Test your Chicago knowledge!

 

When you're done, please come up to my desk and hand it in .

 

NO CHEATING!

 

(1) Name all five of Riverview's rollercoasters.

 

 

(2) What was the former name of Martin Luther King Drive?

 

 

(3) How many times was Richard J. Daley ( the "Old Man") elected mayor?

 

 

(4) Identify any two candidates who lost to this Daley.

 

 

(5) What is an alewife?

 

 

(6) What did Jack Brickhouse yell when the Cubs hit a home run?

 

 

(7) Name--in order--the three papers Mike Royko wrote for.

 

 

(8) What gasoline chain had Dino the Dinosaur as a mascot?

 

 

(9) Which of Bill Veeck's legs was the peg-leg?

 

 

(10) Identify Resurrection Mary.

 

 

(11) Why was 1340 North State Parkway a famous address?

 

 

(12) Who was Uncle Johhny Coons?

 

 

(13) What car dealer was the "Home of the Backward K?"

 

 

(14) Name the announcer of TV bowling at Faetz-Niesen.

 

 

(15) What was a Green Hornet?

 

 

(16) Where were the Stock Yards located?

 

 

(17) What type of store was Morris B. Sachs?

 

 

(18) When he wasn't doing Riverview commercials, what was Two-Ton Baker's profession?

 

 

(19) What Catholic archbishop has a suburb named after him?

 

 

(20) What business had the phone number MOhawk 4-4100?

 

 

(21) Identify one Chicago street that was part of U.S. Route 66.

 

 

(22) Name the sponsor of TV wrestling who was killed by an unhappy customer.

 

 

(23) What was the last home stadium of the Chicago Cardinals?

 

 

(24) Name one locally-brewed Chicago beer -- recent brew-pubs do not count!

 

 

(25) Before Circle, where was the Chicago campus of the University of Illinois?

 

 

(26) Where did the Beatles perform on their first trip to Chicago?

 

 

(27) Which defunct grocery chain gave S & H Green Stamps?

 

 

(28) Name the boxing champ who gave his name to a local milk company.

 

 

(29) Where was the Army Induction Center located?

 

 

(30) How many inches of snow fell in the January 1967 blizzard?

 

 

(31) Who wore an Uncle Sam suit, and was always a losing candidate for public office?

 

 

(32) What public building was often called simply "Eleventh and State?"

 

 

(33) Where did Andy the Clown hang out?

 

 

(34) Name the TV show that was the source of the local catch-phrase "Right Here, Harv."

 

 

(35) Who were the Lincoln Park Pirates?

 

 

(36) What was the old name of the Brown Line 'L"?

 

 

(37) Where was "Skip's" located?

 

 

(38) What do the call letters of Channel 11--WTTW--stand for?

 

 

(39) Where was Skid Row?

 

 

(40) Name two Illinois governors who served time in prison.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ANSWERS:

 

1.. Bobs, Sliver Streak, Comet, Fireball (formerly the Blue Streak), Flying Turns.[No, the Wild Mouse was not a real rollercoaster.]

 

2. South Park Avenue

 

3. Six

 

4. Pick two--Merriam, Sheehan, Adamowski, Waner, Friedman, Hoellen.

 

5. fish

 

6. "Hey-Hey!"

 

7. Daily News, Sun-Times, Tribune

 

8. Sinclair

 

9. right leg

 

10. famous ghost haunting the Southwest suburbs

 

11. Playboy mansion

 

12. host of 1950's kids' TV show

 

13. Nickey Chevrolet

 

14. Whispering Joe Wilson

 

15. streetcar

 

16. Halsted near 43rd Street

 

17. clothing

 

18. band leader

 

19. George Cardinal Mundelein

 

20. C.E.T. (early TV dealer)

 

21. Ogden, Adams, Jackson

 

22. Sid Fohrman

 

23. Soldier Field

 

24. Old Chicago, Meister Brau, Tavern Pale, Drewry’s, Edelweiss,

 

25. Navy Pier

 

26. Comiskey Park

 

27. National

 

28. Joe Louis

 

29. Van Buren and Des Plaines streets

 

30. 27 inches

 

31. Lar "America First" Daly

 

32. Central Police Headquarters

 

33. Comiskey park

 

34. Bozo's Circus

 

35. Lincoln Towing

 

36. Ravenswood

 

37. North Avenue near First Avenue and 55th & Damen

 

38. Window To The World

 

39. Madison Street, from Clinton to Halsted

 

40. Kerner and Walker

 

 

 

SCORES

 

31-40 points--

 

EXPERT: In the next election, you get to vote three times instead of only twice.

 

21-30 points--

 

JOURNEYMEN: When it snows, you may save a parking space with furniture.

 

11-20 points--

 

APPRENTICE: You probably put ketchup on your hot dog.

 

0-10 points--

 

TOURIST: Go back to Milwaukee!

 

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Edited September 21, 200619 yr by GaelicSoxFan

Looks like I'm going back to Milwaukee!!

LOL

The only ones I got right (and I've lived in Chicago my entire life) were:

5, 6, 10, 16, 26, 32 and 33.

 

It's not that I don't pay attention..............I just don't really care that much..............

1 X

2 South Park Avenue ©

3 x

4 x

5 x

6 Hey-Hey! ©

7 X

8 Sinclair ©

9 Right ©

10 Ghost that haunts Archer Avenue ©

11 X

12 X

13 X

14 X

15 X

16 43rd St. & Halsted Ave. ©

17 Mens’ clothing store ©

18 X

19 Mundelein ©

20 X

21 Ogden Ave. ©

22 X

23 x

24 X

25 X

26 Comiskey Park ©

27 National ©

28 Joe Louis ©

29 X

30 x

31 x

32 Chicago Police Department Headquarters (Area 1) ©

33 Comiskey Park ©

34 X

35 X

36 Ravenswood ©

37 X

38 Window to The World ©

39 X

40 X

 

I didn't do too bad, considering a lot of that stuff, like Riverview Park, was at least 30 years older than I am...

I got 13. But I don't(!) put ketchup on my hotdog!!

 

And the WTTW question was interesting - I had no idea on that.

 

Of sourse, for me and the other adolescents growing up watching WSNS 44 late at night during the scrambled picture "On-TV" line through-the-image adult programming - we all know that "WSNS" stood for "Was it Snatch or Not Snatch?"