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Broad Ripple Brewpub Quiz

posted: Sept. 21, 2023

The winners of this September 5th, 2023, quiz were Our Team Name Writer Is On Strike with 33 points. The winners of the Best Team Name Competition were Our Team Name Writer Is On Strike.

Female Directors

1) What 1992 movie, which was one of the most successful to be based on a Saturday Night Live sketch, was directed by Penelope Spheeris?

2) The 2017 movie Lady Bird and the 2019 movie version of Little Women, both starring Saoirse Ronan and Timothy Chalamet were directed by what female filmmaker?

3) Ava DuVernay directed what 2014 movie in which British born actor David Oyelowo plays Martin Luther King Jr.?

4) Jane Campion, who won an Oscar for Best Screenplay for the 1993 movie The Piano, which she also directed, and won a Best Director Oscar for the 2021 movie The Power Of The Dog, is a native of what country?

5) Moneyball Question: Written and directed by Chantal Ackerman when she was just 25 the 1975 film Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles topped the most recent poll of the greatest films of all time which is famously conducted by what magazine every ten years?

Picture Round - Bridges

1) What is the name of this bridge? What body of water does it span?

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2) What is the name of this bridge? What body of water does it span?

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3) What is the name of this bridge? What body of water does it span?

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4) What is the name of this bridge? What body of water does it span?

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5) What is the name of this bridge? What body of water does it span?

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NFL Brothers

1) Jason Kelce plays Center for the Philadelphia Eagles who lost the most recent Super Bowl, LVII, to the Kansas City Chiefs for which his brother is a star at Tight End. What is his brother's first name?

2) Which of the identical twin Barber brothers, who both had extremely successful NFL careers, was just inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame this year?

3) What is the last name of brothers Justin James, Derek John and Trent Jordan, all of whom have played in the NFL?

4) Brothers Chris and Kyle Long both played in the NFL. Who is their father who also played in the NFL?

5) Moneyball Question: Sterling Sharpe is a Pro Football Hall of Fame Wide Receiver. What position did his brother Shannon, also a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, play?

Geographical Connections

1) What specifically connects the following geographical locations: Cotopaxi, Erebus, Pinatubo, Fuji?

2) What specifically connects the following geographical locations: Sulu, Tasman, Yellow, Chilean?

3) What specifically connects the following geographical locations: Sardinia, Gozo, Rhodes, Menorca?

4) What specifically connects the following geographical locations: Burundi, Sudan, Ethiopia, Egypt?

5) Moneyball Question: What specifically connects the following geographical locations: Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Baku, Azerbaijan; Copenhagen, Denmark; Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei?

Fictional Pet Cats And Dogs

1) Who was constantly threatening to eat Lucky, the Tanners' pet cat, in a sitcom from the late 1980s?

2) Bull's-eye, an English bull-terrier is the pet of what villain who appears in the 1838 Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist?

3) A cat named Duchess and her three kittens named Toulouse, Marie and Berlioz are the pets of opera singer Adelaide Bonfamille in what 1970 animated Disney movie?

4) Barbara, played by Kathleen Turner hates her husband Oliver's dog Benny, while Oliver, played by Michael Douglas hates his wife's pet cat known as Kitty Kitty in what 1989 movie directed by and co-starring Danny DeVito?

5) Moneyball Question: In A Boy And His Dog, a 1969 science fiction story by Harlan Ellison, Vic and his dog Blood work together to survive in a post-apocalyptic world. What special ability does Blood possess?

Songs Inspired By Books

1) The 1986 song Moon Over Bourbon Street by Sting was inspired by what 1976 novel written by Anne Rice?

2) The 1969 song Ramble On and the 1971 song The Battle Of Evermore both by Led Zeppelin were inspired by what epic fantasy novel originally published in three volumes between 1954 and 1955?

3) The 1995 song The Ghost Of Tom Joad by Bruce Springsteen is inspired by what classic novel published in 1939?

4) The Beatles 1967 song I Am The Walrus, written by John Lennon, is inspired by a poem that appears in what 1871 fantasy novel written for children?

5) Moneyball Question: Lana Del Rey's 2013 song Young And Beautiful was inspired by and written for a 2013 movie version of what classic Jazz Age novel, which was directed by Baz Luhrman?

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