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Broad Ripple Brewpub Quiz

posted: Feb. 17, 2022

Questions from a past Brewpub Quiz. This quiz was won by Don't Be Pessimistic (It Won't Work Out Anyway) with 16 points. The winners of the Best Team Name Competition were Sandusky's Defense: The Dingo Did It.

F. O. O. T. - A Movie Round (one of the answers to these questions starts with an F, two with an O and one with a T)

1) What 2001 film was a remake of a movie that originally starred members of Frank Sinatra's Rat Pack?

2) What 1954 film directed by Elia Kazan features Lee J. Cobb as a corrupt union boss named Johnny Friendly?

3) What science fiction film directed by Paul Verhoeven and released in 1990 was based on the Philip K. Dick story We Can Remember It For You Wholesale?

4) What 1971 film features the songs Matchmaker, Matchmaker and If I Were A Rich Man?

The 1920s

1) What British archaeologist lead the team that discovered the tomb of Tutankhamen in 1922?

2) Seven members of what gang were gunned down during the St. Valentine's Day Massacre in 1929?

3) What 1927 Thorton Wilder novel relates the different stories of five people who all die in the same accident?

4) What jazz great recorded Ain't Misbehavin' in 1929?

National Questions (all the answers to these questions feature the name of a nationality in them)

1) What recording act was famous for performing on New Year's Eve's broadcasts on both television and radio?

2) What landmark in Rome is the widest feature of its kind in Europe?

3) What name is given to the dish that is essentially melted cheese on toast?

4) What name is given to the architecture that was prevalent in both Europe and America from the early 18th Century to the mid 19th Century?

Plays

1) What 1966 Tom Stoppard play takes two minor characters from Hamlet and makes them the main protagonists?

2) What 1953 play by Arthur Miller was written in response to the Anti-Communist activities of Senator Joseph McCarthy?

3) What 1993 Pulitzer Prize winning play by Tony Kushner is subtitled A Gay Fantasia On National Themes?

4) Who wrote the 1879 play A Doll's House?

B. A. L. L. - A Music Round (one of the answers to these questions starts with a B, one with an A and two with an L)

1) Jose Feliciano won a Grammy in 1969 for his cover of what song by The Doors?

2) Bluegrass pioneer Bill Monroe's most famous song feature's the name of his home state in the title. What is it?

3) What opera by Gaetano Donizetti features the technically demanding aria known as the "Mad Scene"?

4) What Australian based duo had a hit in 1980 with All Out Of Love?

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