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Broad Ripple Brewpub Quiz

posted: Jun. 29, 2023

The winners of this past quiz were Benedict Cumberbatch Cabbage Patch with 14 points. The winners of the Best Team Name Competition were How Many Subpoenas Could The Land Bank Land If The Land Bank Could Land Subpoenas.

War Movies

1) The Bouncing Bomb used on May 16th and 17th, 1943 to breach two German dams and damage a third was depicted in what classic 1955 British film?

2) Mel Gibson starred in a 1981 movie that tells the tragic events of what World War I campaign that was fought by Australian and New Zealander troops in Turkey?

3) Tom Berenger, Jeff Daniels and Martin Sheen head a large cast in a 1993 movie that depicts the events surrounding what battle?

4) What actor, who is the younger of two acting brothers, plays Bunny in the 1986 movie Platoon?

May History - Part Two

1) On May 17th 1792 twenty-four businessmen met under what kind of tree located on Wall Street in New York City, where they established the New York Stock Exchange?

2) What major political figure was born Nguyen Sinh Cung in Vietnam on May 19th 1890?

3) On May 20th 1932 Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, when she flew from Newfoundland, Canada to just outside what Irish city that is known by one name to the people of the Republic of Ireland and the city's Catholic population and by a somewhat different name to the people of the United Kingdom?

4) What memorial was dedicated in Washington D. C. on May 30th 1922, that features a sculpture by Daniel Chester French?

Biblical Titles

1) The title of what 1985 Clint Eastwood movie was inspired by a passage in the Book Of Revelations?

2) According to the Bible where is the Land of Nod located, a location that is used as the title of a classic novel?

3) What comic strip that appears in the Indianapolis Star gets its title from a passage in Mark's Gospel?

4) The phrase Through A Glass, Darkly has been used as the title to dozens of literary works, pieces of music and a 1961 film directed by Ingmar Bergman. It comes from a letter by St. Paul to the people of what city located in modern day Greece?

500 Pole-Sitters

1) What is the best finish current Indianapolis 500 pole-sitter Ed Carpenter has had in the race?

2) In 1919 French born driver René Thomas was the first pole-sitter to do what?

3) What driver, who is the only person to have won the Indianapolis 500, the Daytona 500 and the Formula One Championship, was the back to back pole-sitter in 1966 and 1967?

4) Between 1920 and 1982 only one non-American, a legendary Scottish Formula One driver, won the pole position. Who was he?

Auto Tunes

1) Johnny Cash sang about what make of car in the 1976 song One Piece At A Time?

2) In Paul Evans' 1959 novelty song Seven Little Girls (Sitting In The Back Seat) who were the seven girls "kissing and a hugging" with in the back seat of the singer's car?

3) "Well I'm not braggin' babe so don't put me down, but I've got the fastest set of wheels in town" are lyrics from what 1963 Beach Boys song?

4) Who had a hit in 1988 with Fast Car?

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