Q 01/05

Which nickname for Chicago is popularly, and probably wrongly, blamed on the breeze off Lake Michigan?

A) Big Easy

B) Big Apple

C) Windy City

D) Emerald City

Answer · why

C) Windy City

Other nicknames include Second City and Carl Sandburg's City of the Big Shoulders; the windy label is often blamed on its boastful politicians rather ...

Q 02/05

Which restaurant is often credited with inventing Chicago-style deep-dish pizza?

A) Lou Malnati's Pizzeria

B) Pizzeria Uno

C) Giordano's

D) Gino's East

Answer · why

B) Pizzeria Uno

Pizzeria Uno's co-founder Ike Sewell first wanted to open a Mexican restaurant; some credit the deep-dish recipe itself to an early employee, Rudy Mal...

Q 03/05

Legend blames which animal for starting the Great Chicago Fire?

A) Cow

B) Horse

C) Mule

D) Pig

Answer · why

A) Cow

Cow: the tale of a kicked-over lantern was in print soon after the fire, though a reporter later admitted that the story had been made up.

Q 04/05

Which president-elect gave his election-night victory speech to a huge crowd in Chicago's Grant Park?

A) Barack Obama

B) Bill Clinton

C) Ronald Reagan

D) John F. Kennedy

Answer · why

A) Barack Obama

Barack Obama held his 2008 rally in his adopted home city, in the same park where police and protesters had clashed during the 1968 Democratic convent...

Q 05/05

What is the official name of the 'Bean' sculpture in Millennium Park?

A) Cloud Gate

B) Sky Mirror

C) Silver Bean

D) Lake Mirror

Answer · why

A) Cloud Gate

Cloud Gate is Anish Kapoor's own title for the piece; the public coined 'the Bean' while it was being built, and Kapoor at first dismissed the nicknam...