By Hy Speck, Class of 1995
His name was (1) ____________ ____________, the president of (2)____________ ____________, one of the most powerful CEOs in the land. Her name was (3)____________ ____________. She was runner-up in the Miss Alabama Beauty Contest four times. She journeyed to Hollywood seeking fame and fortune. She was cast in the part of the other woman in the movie (4)____________ , starring (5)____________ ____________ and (6)____________ ____________.
The CEO and the Beauty Queen met in Chicago It was love at first sight. It was her third marriage and the third to an oil man. They cattily said “she changed husbands every time she changed her oil.” They became Chicago’s Royal Family. They traveled everywhere and they knew everyone.
He hired a famous architect, with three names, (9)____________ ____________ ____________ to design a new headquarters for his company. The architect wanted the tower’s cladding to be of a durable material, like (10)____________. She insisted that the building to be dressed in pure white (11)____________ ____________ imported from (12)____________. She won, but they lost!
As the architect predicted, the white stone did not withstand Chicago’s brutal winters and had to be replaced with (13)____________from Mt. Airy North Carolina. The estimated cost was (14) $____________.
The moral of the story is: “Never take (15) ____________for ____________.”
Despite this faux pas, they lived happily ever after. THE END
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April 2017 Trivia Answers
The Top Ten Questions asked about Chicago Mayors.
- First Chicago mayor: William B. Ogden
- Father and son mayors: Carter Harrison and Carter Harrison, Jr.; Richard J. Daley and Richard M. Daley
- First Republican Mayor: John Wentworth
- Last Republican Mayor: William Hale “Big Bill” Thompson
- Mayor elected on the “Fire-Proof” ticket: Joseph Medill
- Foreign born mayors: Joseph Medill (Canada) and Anton Cermak (Bohemia)
- First born in Chicago: Carter Henry Harrison, Jr.
- Mayors assassinated in office: Carter H. Harrison and Anton Cermak
- Served the longest term: Richard M. Daley
- Served the shortest term: David Orr
And the winner in the drawing is: Betsy Jenkins! Please see Hallie Rosen for your prize.
And thanks to all the participants: Jane Cahill, Maurice Champagne, Jill Dahlke, Greg Dryer, Betsy Jenkins, Barb Lanctot, John Rappel, Corrine Rohr, Ellen Shubart, and Roy Slowinski.
Always remember the CAF Trivia Motto: “You may not have won a prize, but participation is winning.”
And thanks to docents everywhere, who read Trivia.
The Trivia Staff