1. What is Behind the Curtain?
A Review Game for The Importance of Being Earnest

2. Team 1
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Why does Lane think it is impolite to listen to Algernon’s piano playing?
Because he plays so badly

3. Team 2
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Algernon tells Jack that he has always suspected him of being what?
A Tory

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What leads Algernon to suspect that Jack is hiding something (leading a double life)?
An inscription

5. Team 2 Jack tell Algernon that it is “ungentlemanly” to read what?
A private cigarette case

6. Team 1 At first, Jack tells Algernon that Cecily is his what? His Aunt

7. Team 2
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What does Algernon mean when he says that Lady Bracknell rings the doorbell in a “Wagnerian manner”?
She rings insistently, leaving her finger on the bell for a long time

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Why does Lane claim that there were “no cucumbers at the market”?
Algernon has eaten all of the cucumber sandwiches

9. Team 2
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Gwendolen states that they (the characters) live in a age of what?
Ideals

10. Team 1 Gwendolen says that the name Ernest produces what feeling?
Absolute Confidence

11. Team 2
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What is Lady Bracknell’s reaction when Jack admits to her that he smokes?
Approval

12. Team 1 Where did old Mr. Thomas Cardew find Jack as a baby?
In a cloakroom at a railway station

13. Team 2
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What is Lady Bracknell’s objection to Jack as a prospective suitor to Gwendolen?
His origins

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What song does Algernon begin playing offstage at the conclusion of Jack’s interview with Lady Bracknell?
“The Wedding March”

15. Team 2 What is Gwendolen’s response to the story of Jack’s origins?
She thinks it is romantic

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Who does Algernon think ought to set an example for the upper classes?
The lower classes

17. Team 2 What does Jack call Lady Bracknell behind her back? A Gorgon

18. Team 1 She might be jealous
Why hasn’t Jack told Gwendolen about his ward?
She might be jealous

19. Team 2 Bunbury What is the name of Algernon’s imaginary friend?

20. Team 1 Where is Jack’s house in the country? Hertfordshire Team 1 :

21. Team 2 Why is Cecily nervous about meeting Jack’s brother Ernest?
She’s afraid he’ll look just like everyone else

22. Team 1
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Where has Cecily recorded her imaginary engagement to Jack’s brother Ernest?
Her diary

23. Team 2 Why does Gwendolen never travel without her diary?
To have something sensational to read on the train

24. Team 1
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Why does Gwendolen tell Cecily that cake and sugar are no longer fashionable?
To insult Cecily

25. Team 2 Why does Cecily put sugar in Gwendolen’s tea?
To insult Gwendolen

26. That’s all folks!