Sub-Categories: Arthur Miller Trivia, Christopher Durang Trivia, David Mamet Trivia, Edward Albee Trivia, Eugene Ionesco Trivia, Eugene O'Neill Trivia, Luigi Pirandello Trivia, Neil Simon Trivia, Sam Shepard Trivia, Tennessee Williams Trivia, William Shakespeare Trivia

General Playwrights Trivia Questions:

1) What playwright won three Pulitzer Prizes during the 1920s?

Choose Your Answer: A: Zona Gale, B: Maxwell Anderson, C: Eugene O'Neill, D: Arthur Miller

2) What playwright did not write his first play until the age of 40?

Choose Your Answer: A: Sam Shepard, B: Eugene Ionesco, C: Bertolt Brecht, D: David Mamet

3) What playwright wrote Accidental Death of an Anarchist?

Choose Your Answer: A: Luigi Pirandello, B: Harold Pinter, C: Peter Weiss, D: Dario Fo

4) Which of Arthur Miller's plays won him the Pulitzer Prize?

Choose Your Answer: A: The Crucible, B: Death of a Salesman, C: A View from the Bridge, D: All My Sons

5) What playwright served two years in jail for "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons"?

Choose Your Answer: A: Tennessee Williams, B: Oscar Wilde, C: William Inge, D: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

6) Who is the only writer of "Old Comedy" whose works are still extant today?

Choose Your Answer: A: Aristophanes, B: Plautus, C: Menander, D: Moliere

7) What was Anton Chekhov's first full-length play?

Choose Your Answer: A: Uncle Vanya, B: The Seagull, C: The Cherry Orchard, D: Ivanov

8) What playwright shared a room with fellow dramatist Christopher Marlowe?

Choose Your Answer: A: Ben Jonson, B: John Lyly, C: Thomas Kyd, D: William Shakespeare

9) What playwright wrote Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead?

Choose Your Answer: A: Caryl Churchill, B: David Hare, C: Tom Stoppard, D: Samuel Beckett

10) Whath play contains the characters Vladimir and Estragon?

Choose Your Answer: A: The Cherry Orchard, B: The Inspector General, C: Six Characters in Search of an Author, D: Waiting for Godot