EUGENE IONESCO TRIVIA

1) What year was Eugene Ionesco born?

Choose Your Answer: A: 1889, B: 1909, C: 1929, D: 1949

2) What puppet show captured Ionesco's imagination as a child?

Choose Your Answer: A: Kukla and Ollie, B: Howdy Doody, C: Punch and Judy, D: Ubu Roi

3) What university did Eugene Ionesco attend?

Choose Your Answer: A: University of Lyon, B: University of Paris, C: University of Bucharest, D: Harvard University

4) Who did Eugene Ionesco marry in 1936?

Choose Your Answer: A: Lucia Joyce, B: Rodica Burileanu, C: Bianca Lamblin, D: Flora Tristan

5) What new genre of theatre did Eugene Ionesco help found?

Choose Your Answer: A: Theatre of Revolt, B: Theatre of Cruelty, C: Theatre of the Ridiculous, D: Theatre of the Absurd

6) What dramatic critic launched a famous attack against Eugene Ionesco during the summer of 1958?

Choose Your Answer: A: Thomas Rymer, B: Robert Brustein, C: George Jean Nathan, D: Kenneth Tynan

7) What recurring Everyman character appears in several of Ionesco's plays including Rhinoceros, The Killer, and Exit the King?

Choose Your Answer: A: Jean, B: Ruger, C: Berenger, D: Daisy

8) Ionesco appeared as an actor in the stage adaptation of which Dostoevsky novel?

Choose Your Answer: A: The Possessed, B: Crime and Punishment, C: Notes From the Underground, D: The Brothers Karamazov

9) In which of Ionesco's plays does the protagonist marry a girl with three noses?

Choose Your Answer: A: Jack, or The Submission, B: The Future is in Eggs, C: It Takes All Sorts to Make a World, D: Victims of Duty

10) What was Eugene Ionesco's last play?

Choose Your Answer: A: A Stroll in the Air, B: Exit the King, C: The Killer, D: Journeys Among the Dead

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