Black and Yellow
What are the STEELERS, PENGUINS, and PIRATES?
This iconic Pittsburgh-born artist with his very own museum on the northside said, "Art is anything you can get away with."
Who is ANDY WARHOL?
Pittsburgh has 446 of these in the city, more than any other city in the world.
What are BRIDGES?
This word for a city's business, cultural, and civic center, in the local dialect.
What is DAHN-TAHN?
In this movie, Jennifer Beals portrays Alex, an 18-year old welder in a steel mill who aspires to become a professional dancer.
What is FLASHDANCE.
This local sports hero with two Stanley Cups, six NHL scoring titles, three MVP awards, two Conn Smythe Trophies, a Calder Trophy, a Masterton Trophy - and an Olympic gold medal for good measure.
Who is MARIO LEMIEUX?
This western PA born marine biologist, writer, and conservationist wrote in her best-selling book Silent Spring, "In nature, nothing exists alone."
Who is RACHEL CARSON.
Dr. Jonas Salk cracked the code on this world-changing vaccine in 1950 right here in Pittsburgh.
What is POLIO?
This word may be used to describe the state of the sidewalk following an iconic Pittsburgh rain/slush/snow storm.
What is SLIPPY?
This coming of age film that I can never watch again tells the story of Vada, an 11-year old girl with a funeral director father and her unlikely friendship with glasses-having classmate Thomas, is set just outside of Pittsburgh in Madison, Pennsylvania.
What is MY GIRL?
The name given to one of the most famous catches in NFL history, made by Pittsburgh Steeler Franco Harris in the AFC divisional playoff game in 1972, which is memorialized by a can't miss statue at Pittsburgh International Airport.
What is THE IMMACULATE RECEPTION.
This beloved Pittsburgher gained an international following from his long-running public TV children's show and said, "You know you can always help to make each day a special day by just your being yourself."
Roslyn Place, in Pittsburgh's Shadyside neighborhood is the last remaining street in Pennsylvania made of this material.
What is WOOD?
The name for this everyday item used to bind together a newspaper or wear fashionably on one's wrist.
What is a GUMBAND?
This iconic 1968 horror film, following seven people trapped in a rural farm house was filmed north of Pittsburgh in rural Butler County.
What is NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD?
The decade in which the MLB's Pittsburgh Pirates won their last world series.
What is THE 1970s.
This Pennsylvania born, Grammy Winning recording artist, and number one on my Spotify wrapped three years running, once wisely observed, "I knew you were trouble when you walked in."
Who is TAYLOR SWIFT?
In May 1918, this country was created in Pittsburgh, when representatives of two neighboring expatriate communities in eastern Europe signed "The Pittsburgh Agreement."
What is Czechoslovakia?
This word used to order eggs over easy.
What is DIPPY?
This Pittsburgh-filmed movie starring Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal tells the story of a "womanizing" pharmaceutical sales rep who is supposedly forever changed by his relationship with a woman who has Parkinson's.
What is LOVE AND OTHER DRUGS?
Pittsburghers everywhere were in revolt in 2022 when their beloved Heinz Field changed names after this financial technology and insurance company headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan bought the naming rights.
What is ACRISURE?
This award-winning playwright from Pittsburgh's Hill District, known as the "theater's poet of Black America," once said, "You got to be right with yourself before you can be right with anybody else.”
Who is AUGUST WILSON?
North Park in Pittsburgh is home to "Gravity Hill" where it appears that cars do what?
What is ROLL UPHILL.
A Pittsburgher might use this word to describe one of the many tunnels that connect various parts of the city.
What are TUBES?
What is THE DARK KNIGHT RISES?