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Broad Ripple Brewpub Quiz
posted: Oct. 14, 2021

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Questions from a past Brewpub Quiz. This quiz was won by The Girl With The Dragon Tramp Stamp with 17 points. The winners of the Best Team Name Competition were also The Girl With The Dragon Tramp Stamp.

"Opera Goes to the Movie" Movies
1) What composer's jealousy of Mozart is central to the plot of the 1984 movie Amadeus?
2) What actor starred in both The Shawshank Redemption and The Hudsucker Proxy?
3) Talia Shire, who played Connie Corleone in The Godfather, is a sister in real life to what other person involved in the movie?
4) In what 1990 movie did Robin Williams play a character named Malcolm Sayer who was based on the renowned British neurologist Oliver Sacks?

Opera in Movies
1) In the quirky 1996 Australian movie, Cosi, starring Toni Collete, a group of patients in a mental institution attempt to put on an opera by what composer?
2) Who is the star of the 1951 biopic The Great Caruso?
3) Who are the male and female stars of the 1935 film version of the Victor Herbert operetta Naughty Marietta?
4) The 1985 movie A Room With A View features the aria O Mio Babbino Caro being sung over its opening credits, which was written by what composer?

Movie Villains
1) Who plays the part of Max Cady in the 1962 movie Cape Fear, the same part that was played by Robert De Niro in the 1991 remake?
2) What veteran of the television series Laugh-In played a Nazi in the 1980 movie The Blues Brothers?
3) In what classic 1941 movie does corrupt Governor, Boss Jim Gettys, expose an illicit affair the title character is having to his wife, causing him to drop out of the gubernatorial election?
4) The Oscar nominated star of the movie Albert Nobbs played the unstable Alex Forrest in what 1987 movie?

Oscar Winning Songs
1) What was the first song featured in a Disney movie to win the Oscar for Best Song?
2) High Hopes, the Oscar winner for 1959 from the movie A Hole In The Head, was sung by what performer, who was also the star of the film?
3) What Oscar winning song from a 1980 movie directed by Alan Parker shares its title with the film in which it is featured?
4) Bruce Springsteen won an Oscar in 1993 for a song from what movie?

More "Opera Goes to the Movies" Movies
1) The 1987 movie The Witches of Eastwick was based on a novel by what author?
2) What was the name of the character played by Marlon Brando in the 1979 movie Apocalypse Now?
3) What actress played the imperious Mrs. Claypool, a foil to Grouch Marx's Otis B. Driftwood, in the 1935 movie A Night At The Opera, an actress who played basically the same character in six other Marx Brother's movies?
4) Dennis Christopher, Daniel Stern, Dennis Quaid and Jackie Earle Haley play four friends in what 1979 movie, and where is the movie set?

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