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Broad Ripple Brewpub Quiz

posted: Apr. 14, 2022

Questions from a past Brewpub Quiz. This quiz was won by Fallopian! with 12 points. The winners of the Best Team Name Competition tied - Today A Rover On Mars, Tomorrow A Probe On Uranus and The Kitty Cat Warriors Strike Back.
These questions were supplied by Hugh Vandivier, Tom Stilabower, Peter Dean, and Jim Stewart - for which we are grateful.

Swimming (Hugh Vandivier)

1) The butterfly is the newest, and hardest, competitive swimming stroke, originating in 1933, and not introduced as its own separate Olympic event until the 1956 games in Melbourne. From which other stroke did butterfly evolve?

2) In 1926, Gertrude Ederle accomplished what famous first?

3) Prior to 1988, the 50 meter freestyle event has only been held once in the Olympics, in the 1904 St. Louis Games. Who won gold in the reintroduced event in Seoul?

4) More widely known as the Father of Modern Surfing, this original Big Kahuna swam to three gold medals and two silvers in three Olympics: 1912 Stockholm, 1920 Antwerp, and 1924 Paris.

Stock Market Ticker Symbols for Breweries (Tom Stilabower)

1) Craft Brew Alliance, based in the Pacific Northwest, changed its name and ticker symbol in March 2012. What is the previous or new (adopted in March this year) ticker symbol?

2) Molson Coors Brewing Company which produces the Killian's and Blue Moon brands is headquartered in Denver, Colorado. What is its ticker symbol?

3) Boston Beer Company is the largest Craft Brewery in America producing approximately two million barrels of beer per year. What is its ticker symbol?

4) Anheuser-Busch In-Bev is the largest brewery in the world with about 50% of the market share and is based in Belgium. What is its ticker symbol?

World Travel (Peter Dean)

1) Name the country with the highest population of camels?

2) How many time zones does Russia have?

3) What is the currency of Afghanistan?

4) In 1973, British Honduras changed its name to what?

Led Zeppelin (Jim Stewart) - The answers you seek, my friends, can be found in the rock n roll experience that is Led Zeppelin

1) Who is credited with the quote, "I have not yet begun to fight"?

2) What is the disputed territory between India and Pakistan?

3) This classic American novel is said to be at least partially based on or inspired by the true experience of The Essex.

4) This musical term is primarily used to designate a passage that brings a piece (or a movement) to an end.

"...Life is but a Dream" (Jim Stewart) - the title of this round is a clue to what connects all the answers

1) What is the 17th letter of the Greek alphabet?

2) What is the former name of the former English colony now known as the independent country of Zimbabwe?

3) Bobby Jindal, Rachael Maddow, and Myron Rolle, a defensive back on the Pittsburgh Steelers, have this in common.

4) What river flows through Lyon, France and discharges into the Mediterranean Sea near Arles?

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