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1.	The opening scene of Amadeus features:
		Mozart’s death
		Salieri’s suicide attempt
		Mozart as a child playing for the Pope
		Salieri’s confession

2.	The music that plays as Salieri is taken to the hospital is from which of his symphonies?
		Symphony No. 25
		Symphony No. 28
		Symphony No. 29
		Symphony No. 33

3.	Father Vogler, hospital chaplain, visits Salieri. After Vogler cannot identify any of Salieri’s tunes, Salieri plays the start of which movement of Eine kleine Nachtmusik?
		Allegro
		Romanze
		Menuetto
		Rondo

4.	Young Salieri prayed to God to make him a great composer. He offered all of the following except:
		his industry
		his fidelity
		his humility
		his chastity

5.	And what miracle does Salieri believe God provided?
		his being sent to study in Vienna
		a chance meeting with the greatest composter of the time, Christoph Gluck
		the death of his father
		a visit from an archbishop with a taste for young men

6.	Salieri becomes court composer to the Holy Roman Emperor Josef II, played by:
		William Atherton
		James Spader
		Paul Reiser
		Jeffrey Jones

7.	Salieri is shocked to discover the giggling dirty-minded creature he’s seen crawling on the floor was none other than Mozart. Mozart jokingly proposes marriage to Constanze by speaking in:
		backwards talk
		spoonerisms
		rhyming slang
		Pig Latin

8.	Emperor Joseph commissions Mozart to write an opera. Why is Mozart’s suggestion controversial?
		it is sung in Turkish
		it insults the Church
		it is set in a harem
		it encourages the masses to rise up against their monarch

9.	Mozart conducts his opera The Abduction from the Seraglio. What colour wig is he wearing?
		yellow
		orange
		blue
		pink

10.	What’s the Emperor’s complaint about the opera?
		it is sung in German
		the singer is too fat
		everyone was singing at once, and he couldn’t follow
		there are too many notes

11.	Who interrupts Mozart’s discussion with the Emperor about the opera?
		his fiancée, Constanze
		the opera director, Count Orsini-Rosenberg
		the first Kapellmeister, Giuseppe Bonno
		his landlady, Frau Weber

12.	Constanze comes to Salieri to seek his assistance for Mozart. What treat does he offer her?
		Milady’s Treasures
		Fig Candies
		Nipples of Venus
		Viennese Oysters

13.	“From now on, we are enemies you and I.” Who is Salieri talking to?
		Mozart
		the Emperor
		Constanze
		God

14.	Mozart’s father has come to stay. His entrance later inspires Mozart in which opera?
		The Clemency of Titus
		Don Giovanni
		The Magic Flute
		Zaide

15.	The Mozart family go out to a party. Mozart wears a hat shaped like the head of a:
		dragon
		faun
		unicorn
		lion

16.	Salieri hires Lorl to be Mozart’s maid. Which actress plays Lorl?
		Sarah Jessica Parker
		Kristin Davis
		Cynthia Nixon
		Kim Cattrall

17.	Mozart is writing another opera – this one is based on a play that has been banned by the Emperor. Name the opera
		Cosi fan Tutte
		The Marriage of Figaro
		The Deluded Bridegroom
		The Shepherd King

18.	Aside from plays about class oppression, what else has His Majesty expressly forbidden from opera?
		dream sequences
		ballet
		circus acts
		large women

19.	Unfortunately for Mozart, the Emperor yawns during the opera and the Marriage of Figaro is shelved after how many performances?
		five
		seven
		nine
		eleven

20.	We get to see Salieri conduct the closing scene of one of his utterly conventional operas. Which one?
		Axur, King of Ormus
		Trofonio’s Cave
		Palmira, Queen of Persia
		The School of Jealousy

21.	Salieri hatches a plot to gain victory over Mozart and God – by commissioning Mozart to write a piece of music. What piece does Mozart write?
		Eine kleine Gigue
		Missa solemnis
		Requiem Mass in D minor
		Te Deum

22.	Mozart’s friend Schikaneder asks him to write an opera for the common people. Which opera is the result?
		The Magic Flute
		Idomeneo
		The Impresario
		The Pretended Simpleton

23.	Schikaneder’s acting troupe includes a little person, played by:
		Verne Troyer
		Warwick Davis
		Kenny Baker
		Peter Dinklage

24.	The Queen of the Night’s second act aria in the Magic Flute is inspired by:
		Constanze
		Katerina
		Lorl
		Frau Weber

25.	Schikaneder’s costume in the Magic Flute is made entirely of:
		fur
		metallic scales
		feathers
		human hair

26.	Mozart collapses during the performance, and is taken home by Salieri. What movement of the Requiem Mass in D Minor does Salieri write down for Mozart?
		Dies irae (Day of Wrath)
		Tuba mirum (Wondrous sound)
		Confutatis maledictis (While the wicked are confounded)
		Lacrimosa dies illa (That day of tears and mourning)

27.	Mozart is buried in:
		a mass grave
		Prague cemetery
		Salieri’s mausoleum
		the Imperial Crypt

28.	God has had the last laugh on Salieri, keeping him alive for how many years of meaningless fame to end up alone in his room, watching himself become extinct?
		18 years
		28 years
		32 years
		39 years

29.	Fill in the blank: “I speak for all the _________ in the world. I am their champion. I am their patron saint.”
		inadequates
		pedestrians
		milquetoasts
		mediocrities

30.	The last sound we hear before the credits roll is:
		Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21
		Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 in G Minor
		Non Più Andrai from Le Nozze di Figaro
		Mozart’s giggling laugh