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Broad Ripple Brewpub Quiz

posted: Aug. 27, 2026

The winners of this quiz from August 5th were The Deflecting Pool. The winners of the Best Team Name Competition were Gen Con Swim Team.

Movies That Love Themselves - all the answers to these questions are movie titles containing synonyms for great/wonderful/fabulous etc.

1) Miles Teller and Shailene Woodley play romantically involved teenagers in what 2013 coming-of-age movie?

2) In what 1993 movie does Kevin Costner play an escaped convict, traveling with a young boy he has kidnapped, being pursued by a Texas Ranger played by Clint Eastwood?

3) What 1964 movie starring Don Knotts is part live-action and part animated?

4) What 2025 movie starring Timothée Chalamet was nominated for a Best Picture Oscar?

5) Moneyball Question: A cult animated film released in 1973 about humans living in a world controlled by gigantic creatures who treat them as playthings was titled La Planète Sauvage in France, where the film was made. What was its American title?

August 4th - The Day in History

1) In 1693, it's traditionally thought that what clergyman invented champagne?

2) In 1821, what French designer, who created the first pick-proof lock for luggage, was born?

3) In 1914, German forces invaded what country, sparking the Battle of Liege, the first battle of World War I?

4) In 1964, in an event known as the Second Gulf of what Incident, two US destroyers mistakenly reported that they were under attack?

5) Moneyball Question: In 1984, the African country known as The Republic of Upper Volta, whose capital is Ouagadougou, changed its name to what?

Money Slang

1) How much is two bits?

2) How much is a Sawbuck?

3) How much is a Fin?

4) In Canada, how much is a Toonie worth?

5) Moneyball Question: Before the UK and Ireland switched to decimal currency in 1971, the coin known as a shilling was worth twelve pence. How much was the coin then dubbed a shilling worth after the switch?

Best-Selling Book Series

1) Stay Out Of The Basement published in 1992, Night Of The Living Dummy published in 1993, and he Werewolf Of Fever Swamp also published in 1993 are just three titles in what sixty-two book series?

2) The Southern Vampire Mysteries, a thirteen-book series by Charlaine Harris, was the basis for what television series?

3) What ninety-two book series by Norman Bridwell is about a pet whose owner is a little girl named Emily Elizabeth?

4) The Case Of The Caretaker's Cat published in 1935, The Case Of The Rolling Bones published in 1939, and The Case Of The Buried Clock published in 1943 are just three of the titles in what eighty-two book series?

5) Moneyball Question: What twenty-six book series by Alexander McCall Smith, published between 1998 and 2025, is about a female private investigator in Botswana?

Composers & Lyricists

1) Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II were a famous songwriting team. Which of the two men wrote the lyrics?

2) Lyricist Gerry Goffin wrote many hit songs with what composer he was once married to?

3) Elton John and Bernie Taupin have been writing songs together since the 1960s, always using the same method. What comes first, the music written by John or the lyrics by Taupin?

4) Lyricist Arthur Freed, while the head of the musicals department at MGM, decided to use the back catalog of songs he had written with composer Herb Nacio Brown to create what 1952 musical that's not only considered one of the greatest movie musicals of all time but one of the greatest films of all time?

5) Moneyball Question: Lyricist Hal David is mostly known for writing songs with what composer?

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