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Broad Ripple Brewpub Quiz

posted: Apr. 03, 2025

The winners of the March 4th, 2025 quiz were Not One Of You Have Thanked Billy Today. A Little Gratitude Would Be Nice with 36 points. The winners of the Best Team Name Competition were Trump Is Giving Up Ukraine For Lent.

Round One: Action Movies Featuring Female Protagonists

1) What actress plays the part of Trinity in the 1999 movie The Matrix?

2) Who plays the sister of the title character played by Scarlet Johansen in the 2021 movie Black Widow?

3) The 2017 movie Atomic Blonde, starring Charlize Theron as a British spy, takes place in Europe in 1989 in the days proceeding what historic event?

4) While much more Viola Davis plays a 19th Century African warrior in what movie released in 2022?

5) Moneyball Question: Saoirse Ronan was sixteen when she played what title character, a girl trained by her father to be an assassin, in a movie from 2011?

Round Two: Picture Round - TV Couples

1) What are the names of these two actors who star as a couple in a series showing on Netflix? What is the title of the series?

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2) What are the names of these two actors who starred as a couple in a series that began in 1975 and ran for eleven seasons? What was the title of the series?

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3) What are the names of these two actors who star as an on-again off-again couple in a series that airs on HBO Max? What is the title of the series?

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4) What are the names of these two actors who starred as a couple on a series that ran on ABC in the 2000s? What was the title of the series?

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5) What are the names of these two actors who starred as a couple in a Paramount Network series that acts as a prequel to the series Yellowstone? What is the title of the series?

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Round Three: March 4th - The Day in History

1) In 1152 Frederick I was crowned King of Germany. He was also known as Frederick what, a name that was used by the Nazis as a code name for the military operation involving the surprise invasion of the Soviet Union?

2) In 1888, the legendary football coach of Notre Dame, Knute Rockne, was born in the town of Voss, which is located in what country?

3) In 1952 Ronald Regan married Nancy Davis. It was his second marriage. From what actress had he divorced in 1949?

4) In 1980, who was elected the first black Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, a man who dominated politics in that country for almost forty years?

5) Moneyball Question: In 1974 People magazine was launched. What actress, who starred as Daisy Buchanan opposite Robert Redford playing the title character in a movie version of The Great Gatsby, that was due to be released later in the month, was on the cover?

Round Four: Bodies of Water - all the answers to these questions have the name of a type of body of water in them

1) The Cincinnati Reds baseball team currently play their home games at the Great American Ballpark. Where did they play their home games prior to 2003?

2) What 2016 song was the first single released by Billie Eilis?

3) Who has directed, or produced, all of the movies in the Transformer series?

4) What is another name for the Muscogee, a Native American tribe who have a reservation in Oklahoma?

5) Moneyball Question: What country singer set the record for the largest attendance at a concert for a single head-lining act with 110,905, in 2024?

Round Five: Consumption Per Capita

1) Turkey as a country drinks the most tea per capita. What country is the second for tea consumption per capita?

2) What country that borders Germany, Belgium and France drinks the most coffee per capita?

3) The United States is second per capita in beef consumption between what two South American countries?

4) What European country, that was part of a country that split in two in 1993, drinks the most beer per capita?

5) Moneyball Question: What tiny island nation, a tourist destination, that's located to the southwest of Sri Lanka, and whose capital is Malé, consumes the most fish per capita?

Round Six: Music of the Spheres - all the answers to these questions have the name of a planet from our solar system in the them

1) What 1954 do-wop song by The Penguins is subtitled Will You Be Mine?

2) Who claimed he wrote the 1981 song Crazy Little Thing Called Love in under ten minutes while taking a bath?

3) What 1967 song by The Velvet Underground starts with the lyrics: "Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather, whiplash girl child in the dark"?

4) What 2001 song by Train won a Grammy for Best Rock Song?

5) Moneyball Question: On Stevie Wonder's classic 1975 album Songs In The Key Of Life, in what song does he dream of leaving Earth and moving to another planet?

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