Harrison Ford
Riddle Me, Miss
Broadway Musicals
Presidents
Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel
100

This is the ordinal number describing when Han Solo shot his blaster in the original Star Wars cantina scene.

What is first?

100

The person making it doesn’t want it; the person buying it doesn’t need it; the person using it doesn’t know.

What is a coffin?

100

Cats opened in 1982, and at the time of its closing in 2000, was the longest-running show in Broadway history, until this show took the lead in 2006.

What is The Phantom of the Opera?

100

In his second term, President Theodore Roosevelt oversaw the completion of a construction project in this transcontinental country.

What is Panama?

100

Mike Mulligan boasts that he and his steam shovel, Mary Anne, can dig as much in a day as this many men can dig in a week.

What is 100?

200

This 1980s movie scored Ford his only Oscar nomination to date.

What is Witness?

200

Only useful when full, but always full of holes.

What is a sponge?
200

In 2016, Hamilton became the tenth musical to win the Pulitzer Prize for drama, joining the ranks of Rent, Sunday in the Park With George, and Rodgers & Hammerstein classic.

What is South Pacific?

200

This was the first sitting president to visit India.

Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?

200

Virginia Lee Burton’s classic story of adapting to new and difficult working conditions was inspired by this major worldwide event.

What is the Great Depression?

300

Ford and his wife, Calista Flockhart, own an 800-acre farm in this U.S. state.

What is Wyoming?

300

The more you take, the more you leave behind.

What are footsteps?

300

This prolific Disney Animated Film composer is the most recent person to complete the EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony) – and the world will know!

Who is Alan Menken?

300

This president was killed by a Bulldog Revolver.

Who is James Garfield?

300

These are the names of the three energy sources that threaten to replace steam as the best way to power a shovel.

What are gasoline, electricity, and diesel?

400

Near the end of one his films, the script originally had Ford responding to another character by saying, “Just remember that, ‘cause I’ll be back” – but instead, he said this.

What is "I know"?

400

Comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years.

What is the letter "m"?

400

The name of the eponymous nightclub from Cabaret.

What is the Kit Kat Klub?

400

Only three presidents have had Irish ancestry: John F. Kennedy, Joe Biden, and this man.

Who is Ronald Reagan?

400

Our dynamic duo find redemption in the town of Popperville, where the town selectmen are planning on building this.

What is a town hall?

500

Alec Baldwin, Nick Nolte, Kevin Coster, and Michael Douglas were considered for this “runaway” role before it went to Ford.

What is Dr. Richard Kimble?

500

The highest mountain on earth before Mount Everest was discovered.

What is Mount Everest? (Ha! Trick question!)

500

From the stage to the screen, Sound of Music co-stars Mary Martin and Theodore Bikel were replaced, respectively, by Julie Andrews and this actor.

Who is Christopher Plummer?

500

In 1794, President George Washington appointed future president John Quincy Adams as ambassador to this country.

What is the Netherlands?

500

The three actions described that can be executed by one lever of a steam shovel are “Crowd,” “Hoist,” and this.

What is "Swing"?