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Broad Ripple Brewpub Quiz

posted: Aug. 04, 2022

Questions from a past Brewpub Quiz. This quiz was won by Wholesome As Peanut Butter And KY Jelly with 18 points. The winners of the Best Team Name Competition were Fallopian Tube Swim Team.

History Films

1) The 1970 movie Tora! Tora! Tora! depicts what historical event?

2) What actor plays the part of Christopher Columbus in Ridley Scott's 1992 movie 1492: The Conquest Of Paradise?

3) The creation of what famous work of art is depicted in the 1965 movie The Agony And The Ecstasy?

4) What Irish born actor played the title role in the 1970 film Cromwell, about Oliver Cromwell's overthrow of the monarchy during the English Civil War?

Legends of the Old West

1) Who referred to himself as "Law West of the Pecos"?

2) What were the names of Wyatt Earp's two brothers who were with him and Doc Holliday during the Gunfight at the OK Corral?

3) Who was shot and killed by Jack McCall while playing poker?

4) What outlaw, born William Henry McCarty, spent time in Indianapolis as a child?

Indianapolis Star Comic Strips

1) What comic strip features the Wilkins family?

2) Bruce Tinsley, a graduate of IU School of Journalism, is the creator of what politically charged comic strip?

3) What two comic strips were both created by Tom Batiuk (Battick)?

4) In the comic strip Mutts, Bip and Bop are often shown throwing acorns at passersby. What kind of creatures are Bip and Bop?

Scientists

1) What scientist, whose name is well known to all, was the first to construct both an alcohol thermometer and a mercury thermometer in the early part of the 18th Century?

2) William Herschel discovered Uranus in 1781, but didn't recognize it as a planet. What kind of celestial body did he believe it to be?

3) A device to demonstrate the rotation of the Earth is named for what scientist who devised it in the mid 19th Century?

4) What kind of animal did Erwin Schrodinger use in 1935 to illustrate the uncertainty principle of Quantum Mechanics?

Lead Singers of the 1980s

1) Michael Hutchence was the lead singer of what group, whose band members held a reality show competition to find his replacement after his untimely death?

2) David A. Stewart released the 1984 song Here Comes The Rain Again as a member of what duet formed with what singer?

3) Black Francis is the lead singer of what influential band that broke up in the early '90s only to begin touring again in the 2000s with a much bigger following than they originally had in the '80s?

4) Who was usually singled out as the lead singer of the all-girl band, The Bangles, despite the fact that all four members of the group took turns with lead vocals on their albums?

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