Operation Mincemeat (musical) - Quiz
  • 1. When was the world tour for Operation Mincemeat announced?
A) May 2025
B) September 2026
C) February 2026
D) May 2023
  • 2. How long was the initial UK stay planned for the world tour?
A) 24 weeks
B) 50 weeks
C) 40 weeks
D) 36 weeks
  • 3. Where did the world tour begin?
A) The Lowry, Salford
B) Providence Performing Arts Center, Rhode Island
C) Comedy Theatre, Melbourne
D) Fortune Theatre, London
  • 4. On what date did the world tour begin?
A) 20 September 2026
B) 12 May 2023
C) 16 February 2026
D) 28 November 2026
  • 5. Which of the following cast members returned from the West End cast for the UK tour?
A) Georgia Hagen
B) Katy Ellis
C) Jamie-Rose Monk
D) Charlotte Hanna-Williams
  • 6. By how many weeks was the UK leg extended in September 2026?
A) 12 weeks
B) 20 weeks
C) 40 weeks
D) 36 weeks
  • 7. Which new cities were added to the UK itinerary in September 2026?
A) Belfast and Dublin
B) Melbourne and Rhode Island
C) Salford and Manchester
D) New York and Boston
  • 8. When did the North American leg open?
A) September 2027
B) 12 May 2023
C) 20 September 2026
D) 16 February 2026
  • 9. Where did the North American leg open?
A) Providence Performing Arts Center, Rhode Island
B) The Lowry, Salford
C) Fortune Theatre, London
D) Comedy Theatre, Melbourne
  • 10. Where will the musical's Australian premiere take place in September 2027?
A) Comedy Theatre in Melbourne
B) Providence Performing Arts Center
C) The Lowry in Salford
D) Fortune Theatre in London
  • 11. How many members make up the principal cast?
A) Four
B) Six
C) Five
D) Seven
  • 12. How are the multiple roles played by the principal cast usually characterized?
A) Puppetry-based
B) Gender-swapped
C) Age-swapped
D) Non-speaking
  • 13. Who is listed as a notable replacement for Ewen Montagu & Others in the West End?
A) Jeff Kready
B) Julia Knitel
C) Jessi Kirtley
D) Emily Barber
  • 14. Who is listed as a notable replacement for Charles Cholmondeley & Others on Broadway?
A) Alex Young
B) Emily Barber
C) Brandon Contreras
D) Jeff Kready
  • 15. Who is listed as a notable replacement for Hester Leggatt & Others on Broadway?
A) Jessi Kirtley
B) Jeff Kready
C) Brandon Contreras
D) Julia Knitel
  • 16. When was the original West End cast recording released?
A) September 2027
B) 16 February 2026
C) 12 May 2023
D) 20 September 2026
  • 17. Which record label released the original West End cast recording?
A) Universal Music
B) Decca Records
C) Sony Music
D) Warner Records
  • 18. Who produced the original West End cast recording?
A) Frank Rizzo
B) Steve Sidwell
C) Greg Evans
D) Tim Bano
  • 19. Which live recording was released from the Fortune Theatre?
A) Jak Malone's 'Dear Bill'
B) Steve Sidwell's overture
C) Ewen Montagu's theme
D) Charlotte Hanna-Williams' solo
  • 20. Who gave the show a five-star review for The Stage?
A) Tim Bano
B) Shania Russell
C) Greg Evans
D) Frank Rizzo
  • 21. What did Tim Bano call the show in his review for The Stage?
A) A triumphant blend of slapstick and farce
B) A brilliant spy thriller, a brilliant comedy, and a brilliant musical
C) An undeniable success of comic madness
D) An irresistible musical farce
  • 22. Who reviewed the show for Variety?
A) Greg Evans
B) Shania Russell
C) Tim Bano
D) Frank Rizzo
  • 23. What did Frank Rizzo applaud the show for in Variety?
A) Brilliant spy thriller elements
B) Slapstick and intricate plotting
C) Comic madness and theatrical joy
D) British boldness and belly laughs
  • 24. What grade did Shania Russell from Entertainment Weekly give the show?
A) Ten out of ten
B) A B plus
C) Five stars
D) An A
  • 25. What did Shania Russell call the show in Entertainment Weekly?
A) An irresistible musical farce
B) A brilliant spy thriller
C) A dull historical drama
D) A triumphant blend of slapstick
  • 26. Who praised the show for being a 'triumphant blend of slapstick, farce, intricate plotting' in Deadline?
A) Frank Rizzo
B) Greg Evans
C) Steve Sidwell
D) Tim Bano
  • 27. What is the name of the musical comedy troupe that created Operation Mincemeat?
A) Monty Python
B) The Reduced Shakespeare Company
C) SpitLip
D) The Mischief Theatre
  • 28. How many Laurence Olivier Award nominations did the show receive?
A) Eight
B) Four
C) Two
D) Six
  • 29. How many Laurence Olivier Awards did Operation Mincemeat win?
A) Four
B) Two
C) Six
D) Zero
  • 30. How many Tony Award nominations did the show garner?
A) Ten
B) Two
C) Six
D) Four
  • 31. Which actor won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical?
A) Malone
B) Montagu
C) Fleming
D) Bevan
  • 32. What real-life historical event is the basis of the musical?
A) The Battle of Britain in 1940
B) A 1943 British deception operation during the Second World War
C) The D-Day landings of 1944
D) The evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940
  • 33. What was the purpose of the 1943 deception operation?
A) To protect British supply lines in the Atlantic
B) To disguise the Allied invasion of Sicily
C) To disguise the Allied invasion of Normandy
D) To fake an attack on mainland Germany
  • 34. Which locations did the Axis powers believe were actually imminent targets due to the operation?
A) Rome or Milan
B) Norway or Denmark
C) France or Belgium
D) Sardinia or Greece
  • 35. In what year does Act I of the musical begin?
A) 1943
B) 1939
C) 1945
D) 1941
  • 36. What is Ewen Montagu's military profession at the start of the show?
A) Naval intelligence officer
B) Army infantry colonel
C) Air Force pilot
D) Royal Marines major
  • 37. Who is the colonel who informs his subordinates about the strategy requirement?
A) Colonel Ian Fleming
B) Colonel Bernard Spilsbury
C) Colonel Charles Cholmondeley
D) Colonel Johnny Bevan
  • 38. Which well-known future author is mentioned as presenting an idea to Bevan alongside Montagu?
A) Arthur Conan Doyle
B) Winston Churchill
C) George Orwell
D) Ian Fleming
  • 39. What is Charles Cholmondeley's hobby or self-described status in addition to being an Air Force officer?
A) Professional novelist
B) Amateur naturalist
C) Expert cryptographer
D) Master counterfeiter
  • 40. Who formulated the strategy code-named 'Operation Mincemeat'?
A) Ian Fleming
B) Ewen Montagu
C) Charles Cholmondeley
D) Johnny Bevan
  • 41. Why does Charles initially feel his plan is doomed after encountering Montagu and his colleagues?
A) He is bullied out of line
B) He loses his written notes in the hallway
C) Colonel Bevan rejects it before he can speak
D) The Germans intercept it early
  • 42. What quality does Montagu realize he has that will help pitch Charles's plan to Bevan?
A) A high military rank
B) A personal friendship with Churchill
C) A natural flair for presentation
D) Access to classified enemy documents
  • 43. Who is Colonel Bevan's secretary?
A) Jean Leslie
B) Bill Martin
C) Hester Leggatt
D) Ivor Montagu
  • 44. Who joins Hester Leggatt's team as a new clerk eager to disrupt sidelined roles for women?
A) HMS Seraph crew
B) Jean Leslie
C) Bernard Spilsbury
D) Ivor Montagu
E) Bill Martin
  • 45. What song accompanies Jean Leslie's desire to rank alongside male officers?
A) The Pitch
B) Dead in the Water
C) Born to Lead
D) All the Ladies
  • 46. How do Montagu and Charles manage to present their plan to Bevan despite Jean trying to stop them?
A) They arrive at the last minute while Jean is bringing Bevan tea
B) They break into Bevan's private office at night
C) They trick Ian Fleming into introducing them
D) They bypass Bevan and go straight to the Prime Minister
  • 47. Who fumbles the presentation of Operation Mincemeat to Colonel Bevan?
A) Hester
B) Jean
C) Montagu
D) Charles
  • 48. Who steps in to explain Operation Mincemeat after Charles fumbles the pitch?
A) Jean
B) Ian Fleming
C) Johnny Bevan
D) Hester
  • 49. Where is the fake dead body supposed to be placed according to the plan?
A) On a beach in Sardinia
B) Off the coast of Sicily
C) In the English Channel
D) Off the coast of neutral Spain
  • 50. Who are the intelligence agents expected to discover the planted documents?
A) Italian resistance fighters
B) Soviet double agents
C) American diplomats
D) Nazi spies
  • 51. What covert assignment does Colonel Bevan give to Hester regarding Montagu?
A) To replace Montagu as head of intelligence
B) To investigate Montagu for suspected contact with his brother Ivor
C) To steal Montagu's personal savings
D) To follow Montagu to Scotland and arrest him
  • 52. Who is suspected to be a spy for the Soviet government?
A) Charles Cholmondeley
B) Bernard Spilsbury
C) Johnny Bevan
D) Ivor Montagu
  • 53. What is the name of the fake Royal Marines major created by the team?
A) Bill Martin
B) Arthur Pendelton
C) George Thompson
D) John Smith
  • 54. How does Hester ensure Bill Martin's identity is watertight?
A) She interviews his fake family members
B) She falsifies numerous identification papers
C) She buys him a real birth certificate from a church
D) She bribes local police officers
  • 55. What file-handling habit of Montagu's does Charles notice and suppress his concerns about?
A) তিনি keeps classified documents in his pocket
B) He shows secret plans to his brother
C) He occasionally misplaces important files
D) He leaves his office door unlocked
  • 56. What is the cause of death of the actual corpse obtained for the operation?
A) A plane crash at sea
B) Ingested rat poison
C) A heart attack during a pub crawl
D) Drowning in the Thames
  • 57. Who helps the team obtain the corpse?
A) Ivor Montagu
B) Ian Fleming
C) Bernard Spilsbury
D) Johnny Bevan
  • 58. What is Bernard Spilsbury's relationship to Montagu?
A) A brother-in-law
B) A morally dubious acquaintance
C) A strict superior officer
D) A lifelong childhood friend
  • 59. Why is Montagu adamant about using this specific corpse despite ethical concerns?
A) He believes it is better if the corpse is a 'nobody'
B) It is the only corpse available in all of London
C) Spilsbury refuses to provide any other body
D) It has the exact physical measurements required
  • 60. What does Colonel Bevan suggest Bill should be carrying after being unimpressed by the spending spree?
A) A letter from his fiancée
B) A secret diary detailing Allied troop numbers
C) A fake passport for neutral countries
D) A map of Berlin
  • 61. How does Bevan react to Charles and Jean's initial efforts at writing the fiancée's letter?
A) He dismisses their questionable efforts
B) He tells them to delete it entirely
C) He praises them for their emotional depth
D) He asks Ian Fleming to rewrite it
  • 62. What personal experience does Hester relate when explaining how to write the letter?
A) Her parents' separation during the Great War
B) Her own story of the lover she lost during World War I
C) Her engagement to a pilot who survived the Blitz
D) Her brief romance with a Spanish spy
  • 63. Where do Montagu and Charles travel at night to load Bill's corpse onto the submarine?
A) Scotland
B) Wales
C) Gibraltar
D) Northern Ireland
  • 64. What is the name of the submarine used to transport Bill's corpse?
A) HMS Conqueror
B) HMS Trident
C) HMS Seraph
D) HMS Invincible
  • 65. What are the crew of the submarine told is inside the sealed canister?
A) Meteorological equipment
B) Emergency rations and medical supplies
C) Encrypted radio transmitters
D) Classified radar blueprints
  • 66. How does Charles feel about the result of the operation just before it is launched?
A) Excited to join the submarine crew
B) Deeply insecure
C) Completely confident and arrogant
D) Indifferent and bored
  • 67. Whom does Charles witness Montagu meeting briefly during their pub crawl?
A) Bernard Spilsbury
B) His brother Ivor
C) Colonel Bevan
D) A Nazi spy
  • 68. How do the crew of the Seraph feel when they open or handle the canister?
A) They refuse to follow their orders
B) They are excited to see a dead body
C) They discover the secret radio transmitter
D) They are unnerved by its contents
  • 69. What do the crew of the Seraph do after placing Bill in the sea?
A) They report Montagu to MI5
B) They search for Nazi spies nearby
C) They thank him for his service
D) They destroy the canister
  • 70. Which song opens the musical with Ewen Montagu welcoming the audience to MI5?
A) The Pitch
B) Dead in the Water
C) Making a Man
D) Born to Lead
  • 71. Which song is performed when Montagu and Charles pitch Operation Mincemeat to Bevan with Jean's help?
A) The Pitch
B) Making a Man
C) Just For Tonight
D) Dear Bill
  • 72. What is the title of the song where Montagu, Jean, and Charles create the persona and background of Bill Martin?
A) Love is a Bird
B) Spilsbury
C) Born to Lead
D) Making a Man
  • 73. Which song features the obtention of the corpse with the help of Bernard Spilsbury?
A) The Pitch
B) Spilsbury
C) Sail On, Boys
D) Dear Bill
  • 74. What is the name of the song where Hester writes the letter from the fake fiancée?
A) All the Ladies
B) Just For Tonight
C) Dear Bill
D) Love is a Bird
  • 75. Which song accompanies the loading of Bill's corpse onto the submarine HMS Seraph?
A) Sail On, Boys
B) Born to Lead
C) Spilsbury
D) Dead in the Water
  • 76. What song is sung during Montagu and Charles's carefree pub crawl in Scotland?
A) The Pitch
B) Making a Man
C) Just For Tonight
D) All the Ladies
  • 77. What song features Charles and Jean attempting to write a letter before Hester takes over?
A) Making a Man
B) Sail On, Boys
C) Love is a Bird
D) The Pitch
  • 78. How does the German army present a display of their apparent dominance in Act II?
A) A formal diplomatic address
B) A high energy boy band performance
C) A massive military parade
D) An aerial dogfight demonstration
  • 79. What is the name of the song performed by the German army in Act II?
A) Der Sieg
B) Das Übermensch
C) Die Macht
D) Das Vaterland
  • 80. What is the title of the song where Bevan updates the team on the progression of Mincemeat?
A) The Situation Room
B) The Progress Report
C) Bad News
D) Bevan's Update
  • 81. Who is the Vice-Consul reporting from Huelva?
A) Ivor
B) Glyndwr Michael
C) Francis Haselden
D) William Martin
  • 82. What is the title of the song about Haselden ensuring the briefcase reaches the authorities?
A) To Berlin
B) Haselden's Success
C) Haselden's Got a Good Feeling
D) The Briefcase Journey
  • 83. What is the title of the song where Hester helps Jean to 'grow'?
A) Growing Up
B) Useful
C) Valuable
D) Behind the Scenes
  • 84. Whose whisper campaign update confirms that German troops are being transferred?
A) Bevan
B) Haselden
C) Montagu
D) Spilsbury
  • 85. Who personally orders the transfer of German troops from Sicily to Sardinia?
A) Adolf Hitler
B) Winston Churchill
C) General Eisenhower
D) Francis Haselden
  • 86. Who was the man known as Bill Martin actually identified as thanks to Montagu's archives?
A) A Spanish spy named Haselden
B) A missing British diplomat named William Watkins
C) An American soldier named William
D) A gardener named Glyndwr Michael
  • 87. What is the title of the grand finale song that summarises the post-war fates of the characters?
A) Final Bow
B) Victory Song
C) A Glitzy Finale
D) The End of the War
  • 88. Who replaced Rory Furey-King for the Southwark Playhouse run in January 2020?
A) Chloe Hart
B) Seán Carey
C) Emily Barber
D) Claire-Marie Hall
  • 89. Why was the May 2020 run at Southwark Playhouse's The Large stage postponed?
A) COVID-19 pandemic
B) The theatre was undergoing renovations
C) Lack of popular demand
D) David Cumming broke his collarbone
  • 90. When did the postponed Southwark Playhouse run eventually begin?
A) 28 April 2022
B) 29 March 2023
C) 23 July 2021
D) 14 January 2020
  • 91. Who temporarily replaced David Cumming during the Riverside Studios run because he broke his collarbone?
A) Seán Carey
B) George Jennings
C) Christian Andrews
D) Jonty Peach
  • 92. When did David Cumming return to the stage after breaking his collarbone?
A) 28 April 2022
B) 23 July 2022
C) 18 June 2022
D) 14 January 2022
  • 93. Who joined the cast as 'Johnny Bevan & Others' in May 2024?
A) Holly Sumpton
B) Claire-Marie Hall
C) Chloe Hart
D) Emily Barber
  • 94. Who joined the cast as 'Jean Leslie & Others' in December 2024?
A) Madeleine Jackson-Smith
B) Chloe Hart
C) Emily Barber
D) Zoë Roberts
  • 95. How many five-star reviews had the West End production received by May 2025?
A) 88
B) 4
C) 18
D) 2027
  • 96. Which venue hosted the final Off-West End run?
A) Fortune Theatre
B) Riverside Studios
C) Southwark Playhouse
D) New Diorama Theatre
  • 97. How many extensions has the West End production reached by the time it is scheduled until February 2027?
A) 18th extension
B) 88th extension
C) 10th extension
D) 4th extension
  • 98. What was the originally slated length of the Broadway run?
A) An open-ended run
B) 12-week limited run
C) 20-week limited run
D) 16-week limited run
  • 99. How were the reviews for the Broadway opening generally described?
A) Generally positive
B) Generally negative
C) Mixed
D) Universally panned
  • 100. Which specific group of people was mentioned in the resonant quote about blindly following orders?
A) Traitors
B) Fascists
C) Nazis
D) Spies
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