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Broad Ripple Brewpub Quiz

posted: Jul. 21, 2022

Questions from a past Brewpub Quiz. This quiz was won by Turducken, Turducken, I Need A Good . . . Kiss with 17 points. The winners of the Best Team Name Competition were Don't Tickle Me Elmo Until I'm 18.

Thanksgiving Movies

1) What 1969 movie based on a song, and starring the song's composer, centers around events that occurred on Thanksgiving?

2) What 1986 Woody Allen movie, which won him an Oscar for its screenplay, begins and ends on Thanksgiving?

3) Who directed the 1987 movie Planes, Trains And Automobiles about the desperate attempts of a character played by Steve Martin to get home for Thanksgiving?

4) In his debut feature film, 1986's She's Gotta Have It, Spike Lee plays one of three men dating Nola Darling, played by Tracy Camilla Johns, all of whom she invites to Thanksgiving dinner in a key scene. What is the name of the character Lee plays?

English English

1) Americans call it a Flashlight, what do the English call it?

2) The English call this part of a car The Bonnet, what do Americans call it?

3) Americans call this device to sooth babies a Pacifier, what do the English call it?

4) The English call this tool a spanner, what do Americans call it?

TV Locales

1) A group of friends from what television show hung out at The Peach Pit?

2) What private detective lived in a trailer parked in a lot near the beaches of Malibu?

3) What family owned the Mercantile, the only store in Walnut Grove?

4) On the classic sit-com The Honeymooners, Ralph and Alice Kramden's apartment was located in what well-known area of Brooklyn?

The Pilgrims

1) The Pilgrims had already left England twelve years before heading to the New World. In what European country did they settle?

2) The Pilgrims subsisted on biscuits often baked up to four times to keep them from going soft, both on their sea voyage and once they made landfall. What name is given to these biscuits?

3) In what year did the Pilgrims first land at Plymouth?

4) Who was the leader of the Plymouth Colony, who wrote a comprehensive history that gives us the best account of the Pilgrims story?

Lead Singers of the 1960s

1) Who was the lead singer of the group The Animals, who had a hit with the song House Of The Rising Sun?

2) John Sebastian was the lead singer of what band?

3) Who performed lead vocals with both The Jeff Beck Group and Faces?

4) Who sings lead vocals on Femme Fatale by The Velvet Underground?

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