Spring is just a few hours away and with it comes the need to venture out and explore -- and if that involves spring travel, perhaps to take a walking tour of a new or even familiar city. These GPSmyCity.com iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch apps are a great way to tour an area at your own pace, with an impressive variety of walks and cities available. GPSmyCity.com is sponsoring the following quiz about Chicago here; e-mail your answers to quiz@gpsmycity.com and you could win three city walk apps to use this spring, summer, fall...or whenever you choose.
1) Chicago is known by several names. What isn't it called?
a) the Windy City
b) the City of Big Shoulders
c) the City of Lights
2) Chicago’s downtown area is known as ________. The nickname refers to the area encircled by the elevated train tracks.
a) the Loop
b) the Hook
c) the Ellipse
3) Chicago is the birthplace among others of McDonalds, the chewing gum giant Wrigley’s and the cell phone giant Motorola. What sport has been invented here:
a) 16-inch softball
b) baseball
c) squash
4) At the time of its completion in 1974 the Willis Tower was the tallest building in the world, surpassing the World Trade Center towers in New York, and it held this rank for nearly 25 years. How many states are visible from its roof?
a) 3
b) 4
c) 5
5) Chicago is the third largest city in United States, its metropolitan area, commonly named "Chicagoland," being the 27th most populous metropolitan area in the world. What American cities are more populous than Chicago?
a) New York and Houston
b) Los Angeles and New York
c) Philadelphia and New York
6) Chicago is home to the largest population of _______ in the world, except Warsaw:
a) Poles
b) Czechs
c) Serbs
7) In 1900, Chicago successfully completed a massive and highly innovative engineering project. Since then the Chicago River is the only river in the world that:
a) flows North in the Northern Hemisphere
b) flows backward
c) the only river in the world that flows both northwards and southwards across the line of the Equator
8) Each year, the Chicago River is dyed green to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. St. Patrick is the patron saint of what country?
a) Ireland
b) Scotland
c) Poland
9) The Art Institute of Chicago has one of the largest and most extensive collections of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings in the world. Which of these painters was not an Impressionist:
a) Monet
b) Cezanne
c) Dali
10) The University of Chicago is the site of the world's first:
a) atomic reaction
b) unmanned flight
c) extraterrestrial encounter
Good luck -- and I'll also be featuring an art-related question next week on this blog for another chance to win a GPSmyCity.com walking tour app for the city of your choice.
(Pictured: Chicago's Prudential Plaza at night)
