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Broad Ripple Brewpub Quiz

posted: Apr. 20, 2023

The winners of this April 4, 2023, quiz were Rule 34 with 39 points. The winners of the Best Team Name Competition were The Merry Ne'er Do Wells.

Movies with Older Actors

1) Jane Fonda accepted the Academy Award for Best Actor on behalf of her seriously ill father Henry for what 1981 movie, which also won the Best Actress Award for Katherine Hepburn?

2) The title of what 2007 movie starring Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson as two older men with terminal cancer going on a road trip coined a now commonly used phrase?

3) In the 2023 movie Eighty For Brady, four octogenarian women played by Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Sally Field, and what other actress, who is one of the few people to earn an EGOT, attend Super Bowl LI?

4) The 1986 movie Tough Guys stars what two major Hollywood actors as aging gangsters, actors who had appeared in six previous films together including 1957's Gunfight At The O. K. Corral and 1964's Seven Days In May?

5) Moneyball Question: In the 1999 movie The Straight Story, elderly Alvin Straight, played by Richard Farnsworth, decides to visit his estranged brother, who lives over 200 miles away using what unusual mode of transport?

Picture Round - Famous Sams

1) Who is this American film director? What 1969 movie, that he directed, which starred William Holden and Robert Ryan plus an ensemble cast was controversial at the time for its level of violence?

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2) Who is this Canadian born comedian? What was the name of the satirical television program hosted and co-written by her that ended in 2022?

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3) Under what penname did this American author write? What was his real name?

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4) Who is this American politician, who was born in the 18th Century? He's the only person to hold what political office in two different states?

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5) Who is this British singer, actress and model who rose to prominence in the 1980s? She started her career appearing topless in British tabloid newspapers. On which particular page would she often appear in The Sun newspaper?

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Same Name Actors

1) What actress shares her name with a famous playwrights' wife?

2) What actor from a hugely popular sitcom from the 90s and early 2000s shares his name with an American naval hero?

3) What Oscar winning British director shares his name with an Indiana born actor?

4) What English born actress shares her name with the wife of an English king?

5) Moneyball Question: What Native American actor shares his name with an acclaimed 20th Century British author?

Dystopian Fiction

1) What is the name of the heroine of The Hunger Games novels written by Suzanne Collins?

2) The plague at the heart of the television series The Last Of Us first appears in what Asian capital city?

3) In 1965 a group of schoolboys from Tonga ended up being stranded on a deserted island in the Pacific Ocean for fifteen months. But unlike a dystopian novel published in 1954, which mirrors their story, they worked together to survive. What is the title of that novel and who wrote it?

4) The Morlocks and the Eloi, future versions of human beings, are found in what novel by H. G. Wells?

5) Moneyball Question: The novel that the 1968 movie The Planet Of The Apes was based on, was first published in 1963 in what language?

Crossword Clues - History

1) Pacific atoll, scene of 1942 battle - six letters; fourth letter is "W"?

2) Hannibal's City - eight letters; third letter is "R"?

3) Site of Napoleon's first exile - four letters; second letter is "L"?

4) First Apollo mission to use a lunar rover - seven letters; sixth letter is "E"?

5) Moneyball Question: Name the Romans gave to Ireland - eight letters; sixth letter is "N"?

Youthful Music

1) What title song, which played over the closing credits to the 1972 sequel to the 1971 horror film Willard, gave Michael Jackson his first number one hit as a solo artist, a song recorded when he was 14?

2) In 1972 what country music star had a major hit with the song Delta Dawn, recorded when she was 13 years old?

3) What Canadian born recording artist had a major hit with the song Diana in 1957, which he wrote and recorded when he was 15?

4) The first recording released by Virgin Records was a mostly instrumental 1973 album by Mike Oldfield, which he started composing when he was 17. Part of the composition was used as the theme to the movie The Exorcist released later that year. What is the album's title?

5) Moneyball Question: The Man With The Child In His Eyes, was the fourth single released from the 1978 album The Kick Inside, with the first being Wuthering Heights. What English born solo artist, who released the album, wrote the song when she was 13?

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