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Broad Ripple Brewpub Quiz

posted: Oct. 13, 2022

Questions from the October 4th Brewpub Quiz. The winning team was This Quiz Is Harder Than Navigating Through Broad Ripple with 35 points. The winners of the Best Team Name Competition were Tuesday Friends.

Movies With Actors Playing Actors

1) Michael Keaton plays an actor best known for his role as a superhero in what 2014 Best Picture Oscar winner subtitled Or The Unexpected Virtue Of Ignorance?

2) What actress, herself a veteran of silent films, plays has-been actress Norma Desmond in the 1950 movie Sunset Boulevard?

3) In what 1982 movie comedy do Jessica Lange, George Gaines and Geena Davis play actors on a soap opera called Southwest General?

4) What real-life actress does Ana de Armas play in the recently released movie Blonde?

5) Moneyball Question: Richard E. Grant and Paul McGann play out of work impoverished actors who decide to leave their filthy London flat for a weekend in the countryside in what 1987 comedy film?

Picture Round - Career Home Run Leaders

1) Who is this baseball player? Where does he come in the list of career homerun hitters?

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2) Who is this baseball player? Where does he come in the list of career homerun hitters?

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3) Who is this baseball player? Where does he come in the list of career homerun hitters?

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4) Who is this baseball player? Where does he come in the list of career homerun hitters?

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5) Who is this baseball player? Where does he come in the list of career homerun hitters?

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Presidential Namesakes - all the answers to these questions are people who share part of their name with part of an American president's name (either first, middle or last)

1) The song Running Up That Hill by what British singer/songwriter was featured heavily in the fourth season of Stranger Things?

2) What 16th Century French theologian and clergyman was a leading figure in the Protestant reformation movement?

3) What English born aviatrix was the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia, landing in Darwin, a feat achieved in 1930?

4) What musician, composer, and producer produced the 1982 album Thriller for Michael Jackson and the 1985 charity song We Are The World?

5) Moneyball Question: The element with the atomic number of 104 is named for what New Zealand born scientist who is known as the father of nuclear physics?

Debut Novels

1) Sense And Sensibility debuting in 1811 was the first published novel of what author?

2) A murder mystery set in a Medieval Italian monastery, what is the 1980 debut novel of Italian author Umberto Eco?

3) First published in 1924 and set around the café society of 1920s Paris and the running of the bulls festival in Pamplona, Spain, what is the first novel of Ernest Hemingway?

4) Whose debut novel was The Bonfire Of The Vanities first published in 1987?

5) Moneyball Question: With Shuddering Fall, published in 1964, is the first of over fifty novels written by what female author also known for dozens of short story collections plus plays and numerous other writings?

Your Indianapolis Colts

1) Colts Linebacker Darius Leonard now wants to be known by his middle name, as he has been known to family and close friends his whole life. What is his middle name?

2) What position did Colts head coach Frank Reich play as a player in the NFL?

3) What nickname did Colts starting quarterback Matt Ryan first earn during his time playing football in high school?

4) What is notable about Colts wide receiver Alec Pierce?

5) Moneyball Question: Running back Jonathan Taylor played for what Big Ten school during his college career?

Crossword Clues - Music

1) Belief in the power of luck or 1972 song by Stevie Wonder - twelve letters; third letter is "P"?

2) Instrument played by Glen Miller - eight letters; sixth letter is "O"?

3) Light fixture or 2014 song by Sia - nine letters; fourth letter is "N"?

4) Literary doctor or 1989 album by Pixies - nine letters; second letter is "O"?

5) Moneyball Question: Patriotic 1899 classical piece by Jean Sibelius - nine letters; first letter is "F"?

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