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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 South Philly accountant.
- A really smart, funny guy from Northeast Philly.

2) If I say, “Meet me at the Eagle,” where should you show up?
- At the Center City Macy’s
- At the Zoo
- At Lincoln Financial Field
- On the main quad at Penn

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 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.
- Because the original macadam was made with blue granite.

5) What was this sign once used to advertise?
- Lingerie
- Girls’ High
- Blue jeans
- STD prevention

6) What does Inga Saffron write about?
- Business
- Fashion
- Architecture
- Cooking

7) Which famous comic-book artist was born in Philly?
- Aaron McGruder
- Matt Groening
- Charles M. Schulz
- 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?
- Joe Biden
- Dick Cheney
- Mike Pence
- Al Gore
This question is sponsored by Penn Medicine

9) What is the Woodlands?
- A cemetery in West Philly
- A nightclub in Old City
- A forest, duh
- William Penn’s original estate

10) Speaking of which, what is a “Philadelphia lawyer”?
- One who’s especially clever.
- One who gets imprisoned for violating his oath.
- One who represents members of the Mob.
- One who wears crappy suits.

11) Which building was designed by famed local architect Frank Furness?
- The Parkway Central branch of the Free Library
- The Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul
- The Art Museum
- The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

12) Where did Philly get the flowering cherry trees in Fairmount Park?
- From the people of Japan
- From the last emperor of China
- From Subaru
- From Mount Vernon

13) What’s a Wishniak?
- A black cherry liqueur.
- A resident of Port Richmond.
- A hopeless dreamer.
- A brand of air conditioner made in Oxford Circle.

14) Which of the following is not the name of a section of Broad Street?
- Avenue of the Arts
- Southern Boulevard
- Mummers Way
- Georgie Woods Boulevard

15) What does Terry Gross’s husband do?
- He’s a lawyer.
- Terry Gross is a lesbian.
- He’s a jazz critic.
- He’s a carpenter.

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 17
- The 33
- The 23

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?
- 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.
- Shakespeare’s birthday.
- Walt Whitman’s birthday.

20) What did DuPont chemist Stephanie Kwolek inadvertently invent in the 1960s?
- The Moscow Mule
- Wite-Out
- Wellbutrin
- Kevlar

21) What was former Penn prof E. Digby Baltzell (1915-’96) best known for?
- Supporting the Vietnam War.
- Never wearing socks.
- Having a fistfight in the quad with Donald Trump when Trump was a Penn student.
- 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?
- Branly Cadet
- Zenos Frudakis
- Jacques Lipchitz
- Hank Willis Thomas

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