Category Archives: Question of the Week

This man, who ran a perfume shop at 114 Chestnut, began bottling flavored soda water, and by 1842, there was a soda craze in the city and in the country.

The youngest person ever nominated for any Academy Award was just 8 years old when he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor. Who is he?

What show written by John Sayles was about a lawyer in Philadelphia named Jack?

What did Theophilus van Kannel of Philadelphia invent in 1888?

This 14th century Moroccan explorer journeyed more than 75,000 miles (more than his contemporary Marco Polo) and recorded it all in a book called the Rihla.

This fish was thought to have gone extinct with the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, but a living one was caught by fisherman Hendrick Goosen in 1938. What fish is it?

In 1954, Milan High School won the Indiana State championship, and their story formed the basis of the film Hoosiers. A year later, the great Oscar Robertson led this high school to an Indiana state championship, the first one ever won in Indiana by an all-black school. What was the name of that high school?

What playwright wrote The Bald Soprano in 1950? (Answer can be found in my Philly Post story this week.)

Keith Richards named one of his guitars after this character in David Copperfield based on Charles Dickens’s father. Who is that character?

Only one player has ever won Super Bowl MVP while playing for the losing team. Who was it?