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Broad Ripple Brewpub Quiz

posted: Apr. 11, 2024

The winners of the April 2, 2024, quiz were We're Like The Sun: We Also Black Out At 3:06 with 43 points. The winners of the Best Team Name Competition were It's My 60th Birthday Today, It's Gonna Be A Bloodbath If We Don't Win.

Round One: Biblical Epics

1) What 1961 film based on the life of Jesus Christ shares its name with a line from the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel's Messiah?

2) The Robe, a 1953 movie starring Richard Burton and Victor Mature, was the first film presented in what format?

3) The 1951 movie Quo Vadis tells the story of Nero's persecution of the Christians. Which of Jesus' apostles is also featured in the movie?

4) Charlton Heston famously played Moses in the 1956 movie The Ten Commandments. Who played his nemesis, Rameses II?

5) Moneyball Question: What actor, who played the title role of Zorba The Greek in the 1964 movie, played the title role in the 1961 movie Barrabas?

Round Two: Picture Round - Top Five All-Time Men's College Basketball Players According to ESPN

1) Who is this basketball player shown in his college days? Under what name did he play in college?

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2) Who is this basketball player shown in his college days? What was his nickname as a player?

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3) Who is this basketball player shown in his college days? During his college career he averaged just over twenty per game in what statistic?

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4) Who is this basketball player shown in his college days? When he moved to the NBA, he eventually joined what organization, which was then an expansion team that represented the same city as his college team?

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5) Who is this basketball player shown in his college days? Who was his coach throughout his college career?

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Round Three: Author's Only Novels

1) Gone With The Wind, published in 1936, was the only novel by what author?

2) Go Set A Watchman, published in 2015, was at the time touted as a long lost novel by an author famous for only ever having published one novel, which they did in 1960, but is now mostly considered merely a first draft of that lone novel. What is that novel?

3) What poet's only novel was The Bell Jar published in 1963?

4) Published in 1997, what bestseller by Arthur Golden, about a Japanese woman trained in the ancient arts to be a multi-faceted entertainer and host for hire, is to date his only novel?

5) Moneyball Question: Made into an epic 1957 movie starring Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift, what 1948 novel is the only one published by Ross Lockridge Jr.?

Round Four: April 2nd - The Day In History

1) In 1834 the sculptor Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi was born. What is he most famous for?

2) In 1865, Confederate troops were forced to evacuate what city, which was the capital of the Confederacy?

3) In 1982, Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands, an Overseas British Territory that the Argentinians laid claim to. By what name are the islands known in Argentina?

4) In 1992, John Gotti was sentenced to life in prison on thirteen criminal charges including murder. Due to his acquittal in three previous trials, he had earned what nickname?

5) Moneyball Question: What politician, the first woman to be elected to congress, assumed office in 1917?

Round Five: Women Play Basketball Too (The 2024 NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament)

1) What star player for LSU is nicknamed The Bayou Barbie?

2) Having reached 140 so far for her career in the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament, Caitlin Clark has broken the record for a player in the tournament in what statistical category?

3) Paige Bueckers is the star player for what team that's coached by Geno Auriemma?

4) What four seed narrowly missed out on an Elite Eight berth when they lost by four points to number one seed South Carolina?

5) Moneyball Question: Reaching the total during this year's NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament, Juju Watkins has set the record for the most points scored by a freshman in a season with 920. What team does she play for?

Round Six: Novelty Songs

1) First performed by country duo Lonzo and Oscar in 1947, what is the title of a song in which the father of the song's narrator marries the narrator's stepdaughter?

2) What are the missing two words in the following lyrics from a song by Lonnie Donegan released in 1956: Does your _____ lose its flavor on the bedpost overnight?

3) In a 1960 song by Brian Hyland, a woman is afraid to come out of the water because she's wearing what?

4) The 1976 song One Piece At A Time recorded by Johnny Cash tells the story of a man who builds a car by stealing parts from the factory he works at over the course of many years. What make of car does he build?

5) Moneyball Question: In 1974, Ray Stevens recorded what song about a fad that took the form of a public stunt, which had initially started mostly on college campuses in the 1960s, but reached its peak in popularity by 1974?

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