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Broad Ripple Brewpub Quiz
posted: Jul. 03, 2025
The winners of the June 3rd, 2025 quiz were Taco Taco Man!. The winners of the Best Team Name Competition were The Big Beautiful Team.
Round One: Movies Whose Titles Are Also Song Titles
1) What 1991 movie about the relationship between a waitress played by Michelle Pfeifer and a short order cook played by Al Pacino uses the name of a traditional American song as its title?
2) What 1987 film comedy that is an updated version of the 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac by French author Edmond Rostand shares its title with a song by The Police?
3) The real-life, tragic story of Brandon Teena, is told in what movie, released in 1999, that uses the name of a song by The Cure as its title?
4) What 1999 movie tells the story of a group of friends desperately trying to find a way to attend a 1978 concert by the band KISS being held in Cleveland, suitably uses the title of a song that was a hit for KISS?
5) Moneyball Question: Trouble occurs when a married couple played by Julianne Moore and Annette Benning meet the man, played by Mark Ruffalo, who is the father of their two children conceived by artificial insemination in what 2010 movie, whose title is the name of a song by The Who?
Round Three: June 3rd - The Day in History
1) In 1926, what author, who published the poem Howl in 1956, was born?
2) In 1947 British monarch Edward VIII married what American born divorcee?
3) In 1965, astronaut Ed White while aboard Gemini 4, the first NASA mission to spend multiple days in space, became the first American to do what?
4) In 2006, Montenegro which had formed a union with what other former Yugoslavian region following the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1992, seceded from that region, forming two new separate countries?
5) Moneyball Question: In 1539, Hernando de Soto, the first European to take an expedition through what is now the United States of America, claimed what southern state for Spain?
Round Four: Famous People Born on June 2nd or June 4th
1) What retired women's soccer player, born June 2nd, 1980, has scored 184 international goals for the USA the most for either men or women?
2) What actress born June 4th, 1975, won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her work in the 1999 movie Girl, Interrupted?
3) What television personality, who was born on June 2nd, 1968, has co-hosted CNN's New Year's Eve Live with Anderson Cooper in Times Square for the last eight years?
4) What former Saturday Night Live cast member, who was born on June 4th, 1969, co-wrote the song I Wish It Was Christmas Today with Jimmy Fallon, and performed the song numerous times on the show accompanied by Fallon, Chris Katan and Tracy Morgan, while singing and playing a backpack guitar?
5) Moneyball Question: What British composer, born on June 2nd, 1857, wrote The Pomp And Circumstance Marches, the first of which is often played at High School and College graduations?
Round Five: Pagan Gods
1) The Hindu god Ganesha or Ganesh is often depicted with four arms and the head of what animal?
2) In Richard Wagner's four operas, collectively known as The Ring Cycle, the Norse god Odin is referred to by what other name, which is the Germanic equivalent?
3) What modern day pagan religion honors The Triple Goddess, The Horned God and a wide variety of gods and goddesses from Greek, Egyptian, and Celtic traditions?
4) What Egyptian goddess is the sister of Osiris and the mother of Horus?
5) Moneyball Question: The Dagda, the chief god of the Tuatha Dé Danann, whose dwelling place was said to be in the area occupied by the neolithic site known as Newgrange, comes from the mythology of what country?
Round Six: Theme Songs from Movies That Share The Movie's Title
1) What 1956 western was the first movie to feature Elvis Presley, a film whose producers adopted the name of the song he performs in the movie, and which is played as an instrumental over the opening credits, as its title, only after it became a massive hit?
2) The theme to the 1985 movie Weird Science was recorded by what band, whose lead singer and main songwriter was just at the start of his major career as a composer of film scores?
3) The theme song to what 1983 movie, directed by Adrian Lyne, is subtitled What A Feeling?
4) The theme song to what 1997 movie was also featured on the 1997 album Big Willie Style, the first solo album by the song's performer, who also co-starred in the movie?
5) Moneyball Question: The theme songs to the James Bond films, Goldfinger, released in 1964, Diamonds Are Forever, released in 1971, and Moonraker, released in 1979, were all sung by what Welsh born singer?
alan@broadripplegazette.com
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