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Valid : Y
Points: 8
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: About how many miles N.E. of Springfield is Chicago?
Quest2:
Answer: 175
Answer: 175 MILES
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 9
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: What is the area of Chicago in square miles?
Quest2:
Answer: 228.1
Answer: 228.1 SQUARE MILES
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 3
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: How many airports are in Chicago?
Quest2:
Answer: 3
Answer: THREE
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 4
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: On what street is the "Magnificent Mile" located?
Quest2:
Answer: MICHIGAN
Answer: MICHIGAN AVE.
Answer: MICHIGAN AVENUE
Valid : Y
Points: 8
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: How tall in feet is the Hancock building?
Quest2:
Answer: 1127 FEET
Answer: 1127
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 7
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: When did Joliet and Marquette first visit Chicago?
Quest2:
Answer: 1673
Answer:
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 5
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: In what year was the Chicago fire?
Quest2:
Answer: 1871
Answer:
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 5
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: What year was Richard J. Daley first elected mayor?
Quest2:
Answer: 1955
Answer:
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 4
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: What ethnic group originally settled in the area known
Quest2: as "Back of the yards"?
Answer: IRISH
Answer: THE IRISH
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 7
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: From what school did Richard J.Daley receive his law degree?
Quest2:
Answer: LOYOLA UNIVERSITY
Answer: LOYOLA
Answer: LOYOLA U.
Valid : Y
Points: 5
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: Where is the official temperature in Chicago messured?
Quest2:
Answer: O'Hare
Answer: OHARE
Answer: O'HAIR AIRPORT
Valid : Y
Points: 4
Author: Polly Purepussy
Quest1: What politician tried to buy the Sun Times in April 1983?
Quest2:
Answer: EPTON
Answer: BERNARD EPTON
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 8
Author: Polly Purepussy
Quest1: What Chicago theater group calls 2851 N. Halsted St. it's home base?
Quest2:
Answer: STEPPENWOLF
Answer: STEPPENWOLF THEATER
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 8
Author: Polly Purepussy
Quest1: What was the former name of Grant Park?
Quest2:
Answer: LAKE FRONT PARK
Answer: LAKE FRONT
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 8
Author: Polly Purepussy
Quest1: Who opened the first drugstore-grill in Chicago?
Quest2:
Answer: CHARLES R. WALGREEN, SR.
Answer: WALGREEN
Answer: CHARLES WALGREEN
Valid : Y
Points: 5
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: What theater is located in the Majestic Building on Monroe Street?
Quest2:
Answer: SHUBERT THEATER
Answer: SHUBERT THEATRE
Answer: SHUBERT
Valid : Y
Points: 6
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: Who was the publisher of Chicago's first newspaper?
Quest2:
Answer: JOHN CALHOUN
Answer: CALHOUN
Answer: J. CALHOUN
Valid : Y
Points: 6
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: What was the Chicago Butter and Egg Board renamed in 1919?
Quest2:
Answer: CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE
Answer: MERCANTILE EXCHANGE
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 7
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: Who was known as the "Mayor of Wrigley Field"?
Quest2:
Answer: HANK SAUER
Answer: SAUER
Answer: H. SAUER
Valid : Y
Points: 4
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: After what U.S. heroes are the streets west of Route 53 in Elk Grove
Quest2: Village named?
Answer: ASTRONAUTS
Answer: U.S. ASTRONAUTS
Answer: THE ASTRONAUTS
Valid : Y
Points: 6
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: In 1955 Chicago's first new office building since 1934 was completed.
Quest2: Name that building.
Answer: THE PRUDENTIAL BUILDING
Answer: PRUDENTIAL BUILDING
Answer: PRUDENTIAL
Valid : Y
Points: 7
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: Who was considered to be Richard J.Daley's mentor and connection?
Quest2:
Answer: JAKE ARVEY
Answer: ARVEY
Answer: J. ARVEY
Valid : Y
Points: 9
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: What does the Picasso sculpture weigh in at?
Quest2:
Answer: 163 TONS
Answer: 163 TON
Answer: 163
Valid : Y
Points: 6
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: In what town is the McDonald's hamburger chain based?
Quest2:
Answer: OAK BROOK
Answer:
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 5
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: What was the name of the investigation of the Cook County judicial
Quest2: system in 1983-84?
Answer: OPERATION GREYLORD
Answer: GREYLORD
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 4
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: What Emmy Award-winning show shot it's opening scenes in Chicago
Quest2: in 1980 and again in 1984?
Answer: HILL STREET BLUES
Answer:
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 7
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: What is the phone number for the Chicago Council on the Arts?
Quest2:
Answer: 346-3278
Answer: 3463278
Answer: FINEART
Valid : Y
Points: 7
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: Whom did George Dunne replace as Cook County Board President?
Quest2:
Answer: RICHARD OGILVIE
Answer: OGILVIE
Answer: R. OGILVIE
Valid : Y
Points: 5
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: What DePaul University grad appeared in the TV series "Happy Days"?
Quest2:
Answer: TOM BOSLEY
Answer: BOSLEY
Answer: T. BOSLEY
Valid : Y
Points: 8
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: From where does Bob Newhart hail?
Quest2:
Answer: OAK PARK
Answer:
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 8
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: When was the German U-505 submarine, now on display at the Science and
Quest2: Industry Museum, captured?
Answer: 1944
Answer:
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 5
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: What section of the city was home to the late Mayor Daley?
Quest2:
Answer: BRIDGEPORT
Answer:
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 8
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: What restaurant is the "Home of the Singing Waiters"?
Quest2:
Answer: MATH IGLER'S
Answer: IGLER'S
Answer: MATH IGLERS
Valid : Y
Points: 8
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: In what year did Chicago get it's first subway?
Quest2:
Answer: 1942
Answer:
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 5
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: Whose stores, with their restaurants and waiting rooms, became the
Quest2: equivalent of private clubs for women of money and breeding?
Answer: MARSHALL FIELD'S
Answer: FIELD'S
Answer: MARSHALL FIELD
Valid : Y
Points: 7
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: Which Chicago alderman was found guilty in May 1983 of accepting
Quest2: $15,500 in bribes for city licenses and jobs?
Answer: TYRONE KENNER
Answer: KENNER
Answer: TYRONE T. KENNER
Valid : Y
Points: 4
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: Who was the founder of the White Sox?
Quest2:
Answer: CHARLES COMISKEY
Answer: COMISKEY
Answer: C. COMISKEY
Valid : Y
Points: 7
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: In what suburb did Allan Pinkerton make barrel stoves in an old
Quest2: cooperage?
Answer: DUNDEE
Answer:
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 8
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: Through what Chicago hotel did a fire rage on June 5,1946 claiming
Quest2: 61 lives?
Answer: HOTEL LASALLE
Answer: LASALLE
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 7
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: What was the name of the newspaper launched in Dec. 1981 by
Quest2: Citizens for Washington?
Answer: FORGE
Answer: THE FORGE
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 8
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: What was the name of the lumber schooner that struck the
Quest2: steamship Lady Elgin?
Answer: AUGUSTA
Answer: THE AUGUSTA
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 5
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: Who did Mayor Daley slate for Cook County sheriff after the man was
Quest2: severely injured in an anti-war demonstration?
Answer: RICHARD ELROD
Answer: ELROD
Answer: RICH ELROD
Valid : Y
Points: 8
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: What well-known publisher became Mayor of Chicago in 1857?
Quest2:
Answer: JOHN WENTWORTH
Answer: WENTWORTH
Answer: LONG JOHN WENTWORTH
Valid : Y
Points: 5
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: On what exchange are soybeans traded?
Quest2:
Answer: CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE
Answer: BOARD OF TRADE
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 7
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: What nationality were the originators of Long Grove?
Quest2:
Answer: GERMAN
Answer: GERMANS
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 6
Quest1: What did the Tribune once describe as "black, with a shocking odor...
Quest2: greasy to the touch"?
Answer: CHICAGO DRINKING WATER
Answer: CHICAGO WATER
Answer: WATER
Valid : Y
Points: 7
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: In what suburb will you find one of the oldest preparatory schools
Quest2: in the Midwest?
Answer: ELGIN
Answer:
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 6
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: What body of water does the Chicago Skyway cross?
Quest2:
Answer: LAKE CALUMET
Answer: CALUMET
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 5
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: What were the open summer cars of the North Shore Line called?
Quest2:
Answer: BIRD CAGES
Answer: BIRD CAGE
Answer:
Valid : Y
Poynts: 7
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: From what Chicago store did Lee Harvey Oswald purchase hys rifle?
Quest2:
Answer: KLEIN'S SPORTING GOODS
Answer: KLEIN'S
Answer: KLEINS SPORTING GOODS
Valid : Y
Points: 5
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: Once the four years of tax returns were completed, how much did
Quest2: Harold Washington owe the government?
Answer: $508
Answer: 508
Answer: 508.00
Valid : Y
Points: 4
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: What are Chicago's pro basketball chearleaders called?
Quest2:
Answer: LOVE A BULLS
Answer: LOVE-A-BULLS
Answer: THE LOVE-A-BULLS
Valid : Y
Points: 6
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: Off what Lake Michigan city did the Lady Elgin sink in 1860?
Quest2:
Answer: WAUKEGAN
Answer:
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 3
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: What mayor of Chicago was accused of income tax evasion?
Quest2:
Answer: HAROLD WASHINGTON
Answer: WASHINGTON
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 8
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: What war of 1832 terrorized Chicago area residents?
Quest2:
Answer: BLACKHAWK WAR
Answer: BLACKHAWK
Answer: THE BLACKHAWK WAR
Valid : Y
Points: 7
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: Who was known as "Pushcart Tony"?
Quest2:
Answer: ANTON CERMAK
Answer: CERMAK
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 4
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: What is the most common type of salmon now caught in Lake Michigan?
Quest2:
Answer: COHO
Answer: THE COHO
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 5
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: The statue of what American patriot stands in front of Tribune Tower?
Quest2:
Answer: NATHAN HALE
Answer: HALE
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 5
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: Who took Alderman Tom Keane's position as chairman of the finance
Quest2: committee and floor leader in 1974?
Answer: MICHAEL BILANDIC
Answer: BILANDIC
Answer: ALDERMAN BILANDIC
Valid : Y
Points: 4
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: What Chicago born actor appeared in American Graffiti, Star Wars, and
Quest2: Raiders of the Lost Ark?
Answer: HARRISON FORD
Answer: FORD
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 5
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: What Chicago community is named after Phillip Rodgers, a truck farmer?
Quest2:
Answer: RODGERS PARK
Answer: RODGER'S PARK
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 7
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: How much of his salary did Mayor Washington say he would return to the
Quest2: city until the fiscal crisis was over?
Answer: 20 percent
Answer: 20%
Answer: 20
Valid : Y
Points: 6
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: What suburb is described as "more dead than alive" because almost half
Quest2: of it's corporate area is occupid by cemeteries?
Answer: FOREST PARK
Answer:
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 5
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: What was the first Roman Catholic university in the nation to become
Quest2: coeducational?
Answer: DEPAUL UNIVERSITY
Answer: DEPAUL
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 7
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: When Time magazine wrote an article about Mayor Daley, what was
Quest2: Chicago called?
Answer: THE CITY THAT WORKS
Answer: CITY THAT WORKS
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 3
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: How many faces are there on the Marshall Field clock at Washington
Quest2: and State?
Answer: Two
Answer: 2
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 9
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: How wide is the Chicago River at it's widest point?
Quest2:
Answer: 200 FEET
Answer: 200 FT
Answer: 200
Valid : Y
Points: 6
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: Whose bid to run against Mayor Daley in 1971 was rejected because of
Quest2: insufficient nominating signatures?
Answer: JESSE JACKSON
Answer: JACKSON
Answer: JESSE JACKSON'S
Valid : Y
Points: 7
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: Where did the Chicago Cardinals play their home games?
Quest2:
Answer: COMISKEY PARK
Answer: COMISKEY
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 8
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: Who was the premier dancer of the Chicago Allied Arts Ballet company?
Quest2:
Answer: RUTH PAGE
Answer: PAGE
Answer:
Valid : Y
Points: 7
Author: Kolonel Kink
Quest1: In what riot were the "Chicago Eight" involved?
Quest2:
Answer: THE HAYMARKET RIOT
Answer: HAYMARKET RIOT
Answer: