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Broad Ripple Brewpub Quiz

posted: Mar. 03, 2022

Questions from a past Brewpub Quiz. This quiz was won by Penn State's New Name? The State Penn with 13 points in a tie-breaker over The Privatization Of Purdue. The winners of the Best Team Name Competition were Debbie Does Florida - Hard!.

The 1940s

1) Who wrote The Common Book Of Baby And Child Care published in 1946?

2) Who did the Chicago Daily Tribune's headline erroneously say had defeated Harry S. Truman in the 1948 Presidential election?

3) What now defunct television network started broadcasting in 1946?

4) Greer Garson caused the Academy Awards to impose time limits for speeches when she gave a five and a half minute speech for her 1942 Best Actress Oscar. It was for the title role in what movie, that dealt with a London family's experiences during the early days of World War II?

Actors and Actresses

1) The legendary stage actress Sarah Bernhardt, who died in 1923, was a native of what country?

2) What actor, who played the part Hyman Roth in The Godfather: Part II, taught his version of Method Acting to such notables as Paul Newman, Dustin Hoffman, Marilyn Monroe and Robert De Niro?

3) What Japanese actor is best known for his collaboration with legendary director Akira Kurosawa on the films Rashomon, Yojimbo, Seven Samurai and thirteen others?

4) Who was the first African American to win an Academy Award for acting?

Comedians

1) What comedian was famous for his "drunk" characters?

2) Rant In E-Minor, a comedy album released posthumously, was by what comedian who died in 1994 at the age of 32?

3) What comedian was known as Mr. Television?

4) What stand-up comedian was the first person to host Saturday Night Live?

Musicians

1) What two brothers, who both played numerous brass and woodwind instruments, were successful Big Band leaders in the early half of the 20th Century?

2) Larry Adler was an acknowledged master on what musical instrument?

3) What innovative banjo player released the album Perpetual Motion in 2001, which features works by Chopin, Beethoven, Bach and many other classical composers?

4) Classical musician, Glenn Gould, was a soloist on what instrument?

Singers

1) What Australian opera singer, born in 1861, had a well-known fruit-based dessert named after her?

2) What eight-man a cappella group, formed at Indiana University, first gained notice with their version of The Twelve Days Of Christmas?

3) What British singer originated the roles of Eva Peron in Evita and Grizabella in Cats, both with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber?

4) What was the name of the band that Janis Joplin performed with from 1966 to 1968?

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