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Broad Ripple Brewpub Quiz
posted: Jul. 02, 2020

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June 30, 2020.
The winning team was Everyone Who Watched.

Movie Movies
1) What acclaimed 1952 musical, starring Gene Kelly, is set during the transition from silent films to talkies?
2) The 2013 movie Saving Mr. Banks, starring Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson, is about what famous filmmaker trying to persuade author P. L. Travers to let him adapt her book into a movie?
3) The 2017 movie The Disaster Artist, which was directed by, and stars, James Franco, is about the making of what notorious 2003 film, that also starred its director Tommy Wisseau?
4) In what 2008 comedy set around the filming of a Vietnam War movie does Robert Downing Jr. play a white actor trying to prove his range by playing an African American character?
5) Moneyball Question: Three former colleagues of ruthless film producer Jonathan Shields, played by Kirk Douglas, describe their experiences with him through flashbacks to explain why they'll never work with him again in what classic 1952 movie?

Picture Round - Not So Average Jo(e)s
1) Who is this politician, who is most associated with the 1950s Communist witch hunts? What state did he represent in the senate?
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2) Who is this actress and dancer, who was most prominent in the 1920s? While born in America, she found fame in what European country?
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3) Who is this actor who played the title role in the 1998 movie Shakespeare In Love? What is the name of his actor brother?
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4) Who is this author? She famously wrote her first novel mostly in coffee shops in what British city?
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5) Who is this maker of animated films, responsible for dozens of television cartoon series including most of the Saturday morning line-up of the 1970s? What was the name of his filmmaking partner?
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What Continent?
1) On what continent are the Atlas Mountains located?
2) On what continent is the Atacama Desert located?
3) On what continent is the capital city of Nur-Sultan, which until last year was known as Astana?
4) On what continent is Lake Garda located? Europe (Italy)
5) Moneyball Question: On what continent are the McMurdo Dry Valleys located?

Sports? What Sports?
1) Former New England Patriot Tom Brady now plays for what other NFL team?
2) What storied English football club recently won its first ever Premier League title, doing so in the fewest games in league history?
3) Since early May ESPN have been showing live baseball from what country?
4) When the 2020 running of the Indianapolis 500 takes place, currently scheduled for August 23rd, it will be the first to occur under whose ownership?
5) Moneyball Question: At the end of July the NBA is due to restart in an attempt to finish out the 2019-2020 season. The Indiana Pacers are among how many Eastern Conference teams allowed to continue the season, based on what was considered a legitimate chance to make the playoffs?

Fill in the Blanks
1) Largest woodwind instrument: The Contrabass _____?
2) Widescale coordinated attack by the Viet Cong in 1968 often considered the turning point in the Vietnam War: The _____ Offensive?
3) Title of 1918 novel by Indianapolis author Booth Tarkington: The Magnificent _____?
4) Comic strip spin-off of Beetle Bailey: Hi & _____?
5) Moneyball Question: Subject of a newly released Netflix comedy cowritten by, and starring, Will Ferrell: The _____ Song Contest?

Rain Songs
1) The 1982 song It's Raining Men was a hit for what duet, who started out as backup singers called Two Tons O' Fun?
2) What song, which was the B-side to It Doesn't Matter Anymore, was recorded by Buddy Holly in 1959?
3) Which of the fifty states is the missing word in the following title of a song that was originally recorded by R&B singer Brook Benton in 1970: "A Rainy Night In _____"?
4) What song by B. J. Thomas was featured prominently in a scene in the 1969 movie Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid, in which Butch Cassidy, played by Paul Newman, and Etta Place, played by Katherine Ross, ride together on a bike?
5) Moneyball Question: What band that consisted of a mother and her six children, and were the inspiration for the television show, The Partridge Family, had a hit with the 1967 song The Rain, The Park & Other Things?




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