Last week, we asked and some of you responded – hopefully more of you did it in your heads and just didn’t send the results in. Interestingly, some people said they could answer all the trivia quiz questions “off the top of my head,” while others found the questions too hard and needed to look things up. For those who could do the “head” thing, we credit both the Education Committee who get so many facts and data into our minds plus curiosity that makes us ferret out information and share it with one another.
So, here are the answers – how did you do?
- What Chicago neighborhood is named for a ship captain, whose ship marooned on a sand bar?
Streeterville - After the end of Prohibition, what establishment that still stands received liquor license #1?
The Berghoff - What 19th-century US Senator from Illinois is entombed in a small park just off E. 35th Street in Chicago?
Stephen A. Douglas - What are the names of the two pieces of public art often called “Chicago’s mascots”?
“On the Prowl” and “In an Attitude of Defiance” are the Art Institute lions - Who was the first non-indigenous settler in Chicago who is now commemorated in the name of the Michigan Avenue Bridge?
Jean Baptiste Point duSable (or spelling variation) - What is Chicago’s second-tallest building?
Trump International Hotel and Tower - What is the world’s tallest building designed by a woman architect?
St. Regis Chicago, Jeanne Gang - What is the longest street in Chicago?
Western Avenue - What used to be just a bank on a wandering river and today is a stretch of restaurants, bars and seating?
Chicago Riverwalk - Chicago’s African American population rose from 40,000 people in 1910 to over 1 million in 1970. What is the popular name for the national movement that created these changes?
The Great Migration - The west part of Millennium Park (up to the stairs) was once a ballpark, home of the Chicago White Stockings who won the pennant there in 1882.The team now has a different home and name. Give the years when they last won their league pennant and the World Series?
1945 (Pennant); 2016 (World Series). The White Stockings of 1882 was a National League team; that team is now the Chicago Cubs. (The American League was founded in 1901.) - You can struggle walking against the wind down Michigan Avenue, but what was the origin of Chicago’s nickname “Windy City”?
New York City newspaper editorials about Chicago politicians promoting the Worlds Columbian Exposition – bragging, lobbying - How deep is the Chicago River in downtown Chicago?
21 feet at its deepest point - Holloway and Company (and its successors) manufactured a popular candy at their plant at Chicago & Franklin as late as the 1980s. What was their signature product?
Milk Duds - What business leader is credited with initially saving Chicago’s lakefront open to the public?
Aaron Montgomery Ward - Who was the African American architect who designed the first (and remains the only) high rise project designed by a Black architect in downtown Chicago?
John Moutoussamy - What iconic African American publishing company had its headquarters on Michigan Avenue?
Johnson Publishing Company (can also accept Jet or Ebony) - Who was the French Jesuit missionary who set foot on what now is Chicago in the 1600’s and later died here in the Chicago area?
Father Jacques Marquette (aka Pere Marquette and/or James) - More than 100 years ago, Chicago created four major infrastructure projects to clean up the city’s water, including raising the city streets, building the Water Tower and pumping station, and constructing fresh-water intake “cribs” in Lake Michigan. What was the fourth project?
Reversing the Chicago River - “On October 8, 1871, the most catastrophic fire in America up to then started. Where did the fire start?”
Peshtigo, Wisconsin - Chicago’s public transportation is defined by the iconic “L.” When did the system start?
1892 - What was the name of the street before it was renamed to Mies van der Rohe Way?
Seneca Street - Who originally occupied the building we now call the Fine Arts Building on Michigan Avenue?
Studebaker, the future auto maker. The firm originally used the building for carriage sales, service and manufacturing - In what building was FDR nominated for president in 1932?
Chicago Stadium - What was the original name of Wrigley Field?
Weeghman Park (became Wrigley Field in 1926) - Can you name six streets within 2 miles of City Hall that have the same name as a river in Illinois?
Wabash, Illinois, Chicago, Des Plaines, Ohio, Sangamon
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