Whose Line Is It Anyway?
E.B. White & His Book(s)
Animal Facts
Lost in Adaptation
Important Numbers
100

"A rat is a rat"

What is Charlotte?

100

There are 5 characters depicted on the cover of E.B. White's novel. Name 3

What is Wilbur, Sheep, Goose, Charlotte, Fern? 

100

This full name of the spider character in the play is based on the scientific term for her species, Araneus cavaticus

What is Charlotte A. Cavatica?

100

The playwright of the touring play partnered with Charles Strouse to create this version of Charlotte's Web

What is the musical? 

100

This is how many different phrases get written in the web during the play

What is 4?

200

"A good life is much more important than just having a long life"

What is Wilbur? 

200

Before writing Charlotte's Web, E.B. White found success with this 1945 children's novel

What is Stuart Little? 

200

This animal sometimes lives to be 12 years old. So old!

What is a sheep

200

In 2020, Kasey adapted Charlotte's Web to be a live virtual perfromance for SRT. Name two of the digital platforms used in the process. 

What is YouTube, OBS, Skype, and/or Zoom?

200

This is the number of children Charlotte has

What is 514?

300

"Needless to say, spiders can't write"

The President of the Fair

300

E.B White was inspired to write Charlotte's Web based in his experiences growing up on a farm in this state

What is Maine?

300

Pigs raised for slaughter usually only live 5-7 months. In the play Wilbur is about this many weeks old when he is sold to the Zuckerman's

What is 5 weeks old?

300

Our adaptation of Charlotte's Web was first produced by this theatre in NYC in July 1984.

What is Lincoln Center?

300

This is the number of different characters portrayed on stage in our production

What is 19?

Wilbur(1), Charlotte (2), Narrator (3), Templeton (4), Arable (5), Lurvy (6), Homer (7), Sheep (8), Avery (9), Fern (10), Goose (11), Gander (12), Mrs. Arable (13), Baby Spiders (14), Mr. Carter (15), Uncle (16), President (17), Spectator #1 (18), Spectator #2 (19)

400

"It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer" 

Wilbur

400

E.B. White received numerous awards for his novels. Name one award he received in his lifetime

What is:

  • 1953 Newbery Honor for Charlotte's Web
  • 1960 American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal
  • 1963 Presidential Medal of Freedom
  • 1970 Laura Ingalls Wilder Award
  • 1971 National Medal for Literature
  • 1977 L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award, Letters of E.B. White
  • 1978 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation for Letters[20]
400

Most baby spiders hatch when the weather gets warm, but a few hatch from their eggs during fall or winter. Wilbur watched Charlotte's egg sac all through the winter until they hatched.With this in mind, approximately how much tame passes over the course of the play?

What is 1 year? 

400

In the touring adaptation, we never hear the names of these three characters. In the book their names are Joy, Aranea, and Nellie.

What is the three Baby Spiders who stay?

400

In 2006, a live action movie of Charlotte's Web was released. Name one actor from the film and their character

What is:

Dakota Fanning (Fern), Julia Roberts (Charlotte), Steve Buscemi (Templeton), Oprah (Gussie Goose), Dominic Scott Kay (Wilbur), Robert Redford (Horse), Sam Shepard (Narrator), Cedric the Entertainer (Golly Goose), Reba (Bessie Cow), John Cleese (Sheep), Kathy Bates (Bitsy Cow)

500

"Aren't you that 'radiant' pig who's supposed to be 'terrific'"

Spectator #1

500

E.B. stands for this.

Once E.B. started university at Cornell, he began going by Andy. The first president of Cornell University was named Andrew White, so there was a tradition at the school that all students who also had the last name White got the nickname Andy.

What is Elwyn Brooks?

500

Barn spiders, like Charlotte, can live up to this many years. 

What is 2 years?

500

The 46th president of the U.S. shares this in common with the touring adaptation of Charlotte's Web

What is the name of the playwright! President Biden's full name is Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. 

500

This is the year E.B. White Published the novel Charlotte's Web 

What is 1952?

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