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Broad Ripple Brewpub Quiz

posted: Jan. 20, 2022

Questions from a past Brewpub Quiz created by Hugh Vandivier. This quiz was won by Taking Over France Is So Easy Even Hollande Can Do It with 19 points. The winners of the Best Team Name Competition were Taking Over France Is So Easy Even Hollande Can Do It.

Movie Siblings

1) What acting brothers both made their movie debut in 1996's Bottle Rocket, which was directed by Wes Anderson?

2) John, Lionel and Ethel were acting siblings in the first half of the 20th Century. John's grandchild also went into acting. Who is his grandchild?

3) In what 1952 John Ford movie set in Ireland, does Barry Fitzgerald play Michaleen Og Flynn and his brother Arthur Shields play the Rev. Playfair?

4) A member of what acting family has featured in each of the following films: Lost Highway, Scream and Pulp Fiction?

The '80s

1) Herb Brooks is best known as the coach of what sports team?

2) David Addison and Maddie Hayes were characters on what television show that ran from 1985 to 1989?

3) What name did Argentina give to The Falkland Islands, their 1982 invasion of which led to war against the United Kingdom?

4) What band released the albums Remain In Light in 1980, Speaking In Tongues in 1983 and Little Creatures in 1985?

Names

1) What baseball team has changed its name three times since 1965, despite playing in the same stadium since 1966?

2) After he became Prime Minister of Italy in 1925, what name did Benito Mussolini give himself, which translates into English as "The Leader"?

3) What is the disease, whose official name is often abbreviated as BSE, more commonly known as?

4) What name is given to the seventeen members of the European Union that use the Euro as their official currency?

Footwear

1) What name is given to the narrow shoe with pointed tips that became popular in the 1950s among British rock and roll enthusiasts?

2) What historical figures wore shoes known as Caligae?

3) What form of footwear shares its name with a type of weapon developed in medieval Italy?

4) What shoes that originated in the Pyrenees Mountains of France and Spain, traditionally have cloth uppers and soles made of rope?

Backing Bands

1) The I Threes were the backing singers in the band of what legendary sing-songwriter and musician, who released the album Exodus in 1977 and who died in 1981?

2) Jerry Allison, who was born in Lubbock, Texas, was the drummer in what backing band?

3) The band Crazy Horse frequently collaborates with what rock musician as his backing band?

4) Max Weinberg, who was the bandleader on Late Night With Conan O'Brien and subsequently on O'Brien's short-lived stint on The Tonight Show, is the long time drummer for what backing band?

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