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Broad Ripple Brewpub Quiz

posted: Feb. 22, 2024

The winners of the February 6th quiz were Forget The Super Bowl This Is The Big Game with 48 points. The winners of the Best Team Name Competition were Is That A Pothole Or The Broad Ripple Canal?.

Round One: Prison Movies

1) What are the missing two words from the title of a classic 1932 movie starring Paul Muni: I Am A Fugitive From A _____?

2) Who plays the part of real-life jailed murderer Robert Stroud in the 1962 movie The Birdman Of Alcatraz?

3) In the 1994 movie The Shawshank Redemption in what US state is the prison located, a state which is often featured in books by Stephen King, including the one that the movie is based on?

4) The 2005 movie The Longest Yard, starring Adam Sandler as a onetime professional football player now prison inmate, who gets involved in a game between prisoners and guards, is a remake of a 1974 movie. What actor, who has a cameo in the movie, had the starring role in the original film?

5) Moneyball Question: In a famous scene from what 1967 movie does Paul Newman, playing the title character, win a bet with his fellow prison inmates by eating fifty hard boiled eggs?

Round Two: Picture Round - "D" Things

1) What is the name of this mountain, which is located in the United States? By what other name was it officially known for many years?

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2) This is a still from a 1996 movie version of a Shakespeare play. What character does actress Irene Jacob, seen in the picture, play? On the left is the actor Kenneth Branagh, who plays what villain from the play?

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3) The car pictured is a 1983 model Charade. What car company manufactured it? The company was founded in what country?

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4) What is the name of this character created by Hanna Barbera and featured in a series of television cartoons in the 1960s? What is the name of his son who was the main character in the show?

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5) What species of animal is this? What species is its closest relative?

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Round Three: February 6th - The Day In History

1) In 1820, as part of an effort to return freed slaves back to Africa, the first group were placed on a ship heading to Freetown, which is the capital of what African country?

2) In 1840, as a precursor to the annexation of the country of New Zealand by Great Britain, the Treaty of Waitangi was signed as a means of protecting the rights of what peoples?

3) What future US President was born in Tampico, Illinois in 1911?

4) In 1952, what British monarch died, making his daughter Elizabeth, queen?

5) Moneyball Question: In 1921 Charlie Chaplin released what film, his first feature length movie, in which he co-starred with six-year-old Jackie Coogan?

Round Four: Super Bowl Quarterbacks

1) What quarterback led his team to wins in both Super Bowl I and Super Bowl II?

2) Tom Brady appeared in a record-breaking nine Super Bowls winning six. Who was the quarterback for the team that was responsible for two of those losses?

3) What quarterback lost four Super Bowls in four successive years all with the same team?

4) In 2006 Peyton Manning led the Colts to their only Super Bowl win in the Indianapolis era by defeating the Chicago Bears. Who was the Bears' quarterback that day, a player who was born in Bloomington, Indiana?

5) Moneyball Question: Who was the first African American quarterback to win the Super Bowl, which he did in 1987?

Round Five: Greek and Roman Deity Equivalents

1) Jupiter and his wife Juno were the rulers of the Roman pantheon of gods. Who are their Greek counterparts?

2) Bacchus is the Roman God of agriculture, fertility, and wine. Who is his Greek equivalent?

3) The Greek goddess Artemis was known to the Romans as Diana. Her twin brother was one of the few gods known by the same name to both Romans and Greeks. What is his name?

4) The demi-god known to the Romans as Hercules was known to the Greeks by what name?

5) Moneyball Question: Eos is the Greek Goddess of the Dawn. Who is her Roman equivalent?

Round Six: Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media

1) The song (Everything I Do) I Do It For You from the 1991 movie Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves, which won this Grammy, was co-written and recorded by what solo artist?

2) What song from the 1997 movie Titanic performed by Celine Dion won this Grammy?

3) The first song to win this award that was not from a movie was Boss Of Me awarded in 2002 to the band They Might Be Giants, which is the theme from what TV sitcom?

4) What creator of Broadway shows has won two of these Grammys for songs from animated Disney films, namely How Far I'll Go from 2016's Moana and We Don't Talk About Bruno from 2021's Encanto?

5) Moneyball Question: The first song to win this award was Somewhere Out There from what 1986 animated movie about an immigrant Russian mouse named Fievel?

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