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Broad Ripple Brewpub Quiz

posted: Sept. 19, 2024

The winners of the September 4th quiz were Swift Possum with 45 points. The winners of the Best Team Name Competition were Our Mic's Are Muted.

Round One: Movies Based on TV Shows

1) Actress Heather Thomas has a cameo in what 2024 movie based on a 1980s television series?

2) Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill starred in a 2012 movie version of the television series that launched Johnny Depp's career. What was the name of the subsequent sequel released in 2014?

3) In the 1993 movie The Fugitive, based on the 1960s television series, Tommy Lee Jones adlibbed what famous line when the main character played by Harrison Ford says: "I didn't kill my wife"?

4) The subtitle to the 1988 movie The Naked Gun, in which Leslie Nielsen plays the bumbling Lt. Frank Drebin, contains the name of the short-lived television series that it's based on. What is the name of that series?

5) Moneyball Question:The 2002 science fiction film Serenity, written and directed by Joss Whedon, continues the story first started in what television series also created by him, which its many fans considered to have been wrongly canceled too soon?

Round Two: Picture Round: Comedians

1) Who is this comedian? In what Asian country was he born?

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2) Who is this comedian? In 2019, her album Black Mitzvah, won the Grammy for Best Comedy Album, making her only the second African American woman to win that award. Who was the first?

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3) Who is this comedian? Her late-night series, After Midnight, which premiered in 2024 followed whose talk show each night?

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4) Who is this comedian? On what Star Wars television spin-off on Disney + was he a guest star, both in season one which first aired in 2019 and season two which aired in 2020?

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5) Who is this comedian? What White House Press Secretary under the Trump administration took offense at jokes she made about them during the 2018 White House Correspondents' Dinner?

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Round Three: September 4th - The Day In History

1) In 1866, after thirty years of fighting, what Apache chief, along with his remaining men, surrendered to the US Army in Arizona?

2) In 1957 the Ford Motor company introduced the ill-fated Edsel. For whom was the car named?

3) In 1998, Sergey Brin and Larry Page launched what company?

4) In 2002, who was declared the first winner of American Idol?

5) Moneyball Question: In 1972 at the Munich Olympic Games, swimmer Mark Spitz won the last of his Olympic gold medals that year. How many did he win in all?

Round Four: TV Comedy Guest Stars

1) Philip Baker Hall plays Lt. Joe Bookman, who works for the New York Public Library, on an episode of Seinfeld from 1991. The character was a parody of what other long-running television character?

2) Sting, Amy Schumer and Matthew Broderick play versions of themselves in three different seasons of what comedy thriller that has aired on Hulu?

3) What Indianapolis born television personality played a shady self-help guru on a 1979 episode of Mork & Mindy?

4) Former soccer stars Thierry Henri and Gary Lineker as well as Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola have all appeared as themselves on what series that ran on Apple TV + in the 2020s?

5) Moneyball Question: What actress, who first found major fame on the 1980s prime-time soap opera Flamingo Road, also features as a guest star on that same 1979 episode of Mork & Mindy mentioned earlier?

Round Five: Places Renamed for Famous People

1) The USTA National Tennis Center in New York, where the US Open is held, was renamed for what renowned female tennis player in 2006?

2) The street in Indianapolis, once called Northwestern Avenue, and located on the Near Northside, was renamed for whom in 1985?

3) The Russian city of Volgograd, known from its founding until 1925 as Tsaritsyn, was renamed what before being changed to its current name in 1961?

4) The Washington National Airport, located in the District of Columbia, was renamed for whom in 1998?

5) Moneyball Question: A highway that runs through what state, has rest stops that are named for famous people who were born in that state, including Whitney Houston, Bruce Willis, and Judy Blume?

Round Six: Posthumous Albums

1) What final 1982 album by Led Zeppelin, whose title means the ending to piece of music, was released after the 1980 death of drummer John Bonham?

2) The 1971 album, Pearl, was a solo album released three months after the death of what singer?

3) An eponymously titled album by what punk and ska band was released in 1996 two months after the death of singer Bradley Nowell?

4) What song that gave the 1968 album by Otis Redding its title, which was released following his death the year before, was the first posthumously released single to top the Billboard Charts?

5) Moneyball Question: The last album released by The Doors in 1978 featured recordings of Jim Morrison, who died in 1971, reciting some of his poetry, which was put to music by the other three band members. What is its title?

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