Q.1
Which of the following did NOT happen in 2016?

Q.2
Which of the following theater artists who died in January said: “Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.”

Q.3
Which Tony-winning actress appeared in a Super Bowl commercial in February, saying, “If you drive drunk, you — simply put — are a short sighted, utterly useless, oxygen wasting, human form of pollution, a Darwin-award deserving, selfish coward. If your brain was donated to science, science would return it.” -- and then finished the spot by drinking from a bottle of beer?

Q.4
As of March, Wicked is now one of only three shows to gross $1 billion on Broadway. Which is not one of the other two? *

Q.5
Nerds, a musical about the rivalry between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, was abruptly canceled in March while the cast was rehearsing for an April opening. Why?

Q.6
Which honor or award has either Lin-Manuel Miranda and/or his musical Hamilton NOT received?

Q.7
Some 70 Broadway performers gathered together for Broadway for Orlando, a single to raise money for the LGBT center in Orlando, Florida, after the mass shooting in a gay nightclub there. What song did the performers sing?

Q.8
Which did NOT happen at the 70th annual Tony Awards in June?

Q.9
True or false: Dozens of veterans of the Broadway stage performed at the 2016 Democratic National Convention, while none performed at the 2016 Republican National Convention. *

Q.10
Which of the following is not true about James Houghton, who died in August at age 57?

Q.11
"They bully us, intimidate us, mock us, de-value us, and treat us as if they are dictators of their own country…” Who said this, and about whom?

Q.12
Edward Albee, one of the foremost playwrights of his generation, died in September at the age of 88, leaving behind nearly three dozen plays. Which did NOT win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama?

Q.13
Which show was NOT involved in a public legal dispute in 2016?

Q.14
True or False: Included in President-Elect Donald Trump’s Twitter rant against “Hamilton,” was an attack on the cast member delivering the curtain speech to Mike Pence for having failed to memorize it.

Q.15
Gay couples were featured prominently as characters in three high-profile New York shows, Falsettos, Homos and In Transit. Which actor played the partner of a character played by Robin De Jesus?

Q.16
Carrie Fisher, who died at age 60 a few days before the end of 2016, was best known as Princess Leia in Star Wars, but she was also a four-time veteran of Broadway, including her one-woman show "Wishful Drinking," and an extraordinary wit. Her mother Debbie Reynolds, a Hollywood star and also a Broadway veteran, died the next day, at 84. All of the following comments are by Fisher, except one, by Reynolds. Which is Reynolds'?