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Broad Ripple Brewpub Quiz

posted: Feb. 06, 2025

The winners of the January 21st, 2025 quiz were Talk About Shrinkage! with 46 points. The winners of the Best Team Name Competition were String Of Curse Words.

Round One: Movies of 1965

1) The second movie starring The Beatles was released in 1965, what was its title?

2) The climax of The Cincinnati Kid, features what event that takes place between characters played by Steve McQueen and Edward G. Robinson?

3) Who are the male and female leads of the movie Beach Blanket Bingo?

4) Tony Curtis plays The Great Leslie and Jack Lemon plays his rival Professor Fate in what movie that also stars Natalie Wood?

5) Moneyball Question: Richard Burton plays British spy Alec Leamas in a movie adaptation of what acclaimed 1963 novel by John Le Carré?

Round Three: January 21st - The Day in History

1) In 1506, what military force first arrived peacefully in Rome, Italy?

2) In 1976 the first two commercial flights of the Concord took off simultaneously from what two airports?`

3) In 1977 then US President Jimmy Carter issued a blanket pardon for whom?

4) In 1990, John McEnroe became the first tennis player in 27 years to be disqualified from a Grand Slam Tournament. Which tournament was it?

5) Moneyball Question: In 1915 the Kiwanis was founded in Detroit, Michigan. In what Midwest city is their headquarters now located?

Round Four: Colorful Connections

1) What color connects these three words: Knight, Great, Noise?

2) What color connects these three words: Deep, Prose, Haze?

3) What color connects these three words: Fever, Alert, Journalism?

4) What color connects these three words: Mosque, Blood, Nile?

5) Moneyball Question: What color connects these three words: Water, Tea, Hip?

Round Five: Science Fiction Novels

1) What 1951 novel by English author John Wyndham features mobile plants which attack and kill human beings?

2) Soma is a drug featured in what 1931 novel by Aldous Huxley?

3) What novel by H. G. Wells begins with the words: "No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own"?

4) What is the missing word in the following title of a classic 1973 novel by Arthur C. Clarke: Rendevouz With _____?

5) Moneyball Question: What major writer of science fiction novels wrote The Foundation Trilogy published between 1951 and 1953, followed by four more books in the series between 1982 and 1993?

Round Six: Music of 1965

1) The Beatles had the most number ones in 1965 with five, but what girl group were second with four?

2) What singer had a hit with the song It's Not Unusual in 1965?

3) Herman's Hermits had a number one hit in 1965 with a novelty song that mentions the name of what famous English king in its title?

4) The song Wooly Bully was the song that spent the most weeks in the charts in 1965 despite not reaching number one. What is the missing word in the following title of the band who recorded it: Sam The _____ And The Pharaohs?

5) Moneyball Question: The In Crowd, a jazz instrumental was released in 1965, reaching the top five, by what trio, whose front man's initials are R. L.?

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