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Broad Ripple Brewpub Quiz

posted: Nov. 10, 2022

Questions from the November 2022 Brewpub Quiz. The winning team was Herschel Walker, Georgia Ranger with 38 points. Best Team Name Competition Winners: Booty And The Ho fish.

Five Frightening Films

1) Due to its minuscule budget as well as its success at the box office, what 1999 horror film is one of the most profitable films of all-time in any genre?

2) Tony Todd plays the title character in what movie released in 2022 having played the same character in three films in the 1990s?

3) Remade in 1982 starring Nastassja Kinski and Malcolm McDowell, what 1942 film about people from an ancient Serbian tribe who transform into a certain animal when aroused, was famous for using shadows and suggestion rather than anything explicit to illicit scares?

4) What cast member of The Office co-wrote, directed and starred, along with his wife Emily Blunt, in the 2018 post-apocalyptic horror film, A Quiet Place?

5) Moneyball Question: Telling the story of a puritan family encountering an evil presence in 1630s New England, what 2015 movie features the film debut of actress Anya Taylor-Joy?

Picture Round - Celebrities in High School

1) Who is this recording artist? The name of what brand of liquor inspired her stage name?

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2) Who is this actor? The Brewpub has produced a seasonal beer that uses the name of what character that he has played?

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3) Who is this television personality? For what animated segment on SNL did he provide the voice of Ace while Steve Carrell provided the voice of Gary?

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4) Who is this actress? She first came to prominence, and won a Golden Globe, for playing CIA agent Sydney Bristow on what action-adventure television series in the 2000s?

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5) Who is this recording artist? What is the name of the record label he co-founded in 1995?

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Contemporary Commercial Characters

1) Jamie, once a minor character in a series of commercials for what insurance company, is now often the principal character in some of the commercials?

2) Willie and Tyler, dressed in red shirts and wearing red visors, work for what fast food chain in a series of commercials?

3) Now appearing in a series of commercials for Spectrum, actor John Hoogenakker once played the main character in a series of commercials set in Medieval times for what well-known beer?

4) What character who features in a series of commercials for an insurance company, often with real-life sporting figures, was originally played by an actual employee of the company using the employee's own name?

5) Moneyball Question: What well-known character actor uses the phrase: "We know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two" in a series of commercials?

Cultural Questions

1) Terpsichore, Polyhymnia, and Euterpe are just three of what collective group of women from Greek mythology?

2) Who wrote the opera The Magic Flute first performed in 1791?

3) Mary Shelly, along with her future husband Percy Bysshe Shelly and her stepsister Claire, was staying at the home of what poet when she came up with the story of Frankenstein?

4) In classical ballet, how many basic positions for the feet and arms are there?

5) Moneyball Question: What French Impressionist painter, who often painted the same subject over and over, did at least nineteen studies of the Houses of Parliament in London at different times of day and in different weather conditions?

Where In The World?

1) If you were sailing on a body of water that borders Russia, Iran, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan, what body of water would you be sailing on?

2) If you were in a desert where it was possible to spend time in both China and Mongolia, what desert would you be in?

3) If you were standing on the top of a mountain, famous for its shape, where you can see the statue of Christ The Redeemer and Copacabana beach in the distance on what mountain would you be standing?

4) If you were standing in front of the Brandenburg Gate what city would you be in?

5) Moneyball Question: If you spent time visiting The Cliffs of Moher, Newgrange, and a statue called Anna Livia, what country would you be visiting?

Alliterative Songs

1) What is the missing word in the following song released by Cab Calloway and his orchestra in 1939: Jumpin' _____?

2) What 1958 song by The Coasters is known for its saxophone solos?

3) What 1979 song by ABBA is subtitled A Man After Midnight?

4) What 1971 song by Rod Stewart is based on his real-life affair with an older woman?

5) Moneyball Question: In what 2009 song by Ke$ha does she talk about brushing her teeth with a bottle of Jack?

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