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Broad Ripple Brewpub Quiz

posted: Jun. 12, 2025

The winners of the May 20th, 2025 quiz were This Is Your Brain On Trivia. The winners of the Best Team Name Competition were Jew Crew.

Round One: If You Dare - A Movie Round - all the answers to these questions have a number in them

1) What is the 1974 sequel to the 1973 movie The Three Musketeers both starring Michael York?

2) What 1999 movie, set during the Gulf War, stars George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg and Ice Cube as soldiers trying to steal some of Sadam Hussein's gold?

3) What 1984 movie written and directed by John Hughes and starring Molly Ringwald features a character named Long Duk Dong?

4) What 1999 teen comedy starring Julia Stiles and Heath Ledger is based on Shakespeare's The Taming Of The Shrew?

5) Moneyball Question: If you dare, what is the sum of the numbers found in the previous four answers?

Round Three: May 20th - The Day in History

1) In 1498 what Portuguese explorer became the first to reach India by way of the Atlantic Ocean?

2) In 1873, tailor Jacob Davis and what other businessman with whom he formed a partnership, received a patent for work pants that used rivets to reinforce the pockets?

3) In 1989, Sunday Silence won what horse race by the closest margin in the race's history?

4) In 2015, the last episode of the CBS show Late Show With David Letterman aired. What former cast member of Saturday Night Live, who had been the first guest on Letterman's original NBC show Late Night With David Letterman, was the last ever guest?

5) Moneyball Question: In 1908, actor James Stewart was born in the town of Indiana, located in what state, which has the largest Amish population of any state in the Union?

Round Four: Missing Literary Title Characters

1) What is the missing name in the following title of a 1896 novel by H. G. Wells: The Island Of Dr. _____?

2) What is the missing name in the following title of a 1925 novel by Virginia Woolf: Mrs. _____?

3) What is the missing name in the following title of a 1997 novel by Gail Carson Levine: _____ Enchanted?

4) What is the missing name in the following title of a 1998 novel by Terry McMillan: How _____ Got Her Groove Back?

5) Moneyball Question: What is the missing name in the following title of a 1918 novel by Willa Cather: My _____?

Round Five: 500 Winners Nationalities

1) What nationality was 1965 Indianapolis 500 winner Jim Clark?

2) What nationality is 1995 Indianapolis 500 winner Jacques Villeneuve?

3) What nationality is 2000 and 2015 Indianapolis 500 winner Juan Pablo Montoya?

4) What nationality is 2018 Indianapolis 500 winner Will Power?

5) Moneyball Question: What nationality is 1999 Indianapolis 500 winner Kenny Bräck?

Round Six: Musical Virtuosos

1) The biological father of singer/songwriter and pianist, Norah Jones, was a virtuoso on what musical instrument?

2) Classical composer Sergei Rachmaninoff was known as a virtuoso on what musical instrument?

3) Derek Bell, who was a longtime member of the traditional Irish group The Chieftains, was a multi-instrumentalist, but was particularly known for being a virtuoso on what instrument which is often used as a symbol for Ireland?

4) What virtuoso on the banjo released the 2001 album Perpetual Motion which featured arrangements of works by classical composers such as Bach, Chopin, Tchaikovsky and Beethoven?

5) Moneyball Question: Jazz innovator from the 1920s, Bix Beiderbecke, was known for his virtuosity on the piano, but even more so on what brass instrument?

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