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Broad Ripple Brewpub Quiz

posted: Jul. 30, 2026

The winners of this quiz from July 7th were US Soccer Player Deported To Sh*th*le Country. The winners of the Best Team Name Competition were Great American State Fair Carnies.

Summer Blockbusters

1) What movie, released in 1975, is considered the first summer blockbuster?

2) In the 1978 movie Grease, Olivia Newton-John sang what solo song which wasn't in the original Broadway musical, and so was eligible to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Original song?

3) Charles Fleischer provided the voice of what title character in a major movie directed by Robert Zemeckis and released in 1988?

4) What are the next two words in the full title of the 1991 movie Terminator 2?

5) Moneyball Question: What are the first species of dinosaurs seen by the group of visitors invited to Jurassic Park by its creator John Hammond in the 1993 movie?

July 7th - The Day in History

1) In 1898, what US president signed a resolution that resulted in the annexation of Hawaii?

2) In 1907, what impresario staged the first of his famous theatrical revues known as Follies in New York City?

3) In 1946, Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, who founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, was the first American to be what?

4) In 1985, what German born tennis player, then seventeen, became the youngest male player ever to win Wimbledon?

5) Moneyball Question: In 1928, the Chillicothe Baking Company of Missouri introduced what innovation?

Americana

1) Which of the following states does the famous thoroughfare Route 66 NOT pass through: Missouri, New Mexico, Arkansas, or Oklahoma?

2) Norman Rockwell's famous illustrated covers most often appeared in what publication?

3) In American lore, tales of Pecos Bill, showed him to be the ultimate cowboy. Tales of Old Stormalong showed that character to be the ultimate what?

4) What well-known folk artist didn't begin seriously painting until she was 78?

5) Moneyball Question: During World War I, American infantry soldiers were referred to by what nickname?

More World Cup Countries Capitals (Knockout Round)

1) What is the capital of Colombia?

2) What is the capital of Switzerland?

3) What is the capital of Senegal?

4) What is the capital of Bosnia And Herzegovina?

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

American Roots Music Musicians

1) Mahalia Jackson was one of the major proponents of what kind of music?

2) Bluegrass musician William Lee Apostol is better known by what stage name?

3) Virtuoso multi-instrumentalist Roy Clark was the co-host of what television show that ran for 26 seasons?

4) What legendary bluesman was said to have sold his soul to the Devil in return for his musical prowess?

5) Moneyball Question: What singer-songwriter and banjo player was one of the founding members of the folk group The Weavers, formed in 1948?

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