Broad Ripple Random Ripplings

Brought to you by:

Everything Broad Ripple Home

Random Ripplings Home

2024 12 05

Random Rippling

Broad Ripple Brewpub Quiz

posted: Dec. 05, 2024

The winners of the November 19th quiz were Mr. Green Jeans For Secretary Of Agriculture with 43 points. The winners of the Best Team Name Competition were JewCrew.

Round One: Historic Epics

1) In the 1992 movie The Last Of The Mohicans based on the 1826 novel by James Fennimore Cooper, Wes Studi plays the villainous Magua who is portrayed as a member of what real-life Native American tribe?

2) In the 2004 movie Troy, Brian Cox plays what conniving Greek King, who leads the ten-year siege on the legendary city state of Troy?

3) In what 2005 movie does Edward Norton play Baldwin IV, King of Jerusalem, a role in which we never see his face, as Baldwin suffered from the disfiguring effects of leprosy and so, according to the film, kept it covered?

4) The 2022 movie The Northman, starring Alexander Skarsgård in the title role, is based on the same Norse legend that inspired what William Shakespeare play?

5) Moneyball Question: The 1954 biblical epic The Silver Chalice was the film debut of what major Hollywood star who disliked the movie so much that he once wrote, "I was sure my acting career had begun and ended with the same picture"?

Round Three: November 19th - The Day In History

1) In 1493, Christopher Columbus landed on what island, known to the native Taina population as Borinquen, but which he renamed San Juan Bautista?

2) Where in 1863 did former politician and renowned orator, Edward Everett, give a 13,607-word speech, that lasted around two hours?

3) In 1999, when John Carpenter became the first person to win the million-dollar prize on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? he used his Phone-A-Friend lifeline on the final question, not for help, but to tell them that he was just about to win the prize. Which of his relatives did he call?

4) In 2004 following the infamous brawl between Pacers players and Detroit Pistons fans known as the Malice At The Palace, Ron Artest received the longest suspension ever given to an NBA player, 86 games. What player also involved in the brawl received the second longest suspension, a total of 30 games?

5) Moneyball Question: In 1990 the musical duo Milli Vanilli were stripped of their Best New Artist Grammy following the revelation that they hadn't sung the vocals on what 1989 album, the title track of which had been a big hit for them?

Round Four: Presidential Pardons

1) Doctor Samuel Mudd, who was serving a life sentence for giving medical aid to whom, received a pardon from Andrew Johnson?

2) Who was running for president for a fifth time, while in prison on charges of sedition for speaking out against the United States' involvement in World War I, when he received a pardon from Warren G. Harding?

3) What president pardoned Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa who was in prison following a conviction for jury tampering?

4) Bill Clinton pardoned what woman who was serving a prison term for taking part in a bank robbery along with members of the Symbionese Liberation Army?

5) Moneyball Question: What president, who preceded Abraham Lincoln, pardoned Brigham Young who was serving a prison term for his role in the Utah War, a skirmish between Mormons and Federal troops?

Round Five: Striped Animals

1) What animal is the only living relative of the Giraffe?

2) What venomous North American snake, who has a distinctive red, yellow and black striped pattern on its body, can be distinguished from the similarly colored but harmless Milk Snake who has a red, black, and yellow pattern on its body?

3) How many black stripes does the Eastern Chipmunk, the species most commonly found in North America, have running down its back?

4) What African animal exists in four species, namely brown, spotted, striped and the aardwolf?

5) Moneyball Question: What now extinct, canine-like marsupial, the last of which died in 1936 in a zoo in Hobart, were given their name because of their distinctive stripes and the island on which they were exclusively found?

Round Six: Songs From Musicals

1) In the musical Wicked, which debuted on Broadway in 2003, what character mostly sings the song Defying Gravity?

2) From what 1879 Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, which was revived as a Broadway show in 1980, comes the song I Am The Very Model Of A Modern Major-General?

3) The title character in what musical that premiered on Broadway in 1988 sings the song Music Of The Night in the first act?

4) What 2016 movie musical features the song City Of Stars?

5) Moneyball Question: The song Tragedy Tomorrow Comedy Tonight comes from what 1962 Broadway show that was based on the writings of the Roman playwright Plautus?

Click for Quiz Answers

alan@broadripplegazette.com

Brought to you by:

Brought to you by:

Brought to you by:

Brought to you by: