Question of the Week

What absolutely disastrous promotion did the Cleveland Indians run on June 4th, 1974?

Question of the Week

This man was killed by future president Andrew Jackson in a duel on May 30th, 1806.

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This 10 year old girl was kidnapped by the Lenape on May 21, 1758, during the French and Indian War, and wasn’t returned for over 6 years.

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Father Divine, of the famous Divine Lorraine Hotel, was a 65-year old religious leader who married this 21-year old woman in 1946. She is still alive and living in the area. Who is she?

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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.

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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?

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

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What did Theophilus van Kannel of Philadelphia invent in 1888?

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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.

Question of the Week

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?