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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?
On the main quad at Penn
At the Center City Macy’s
At the Zoo
At Lincoln Financial Field
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 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.
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
STD prevention
Lingerie
6) What does Inga Saffron write about?
Business
Architecture
Cooking
Fashion
7) Which famous comic-book artist was born in Philly?
Charles M. Schulz
Robert Crumb
Matt Groening
Aaron McGruder
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?
A cemetery in West Philly
William Penn’s original estate
A forest, duh
A nightclub in Old City
10) Speaking of which, what is a “Philadelphia lawyer”?
One who represents members of the Mob.
One who gets imprisoned for violating his oath.
One who wears crappy suits.
One who’s especially clever.
11) Which building was designed by famed local architect Frank Furness?
The Parkway Central branch of the Free Library
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
The Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul
The Art Museum
12) Where did Philly get the flowering cherry trees in Fairmount Park?
From Subaru
From the last emperor of China
From Mount Vernon
From the people of Japan
13) What’s a Wishniak?
A hopeless dreamer.
A resident of Port Richmond.
A black cherry liqueur.
A brand of air conditioner made in Oxford Circle.
14) Which of the following is not the name of a section of Broad Street?
Southern Boulevard
Avenue of the Arts
Georgie Woods Boulevard
Mummers Way
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?
Golf knickers
Snootiness
Hats
Bespoke suits
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?
Sonia Sanchez
Walt Whitman
Will Smith
David Rittenhouse
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?
Wellbutrin
Wite-Out
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.
Never wearing socks.
Popularizing the term “Wasp.”
Supporting the Vietnam War.
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
Branly Cadet
Zenos Frudakis
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