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Broad Ripple Brewpub Quiz

posted: Jul. 17, 2025

The winners of the July 1st, 2025 quiz were Nerdist Colony. The winners of the Best Team Name Competition were Nerdist Colony.

Cult Movies

1) Johnny Depp plays what real-life journalist in the 1998 movie Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas?

2) In the 1988 movie Hairspray, directed by John Waters, Divine plays Edna, the mother of Tracy Turnblad, the main protagonist of the movie. In the 2007 movie based on the subsequent Broadway musical of Hairspray, who plays Edna?

3) Whose first major starring role was in the 1988 movie Blood Sport?

4) Sting has a small part as the Ace Face, the coolest Mod, in what 1979 movie based on a 1973 album by The Who?

5) Moneyball Question: Who directed the 1965 movie Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, a director known for his outrageously over the top erotic films, two of which he co-wrote with Roger Ebert?

July 1st - The Day in History

1) In 1903, what annual sporting event, won that year by Maurice Garin, first took place?

2) In 1979, Sony introduced what revolutionary device?

3) In 1991, what agreement between the Soviet Union and seven Eastern European countries, which was their equivalent to NATO, was dissolved?

4) In 2002, The International Criminal Court was established to try individuals for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. In what city is it headquartered?

5) Moneyball Question: In 1997, Britain ceded its rule over Hong Kong back to China. What then Secretary of State, who was part of the Clinton Administration, represented the United States at the ceremony?

TV Pets

1) In the sitcom Friends, Joey and Chandler kept what two kinds of animal as pets in their apartment?

2) In a program that aired in the 1960s, brothers Sandy, Bud, and their father Porter had what kind of animal as a pet?

3) In the 1970s show B. J. And The Bear, what kind of animal was trucker B. J. McKay's pet The Bear?

4) What character in what 1980s television show had a pet alligator named Elvis?

5) Moneyball Question: What was the name of the Brady's dog in The Brady Bunch, who bore the name of a different animal?

Battles And Conflicts

1) The Battle of Hastings took place during whose invasion of what country?

2) The Battle of Agincourt took place during what long-lasting conflict?

3) The Battle of Verdun took place during what war?

4) The Battle of Incheon took place during what war?

5) Moneyball Question: The Battle of Marathon took place during what country's invasion of what other country?

Combined Musicians

1) A singer who's the youngest member of a famous family and a singer-songwriter known for the 1977 album Running On Empty?

2) A female pop singer and the Lollapalooza founder?

3) An English singer active since the early 1960s and an American drummer and composer once in an English band?

4) A Country singer and the one-time frontman of Roxy Music?

5) Moneyball Question: A prolific singer-songwriter and an orchestra leader and musical arranger?

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