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1) What is a Whiz Wit’?
A Mummer’s mid-parade bathroom break.
A really smart, funny guy from Northeast Philly.
A cheesesteak with onions and Cheez Whiz.
A South Philly accountant.
2) If I say, “Meet me at the Eagle,” where should you show up?
At the Center City Macy’s
On the main quad at Penn
At the Zoo
At Lincoln Financial Field
3) The city’s “tree streets” — Walnut, Chestnut, Spruce, Pine, etc. — were originally named for what?
Birds
Counties in England
Prominent local families
Books of the Bible
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 residents got blue in the face yelling for it to be built.
Because it was the blue route (as opposed to yellow and green ones) on the proposed plans.
5) What was this sign once used to advertise?
Girls’ High
Blue jeans
Lingerie
STD prevention
6) What does Inga Saffron write about?
Cooking
Architecture
Fashion
Business
7) Which famous comic-book artist was born in Philly?
Matt Groening
Aaron McGruder
Robert Crumb
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?
Al Gore
Dick Cheney
Joe Biden
Mike Pence
This question is sponsored by Penn Medicine
9) What is the Woodlands?
A nightclub in Old City
A forest, duh
William Penn’s original estate
A cemetery in West Philly
10) Speaking of which, what is a “Philadelphia lawyer”?
One who’s especially clever.
One who wears crappy suits.
One who represents members of the Mob.
One who gets imprisoned for violating his oath.
11) Which building was designed by famed local architect Frank Furness?
The Art Museum
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
The Parkway Central branch of the Free Library
The Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul
12) Where did Philly get the flowering cherry trees in Fairmount Park?
From Mount Vernon
From the last emperor of China
From the people of Japan
From Subaru
13) What’s a Wishniak?
A brand of air conditioner made in Oxford Circle.
A black cherry liqueur.
A resident of Port Richmond.
A hopeless dreamer.
14) Which of the following is not the name of a section of Broad Street?
Mummers Way
Georgie Woods Boulevard
Avenue of the Arts
Southern Boulevard
15) What does Terry Gross’s husband do?
He’s a carpenter.
He’s a jazz critic.
Terry Gross is a lesbian.
He’s a lawyer.
16) Historically, what was Boyds men’s store famous for?
Hats
Bespoke suits
Golf knickers
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 8
The 23
The 17
The 33
18) Who was Philadelphia’s first poet laureate?
Will Smith
David Rittenhouse
Sonia Sanchez
Walt Whitman
19) An annual event at the Rosenbach Museum and Library celebrates what?
Walt Whitman’s birthday.
Shakespeare’s birthday.
Bloomsday.
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?
The Moscow Mule
Wellbutrin
Kevlar
Wite-Out
21) What was former Penn prof E. Digby Baltzell (1915-’96) best known for?
Never wearing socks.
Having a fistfight in the quad with Donald Trump when Trump was a Penn student.
Supporting the Vietnam War.
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?
Hank Willis Thomas
Jacques Lipchitz
Zenos Frudakis
Branly Cadet
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