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Broad Ripple Brewpub Quiz

posted: May 27, 2021

Questions from a past Brewpub Quiz. This quiz was won by I Used To Be In A Band, But Now I Just Play With Myself with 16 points in a tie breaker over Danny Burton Must Go!. The winners of the Best Name competition were Gerries.

Fever

1) Who had a hit with the song "Fever" in 1958?

2) Known as Glandular Fever in Britain and Ireland what is this virus known as in America?

3) What is the next word in this line from an 80s ad campaign: "I've got the fever for the flavor of a ..."?

4) Who directed the 1983 movie Staying Alive, which was the sequel to the 1977 movie Saturday Night Fever?

Q. U. I. Z. Questions - (the answers to these questions begin either with the letter Q, U, I or Z)

1) What Princess is Link always trying to save in a series of video games?

2) Who is the drummer for The Roots?

3) What was the former name of New York's John F. Kennedy Airport?

4) What element has an atomic number of 92?

Politicians

1) Who was famous for banging his shoe on a podium at the U. N. General Assembly during a fit of anger?

2) Who was the first Prime Minister of Israel?

3) What member of New York's Tammany Hall was elected to the House of Representatives in 1852?

4) In 1938 what British politician returned from Munich to London following negotiations with Adolph Hitler and declared that there would be "peace for our time"?

Milestones in Astronomy

1) The Galilean moons, discovered by Galileo in 1610, orbit what planet?

2) What planet did William Herschel discover in 1781, which was the first new planet found since ancient times?

3) The fact that approaching light has a blue shift and receding light has a red shift has been used to demonstrate that the Universe is expanding. What is this phenomenon, named for the Austrian astronomer that first noted it in 1852, known as?

4) What astronomer, who gave his name to a project launched by NASA in 1990, was the first to discover in the 1920s that the Milky Way isn't the only galaxy in the Universe?

Debut Singles

1) Whose first single was Radio Free Europe?

2) What was Tom Petty and the Heartbreaker's first single?

3) "They're forming in a straight line, they're going through a tight wind, the kids are losing their minds" are lyrics from The Ramones' first single. What was it?

4) In the same year that Roger Bannister ran the four minute mile and the World Cup Finals were held in Switzerland Elvis Presley released "That's All Right" his first single. What year was it?

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