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Broad Ripple Brewpub Quiz

posted: Oct. 17, 2024

The winners of the October 1st quiz were Ballz To The Walz with 47 points. The winners of the Best Team Name Competition were Walzing With The Devil.

Round One: Time Travel Movies

1) In the 1979 movie Time After Time, author H. G. Wells, played by Malcolm McDowell, uses his time machine to pursue his friend, played by David Warner, into the future when it's revealed that he is what infamous serial killer?

2) In what 2011 Woody Allen directed movie, does a screenwriter played by Owen Wilson periodically travel back in time where he meets literary and artistic figures such as F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Stein, Paul Gaugin, Edgar Degas and many others?

3) In the 2012 movie Looper, Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays a hitman who kills people the mob sends back in time from a future where time travel is now possible, to be executed. What actor plays the older version of the character?

4) The title of what 1986 comedy film, in which a woman goes back in time, comes from a 1959 song written by Buddy Holly?

5) Moneyball Question: Jean-Claude Van Damme is the hero and Ron Silver is the villain in what 1994 action movie centered around time travel?

Round Two: Picture Round: Celestial Bodies

1) What is the name of this moon, the largest moon in our solar system, and which is named for the cupbearer of the Greek gods? Around what planet does it orbit?

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2) What is the name of this galaxy which is the nearest one to our own Milky Way? In Greek mythology, the woman who gives her name to the galaxy is saved by what hero from the sea monster, Cetus, who uses the head of Medusa to turn Cetus to stone?

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3) What is the name given to this comet, one of the longest and brightest on record? It came closest to the Earth in what year, which was the same year that Bill Clinton was sworn in for his second term as President of the United States?

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4) This is Pluto's largest moon. It is named for the ferryman who transports the dead across the river Styx in Greek mythology. What is its name? Both it and Pluto are part of what group of celestial objects similar to the Asteroid Belt, that forms a band around the outer edges of the galaxy?

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5) What is the name of this constellation? What is the name of the star that's ringed in the picture which shares its name with a character in the Harry Potter books, who was played by Helena Bonham Carter in the movie versions of the books?

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Round Three: October 1st - The Day In History

1) In 1553 who was crowned Queen of England, the first female ruler of England in her own right, as opposed to the consort of a king?

2) Born in 1930, what Irish actor starred as King Arthur in the 1967 movie Camelot, played the title role in the 1970 movie A Man Called Horse, and played Bull McCabe in the 1990 movie The Field?

3) In 1957, the words "In God We Trust" first appeared on paper money in the United States. What US president approved the measure?

4) In 1982 EPCOT opened as part of Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, eleven years to the day after the park initially opened. EPCOT, an acronym, stands for Experimental Prototype Community Of what?

5) Moneyball Question: In 1928, what airport became the first to open in the New York metro area?

Round Four: Literary Animals

1) In Kenneth Grahame's 1908 book The Wind In The Willows, Mr. Toad has three close friends, a water vole named Ratty, and what other two animals?

2) What 2005 memoir by journalist John Grogan is subtitled Life And Love With The World's Worst Dog?

3) In the 1960 children's book Are You My Mother? by P. D. Eastman, what kind of lost baby animal asks a kitten, a hen, a dog and a cow, if they are his mother?

4) In the 1906 book The Tale Of Jeremy Fisher by Beatrix Potter, what kind of animal is Jeremy Fisher?

5) Moneyball Question: The Plague Dogs, about two dogs, Rowf and Snitter, who escape from a research facility where they were experimented on, is a 1977 novel by what author who wrote the 1972 novel Watership Down?

Round Five: Spices

1) What kind of spice, which can be black, green or white, comes from the seeds of the Piper Nigrum plant?

2) What spice comes from the bark of a tree rather than leaves or seeds, which is most evident when it's in stick form?

3) What is the world's most expensive spice due to it taking up to 440,000 mostly hand-picked flowers to create a kilogram's worth?

4) The spice known as Mace comes from the covering of the seed that produces what other spice, that's often used in baking?

5) Moneyball Question: Vanilla beans come from many different varieties of what flowering plant?

Round Six: Covers

1) Anita Carter, the sister of June, recorded the first version of what song in 1962 which was co-written by June, but became a big hit for Johnny Cash in 1963 using a mariachi band on the record?

2) The song Jersey Girl, released in a live version by Bruce Springsteen in 1986, first appeared on the 1980 album Heartattack And Vine, and the song Downtown Train released by Rod Stewart in 1989, first appeared on the 1985 album Rain Dogs. What singer/songwriter recorded those albums?

3) What song co-written by Kris Kristofferson and recorded by him in 1970, was first recorded by Roger Miller, famous for the song King Of The Road in 1968, and became a posthumous hit when it was recorded by another artist in 1971?

4) Released in 2002, what band covered Joni Mitchell's 1970 song Big Yellow Taxi, where they changed the lyrics from "Late last night I heard the screen door slam and a big yellow taxi took away my old man" to "Listen, late last night, I heard the screen door sway and a big yellow taxi took my girl away"?

5) Moneyball Question: What 1980 song released by the band Blondie, that has a reggae beat, was originally written and recorded in 1967 by Jamaican rocksteady band The Paragons?

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