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1
Who is the protagonist in a story?
Never the good guy
The character who gets in the way of the good guy
Always the good guy
The character whose objective the story evolves around
2
What is the nasal cavity?
A hole in your head
The open area in your nose to make sound
A play about dentistry
An oral surgeon
3
What is a run-through?
Post-nasal drip
Turning on the technical instruments
Running into the set and breaking it
Performing the show from beginning to end
4
What are levels?
Actors that are closer or further from the audience
Stages of a game
1st, 2nd, 3rd floor
Different heights on stage
5
What are props?
Something that keeps up the set
What the actors hold on stage
When someone does a good job
A proposition
6
What's a character's objective?
What's in the way of the character
What they want more than anything else during the play
What the character has to gain or lose
To eat pizza
7
What is the diaphragm?
A drawing of the set
A contraceptive
The muscle on your chest you use for singing
The muscle right under the lungs used when talking/singing
8
What is a Critique?
Loving a something
Hating a Musical
Telling what you think of something ( a play or musical)
Loving an actor
9
What is tableau?
A french actor
Actors frozen to create a picture
A french fry
A french woman
10
What is the pharynx?
A bad guy
The throat
A place in Egypt
A character from Dr. Seuss
11
What is a thrust stage?
An inappropriate action on stage
Elvis Presley's first stage appearance
When the stage extends into the audience
A pizza-shaped stage
12
What is a soprano?
The highest female singer
The highest male singer
The lowest male singer
The lowest female singer
13
What is resonating?
Quitting your job
Facing the audience
Speaking clearly
When sound bounces around your throat, nose, and mouth
14
What is tempo?
How hot or cold the actors are
The beat of a song
A short-term job
How fast or slow the song is
15
What is an orchestra pit?
A music venue
The place where the orchestra plays
The place where the orchestra pits
The pit of despair
16
What is the mid curtain (or "mid")?
The curtain in the middle of the audience
The curtain separating the backstage from the set
The middle curtain of the stage
The curtains on the sides of the stage
17
What does Aside mean?
When the actor speaks to the audience without anyone knowing
When the actor messes up
When the actor drops a prop
When the actor is next to someone
18
What are the "legs"?
The wooden posts that hold up the set
What actors use to walk
The curtains on stage left and right, blocking the offstage
"Get-away sticks"
19
What are lyrics?
The music you play on your phone
The karaoke version of a song
Words you sing
Singing with someone else
20
What is a Box set?
A set with a wall on 2 sides
A set with a wall on 5 sides
A set with a wall on 3 sides
A set with a wall on 4 sides
21
What is a cyclorama?
A large white screen at the back of the stage
The black screen at the back of the stage
The yellow screen at the back of the stage
The green screen at the back of the stage
22
What are monologues?
A long script
When a character is talking alone on stage
A short script
When a character is talking to someone else for a long time
23
What is exposition in a story?
The necessary information to understand the story
The resolution of the story
The high point of a story
The end of the story
24
What are tactics?
Little metal things you stick in a wall
What a character does to get what they want
Covert operations
Little bugs that bite
25
What is Articulation?
Sounds mad with props
Sounds made with a gutair
To form sounds with your mouth
Sounds made with your hands
26
What is sheet music?
The paper on the cover of a musical script
The paper with the music notes and lyrics
A thin piece of music
What covers music when it's asleep
27
What is a bass?
The female that sings the lowest
Male that sings the highest?
The male that sings the lowest
A fish
28
What is Denouement?
When the lead actress gets shot
How the story gets solved
When a male in the play dies
When the villain dies
29
What does it mean to hit your mark?
Punch your friend Mark
Run into a set flat
Draw on the back of the set
Walk to where you were supposed to walk
30
What is the pharyngeal cavity?
Your nose
Your mouth
The open area in your throat
A whole in your neck
31
What are stakes?
Something you use to kill a vampire
A poker game
What a character has to lose during a play
Yummy meat
32
What is Given circumstances?
Information that the playwright gives you
Information the lead actress gives you
Information the lighting crew gives you
Information Mr .Mascio gives you
33
What is a dress rehearsal?
The rehearsal where you are dressed
The rehearsal where all props, costumes are tech is tested
The rehearsal where actors are finally memorized
The rehearsal during the run of a show
34
What is the green room?
The tech booth
The place where the director directs
The room where the actors hang out during a play
A room that is always green
35
What does it mean to slate?
To tell the actors to start acting
To tell the stage manager you're ready to act
To give information about yourself before a performance
To cut bread
36
What does when an actor "crosses?"
When an actor makes a religious sign on stage for good luck
To draw a cross backstage
When an actor moves on stage
It's when the actor is mad
37
What is a call back?
A second audition
When you invite someone to come back after the walk away
The back of a set
The first audition
38
What is a stage hand?
When you hit your hand with a hammer while building sets
When your hand turns red from too much acting
People who help on stage
An actor's hand
39
What does it mean to strike the set?
To take down the set
To hit the set
The put holes in the set
To miss all 3 pitches during a play about baseball
40
What does it mean to rehearse?
Looking up lyrics or scripts on your phone
To sit and plan out your performance
To do your performance over and over until it's the best
To memorize the script
41
What is the run of a show?
The actors warming up
The person in charge of the show
From the first night to the last night
How many minutes the play lasts
42
What is a pantomime?
When an actor uses invisible objects
Mr. Mascio's friend from school
What you're stuck in a box
A mime wearing pants
43
What are Flats?
A piece of scenery used as a wall
A type of shoe used on stage
A hat prop
A mat used when actors do tricks
44
What is an alto?
The male that sings the lowest
The female that sings the highest
The female that sings the lowest
The male that sings the highest
45
Who is the antagonist in a story?
The obstacles on a running track
The bad guy
The good guy
The person or thing in the way of the protagonist
46
What does it mean to call for "line?"
To say your lines
To call the playwright on the phone
To ask the stage manager to tell you your line
To sing while tightrope walking
47
What does it mean to spike a set?
Throw a football down onstage
Mark the floor with tape to know where to put the set
The stage dog
Put alcohol on stage
48
What is a matinee?
A very large fish
A fish
A large fish
An afternoon show
49
What is Blocking?
When the actors will act
Where the actors will stand and what they will do
When the actors will say their lines
Where the actors will use props
50
What is vibrato?
A vibration in your throat when you sing
A large opera singer
A special tool for set building
An Italian actor
51
What does it mean to break the 4th wall?
To dance on a wall
To break a set wall
To talk to or make reference to the audience
Take down the set at the end of a play
52
What is the larynx?
Your voice box
A character from Dr. Seuss
A heckler in the audience
The box office
53
What is a tenor?
A boy
A very tiny boy
A small boy
The highest male singer
54
What is stage chemistry?
Chemistry props
Being in love
Making potions on stage
Having a special connection with another actor
55
What does it mean to be Farce?
To be funny just to be funny
To be Fierce
To be scary to thrill the audience
To make the audience cry
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What are obstacles?
What the character has to gain or lose
Anything in a character's way of getting what he/she wants
What a character does to get what he/she wants
Hurdles on a running track
57
What is a lighting plot?
A plan to kill lights
A piece of ground where lights live
A plan on paper where the lights will be hung
A dark stage
58
What does it mean to upstage someone or something on stage?
Dance upstage
Take the attention away from where it's supposed to be
Push them upstage
Block another actor with your body
59
What is a dialect?
The day before Halloween
Lyrics on sheet music
Lines of dialogue
The different way people speak
60
What is a playwright?
The director's right-hand man
The rights to do a play
An author or a book
The person who wrote the play
61
What are stage directions?
The way the stage is facing
When a stage can give you directions
How to get to the stage
Stage right, left, upstage, downstage, etc.
62
Where is the front of house?
Outside of the theater
In the back
Near the stage
Where the audience enters, with bathrooms and box office
63
What is an understudy?
A person who lays under someone else when they study
It's like a bench
A backup for another actor
A podium
64
What is a Fly loft?
The large open area above the stage, used to move lights
The large area above the stage, used to move scenery
Large open area used to move sets
Large open area used to move props
65
What is a melodrama?
A drama that is mellow
Using watermelons in a play
An over-dramatic play with a villain, a hero, and heroin
A drama always directed by a student
66
What is stage presence?
Being read to act
Looking good on stage
Being on stage
Christmas gifts on stage
67
What does it mean to read for a part?
To read while you comb your hair
Ready by yourself
To audition
You are reading a part of the script that has fallen off
68
Who is the cast?
The tech crew
The fixture on a broken leg
The director and playwright
The members of a play
69
What is a cold read?
Reading a script that feels cold to the touch
An old script
Reading the script for the very first time
I brand new script
70
What is pitch?
Talk faster or slower
The highs and lows of the voice
A bad word
Throwing a softball or baseball
71
What does it mean to be off-book?
You're the writer of the play
You are completely memorized
You are no longer standing on a book
You can't read
72
What is the "fourth wall?"
The walls on the set
The Great Wall of China
The pretend wall between the actors and the audience
Mr. Mascio's classroom wall
73
What is subtext?
When you write on your script
A substitute actor
The hidden meaning behind what you say
A play about submarines
74
What is Emotional recall?
When the actress dies
Remembering an emotional event from your past
When the actor cries or screams
When the actor shows happy emotions
75
What are planes?
Vehicles that fly
A Disney movie
When you fly an actor
Strips of areas on stage from front to back
76
What does it mean to enunciate?
Eat food
Speak clearly
Speak loudly
Walk faster
77
What are wings?
Buffalo, chicken, spicy, etc...
The arms of a chicken
The sides of the stage where the audience can't see
What Red Bull gives you
78
What is the oral cavity?
The open space in the front of your mouth
A whole in your tooth
Your nose
A type of toothpaste
79
Where is house left?
Out to dinner
Outside
The left side of the house from the actors point of view
The left side of the house from the audience's point of view
80
What is a soliloquy?
When a character speaks to himself for a long time
A skeleton key
When a character talks to another character for along time
The only person left at the end of the play
81
What are platforms?
A type of duck used on stage
A political play
Pieces of set raised off the stage
Tall shoes
82
What is a Dramaturg?
A dramatic turg
A sold-out show
A cloth used on a set
The person who researches history for a play
83
What is a cue?
Playing billiards on stage
Playing pool on stage
The stick you hit the cue ball with
A signal for something to happen
84
What is a teaser?
The fabric that hides the fly loft above the stage
Someone who says, "oh, you kid!"
The person who cracks joke in the audience
Backstage food
85
What is the tech crew?
The group of people who get a discount to see the play
The people who run the technical aspects of the show
A gang
Friends of the lighting board operator
86
What is a wagon (as far as the set goes)?
A wheelbarrow
A platform on wheels
A horse-drawn contraption
Wells Fargo
87
What is the proscenium?
A professional scene painter
A type of museum
The opening of the stage for the audience to look through
When the stage extends into the audience
