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Broad Ripple Brewpub Quiz

posted: Mar. 17, 2022

Questions from a past Brewpub Quiz. This quiz was won by If These Are The Dog Days, Fido Died Already with 18 points. The winners of the Best Team Name Competition were The Kitty Cat Warriors.

80s Summer Blockbusters

1) Dan Ackroyd, Bill Murray, Harold Ramis and what other actor were the four members of the Ghostbusters team in the 1984 movie Ghostbusters?

2) We Don't Need Another Hero, a hit for Tina Turner, was featured in what movie sequel released in 1985?

3) Jesse Ventura and Carl Weathers star with Arnold Schwarzeneggar in what 1987 movie?

4) What two Call Signs were used by the characters played by Tom Cruise and Anthony Edwards in 1986's Top Gun?

The 1950s

1) What Cuban dictator did Fidel Castro, and his forces, depose in 1959?

2) What satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957, was the first in space?

3) The NFL Championship game of 1958 is widely considered the greatest NFL game ever played. What two teams took part in it?

4) What bestselling novel by Grace Metalious, published in 1956, was made into a popular movie in 1957 and an equally popular television series in the 1960s?

Famous Married Couples

1) Paris Hilton's great-uncle Nicky was the first husband of what actress?

2) The artist Frida Kahlo was married to what well-known muralist?

3) What musician, who was in a band with his wife, took his wife's last name when they married, and both stayed in the band and kept her name, after they divorced?

4) Josephine De Beauharnais was the first wife of what historical figure?

Historical Geography

1) Major-General Charles Gordon is famous for his ultimately ill-fated defense of what African capital against Muslim forces in 1884, an action, which earned him his well-known nickname?

2) What American Revolutionary War battle site is associated with the phrase: "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes"?

3) What Italian city was the birthplace of Christopher Columbus?

4) The Indus Valley Civilization, a major civilization that existed from 3300 to 1900 BCE, before dying out, was centered around the Indus river, which is now mostly located in what modern day country?

Auto Tunes

1) What 1976 hit by Rose Royce was the theme to a comedy film, which featured George Carlin, The Pointer Sisters and Richard Pryor?

2) What English new wave artist had a hit with the single Cars, which was released in 1979?

3) Wilson Pickett sang about a girl and what kind of car in a song that was a hit for him in 1967?

4) In what 1964 song does Chuck Berry lament that he couldn't undo his girlfriend's seat belt?

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