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Broad Ripple Brewpub Quiz

posted: Jul. 07, 2022

Questions from a past Brewpub Quiz. This quiz was won by I Want My Binder Of Women with 17 points in a tiebreaker over Latter Day Skanks, Horses With Bayonets and Tour De Farce. The winners of the Best Team Name Competition were Random Cat Noises (literally made by the Quiz Master).

Wait 'til Next Year

1) This Chicago Cubs third baseman, nine-time All Star, and five-time Golden Glove winner was elected to the Baseball Hall Of Fame last year, almost one year after his death.

2) Everyone associates radio and TV announcer Harry Carey with the Cubs, where he announced games for sixteen years. But his first job lasted nearly a quarter century with which team?

3) Wrigley Field is one of the easiest ballparks to hit a home run in. If a batter belts one over the left field bleachers, what street that borders the stadium to the North will it land on?

4) The Cubs dedicated a bronze statue to shortstop and first baseman, Ernie Banks, on March 31, 2008. Two days later, the sculptor had to chisel a missing apostrophe to the base. What Banks' catchphrase did he correct?

The Greatest Spectacle

1) This 1989 winner caused controversy by refusing to follow the track tradition of drinking from a bottle of milk. This owner of Brazilian orange groves drank OJ instead.

2) What former New York City cab driver pulled the ultimate unintentional move, a 360 degree spin out, to eventually win the 1985 Indy 500?

3) To date, this racing legend stands as the only driver who's won the Indy 500, the Daytona 500, and the Formula One World Championship.

4) On the final lap of this year's 96th running of The Indianapolis 500, this driver attempted to pass Dario Franchitti, but spun out and hit the turn one wall. Name this third-year driver who ended up 17th.

Ya Gotta Have Art

1) Last week, thieves broke into Rotterdam's Kunsthal museum and made off with seven priceless works of art, including two pieces, Waterloo Bridge, London and Charing Cross Bridge, London by what painter?

2) The Indianapolis Museum Of Art boasts one of the most significant collections of works outside of Great Britain by this artist, whose Fifth Plague Of Egypt was loaned to the New Orleans Museum Of Art after losing a Super Bowl bet in 2010.

3) On the corner of Mass Ave, Vermont and Alabama streets, you'll find Anne Dancing, an installation featuring four yellow LED panels of a woman swaying. What welsh artist created it, originally as part of his eleven piece public art exhibition, Signs, in 2007?

4) You can see works by this Indiana Impressionist in the Indianapolis Museum Of Art, the State Museum, the Governor's Mansion, and his home and historical site in rural Brown County.

World Cuisine

1) A traditional Cuban sandwich contains glazed ham, roasted pork, Swiss cheese, pickles, and what condiment pressed between Cuban bread?

2) A popular street food in Vietnam, this soup with rice noodles is often served with beef or chicken, Asian basil, cilantro, green onion, lime juice, and bean sprouts.

3) Indiana has become famous for its breaded pork tenderloin sandwich that derives from the cuisine of German immigrants. What's the name of the German dish that inspired it?

4) In the Czech Republic, you'll find their traditional Christmas delicacy of Rybi Polevka, fish soup made from carp, served on December 5th, the eve of what European holiday?

Wander Indiana

1) On the Northwest corner of 7th and Wabash in Terre Haute, you'll find a statue of lawyer Max Ehrmann, who's known for a prose poem that became popular after being found at Adlai Stevenson's deathbed in 1965. What's the name of this devotional poem?

2) With a town population of barely 2,000, Madison County's Perkinsville is known for what restaurant that features the applewood-smoked prime rib on weekends and tailgating in its parking lot?

3) In this Clay County berg, you'll find Chafariz dos Contos (Fountain of the Contos) given to the city as a symbol of friendship in 1956. It's a replica of the original fountain from this donor country that was built in 1745. Name the Indiana city that bears the same name of the country that donated the fountain.

4) Founded in 1951 by Howdy Wilcox, which annual event takes place each Spring in Bill Armstrong Stadium?

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