Find It
Doctors
Dentists
Home Design Experts
Senior Living
Wedding Experts
Real Estate Agents
Private Schools
News
The Latest
Food & Drink
50 Best Restaurants
Jobs
Health
Find a Dentist
Find a Doctor
Senior Living
Life & Style
Real Estate
Travel
Wedding
Guides & Advice
Find a Wedding Expert
Bubbly Ball
Podcast
Philly Mag Today
Things to Do
Philly Mag Events
Best of Philly
2026 Party
Past Winners
Become a Member
Newsletters
Search for:
Search
Become a Member
Newsletters
Find It
Doctors
Dentists
Home Design Experts
Senior Living
Wedding Experts
Real Estate Agents
Private Schools
News
The Latest
Food & Drink
50 Best Restaurants
Jobs
Health
Find a Dentist
Find a Doctor
Senior Living
Life & Style
Real Estate
Travel
Wedding
Guides & Advice
Find a Wedding Expert
Bubbly Ball
Podcast
Philly Mag Today
Things to Do
Philly Mag Events
Best of Philly
2026 Party
Past Winners
1) What is a Whiz Wit’?
A cheesesteak with onions and Cheez Whiz.
A really smart, funny guy from Northeast Philly.
A South Philly accountant.
A Mummer’s mid-parade bathroom break.
2) If I say, “Meet me at the Eagle,” where should you show up?
At the Zoo
At Lincoln Financial Field
On the main quad at Penn
At the Center City Macy’s
3) The city’s “tree streets” — Walnut, Chestnut, Spruce, Pine, etc. — were originally named for what?
Birds
Books of the Bible
Prominent local families
Counties in England
4) Why is the Blue Route called the Blue Route?
Because it goes right through a bunch of porn shops in Upper Darby.
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.
Because the original macadam was made with blue granite.
5) What was this sign once used to advertise?
Lingerie
Girls’ High
STD prevention
Blue jeans
6) What does Inga Saffron write about?
Architecture
Fashion
Business
Cooking
7) Which famous comic-book artist was born in Philly?
Robert Crumb
Aaron McGruder
Matt Groening
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
Mike Pence
Joe Biden
Dick Cheney
This question is sponsored by Penn Medicine
9) What is the Woodlands?
A forest, duh
A cemetery in West Philly
William Penn’s original estate
A nightclub in Old City
10) Speaking of which, what is a “Philadelphia lawyer”?
One who’s especially clever.
One who gets imprisoned for violating his oath.
One who wears crappy suits.
One who represents members of the Mob.
11) Which building was designed by famed local architect Frank Furness?
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
The Parkway Central branch of the Free Library
The Art Museum
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 brand of air conditioner made in Oxford Circle.
A hopeless dreamer.
A black cherry liqueur.
A resident of Port Richmond.
14) Which of the following is not the name of a section of Broad Street?
Georgie Woods Boulevard
Mummers Way
Southern Boulevard
Avenue of the Arts
15) What does Terry Gross’s husband do?
He’s a lawyer.
He’s a carpenter.
Terry Gross is a lesbian.
He’s a jazz critic.
16) Historically, what was Boyds men’s store famous for?
Bespoke suits
Golf knickers
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 17
The 33
The 23
The 8
18) Who was Philadelphia’s first poet laureate?
Will Smith
Sonia Sanchez
Walt Whitman
David Rittenhouse
19) An annual event at the Rosenbach Museum and Library celebrates what?
Bloomsday.
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.
Walt Whitman’s birthday.
20) What did DuPont chemist Stephanie Kwolek inadvertently invent in the 1960s?
Kevlar
Wite-Out
The Moscow Mule
Wellbutrin
21) What was former Penn prof E. Digby Baltzell (1915-’96) best known for?
Popularizing the term “Wasp.”
Supporting the Vietnam War.
Never wearing socks.
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?
Zenos Frudakis
Jacques Lipchitz
Hank Willis Thomas
Branly Cadet
Name
First
Last
Email
*
Opt-in
*
Philadelphia magazine may send me information, special offers, or other goods or services they think may be of interest to me offered by
Philadelphia
magazine or other companies
Philadelphia
magazine may carefully select. YOU MAY OPT OUT OF RECEIVING ANY SUCH INFORMATION OR OTHER SPECIAL OFFERS FROM PHILADELPHIA MAGAZINE AT ANY TIME.
Privacy Manager
