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Broad Ripple Brewpub Quiz

posted: Sept. 10, 2026

The winners of this quiz from August 18th were What Climate Change. The winners of the Best Team Name Competition were Indy's Poet Laureate: Carl Sandbag.

Exclaiming Movies! - all the answers to these questions are movie titles with exclamation marks in their name

1) What 1970 movie is about the attack on Pearl Harbor told both from the American and Japanese points of view?

2) What 1968 movie musical features the song Food Glorious, Food?

3) What controversial 2017 movie's title, which stars Jennifer Lawrence, is stylized with all lower-cased letters plus an exclamation mark?

4) What 1986 comedy film also has an upside-down exclamation mark in its title?

5) Moneyball Question: What 1980 comedy film is mostly a parody of the 1957 disaster movie Zero Hour! whose title also has an exclamation mark?

August 18th - The Day in History

1) In 1590, John White, the Governor of what colony, returned to the New World from a supply trip to England, to discover that the colony was deserted?

2) In 1826, Scottish explorer Major Gordon Laing, became the first European to visit what African city that would later become the symbol for remoteness?

3) In 1958, what controversial novel was published, whose title is the nickname for the character Dolores Haze who appears in the book, a nickname given to her by the book's narrator?

4) In 1977, what major South African anti-apartheid activist was arrested, later dying while in custody?

5) Moneyball Question: In 1938, the Thousand Islands Bridge was dedicated. It connects what two countries at a point in their lengthy border that's separated by a major river?

Biblical Mountains

1) Mount Ararat, where the Ark came to rest after The Flood, is located in what modern day country?

2) On what mountain did Moses receive The Ten Commandments?

3) In the story of Abraham, what is significant about Mount Moriah?

4) Mount Calvary, the site of the Crucifixion, was also known by what name which is the Aramaic word for skull?

5) Moneyball Question: What mountain, overlooking Jerusalem, is the location of a cemetery where many notable religious figures and the former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin are buried, and where the Garden of Gethsemane is located at its foot, the place where Jesus was arrested following his betrayal by Judas?

Inhuman Anatomy

1) The occipital protuberance, a feature on a dog's skull, is often referred to by what other name?

2) The part of a horse's back leg that juts backward like an inverted knee is most often referred to as a what?

3) A pouch found in a bird's throat can be referred to as a Crop or by what other name?

4) The end of a Dolphin's tail is referred to by what name?

5) Moneyball Question: What snakelike sea creatures have extra sets of jaws inside their throats that help grip prey and pull it into their mouths?

Hoosier Lottery Free Stage Performers 2026

1) The group TUSK are a tribute act for what band?

2) What rapper had a hit with the song Put Ya Hands Where My Eyes Can See in 1997, the video for which was inspired by the 1988 movie Coming To America?

3) The musician Chaim Witz performs under what stage name?

4) What band had a major hit in 1973 with the song We're An American Band?

5) Moneyball Question: What country singer is a spokesperson for the Wounded Warrior Project?

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