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Broad Ripple Brewpub Quiz

posted: Oct. 16, 2025

The winners of the October 7th, 2025 quiz were Dirty Sanchez. The winners of the Best Team Name Competition were Dirty Sanchez.

Movie Partnerships

1) What leading actor and leading actress starred together in six Thin Man movies between 1934 and 1947?

2) Robert Redford starred in seven movies including 1972's Jeremiah Johnson, 1973's The Way We Were and 1985's Out Of Africa, directed by what filmmaker who was born in Lafayette, Indiana?

3) Between 1950 and 1955 Donald O'Connor appeared in six movies in which his co-star was actor Chill Wills in an uncredited voice-over role, playing what part?

4) What is the surname of filmmaking brothers Peter and Bobby who have collaborated as directors on numerous movies including 1994's Dumb And Dumber, 1998's There's Something About Mary and 2001's Shallow Hal, all of which they also co-wrote?

5) Moneyball Question: Diane Weist won her two Oscars, both for Best Supporting Actress, for films released in 1986 and 1994. Who directed both films?

October 7th - The Day in History

1) In 1571, The Battle of Lepanto, a major naval battle, prevented what empire from taking over Europe?

2) In 1916, the most lopsided college men's football game in history took place when Georgia Tech defeated Cumberland University 222-0. Who was the head coach of Georgia Tech who later gave his name to a famous trophy?

3) In 1955, what poem, which begins with the line, "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked" was publicly read for the first time by its author in an art gallery in San Francisco?

4) In 1959, the Soviet probe Luna 3 took photographs of what, something that humans had never seen before?

5) Moneyball Question: In 1983, the film Never Say Never Again was released in U.S. theatres, in which Sean Connery played James Bond for the last time. It was essentially a remake of what Bond movie in which he had starred in 1965?

Capital C. I. T. Y. S. - One of these answers begins with "C", one with "I", one with "T", one with "Y" and one with "S"

1) What is the capital of Libya?

2) What is the capital of Bosnia And Herzegovina?

3) What is the executive and judicial capital of Sri Lanka?

4) What is the capital of Pakistan?

5) Moneyball Question: What is the capital of Armenia?

Literary London

1) The 1722 work A Journal Of The Plague Year, which details the year 1665 when one-fifth of London's population was killed by an outbreak of bubonic plague, was written by what author, best known for the 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe?

2) Which of the following works by Charles Dickens is the only one NOT to be mostly set in London: Oliver Twist, Hard Times, Bleak House or Great Expectations?

3) What literary character lives in London at 221B Baker Street?

4) Who wrote the 1997 novel London, which features both fictional and real-life historical figures, in a history of the city beginning in 54 BC and continuing until 1997?

5) Moneyball Question: What author, whose father Kingsley was responsible for the acclaimed 1964 novel Lucky Jim, wrote the 1989 novel London Fields?

Famous Bass Players

1) Who was the original bass player for Black Sabbath?

2) John Entwhistle played bass for what band?

3) Which member of the band Rush played bass?

4) What was the surname of Lemmy, the bass player and lead singer, of the band Motörhead?

5) Moneyball Question: Bassist Flea, best known for playing with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, was born in what country?

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