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Broad Ripple Brewpub Quiz
posted: Dec. 17, 2020

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Questions from a past Brewpub Quiz. The Pub Snugglers won that week with 16 points in a tie-breaker over Crimson Permanent Assurance.

The Animal Kingdom
1) What is the smallest member of the ape family?
2) The wombat is a native of what country?
3) What kind of creature is a coelacanth, which until it was rediscovered in 1938 had only been known from fossil evidence?
4) The larger species of what seabird are considered to have the longest wingspan of any flying bird?

Movie Chess (all the answers to these questions contain the name of a chess piece)
1) What 1975 movie directed by John Huston and starring Sean Connery and Michael Caine was based on a story by Rudyard Kipling?
2) Who played the part of Prissy in Gone With The Wind?
3) What was the name of the android played by Lance Henriksen in the 1986 movie Aliens?
4) What 1964 movie, directed by Sidney Lumet, gave Rod Steiger his second Oscar nomination?

Stage Names
1) What is the real name of U2 guitarist The Edge?
2) The actor, who was born Archibald Leach, adopted what stage name?
3) What recording artist's real name is Calvin Broadus?
4) What English actor, known for his roles in horror films, was born William Henry Pratt?

Literary Beginnings
1) What poem begins with the line: "April is the cruelest month"?
2) What novel begins with the words: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ..."?
3) The screenplay, which begins with the film's narrator saying: "There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie and Dim ..." is based on what novel?
4) What major literary classic, that was once highly controversial, begins: "Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed."?

Science and Math
1) The tetrahedron, the dodecahedron and the icosahedron are three of the five Platonic perfect solids. What are the other two?
2) An excess of what pigment in animals can cause their skin or fur to be black rather than its normal color?
3) The name given to what form of mathematics is derived from a latin word, which translates as "counting stone"?
4) Zymurgy is a branch of chemistry that is concerned with what?




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