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Broad Ripple Brewpub Quiz
posted: Oct. 22, 2026
The winners of this quiz from September 15th were Vote For This Team Name Get A $5000 Gift Card. The winners of the Best Team Name Competition were Agatha Quiztie.
Musicians in Movies
1) What musician, then part of a duet whose musical partner was also cast in the movie, but ended up being cut from the film, made his debut as Lt. Nately in the 1970 movie version of the 1961 Joseph Heller novel Catch-22?
2) What musician played an alien from a dying world in the 1976 film The Man Who Fell To Earth?
3) Cher won a Best Actress Oscar for her role in the 1987 movie Moonstruck, but two years earlier she wore a controversially revealing dress designed by Bob Mackie as a protest for not being nominated for her role in what 1985 movie?
4) What musician co-stars in the 2014 movie Ride Along and its 2016 sequel, Ride Along 2?
5) Moneyball Question: What musician is the star of the 2000 movie Dancer In The Dark, written and directed by Lars Von Trier?
September 15th - The Day in History
1) In 1762, the Battle of Signal Hill, which took place in Newfoundland, was the last battle in what conflict?
2) In 1954, the famous scene of Marilyn Monroe standing on a subway grate causing her white cocktail dress to blow upward was filmed on the streets of New York for what movie?
3) In 1959, who was the first Soviet leader to visit the United States?
4) In 1981, what judge historically replaced the retiring Potter Stewart on the Supreme Court?
5) Moneyball Question: In 2008, during the subprime mortgage crisis, what major investment bank filed for bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy filing in United States history?
It's Football Season
1) Fernando Mendoza, who won an NCAA championship with IU in January, is now a member of what NFL team?
2) What Indianapolis Colts guard, now in his ninth season, is the team's highest paid offensive player?
3) Arch Manning, the latest member of the footballing Manning family, is the quarterback for what college team?
4) NIL, a way for student athletes, including football players, to earn revenue, continues to be a contentious issue. What does NIL stand for?
5) Moneyball Question: On October 4th the Indianapolis Colts are due to play The Washington Commanders at a stadium that replaced White Hart Lane in 2018 as the home ground of what London based soccer team?
Fill in the Blanks - Scientists
1) Danish physicist who worked on the structure of the atom and quantum theory: _____ Bohr?
2) American biologist whose work helped launch the modern environmental movement: Rachel _____?
3) Greco-Roman polymath known for the first map of the then known world to use latitude and longitude: Claudius _____?
4) Austrian biologist who founded the science of genetics: _____ Mendel?
5) Moneyball Question: British discoverer of the double helix shape of DNA along with Francis Crick, James Watson, and Maurice Wilkins: Rosalind _____?
Alternative Rock Band Albums
1) What alternative rock band has released nine albums so far, including Amnesiac in 2001, Hail To The Thief in 2003, and In Rainbows in 2007?
2) In 2021 Spencer Elden brought an unsuccessful lawsuit against a band for using a now famous picture of him on the cover of their 1991 album. What is the title of the album, and what alternative band released it?
3) What alternative rock band released the critically acclaimed album Siamese Dream in 1993?
4) What alternative rock band, part of the Seattle grunge scene, released the album Dirt in 1992?
5) Moneyball Question: What band from Dublin, Ireland, who share their name with a 1981 slasher movie, released the album Loveless in 1991, which is considered a landmark in the musical subgenre known as Shoegaze?
alan@broadripplegazette.com
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