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Broad Ripple Brewpub Quiz

posted: Jun. 04, 2020

May 26, 2020.
The winning team was Everyone Who Watched.

Explosive Movies

1) Trailers for the 1996 movie Independence Day caught a lot of attention by showing what famous building being destroyed in a massive explosion?

2) The roof and several floors of The Nakatomi Tower exploding as the main protagonist jumps from it while suspended by a fire hose features in what 1988 movie?

3) A man rides a hydrogen bomb cheering and waving his cowboy hat as it descends towards the earth and explodes, ultimately leading to nuclear war, in what black comedy released in 1964?

4) In what classic movie from 1975 does the villain explode when the hero shoots a pressurized tank of oxygen that he's holding in his mouth?

5) Moneyball Question: Salma Hayek and Antonio Banderas walk casually away from a massive explosion going off behind them in what action thriller directed by Robert Rodrigues and released in 1995?

Picture Round - App Logos that Appear on my iPhone

1) What app does this logo represent? It was launched in 2005 and developed by two brothers from what Northern European country?

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2) What app does this logo represent? BlackKeys Supergrain, Alfred Infrared, and Ina's 1982 are all types of what setting on the app?

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3) What app does this logo represent? What is the constellation featured on the logo called in Britain?

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4) What app does this logo represent? What does it do?

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5) What app does this logo represent? Why do I have this app on my phone if I hate it?

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Fill in the Blanks

1) Company that first produced a mail order catalog in 1887: _____ Roebuck?

2) Name sometimes used for Asia's longest river: _____ Kiang?

3) Paint color that uses the metallic element whose symbol is Cd: _____ Red?

4) White wine type: Pouilly _____?

5) Moneyball Question: 1820 poem by John Keats with the line "Beauty is truth, truth beauty": _____ On A _____?

TV Families

1) During the opening credits of the cartoon series The Jetsons, the Jetson family is introduced one by one. Who is the last to be introduced?

2) What television series, which finished its fourth season in March, features, at its core, Jack and Rebecca Pearson, their twins Kate and Kevin, and their adopted son Randall?

3) On what sitcom that ran from 1988 to 1997, and was revived, retooled and rewritten in 2018, features two sisters who marry two brothers?

4) The song Without Us, sung in a duet by Johnny Mathis and Deniece Williams after the first season, was the theme to a 1980s sitcom featuring what family?

5) Moneyball Question: A mother and father played by Fred Gwynne and Yvonne De Carlo, her father played by Al Lewis, her niece played originally by Beverly Owen and then by Pat Priest and their son played by Butch Patrick made up what 1960s television family?

Statues & Monuments

1) What name is given to the mausoleum completed in 1653 for the wife of Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan?

2) A statue in Dublin, Ireland, representing what fictional character who appears in a well-known Irish ballad, has been nicknamed The Tart With The Cart by residents of the city?

3) What famous statue located in a European capital and representing a fairy tale character that's been the star of a 1989 animated Disney film has been decapitated more than once, has had its arm sawn off, has been doused with paint and has been knocked off the place where it sits by explosives only to be fully restored each time?

4) The Parthenon, a temple dedicated to the Greek goddess Athena, is part of what ancient citadel located on a hill in the city of Athens?

5) Moneyball Question: Completed in 1987 what name is given to a monument in Nebraska made out of used automobiles that mimics an ancient monument located in Britain?

Rock Anthems

1) A video for what song by what German hair band released in 1990, which features footage of the Berlin Wall coming down, became an anthem strongly associated with the end of the Cold War?

2) What 1986 song by Bruce Springsteen tells the story of a man unable to find work after returning home from a tour of duty in Vietnam?

3) Queen's 1980 song Another One Bites The Dust was written by band member John Deacon. What instrument did John Deacon usually play?

4) A cover of what 1975 song by the British band Arrows became the biggest hit for Joan Jett And The Blackhearts when it was released in 1981?

5) Moneyball Question: From what 1981 song by AC/DC come the following lyrics: "Pick up your balls and load up your cannon for a twenty one gun salute"?

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