and the citizens of Oz?
No One Mourns the Wicked
'No One Mourns the Wicked' opens the show with Ozians celebrating the Witch's death; Glinda arrives mid-celebration and launches the flashback that makes up the rest of the show.
Q 15In Gregory Maguire's novel, what becomes of Dr. Dillamond, who is dismissed in the musical?
He is murdered
He is murdered: the 1995 novel is far darker than the show, and the killing of her favourite professor is what first gives its Elphaba a cause to fight for.
Q 16What does Elphaba realise about the Wizard that turns her against him in Act One?
He is silencing Oz's Animals
He is silencing Oz's Animals: Elphaba had promised a persecuted professor that this very man would put things right, and she flees rather than serve him.
Q 17What accident cut short Idina Menzel's Broadway run as Elphaba in January 2005?
She fell through a trap door
She fell through a trap door during the melting scene the day before her farewell and cracked a rib, so her standby played Elphaba at what should have been Menzel's last show.
Q 18Who plays the Wizard in the 2024 Wicked movie?
Jeff Goldblum
Jeff Goldblum sings the Wizard's song himself, which is less of a stretch than it sounds: away from acting he has long led his own jazz band, the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra, from the piano.
Q 19In the Wicked musical, which character does Boq eventually become?
The Tin Man
Boq, a Munchkin student hopelessly in love with Glinda, ends up as the Tin Man: after Nessarose's botched spell, Elphaba has no way to save his life except by turning him to tin.
Q 20In which Act Two solo does Elphaba, believing Fiyero dead, finally accept the name Wicked Witch?
No Good Deed
'No Good Deed' follows her desperate spell to save Fiyero: sure that every kindness of hers has ended in disaster, Elphaba swears off doing good, never knowing the spell has in fact worked.
He becomes the Scarecrow
He becomes the Scarecrow: Elphaba's spell to save him from the Wizard's guards transforms him, and the pair slip out of Oz together after she fakes her own melting.
Q 24Wicked lost Best Musical at the 2004 Tony Awards, but which of these prizes did it win?
Best Scenic Design
Best Scenic Design went to Eugene Lee's clockwork Oz, one of only three wins from ten nominations; the score, the book and the top prize all went to the same small rival show.
Q 25Which musical famously beat Wicked for Best Musical at the 2004 Tony Awards?
Avenue Q
Avenue Q, a small puppet comedy, ran a cheeky election-style campaign urging Tony voters to 'vote your heart', and went home with Best Musical, Best Book and Best Score.
Q 26The films' Fiyero, Jonathan Bailey, is best known on television for which period drama?
Bridgerton
Bridgerton made him a star as Anthony, the eldest sibling, but Bailey was a musical-theatre hand long before the films: he won an Olivier Award in 2019 for the West End revival of Company.
Q 27What is Fiyero when he first arrives at Shiz University?
A prince
A prince: the rebellious transfer student sweeps Glinda off her feet the day he arrives, yet by Act Two he is the one who gives up everything to run away with Elphaba.
Q 28Which other stage-to-screen musical did Wicked director Jon M. Chu make in 2021?
In the Heights
In the Heights was Chu's first Broadway adaptation; he had come to screen musicals through dance, having started out directing two of the Step Up sequels.
Q 29What is the duet that Elphaba and Glinda sing about their mutual dislike when they first meet?
What Is This Feeling?
'What Is This Feeling?' has the pair name their instant, mutual loathing while the whole student body joins in; one party later, the sworn enemies are firm friends.
Q 30Which love duet do Elphaba and Fiyero sing in their forest hideout in Act Two?
As Long as You're Mine
'As Long as You're Mine' is built on the same brooding chords that open the whole show as a menacing overture, recast here on piano as a love song.