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Broad Ripple Brewpub Quiz

posted: Jan. 25, 2024

The winners of this January 2nd quiz were January Is The Monday Of Months with 45 points. The winners of the Best Team Name Competition were So Ya Say You Want A Resolution.

Round One: Year in Review: Major Movies Of 2023

1) Released in April, what was the highest grossing animated movie of 2023, which finished second amongst all films released last year?

2) The latest installment of what movie franchise, which was released in July, was subtitled Dead Reckoning Part One?

3) Which of the following movies has the longest running time: Oppenheimer, released in July, Killers Of The Flower Moon, released in October or Napoleon, released in November?

4) Released in December, the movie Maestro, starring Bradley Cooper, is a biopic of whom?

5) Moneyball Question: While Ryan Gosling and numerous other actors play the many versions of Ken in the movie Barbie, released in July, Michael Cera plays the one and only version of what male doll in the Barbie universe?

Round Two: Picture Round - Year in Review: People in the News

1) Who is this professional athlete? What NBA team does he play for?

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2) Who is this politician? To what position was he elected in October?

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3) Who is this actress? She is currently the president of what organization?

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4) Who is this former first lady? For how many years had she been married to her husband when she passed away in November?

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5) Who is this man who was convicted in November on seven counts of fraud? What specific area of finance did his fraud involve?

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Round Three: Year in Review: Happenings

1) Who published a tell-all memoir in January titled Spare?

2) In February, what movie won seven Oscars, including the first Best Actress Oscar for an Asian born woman, and only the second Best Supporting Actor Oscar for an Asian born man?

3) According to UN data what country overtook what other country as the most populous roughly midway through 2023?

4) What word which the Oxford Dictionary defines as "someone's ability to attract another person through style, charm, or attractiveness" became its word of the year for 2023?

5) Moneyball Question: Following analysis that they completed at the end of 2023, the New York Times announced that which of the following words is the best word to try when starting a game of Wordle: AUDIO, SLATE, CRANE or ADIEU?

Round Four: Year in Review: New TV Shows

1) What British actor of Nigerian descent plays the title role in the western series Lawman: Bass Reeves, and also stars in the science fiction drama Silo?

2) What show starred two actors who both had small parts in Game Of Thrones?

3) Gerry Turner, a 72-year-old man from Hudson, Indiana, gained prominence, initially in September, due to his appearance on what TV show?

4) Gen V is the second spin-off, the first being an animated series subtitled Diabolical, of what show that premiered in 2019, and is a dark take on the Superhero genre?

5) Bupkis, is a fictionalized version of the life of what former SNL comedian in which his mother is played by Edie Falco and his grandfather is played by Joe Pesci?

Round Five: Year in Review: Sports

1) Who was the only Indiana Pacer selected to play in the NBA All-Star game on February 19th, scoring 18 points for LeBron James' team?

2) On the 18th hole of a golf course in Rome, Irish golfers Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowery got into an argument with Joe LaCava, the caddie of American golfer Patrick Cantlay, during what event in September?

3) In what major sporting event, which took place in September and October, did South Africa defeat New Zealand to win the championship?

4) What Japanese born baseball player signed a 10-year $700 million deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers in December which is more than the Oakland A's have paid their entire roster over the last ten years?

5) Moneyball Question: Which of the four Grand Slam men's tennis titles did Novak Djokovic not win in 2023, with the event instead being won by up-and-coming tennis star Carlos Alcaraz?

Round Six: Year in Review: Women in Music

1) The song A&W, released in February, by the singer/songwriter born Elizabeth Woolridge Grant, and taken from her ninth album Did You Know There's A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd, was a major hit for her. By what stage name is she better known?

2) What name has been given to the record-breaking worldwide tour that Taylor Swift embarked on beginning in March, and that she has continued with throughout 2023?

3) Billie Eilish's song I Don't Know What I'm Made For, and Charli XCX's song Super Drive were featured on the soundtrack to what major film released in July?

4) Who released a critically acclaimed album in September titled Guts?

5) Moneyball Question: The song Flowers, released in January, which was the top song of 2023 on the Billboard Hot 100, spending eight weeks at number one, was co-written and recorded by what well-known artist?

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