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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 South Philly accountant.
A cheesesteak with onions and Cheez Whiz.
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?
Prominent local families
Books of the Bible
Counties in England
Birds
4) Why is the Blue Route called the Blue Route?
Because the original macadam was made with blue granite.
Because residents got blue in the face yelling for it to be built.
Because it goes right through a bunch of porn shops in Upper Darby.
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?
STD prevention
Lingerie
Girls’ High
Blue jeans
6) What does Inga Saffron write about?
Business
Fashion
Cooking
Architecture
7) Which famous comic-book artist was born in Philly?
Matt Groening
Charles M. Schulz
Aaron McGruder
Robert Crumb
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
Mike Pence
Joe Biden
This question is sponsored by Penn Medicine
9) What is the Woodlands?
William Penn’s original estate
A cemetery in West Philly
A nightclub in Old City
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 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
The Art Museum
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 the people of Japan
From Subaru
From Mount Vernon
From the last emperor of China
13) What’s a Wishniak?
A hopeless dreamer.
A black cherry liqueur.
A resident of Port Richmond.
A brand of air conditioner made in Oxford Circle.
14) Which of the following is not the name of a section of Broad Street?
Georgie Woods Boulevard
Southern Boulevard
Avenue of the Arts
Mummers Way
15) What does Terry Gross’s husband do?
He’s a carpenter.
He’s a jazz critic.
He’s a lawyer.
Terry Gross is a lesbian.
16) Historically, what was Boyds men’s store famous for?
Golf knickers
Bespoke suits
Snootiness
Hats
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 33
The 8
The 17
The 23
18) Who was Philadelphia’s first poet laureate?
David Rittenhouse
Walt Whitman
Will Smith
Sonia Sanchez
19) An annual event at the Rosenbach Museum and Library celebrates what?
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.
Walt Whitman’s birthday.
Bloomsday.
Shakespeare’s birthday.
20) What did DuPont chemist Stephanie Kwolek inadvertently invent in the 1960s?
Wellbutrin
Kevlar
The Moscow Mule
Wite-Out
21) What was former Penn prof E. Digby Baltzell (1915-’96) best known for?
Popularizing the term “Wasp.”
Never wearing socks.
Supporting the Vietnam War.
Having a fistfight in the quad with Donald Trump when Trump was a Penn student.
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?
Branly Cadet
Hank Willis Thomas
Jacques Lipchitz
Zenos Frudakis
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