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Broad Ripple Brewpub Quiz

posted: Aug. 10, 2023

The winners of the August 1st, 2023 quiz were New Swine Barn Same Swine Smell with 32 points in a tie-breaker with I Know You Are But What Am I?. The winners of the Best Team Name Competition were I Know You are But What Am I?.

Movies in Five Genres

1) In the classic 1973 horror film The Exorcist, Ellen Burstyn plays Chris MacNeil, mother to Regan, played by Linda Blair, who is possessed by a demon. What is Chris' profession?

2) In what classic 1933 Marx Brother's comedy film does Groucho play Rufus T. Firefly, the leader of a fictional country called Freedonia?

3) Gene Hackman plays what iconic character in the classic 1971 action thriller The French Connection?

4) The classic 1946 western film My Darling Clementine, directed by John Ford, depicts what famous event that took place in the Old West?

5) Moneyball Question: Richard Linklater's three classic romance films 1995's Before Sunrise, 2004's Before Sunset and 2013's Before Midnight, all star what actor and actress?

Picture Round - Major Inventions

1) What is this invention that was first introduced in 1794? Who invented it?

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2) This 1735 device, designed by Englishman John Harrison, that was the first to accurately keep time at sea, also enabled seafarers to keep track of what that prevented them getting lost when out of sight of land? The original device is currently on display at what location in London?

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3) This is an early version of what energy producing device that was introduced in 1800? What was the name of the Italian inventor who created it, and whose name is closely associated with the device?

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4) What is the name of this device that was commissioned by the US Army in 1942? It was housed at what Ivy League School?

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5) What is this 19th century medical device that made use of a phenomenon first discovered in 1895? What was the name of the German scientist who discovered the phenomenon?

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Soccer Stuff

1) The US Women's Soccer team are once again favored to win this year's Women's World Cup. How many times have they previously won it?

2) Argentinian soccer superstar Lionel Messi recently signed with an MLS team from what U. S. city?

3) What Welsh-based soccer club is famously owned by actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenny?

4) The top soccer division in Germany is known as the what?

5) Moneyball Question: Saudi Arabian soccer club Al Hilal recently offered a potentially record breaking one year deal to what French player worth $776 million with the transfer fee to his current club, Paris Saint Germain, worth $332 million?

Foreign Words in English That You May Not Have Known Weren't English

1) The name of what card game comes from the Spanish for Basket?

2) The name of what stew comes from a West African word for Okra?

3) What informal word meaning a chief or a leader is a Japanese word that translates to the same meaning?

4) The name of what common condiment comes from a Chinese word meaning Fish Sauce?

5) Moneyball Question: The name of what extinct creature that lived during the Ice Age comes from the Yakut language of Siberia meaning Earth?

Planetary Trivia

1) Which planet in our solar system is the hottest?

2) What are the rings of Saturn mostly made of?

3) What two planets in our solar system have atmospheres that make them look blue?

4) NASA missions Mariner 10 in 1973 and MESSENGER in 2004, and BepiColombo, a joint European Japanese 2018 space mission have all sent probes to observe what planet?

5) Moneyball Question: What planet's days, lasting 24 hours, 37 minutes and 22 seconds, are closest in time to the length of days on Earth?

Irish Pop/Rock Music

1) What Irish band had an international hit with the song The Boys Are Back In Town in 1976?

2) Irish born singer-songwriter Glen Hansard along with Czech born, Markéta Irglová, won the Best Music (Original song) Oscar for Falling Slowly which was featured in what 2006 movie?

3) The band The Cranberries was formed in what Irish city in the early 1990s?

4) What are the missing three words from the following title of a 1990 album by Sinéad O'Connor, which was her most commercially successful: I Do Not Want What _____?

5) Moneyball Question: U2 famously began in 1976 when the four members came together in drummer Larry Mullen Jr.'s kitchen as teenagers looking to form a band. Prior to adopting the name U2 and finding fame, a brother of which band member also played with them?

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