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Broad Ripple Brewpub Quiz

posted: Jan. 11, 2024

The winners of this December 19th quiz were You're A Mean One Mr. Grinch with 44 points. The winners of the Best Team Name Competition were Festivus Pole Dancers.

Round One: Christmas Parties in Movies

1) At a Christmas party held in a bar, Jimmy "The Gem" Conway chastises his fellow mobsters for buying extravagant Christmas presents following the Lufthansa job in what 1990 movie?

2) Serial Killer, Patrick Bateman is forced to wear what incongruous headgear by his fiancé at a Christmas party in the 2000 movie American Psycho?

3) In the 1992 movie A Muppet Christmas Carol, Fozziwig is heckled by Marley and Marley as he gives a speech at the Christmas party for his factory workers. What two muppets play Marley and Marley?

4) The title character in what 2001 movie is amused when she sees the normally aloof and self-possessed Mark Darcy made to look foolish when he's forced to wear an ugly Christmas sweater given to him by his mother at his mother's Christmas party?

5) Moneyball Question: A doctor resists the charms of two flirtatious models while his wife resists the charms of a dissolute European nobleman at a Manhattan Christmas party thrown by a wealthy businessman in what 1999 movie?

Round Two: Picture Round - Christmas Trees in Famous Locations

1) This tree is located in the main square of what New World capital? On what ancient city is the modern city built?

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2) What is the name of this staircase where this tree is located? In what European capital would you find this famous landmark?

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3) This artificial Christmas tree is located in Nelson Mandela Square in what city? What variety of tree does it represent?

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4) In what city is this tree located? The tree itself is an annual gift from what Scandinavian country in gratitude for help received during World War II?

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5) These trees and decorations are part of Christmas Town, and are located in what Asian City? In what decade of the 20th Century did this city cease to be a British colony?

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Round Three: Christmas on TV

1) In the 1969 Christmas special Frosty The Snowman, what was the top hat that made Frosty come to life made from?

2) In a special extra episode which wraps up what British television series, Dawn and Lee return from America for a Christmas staff party at their old place of work, and Dawn finally realizes that Tim is who she really wants to be with?

3) In the 1964 Christmas special Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer, what is the name of the young female deer who befriends Rudolph?

4) In a current Christmas commercial for Amazon, to the tune of In My Life by The Beatles, an elderly woman buys three cushions for herself and her two equally elderly friends, which allows them all to indulge in what Winter activity?

5) Moneyball Question: In a 2022 Christmas special that stems from what film series, the rock band The Old 97s portraying aliens on a space station called Knowhere perform the song I Don't Know What Christmas Is (But Christmastime Is Here)?

Round Four: Fill in the Blanks - Dialogue from A Christmas Story

1) The Old Man doing a puzzle in the newspaper, worth $50,000 to the winner ponders aloud: "What is the name of the Lone Ranger's _____ horse?" To which Mom astonishes him by saying, "uh Victor, his name is Victor"?

2) Having discovered that the secret message from Lil' Orphan Annie solves to Be Sure To Drink Your Ovaltine, Ralphie says, "Ovaltine? A crummy_____?"

3) After Mom breaks The Old Man's lamp, adult Ralphie, through narration says: "Later that night, alone in the backyard, he buried it next to the garage. Now I could never be sure, but I thought that I heard the sound of _____ being played, gently"?

4) The Old Man on being presented with a duck for his family's Christmas meal at the Chinese restaurant says: "but you see it's um it's _____ at me"?

5) As Ralphie and Randy go to see Santa at Higby's Department Store, adult Ralphie, through narration, says: "The line waiting to see Santa Claus stretched all the way back to _____"?

Round Five: Toy Hall of Fame Nominees 2023

1) With names such as Pinkie Pie, Applejack and Rainbow Dash what collection of toys has at times outsold Barbie dolls?

2) What company produced the Corn Popper, a noisy toy filled with colorful popping balls, designed to help babies and toddlers with their walking?

3) What two colors are the counters in the game Connect 4?

4) Elmer's Glue, baking soda, and saline can be used to make a homemade version of what toy?

5) Moneyball Question: What toy, first introduced on March 11th, 1961, came dressed for a day at the beach?

Round Six: Christmas Rock Music

1) On whose late-night talk show on the last show before Christmas Day every year from 1986 to 2014, when the show ended, did Darlene Love perform her song Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)?

2) "Out of all the reindeers you know you are the mastermind" is the first line of what 1958 song by Chuck Berry?

3) A version of what 1957 hit for Elvis Presley was the last ever song Clarence Clemens performed live with Bruce Springsteen And The E Street Band, which occurred at a 2010 Christmas concert in Asbury Park, New Jersey?

4) Released in 1963, what is The Beach Boys' most popular Christmas themed song?

5) Moneyball Question: What are the missing two words in the following lyrics from the 1988 song Fairytale Of New York by The Pogues: "and the boys of the NYPD choir were singing _____"?

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