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Broad Ripple Brewpub Quiz

posted: Aug. 18, 2022

Questions from a past Brewpub Quiz created in honor of Indiana's Statehood Day by Matt I Hope This Quiz Is As Easy As Your Mom.

Hoosier Harmonics

1) This Indiana University Law School graduate gave up the law to write and perform songs such as "Ol'Buttermilk Sky", "Georgia on My Mind", and "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening" for which he received an Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1951.

2) This Indianapolis born singer-songwriter's songs have been recorded by artists as diverse as Bob Dylan and Iggy Pop. Inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2008, he has recorded his own hit songs such as "Cry Love."

3) This North Central High School graduate with a childish nickname has won multiple Grammys as a producer for such songs as 1997's "Change the World" and "Exhale (Shoop Shoop)" and as a performer for the 1998 hit "Every Time I Close My Eyes."

4) Hailing from South Whitley, this country music star won the Country Music Association (CMA) "Female Vocalist of the Year" award in 1982 and 1983 for performing songs such as "Down To My Last Broken Heart" and "It Ain't Easy Being Easy.

Lights, Camera, Hoosier!!

1) This Lafayette-born and South Bend-raised actor, director, and producer won Oscars for directing and producing the 1985 film Out of Africa.

2) This Ft. Wayne-born star was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar for her role in My Man Godfrey and was married to Clark Gable. She died in a plane crash in 1942 while on a Victory Bond tour to raise money for the war effort.

3) This Beech Grove native was nicknamed "The King of Cool" and starred in such films as The Towering Inferno.

4) A star of the TV show The Streets of San Francisco and an Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actor for his role in A Streetcar Named Desire, this actor was raised in Gary.

Indiana Leaders (Famous and Infamous)

1) This Miami Indian leader handed the United States Army its worst defeat by Native Americans in American history, when his forces killed 600 soldiers in a battle in 1791.

2) This former inmate of the Indiana School for Boys in Plainfield directed his followers to go on a serial-killing rampage in California in 1969.

3) In his book "One World," this 1940 Republican presidential candidate from Elwood attempted to convince Americans to rethink their isolationist attitude toward the world.

4) This North Manchester native and vice-president for Woodrow Wilson quipped the famous line "What this country needs is a really good five-cent cigar!"

Hoosier Miscellany

1) This author of the books Freckles and A Girl of the Limberlost was one of the first women to form a motion picture studio and production company.

2) This Broad Ripple-raised architect, known for his post-modern style, received the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal Award in 2001 and has designed buildings such as the Walt Disney World Dolphin Resort Hotel and the Indianapolis Art Center. He has also designed appliances and kitchen tools for Target.

3) Widely regarded as the first law of its kind in the world, the state of Indiana created legislation in 1907 allowing the forced sterilization of certain criminals and selected mentally ill who were in the care of the Indiana state hospital system. Deciding who was "fit" or "unfit" to breed, this idea is called what?

4) This self-made female millionaire created a line of hair and beauty products produced in Indianapolis starting in 1910 and sold through sales agents around the United States.

Indiana Athletes

1) This Evansville slugger was a Major League baseball All-Star 6 times and 9 time Gold Glove winner with the New York Yankees, but never won a World Series.

2) This hockey legend attended Carmel High School while playing as 17 year-old for the Indianapolis Racers.

3) The first boxer to win the light heavyweight world championship three times (1979, 1980, and 1986) this Indy native had a professional record of 43 wins (35 by knockout) and 6 losses. He was inducted in the World Boxing Hall of Fame in 2008.

4) This Negro Leagues baseball team based in Indianapolis in the early 1950's was known for its Harlem Globetrotter style of antic-based playing, yet was a serious contender against other Negro League teams such as the Kansas City Monarchs and Homestead Grays.

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