Here's another chance to test your knowledge of Mario Lanza's life and career, and have a bit of fun in the process.

Toast

Q.1
Tenors Plácido Domingo and Mario Lanza both performed in staged settings from the same opera with the same singer in the lead soprano role. Who was the soprano?

Q.2
How many Lanza films were nominated for (American) Academy Awards?

Q.3
Which Lanza film screenplay was the tenor referring to when he stated, “Perhaps with a better script my acting might improve!”?

Q.4
In one of Lanza’s films, the woman who played his *would-be mother-in-law* was the daughter of an actress who played his *mother* in another of his movies. In a further parent-child coincidence, the same two movies were each co-written by members of the same family: another woman and her daughter. What are the two films?

Q.5
Where did Mario & Betty Lanza and their four children spend their final Christmas Day together?

Q.6
Which of these gifted American celebrities was among seventy invited guests when Lanza was awarded a standing ovation for his performance of the Serenade from The Merry Wives of Windsor in 1943?

Q.7
In what year did Lanza make his first private recordings?

Q.8
Which sitting or future U.S. President missed hearing Lanza sing at a special luncheon appearance because he had to leave before the tenor’s performance?