Q 01/05

Steve Chen, whose family settled in Arlington Heights after leaving Taiwan, co-founded which video-sharing website?

A) Vimeo

B) YouTube

C) Twitch

D) Metacafe

Answer · why

B) YouTube

YouTube made Chen its chief technology officer. He spent his freshman year at John Hersey High School before moving to the Illinois Mathematics and Sc...

Q 02/05

Which graduate of John Hersey High School in Arlington Heights won the Best Actress Oscar at 21?

A) Holly Hunter

B) Jodie Foster

C) Marlee Matlin

D) Frances McDormand

Answer · why

C) Marlee Matlin

Marlee Matlin won for Children of a Lesser God, becoming the first deaf performer to win an Academy Award. She has been deaf since she was 18 months o...

Q 03/05

Which NFL team completed its purchase of the former Arlington Park racetrack property in February 2023?

A) Packers

B) Lions

C) Colts

D) Bears

Answer · why

D) Bears

The Bears paid $197.2 million for the 326-acre site, and demolition of the racetrack's grandstand was finished that September.

Q 04/05

Which Hall of Fame running back trained on an Arlington Heights hill, a former landfill, later renamed in his honor?

A) Walter Payton

B) Gale Sayers

C) Eric Dickerson

D) Barry Sanders

Answer · why

A) Walter Payton

Walter Payton ran the slope at Nickol Knoll, now a golf course. After his death it became Payton's Hill, with two plaques marking where he trained.

Q 05/05

A 2010 remake of which horror film shot school scenes at John Hersey High School in Arlington Heights?

A) Friday the 13th

B) A Nightmare on Elm Street

C) The Amityville Horror

D) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Answer · why

B) A Nightmare on Elm Street

A Nightmare on Elm Street filmed at Hersey and at nearby Elk Grove High School, though neither campus is identified by name on screen.