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  • 1. 
    What was the original name of the Chicago Cubs baseball franchise?

  • White Stockings
  • Li’l Baby Cubs
  • Orphans
  • Gangsters

  • 2. 
    What is the Chicago Transit Authority’s train system more commonly known as?

  • The Rail
  • The Metra
  • The High Line
  • The L

  • 3. 
    When was Chicago incorporated as a city?

  • 1837
  • 1871
  • 1779
  • 1673

  • 4. 
    How many stars are on Chicago’s flag?

  • 6
  • 3
  • 7
  • 4

  • 5. 
    What does the Algonquin word skikaakwa, from which Chicago takes its name, translate to in English?

  • Tall grass
  • Wild onion
  • Goose Island
  • Lake

  • 6. 
    What is Chicago’s downtown area known as?

  • Olde Chicagoe
  • City Center
  • The Loop
  • Downtown

  • 7. 
    What led to Chicago’s famous nickname “the Windy City”?

  • Wild onions
  • Boastfulness
  • Wind
  • Twisting roads

  • 8. 
    Which Chicagoan became the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Peace when she did so in 1931?

  • Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Clara Barton
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Jane Addams

  • 9. 
    Where in Chicago did physicist Enrico Fermi initiate the first man-made self-sustaining nuclear reaction in 1942?

  • DePaul University
  • Northwestern University
  • Loyola University
  • University of Chicago

  • 10. 
    Chicago boasts the only public sculpture ever created by which 20th-century artist?

  • Marc Chagall
  • Pablo Picasso
  • Joan Miró
  • Alexander Calder
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