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1) What is a Whiz Wit’?
A Mummer’s mid-parade bathroom break.
A cheesesteak with onions and Cheez Whiz.
A really smart, funny guy from Northeast Philly.
A South Philly accountant.
2) If I say, “Meet me at the Eagle,” where should you show up?
At the Center City Macy’s
At Lincoln Financial Field
At the Zoo
On the main quad at Penn
3) The city’s “tree streets” — Walnut, Chestnut, Spruce, Pine, etc. — were originally named for what?
Birds
Books of the Bible
Counties in England
Prominent local families
4) Why is the Blue Route called the Blue Route?
Because it goes right through a bunch of porn shops in Upper Darby.
Because the original macadam was made with blue granite.
Because it was the blue route (as opposed to yellow and green ones) on the proposed plans.
Because residents got blue in the face yelling for it to be built.
5) What was this sign once used to advertise?
Blue jeans
Girls’ High
Lingerie
STD prevention
6) What does Inga Saffron write about?
Architecture
Business
Cooking
Fashion
7) Which famous comic-book artist was born in Philly?
Matt Groening
Robert Crumb
Aaron McGruder
Charles M. Schulz
8) Which U.S. Vice President visited Penn Medicine’s Abramson Cancer Center to kick off the national “Cancer Moonshot,” an ambitious effort to accelerate progress in the fight against cancer?
Joe Biden
Mike Pence
Dick Cheney
Al Gore
This question is sponsored by Penn Medicine
9) What is the Woodlands?
A nightclub in Old City
William Penn’s original estate
A cemetery in West Philly
A forest, duh
10) Speaking of which, what is a “Philadelphia lawyer”?
One who gets imprisoned for violating his oath.
One who represents members of the Mob.
One who wears crappy suits.
One who’s especially clever.
11) Which building was designed by famed local architect Frank Furness?
The Art Museum
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
The Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul
The Parkway Central branch of the Free Library
12) Where did Philly get the flowering cherry trees in Fairmount Park?
From Subaru
From Mount Vernon
From the last emperor of China
From the people of Japan
13) What’s a Wishniak?
A brand of air conditioner made in Oxford Circle.
A hopeless dreamer.
A resident of Port Richmond.
A black cherry liqueur.
14) Which of the following is not the name of a section of Broad Street?
Avenue of the Arts
Mummers Way
Southern Boulevard
Georgie Woods Boulevard
15) What does Terry Gross’s husband do?
He’s a jazz critic.
Terry Gross is a lesbian.
He’s a lawyer.
He’s a carpenter.
16) Historically, what was Boyds men’s store famous for?
Golf knickers
Bespoke suits
Hats
Snootiness
17) Which SEPTA bus route starts at Pattison Avenue, goes up 20th Street to Market, goes along Market all the way to Front Street, turns around, crosses Center City again on Market, then comes back down 19th Street to the stadiums?
The 17
The 23
The 8
The 33
18) Who was Philadelphia’s first poet laureate?
Will Smith
Sonia Sanchez
David Rittenhouse
Walt Whitman
19) An annual event at the Rosenbach Museum and Library celebrates what?
Bloomsday.
Walt Whitman’s birthday.
Shakespeare’s birthday.
The “Bissinger Moment” (defined by Urban Dictionary as “a complete, unprovoked meltdown … while in front of a camera”) when Buzz Bissinger went after Will Leitch on Costas Now.
20) What did DuPont chemist Stephanie Kwolek inadvertently invent in the 1960s?
Wite-Out
Wellbutrin
Kevlar
The Moscow Mule
21) What was former Penn prof E. Digby Baltzell (1915-’96) best known for?
Having a fistfight in the quad with Donald Trump when Trump was a Penn student.
Supporting the Vietnam War.
Never wearing socks.
Popularizing the term “Wasp.”
22) Which artist is responsible — some would say culpable — for the public artwork Government of the People at the corner of Broad Street and JFK Boulevard?
Zenos Frudakis
Jacques Lipchitz
Branly Cadet
Hank Willis Thomas
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