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Broad Ripple Brewpub Quiz

posted: Mar. 20, 2025

The winners of the February 18th, 2025 quiz were The Doge Bags with 41 points. The winners of the Best Team Name Competition were John Triviolta.

Round One: Movie Credits

1) Maurice Jarre appears in the credits for composing the music for four films directed by what filmmaker, beginning in 1962 and ending in 1984, winning the Oscar for Best Original Score for three of them?

2) What filmmaker, best known as the writer and director of his own films, has received either writing or story credits on other filmmakers' works such as 1993's True Romance, 1994's Natural Born Killers and 1996's From Dusk Till Dawn?

3) Natalie Kalmus holds the record for the most film credits with over four hundred as either the director of color or color consultant on movies that used what filmmaking process?

4) While much more common in modern day movies, what was special about the credits for Around The World In 80 Days, the Best Picture Oscar winner of 1956?

5) Moneyball Question: Roderick Jaynes is the pseudonym for a film editor with credits on fifteen films that in reality are what two people who have co-edited all but three of the films they have made together?

Round Two: Picture Round - Rivers of the World

1) What is the name of the river that the arrow is pointing to? What is the name of the bay, the largest in Europe, that it empties into?

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2) What is the name of this river? In which country would you find its famous delta?

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3) What is the name of this river shown in red? What city located not far from the river and indicated by the circle, is the largest city in Pakistan?

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4) What is the name of this river? What Minnesotan city is the farthest point that can reached by navigation, starting from the river's mouth?

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5) What is the name of this river shown in red? What other river, that it meets near the town of Wentworth, is it closely associated with?

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Round Three: February 18th - The Day in History

1) In 1861, who was inaugurated as the President of what?

2) In 1898, the founder of the company that produced the Ferrari automobiles and bore his name, was born. What was his first name?

3) In 1968, a group of defendants including activist Abbie Hoffman, were acquitted at trial of trying to incite a riot at the Democratic National Convention. What were they collectively known as?

4) In 2010 the first of the classified documents taken in violation of the Espionage Act by Chelsea Manning were published on what website?

5) Moneyball Question: In 2006 at the Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, Shani Davis became the first African American to win an individual Olympic Gold Medal at the Winter games, which he did in what sport?

Round Four: Famous People Who Kept Their Married Name After Divorce

1) Who discovered that she had been given a new name, complete with the surname of the musician she would marry two years later, when he brought home a copy of their first single, 1960's A Fool In Love?

2) What sister of the filmmaker and choreographer Debbie Allen, kept the surname of her ex-husband, a former athlete, turned sportscaster, when they divorced after sixteen years of marriage?

3) What singer/songwriter, who started out life as Roberta Joan Anderson, ended up using the surname of the man she was briefly married to as part of her stage name, a man who agreed to marry her while she was pregnant, but their breakup meant the child was put up for adoption?

4) What drummer gave her surname to her husband when they married in 1996, only to have him keep it when they divorced in 2000?

5) Moneyball Question: What major film actress, who appeared in 1978's Pretty Baby and in 1980's Atlantic City, both directed by Louis Malle, with whom she was in a relationship at the time following a split from her husband, has always gone by the surname she acquired from that husband, also an actor, when they married in 1967?

Round Five: Shapes - all the answers to these questions have the name of a shape in them

1) What's another name for a reef knot that can be used to tie two pieces of rope together?

2) What is the name of the sporting venue, located in London, England, where the Surrey County Cricket Club play their matches, a venue where major international cricket matches also take place?

3) Although Cadillac were the first company to launch a car with a V16 engine in 1930, the Marmon Motor Company of Indianapolis was the first to develop a V16 engine starting in 1927. These cars were referred to as V16s because they had sixteen of what in their engines?

4) In the 1960s sitcom Get Smart, whenever spy, Maxwell Smart, wanted to have a top secret conversation with a fellow agent they would employ what device?

5) Moneyball Question: What mostly blind mole, native to North America, has twenty-two distinctive protuberances coming from its snout which help it find its way around and give it its name?

Round Six: Songs About Real People

1) Suite: Judy Blue Eyes was recorded in 1969 by Crosby, Stills And Nash, and written by Stephen Stills about his former girlfriend, a well-known singer/songwriter. Who is the Judy of the title?

2) The 2010 song Dear John, and the song Paper Doll, the 2013 response to it, were songs written and separately recorded by what two singer/songwriters, who had been in a brief relationship?

3) The 1983 song Uptown Girl by Billy Joel is usually thought to be about Christie Brinkley who appeared in the music video for the song and went on to be the songwriter's wife. But it was originally written about what Australian supermodel, who often appeared in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition, that he had been dating at the time of its writing?

4) The 2001 song Stuck In A Moment That You Can't Get Out Of was inspired by a fictional conversation that the singer and lyricist imagined having with the late INXS front man Michael Hutchence about suicide. What band recorded the song?

5) Moneyball Question: A negative comment by Courtney Love in Seventeen magazine about Gwen Stefani led to what 2004 song being recorded by Stefani, which was a big hit for her?

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