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Broad Ripple Brewpub Quiz

posted: May 07, 2020

April 28, 2020.
The winning team was Everyone Who Watched.

Inside Movies

1) A strange older man played by John Goodman and a young man played by John Gallagher Jr., trap a young woman played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead in a bunker beneath the older man's house, ostensibly for her own good because it's too dangerous to go outside in what thriller from 2016?

2) What 1981 German language film is a claustrophobic thriller set entirely in a submarine, and whose title translates as The Boat in English?

3) What two famous Hollywood actresses, who by all accounts didn't get along in real-life, play antagonizing sisters in the 1962 movie Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?

4) In the 1994 movie Clerks, which takes place over the course of a day mostly inside a convenience store, what two characters spend most of the day hanging around just outside the store?

5) Moneyball Question: What prolific filmmaker, known for mostly making comedies, first tried his hand at serious drama with the 1978 film Interiors starring Diane Keaton, Geraldine Page, E. G. Marshall, and Sam Waterston?

Picture Round - Historical Figures

1) Who is this philosopher? In what European city is he buried?

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2) Who is this historical figure? With what early American settlement is she associated with?

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3) Who is this one-time American President? What is the name of his famous son?

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4) Who is this one-time world leader? What country was she Prime Minister of?

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5) Who is this military man? To what country did he famously say "I will return" after he and his troops were forced to leave during World War II?

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Aliens in Fiction

1) The profit loving Grand Negus, a recurring character on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, is a member of what alien species?

2) Frank, a Remoolian, keeps his alien identity secret by hanging out at a key cutting kiosk and taking the form of what species of Earth creature in the 1997 movie Men In Black?

3) In the Star Wars universe, a large army, which initially fights on the side of the Jedi against an army of droids, is created by cloning what bounty hunter's DNA?

4) Ford Prefect and Zaphod Beeblebrox are two aliens who have visited Earth in what series of novels by what author?

5) Moneyball Question: In the Barsoom series of stories written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tars Tarkas, a Martian warrior and leader, befriends what human being from Earth?

Pick A Letter

all the answers to these questions begin with the same letter, you figure out which letter it is

1) What variety of alcoholic beverage can be designated Very Special, Very Superior Old Pale or Extra Old?

2) What battle during the Crimean War gave its name to a type of headgear?

3) According to the Gospels, which of Jesus' Apostles was the sixth to be chosen?

4) What metal is an alloy of tin and copper?

5) Moneyball Question: Fossils of what species of dinosaurs were dismissed as being actually Apatosauruses, a species discovered earlier, but were recently restored as their own species after over a hundred years of being thought not to really exist?

Elementary My Dear Quizzers

1) Which of the following elements has the letter "P" as its chemical symbol: Potassium, Phosphorous or Platinum?

2) An extra molecule of oxygen added to water will produce what liquid, which unlike water, is highly dangerous to drink in its purest form?

3) The chemical symbol for what element comes from the Latin word Hydrargyrum, which translates into water-silver?

4) Helium, Neon, Xenon and three other elements are collectively known by what name?

5) Moneyball Question: What element, with an atomic number of 98, derives its name from one of the fifty States?

Music Trivia

1) Dubliner Jimmy Rabbitte forms a soul band in what 1989 novel written by Roddy Doyle?

2) What country singer had a hit in 1971 with Coalminer's Daughter?

3) What was the last name of bandleader Tommy who Frank Sinatra performed with in his early days?

4) What composer's sixth symphony is known as The Pastoral Symphony?

5) Moneyball Question: Elton John and Tim Rice are the composers behind what Broadway musical that is set in Ancient Egypt and is inspired by the Giuseppe Verdi opera of the same name?

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