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Broad Ripple Brewpub Quiz

posted: Dec. 19, 2024

The winners of the December 3rd quiz were Cottonmouth Kings with 39 points in a tiebreaker over There's A New Tariff In Town. The winners of the Best Team Name Competition were There's A New Tariff In Town.

Round One: Cold Weather Movies

1) What 2015 Quentin Tarantino movie, his ninth, was released between Django Unchained and Once Upon A Time In Hollywood?

2) What 2013 action thriller starring Chris Evans, is set in a post-apocalyptic world where all the surviving members of the human-race live on a train that is in continual motion around the planet Earth?

3) In the 2011 movie The Grey, set in Alaska and starring Liam Neeson, what is The Grey?

4) A paleoclimatologist played by Dennis Quaid must make a perilous trip from Washington D. C. to New York to reach his son following a world-wide storm which plunges the Earth into a new ice age in what 2004 movie?

5) Moneyball Question: Kenneth Branagh plays the Irish-born explorer who led three expeditions to the Antarctic in the early part of the 20th Century, in what 2002 movie, whose title is the explorer's surname?

Round Three: December 3rd - The Day In History

1) In 1818, which of the states that border Indiana became the 21st state to be admitted to the Union?

2) In 1967, Louis Washkansky became the first person to receive what?

3) In 1979 the tragic deaths of eleven people due to a stampede at a concert in Cincinnati, Ohio, by what band, was the subject of an episode of WKRP In Cincinnati?

4) In 1968, what singer gave a televised concert, often referred to as '68 Comeback Special, their first concert in seven years, after a detour into film?

5) Moneyball Question: A meeting between US President George H. W. Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev that marked the end of the Cold War took place on what European island nation?

Round Four: Traditional Wedding Anniversary Gifts - The First Five Years

1) Which of the following is the basis for a traditional gift given on a first wedding anniversary: Fruit and Flowers, Leather, Paper, Wood, or Cotton?

2) Which of the following is the basis for a traditional gift given on a second wedding anniversary: Fruit and Flowers, Leather, Paper, Wood, or Cotton?

3) Which of the following is the basis for a traditional gift given on a third wedding anniversary: Fruit and Flowers, Leather, Paper, Wood, or Cotton?

4) Which of the following is the basis for a traditional gift given on a fourth wedding anniversary: Fruit and Flowers, Leather, Paper, Wood, or Cotton?

5) Moneyball Question: Which of the following is the basis for a traditional gift given on a fifth wedding anniversary: Fruit and Flowers, Leather, Paper, Wood, or Cotton?

Round Five: Literary Couples

1) What long-time literary couple were noted for their works which often employed existentialist themes?

2) What author of such novels as 1985's The Trap, 1988's Pearl, and 1993's One On One, is married to author Stephen King?

3) Philosopher and essayist, George Henry Lewes, whose partner of twenty-five years, Mary Ann Evans, wrote such classic novels as 1872's Middlemarch using what male pseudonym?

4) Sylvia Plath, author of the acclaimed 1963 novel, The Bell Jar, was married to English author Ted Hughes. What esteemed position did Hughes hold from 1984 until his death in 1998?

5) Moneyball Question: 18th Century literary couple Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin were the parents of what famous literary daughter, who herself was married to a famous author?

Round Six: One Hit Wonders

1) What 1976 song by British artist David Dundas, his only hit in the US, started out as a jingle for a television commercial, but was worked up to a full song and is now being used in commercials for Wrangler?

2) The 1981 hit Take Off with vocals by Geddy Lee and featuring Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas is credited to whom?

3) In 1995, what band reached number five on the Billboard Charts with the song Breakfast At Tiffany's?

4) Featured in the 2000 movie Loser, and featuring stars Jason Biggs and Mena Suvari in the video, what is the missing word in the following title of a song by the band Wheatus: Teenage _____?

5) Moneyball Question: What band's only song to break into the top sixty of the Billboard Charts was the 2014 song Shut Up And Dance?

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