Q 01/05

Which film's lead was partly modelled on Joseph Sullivan, a patient at Huntington's Autism Services Center?

A) I Am Sam

B) Mercury Rising

C) Rain Man

D) The Accountant

Answer · why

C) Rain Man

Rain Man star Dustin Hoffman drew on Joseph Sullivan for Raymond Babbitt, and Sullivan's mother Ruth, who founded the Huntington centre, served as a c...

Q 02/05

Which comedian came to Marshall University in Huntington on a baseball scholarship but never played?

A) Billy Crystal

B) Jerry Seinfeld

C) Robin Williams

D) Steve Martin

Answer · why

A) Billy Crystal

Billy Crystal arrived in 1965, but Marshall suspended its baseball program during his first year and he did not come back as a sophomore.

Q 03/05

Which actor plays coach Jack Lengyel in We Are Marshall, the film about Huntington's 1970 plane crash?

A) Denzel Washington

B) Matthew McConaughey

C) Dennis Quaid

D) Samuel L. Jackson

Answer · why

B) Matthew McConaughey

Matthew McConaughey played Lengyel, who rebuilt Marshall football with walk-ons and athletes from other sports after the crash killed all 75 people ab...

Q 04/05

Which British chef set his Emmy-winning 2010 ABC series about school lunches in Huntington?

A) Gordon Ramsay

B) Heston Blumenthal

C) Nigella Lawson

D) Jamie Oliver

Answer · why

D) Jamie Oliver

Jamie Oliver picked Huntington for Food Revolution because it was statistically one of the unhealthiest cities in the country, then took the second se...

Q 05/05

Camden Park, West Virginia's only amusement park, was built near Huntington in 1903 to win riders for what?

A) Trolleys

B) Steamboats

C) Ferries

D) Stagecoaches

Answer · why

A) Trolleys

Trolleys were the point: the Camden Interstate Railway Company opened the park as a picnic spot, hoping weekend outings would fill its cars.