Q 01/05

Philadelphia's name is Greek for what?

A) City of freedom

B) City of wisdom

C) New hope

D) Brotherly love

Answer · why

D) Brotherly love

Brotherly love comes from the Greek philos, 'beloved', and adelphos, 'brother', and the city's founder wanted a place where people of every faith coul...

Q 02/05

Philadelphia's founder gave many of its streets names taken from what?

A) Trees

B) Saints

C) Kings

D) Rivers

Answer · why

A) Trees

Trees supplied the names: in 1684 Wynne Street, named for Thomas Wynne's home there, became Chestnut Street.

Q 03/05

What drove Congress out of Philadelphia to Princeton in 1783?

A) A great fire

B) A smallpox epidemic

C) A soldiers' mutiny

D) A British naval raid

Answer · why

C) A soldiers' mutiny

A soldiers' mutiny by unpaid Continental troops surrounded the building where Congress met, and the episode later pushed the framers toward a federal ...

Q 04/05

Which Native American people lived at Shackamaxon on the site of Philadelphia?

A) The Iroquois

B) The Susquehannock

C) The Lenape

D) The Shawnee

Answer · why

C) The Lenape

The Lenape leader Tamanend is said to have pledged peace with the colonists at Shackamaxon, now Kensington and Fishtown, under an elm that fell in 181...

Q 05/05

The Liberty Bell was cast in 1752 by a London firm later renamed what?

A) The Royal Works

B) The Whitechapel Foundry

C) Taylor's of Loughborough

D) The Southwark Works

Answer · why

B) The Whitechapel Foundry

The Whitechapel Foundry's bell cracked when first rung in Philadelphia, so local metalworkers John Pass and John Stow melted it down and recast it, ad...