Broad Ripple Brewpub Quiz
posted: Mar. 19, 2026

Best Picture Winners of the 2000s
1) What Best Picture winner from 2011 shares its name with a ship from Greek mythology?
2) What 2003 Best Picture winner was the movie that won the most other Oscars of any Best Picture winners in the 2000s?
3) In 2017, when La La Land was incorrectly read out as the Best Picture, what film actually won?
4) In 2020, what was the first non-English language film ever to receive the Best Picture Oscar?
5) Moneyball Question: What Australian born actor was the star of both the first and the second Best Picture winners released in the 2000s?
March 3rd - The Day in History
1) In 1776, the first engagement of what branch of the US military took place at the Battle of Nassau?
2) In 1875, the first performance of the opera Carmen took place. What composer wrote it?
3) In 1923, what weekly news magazine, founded by Briton Hadden and Henry Luce, was launched?
4) In 1980, the first nuclear submarine was decommissioned. What was it called?
5) Moneyball Question: In 1845, what southern state became the 27th admitted to the Union?
Fun with Words
1) Prodigy is only one of two common usage words that end in "IGY". What is the other word?
2) What is special about the words Abstemiously and Facetiously?
3) What are special about the letters contained in the word Blackmailed?
4) What word beginning with "Q" contains five vowels in a row?
5) Moneyball Question: The name of what common color, besides orange, has no word that fully rhymes with it?
English Food & Drink
1) What name is given to Oatmeal in England?
2) What is Cotton Candy called in England?
3) Which variety of onion are referred to as Spring Onions in England?
4) In England a popular brunch cocktail is known as a Buck's Fizz, what is it called in American?
5) Moneyball Question: The variety of lettuce, which in England is known as Rocket, is known as what in America?
Repeating Word Song Titles
1) What song, that was a hit for The Byrds in 1967, and was written by Pete Seeger, is taken from a Biblical passage in Ecclesiastes?
2) Released in 2000, what was NSYNC's biggest hit?
3) The title of what 1975 song by ABBA is a two-word phrase repeated five times?
4) What are the missing three words from the following lyrics of a 1957 song by Johnny Cash, which is the song's title: "I wasted my time when I would try, try, try, when the lights have lost their glow you're gonna _____"?
5) Moneyball Question: The 1977 song Dance, Dance, Dance by Chic has what repeated three-word subtitle?
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