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Broad Ripple Brewpub Quiz

posted: Dec. 15, 2022

Questions from a past Brewpub Quiz. The winning team was Don't Ever Google Yourself Again, Billy with 19 points. Best Team Name Competition Winners: We'd Like To Welcome The Brits By Offering A Food Exchange: Our Indiana Tenderloin For Your Spotted Dick.

Biopics

1) Who played the part of Katherine Hepburn in the 2004 movie The Aviator, which tells the story of Howard Hughes?

2) What 1973 movie starring Al Pacino, tells the true story of an NYPD detective trying to uncover police corruption?

3) Forest Whitaker won a Best Actor Oscar for playing what real life figure in the 2006 movie The Last King Of Scotland?

4) A scene from what 2004 film that depicts the last days of Adolf Hitler created a major internet meme?

Indianapolis' Sister Cities

1) The first city Indianapolis was twinned with, which occurred in 1978, is the capital of Taiwan. What is the city's name?

2) Piran, which became one of Indianapolis' sister cities in 2001 is in what former Yugoslavian state whose capital is Ljubljana?

3) Monza, twinned with Indianapolis in 1993 and the third largest city in the Lombardy region, is located in what country?

4) What German city, which was named as one of Indianapolis' sister cities in 1988, is the birthplace of the style of ale known as Kolsch?

American Telly

1) George And Mildred, a 1970s British sitcom that was a spinoff of Man About The House, was remade as what American show, itself a spinoff of a show based on Man About The House?

2) What show, currently running on Showtime, is an American remake of an original British program with the same name?

3) What game show which debuted on NBC in 2001, was originally hosted by British TV personality Anne Robinson, the same person who hosted the original British version?

4) In the American version of The Office what was the name of the character who is the equivalent to the character Garth Keenan from the British original?

Famous Irish-Americans

1) The 7th President of the United States was the son of Irish immigrants from County Antrim and was the first of many Presidents to have Irish Ancestry. Who was he?

2) What Indiana-born comedian is known for his routine on Hot Pockets, the microwavable meals?

3) What artist was known for her paintings of sensual flowers and desert landscapes inspired by New Mexico, where she spent much of her life?

4) What author and political commentator founded the magazine National Review in 1955?

Music History

1) What name is given to the music which was cataloged by a Pope who reigned from the year 590 to the year 604?

2) The musical period that lasted from the late 16th Century to the mid 18th Century and whose main proponents were Bach, Handel and Vivaldi is known as what?

3) Claude Joseph Rouget De Lisle wrote what song in 1792 that was one of the first pieces of music to be adopted as a National Anthem?

4) In the early part of the 20th Century Arnold Schoenberg became one of the major proponents of what form of music?

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