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Broad Ripple Brewpub Quiz

posted: Nov. 30, 2023

The winners of this November 21, 2023, quiz were E = MC Hammer with 39 points. The winners of the Best Team Name Competition were E = MC Hammer.

Filmmakers

1) Greg Toland, James Wong Howe and Roger Deakins are all known for what aspect of filmmaking?

2) Edith Head, Colleen Atwood and Orry-Kelly are all known for what aspect of filmmaking?

3) Rick Baker, Stan Winston and Frances Hannon are all known for what aspect of filmmaking?

4) Douglas Trumball, Ray Harryhausen and John Dykstra are all known for what aspect of filmmaking?

5) Moneyball Question: Thelma Schoonmaker, Michael Kahn and Sally Menke are all known for what aspect of filmmaking?

Picture Round - Sports Equipment

1) The ball pictured is the kind used in what sport? What is the shape of the field where the game is played?

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2) In what sport is this piece of equipment used? How many members compete in the team competition of this sport?

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3) In what sport are these gloves worn? The scoring area is enclosed by a square frame that is how many feet wide?

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4) In what sport is this headgear sometimes worn? Within this sport, every Spring, a major tournament takes place in Europe in which how many countries compete?

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5) In what sport is this piece of equipment used/ How many disciplines are there in this sport?

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TV Catchphrases

1) In the Big Bang Theory, Sheldon Cooper, played by Jim Parsons, used what one-word phrase when he thought he'd gotten the better of someone?

2) In the original long-running version of Hawaii Five-O, Detective Steve McGarrett, played by Jack Lord, was famous for the phrase "Book 'em, Danno" but what two-word phrase usually followed it?

3) What famous news anchor, who retired from his position with CBS in 1981, always finished each broadcast with the phrase "and that's the way it is"?

4) What villainous collective in the Star Trek universe would tell those they wished to assimilate that "Resistance is futile"?

5) Moneyball Question: Who would often say to his co-host on their show "Mom always liked you best" and what was his co-host's name?

Fill in the Blanks - Body Parts

1) Home of King Kong - _____ Island?

2) Additional explanatory section at the end of a book - The _____?

3) New York bridge connecting The Bronx to Queens - The Throgs _____ Bridge?

4) False god created by the Israelites in the Book of Exodus - The Golden _____?

5) Moneyball Question: Famous aria from Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore - The _____ Chorus?

First And Last Novels

1) What author's first and last novels published within his lifetime were The Pickwick Papers, published in 1837, and Our Mutual Friend, published in 1865?

2) What author's first and last novels published within her lifetime were The Mysterious Affair At Styles, published in 1921, and Curtain, published in 1975?

3) What author's first and last novels published within her lifetime were We The Living, published in 1936, and Atlas Shrugged, published in 1957?

4) What author's first and last novels published within her lifetime were The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, and God Help The Child, published in 2015?

5) Moneyball Question: What author's first and last novels published within his lifetime were Typee, published in 1846, and The Confidence-Man, published in 1857?

Top Ten Guitarists According to Rolling Stone Magazine

1) What guitarist spent time with the band The Yardbirds just prior to forming the band that made him most famous?

2) Whose guitar riffs along with Bernard Edwards bass lines were sampled by The Sugarhill Gang on 1980's Rapper's Delight, the first rap music hit?

3) A nickname, what do the initials in B. B. King's name stand for?

4) What singer/songwriter, known for her acoustic guitar playing, was one of the artists, led by Neil Young, to remove their music from Spotify, because the app featured Joe Rogan's podcast in which he was spreading disinformation about vaccinations?

5) Moneyball Question: What Rock and Roll pioneer toured extensively throughout the 1970s and 1980s by himself, hiring local musicians to back him up, confident that his songs were so iconic that every musician would know them?

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