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Broad Ripple Brewpub Quiz

posted: May 26, 2022

Questions from a past Brewpub Quiz. This quiz was won by The Basil Hummus Club with 13 points. The winners of the Best Team Name Competition were 47% of Me Is Too Lazy To Come Up With A Name.

Sight & Sound 2012 - These questions are based on the recent release of two lists created every ten years by the British Film Institute's prestigious Sight & Sound magazine. They are lists of the top 10 greatest films of all time as voted on by critics and directors respectively

1) According to the Critics list what 1958 movie starring James Stewart and Kim Novak took over Citizen Kane's top spot on the poll for the first time since 1962?

2) According to the Director's list, the 1953 film Tokyo Story and what Stanley Kubrick film kept Citizen Kane off the top spot for the first time since the poll started?

3) Number four on the Critics list, the 1939 film La Regle Du Jeu was directed by the son of what well-known Impressionist painter?

4) According to the Director's list, what American filmmaker is the only director to have two films make the list?

Cartoon Characters

1) What character, mostly depicted as a black cat, is the longest running Disney character, having first appeared in 1925, and was an antagonist to other characters including Oswald the Rabbit, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy and Chip 'n' Dale?

2) What silent movie character was revived for television in the 1950s, this time with a Magic Bag of Tricks?

3) What cartoon character, who was voiced by Jim Backus and appeared both on television and in theatrical shorts, had a nephew named Waldo?

4) What character's main rival was a dog named Spike, who spoke with a stage Irish accent?

European Airports

1) Schiphol is a major international airport in what capital city?

2) What two airports serve Paris?

3) The major airport in Warsaw, Poland is named for what classical composer?

4) Galileo Galilei Airport is located in what Italian city, where Galileo allegedly conducted the experiment that proved that the acceleration of falling objects is the same regardless of mass?

Fill in the Blank

1) 1968 action film starring Rock Hudson: Ice Station_________?

2) Edouard Manet painting: The________at the Folies Bergere?

3) Capital of Papua New Guinea: Port_________?

4) Russian composer of Pictures at an Exhibition: Modest_________?

80s Soundtrack Songs

1) What member of the band The Eagles recorded The Heat Is On, featured in the 1984 movie Beverly Hills Cop?

2) What song by what recording artist did John Cusack famously play for Ione Skye on his boom box in 1989's Say Anything?

3) Let's Hear It For The Boy by Deniece Williams was featured in what 1984 movie?

4) The 1986 video for When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going by Billy Ocean featured what three actors playing his back-up singers?

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