We’re off to the Midwest today, because Justin has written six trivia questions all about the Windy City itself, Chicago! We also shoot the breeze about baseball, classic rock, and a modern legend of television!
2:20: Q1 (Everything Else): Considered the leading thinker of the Chicago School of Economics, what champion of free market principles wrote A Monetary History of the United States, and won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1976?
6:22: Q2 (Music): Also the government agency that oversees the Windy City’s buses and elevated subway, what was the original, longer name of the rock band now known as “Chicago”?
12:06: Q3 (Sports & Games): Originally called the White Stockings, what National League team plays its home games at Wrigley Field, on Chicago’s North Side?
21:45: Q4 (Arts & Literature): What painting, said to be the most parodied in history, was submitted to the Art Institute of Chicago in 1930 by its painter – who also happened to have studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago – won third prize, and $300, but is now one of the most famous works in the Institute?
28:00: Q5 (Times & Places): Named for the square in Chicago where it occurred, what pivotal moment in the labor movement began as a peaceful protest for an eight-hour workday on May 4, 1886, and ended with at least 11 people dead?
33:35: Q6 (Movies & TV): What television producer created the Chicago franchise, which consists of Chicago Fire, Chicago P.D., Chicago Med, and Chicago Justice?
Theme music: "Thinking it Over" by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY 2.0
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