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Broad Ripple Brewpub Quiz

posted: Apr. 30, 2026

The winners of the April 21st, 2026 quiz were More Raccoon Penis Please. The winners of the Best Team Name Competition were Doctor Jesus.

Look-A-Like Movies

1) Charlie Chaplin plays a Jewish barber and veteran of World War I, who looks exactly like Adenoid Hynkel, the tyrannical ruler of Tomainia, in what 1940 movie?

2) What historical king is portrayed by Mel Brooks in his 1981 movie History Of The World, Part I, as well as the servant, whose job is to hold a bucket for men of the royal court to relieve themselves into, who looks exactly like the king?

3) What actor plays the title role of Dave in a 1993 movie as a man who starts out as a look-a-like impersonator of the US President who then ends up taking the president's place after the president has a stroke?

4) English gentleman Rudolph Rassendyll takes the place of his identical cousin King Rudolph Elphberg, ruler of Ruritania, in what classic tale filmed in 1937 starring Robert Colman and again in 1952 starring Stewart Granger?

5) Moneyball Question: In what comedy film, released in 1965, does Jack Lemmon, playing evil Professor Fate, who's involved in a car race from New York to Paris, discovers along the way that he looks exactly like Crown Prince Friedrich Hapnick of Carpania?

April 21st - The Day in History

1) In 753 B. C., what city was founded according to tradition?

2) In 1836, a Texas militia led by Sam Houston launched a surprise attack against the forces of what Mexican General, a conflict known as the Battle of San Jacinto?

3) In 1918, pilot Manfred Von Richthoven was shot down and killed during World War I. By what nickname was he known?

4) In 1960, the government of Brazil was moved from Rio de Janeiro to what city, which became its new capital?

5) Moneyball Question: In 1933, a picture known as The Surgeon's Photograph was published in the British newspaper The Daily Mail. Later proved to be a fake, what was it supposedly a photograph of?

Novel Cities

1) In what city does the action in the 1980 novel A Confederacy Of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole take place?

2) In what city does the 1939 novel The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler take place?

3) In what Scottish city does the 1993 novel Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh take place?

4) In what city does the 1994 non-fiction novel Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil by John Berendt take place?

5) Moneyball Question: In what Irish city does the 1996 novel Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt take place?

Geographical Crossword Clues

1) African mountains - Five Letters; third letter is "L"?

2) Japanese island - Eight Letters; seventh letter is "D"?

3) Longest river flowing through Alaska - Five Letters; fourth letter is "O"?

4) Sea that is part of the Atlantic Ocean - Eight Letters; fourth letter is "G"?

5) Moneyball Question: Third smallest country - Five Letters; third letter is "U"?

Singer-Songwriters

1) What singer-songwriter wrote and recorded the songs You Send Me, released in 1958, and Cupid and Twistin' The Night Away both released in 1960?

2) What singer-songwriter founded The Lilith Fair, a traveling music festival that started in 1997, ran for three years and then was brought back in 2010 for one last year?

3) In the 2025 movie Song Sung Blue, Hugh Jackman plays a real-life musician, who along with his wife, played by Kate Hudson, does a tribute act of what singer-songwriter?

4) What singer-songwriter's career was launched when her song Stay (I Missed You) was featured on the soundtrack of the 1994 movie Reality Bites?

5) Moneyball Question: What singer-songwriter filled in for band leader Paul Schaffer on at least twenty different occasions between 1982 and 2001 on both of David Letterman's late night talk shows?

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