Q 01/05

The Ohio River, formed at Pittsburgh's Point, flows 981 miles to join which river?

A) The Missouri

B) The Mississippi

C) The Tennessee

D) The Wabash

Answer · why

B) The Mississippi

The Mississippi takes in the Ohio at Cairo, Illinois, and gets more water from it than from any other tributary, the far longer Missouri included.

Q 02/05

Pittsburgh's tallest skyscraper, the U.S. Steel Tower, wears a Cor-Ten steel skin designed to do what?

A) Reflect the sun

B) Rust on purpose

C) Glow after dark

D) Flex in the wind

Answer · why

B) Rust on purpose

Rust on purpose: Cor-Ten grows a dark brown coat that seals the metal, so it never needs paint, but as the new tower weathered the run-off turned the ...

Q 03/05

Where does Pittsburgh's so-called 'fourth river' flow?

A) In a covered canal

B) Underground

C) Along an old railbed

D) Inside the water mains

Answer · why

B) Underground

Underground: the 'fourth river' is really an aquifer of sand and gravel about 55 feet below the Point, and it was tapped to feed the fountain in Point...

Q 04/05

Which British general, namesake of the Pirates' old ballpark, named Pittsburgh in 1758?

A) Edward Braddock

B) John Forbes

C) Jeffery Amherst

D) James Wolfe

Answer · why

B) John Forbes

John Forbes took the abandoned enemy fort at the forks in November 1758, named the place for the British statesman William Pitt, and died just four mo...

Q 05/05

In which 1983 film does Jennifer Beals play a Pittsburgh welder who dreams of becoming a dancer?

A) Flashdance

B) Footloose

C) Dirty Dancing

D) Fame

Answer · why

A) Flashdance

Flashdance was shot largely on location around Pittsburgh on a modest budget, then took nearly $93 million at US cinemas, more than all but two other ...