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Broad Ripple Brewpub Quiz

posted: Aug. 13, 2020

Questions from a past Brewpub Quiz. The Black Friars won that week with 19 points.

Brewpub Trivia Question

1) Our annual pumpkin carving contest just took place this past Sunday, what year was it first held?

Halloween

1) Walt Disney's 1949 version of The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow, which is shown every year at Connor Prairie's Headless Horseman event, is narrated by what famous singer?

2) Who directed the 2007 remake of John Carpenter's horror classic Halloween?

3) What ancient race of people, often thought to be the first to celebrate the holiday now known as Halloween, referred to it as Samhain?

4) When The Simpsons air the latest installment of its Treehouse Of Horror Halloween specials on November 7th what number will it be?

Holidays Of The World

1) The Vietnamese New Year is known as what?

2) October 19th is a public holiday known as Mother Teresa Day in what country, which is also the country of her birth?

3) During what holiday are Muslims required to refrain from eating or drinking anything from dawn until dusk?

4) In what month is Canadian Thanksgiving celebrated?

Nobel Prizes

1) Receiving a shared prize for Physics in 1903, who was the first woman ever to be awarded a Nobel Prize?

2) What famous American won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964?

3) What was the last work that Ernest Hemingway had published prior to winning the Noble Prize for Literature in 1954?

4) Known for his work with dogs, what scientist won the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine in 1904?

Greek Mythology

1) What hero of Greek mythology killed the Gorgon Medusa?

2) Who escaped from the island of Crete using wings made by his father Daedalus?

3) How many labors did Heracles, known as Hercules to the Romans, have to perform?

4) Who was the brother of Artemis?

The Films Of Alfred Hitchcock

1) For which Hitchcock film were theater owners forbidden to allow anyone in after the film started?

2) Hitchcock was known for brief cameo appearances in his films. In what film is he seen trying to catch a bus, which closes its doors and pulls away just before he has the chance to get on?

3) Who played the murderer being spied on by James Stewart and Grace Kelly in Rear Window?

4) Hitchcock's film The Birds was based on a story by what British author?

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