an area where actors perform; usually it is an elevated area
What is a stage?
100
These are the two regions of the world we have covered in Theatre History.
What are Greece and Rome?
100
OJ Gude referred to Broadway as this.
What is The Great White Way?
100
This is a modern example of a guild for Screen Actors. Getting this answer wrong will result in an additional 100 point loss for your team. Seriously.
What is The Screen Actor's Guild?
100
This is the only continent that does not have any reptiles or snakes.
What is Antarctica?
200
the big drapes that separate the audience from the stage
What is the Grand Drape?
200
He was considered the first actor.
Who is Thespis?
200
The Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria.
Where did the first Tony Awards take place?
200
Because people were illiterate and theatre was outlawed.
Why is this period called The Dark Ages?
200
If you were to spell out numbers, this is how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A".
What is One Thousand?
300
four-sided, box-like stage, with the front side left open for the audience to view
What is a Proscenium Stage?
300
He said "Act well your part; there all the honor lies."
Who is Alexander Pope?
300
This was Broadway's first musical.
What is Showboat?
300
This was a major issue the church encountered during this time.
What is people were unable to read, and therefore could not read the teachings of the church.
300
This is the only muscle in the human body that’s only attached at one end.
What is the tongue?
400
The area located furthest from the audience, that is still in view.
What is upstage?
400
This is the century in which Greek Theatre started.
What is 6th century B.C.?
400
This is where Broadway/Theatre District is currently located.
What is Times Square?
400
This is the first place that churches allowed church-sanctioned plays to take place.
What is at the church?
400
This is the most widely spoken native language in the world?
What is Mandarin Chinese?
500
9 to 15 divisions of the stage floor. Directors use these when moving actors or placing props
What are acting areas?
500
This word is greek for Tragedy.
What is Tragos?
500
He wrote the play Les Miserables.
Who is Victor Hugo?
500
Your time is either really brave or really desperate for points to have chosen a 500 point question in Dark Ages trivia. In either case, you deserve the points. Here you go.
Seriously.
500
Montpelier, VT is the only U.S. state capital city to not have one of these.