Gilbert or Sullivan
This is Sullivan's middle name that leaves him unfortunate initials.
What is Seymour?
This opera company is inseparable from the Savoy Operas.
What is the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company?
This fictional character carried his local production of The Pirates of Penzance at the Quahog Community Theatre.
Who is Peter Griffin?
This popular Savoy opera premiered in 1878, only one year before the Pirates of Penzance.
What is H.M.S. Pinafore?
This children's program once had an asparagus sing the Modern Major General's signature tune.
What is Veggietales?
This is Gilbert's uncommon middle name.
What is Schwenk?
This Savoy Opera ran for almost 700 performances.
What is The Mikado?
The Pirates of Penzance premiered first in this city.
What is New York City?
The overture to the Pirates of Penzance is in this style that features the opera's tunes one after another.
What is a potpourri?
The Modern Major General and the Pirates misunderstand each other and conflate these two words.
What are orphan and often?
What is a carpet?
The Savoy Theatre was the first theater in London to use this technological innovation throughout its building.
What is electricity/electric lighting?
The Pirates of Penzance is set in this region of England.
What is Cornwall?
Frederic is this kind of servant.
What is indentured?
These Dreamworks characters once sang the Modern Major General's signature tune.
Who are the Minions?
Sullivan based his chorus of policeman on first-hand experience from when he had worked in this occupation.
What is a church musician/director/organist?
This "operatic extravaganza" about Gods grown old was the first G&S collaboration.
What is Thespis?
The Modern Major General can tell you all the details of this person's uniform.
Who is Caractacus?
The female chorus are the Modern Major General's wards in this, no longer existing, government program.
What is chancery?
In difficult situations, it's good to have this title of the sixth Savoy Opera.
What is Patience?
Gilbert was knighted by this British monarch.
Who is Edward VII?
This person, with family ties, was the first principal comedian of the Gilbert and Sullivan collaborations.
Who is Fred Sullivan/Arthur Sullivan's brother?
Gilbert made sure that the Modern Major General's costume included this distinctive feature of Field Marshal Garnet Joseph Wolseley, the person on whom the character is based.
What is his large moustache?
The Modern Major General can quote all the crimes of this person in this form of poetry.
Who is Heliogabalus and what are elegiacs?
Gilbert died, herocially, at age 74 by this means.
What is drowning?