Chicago L Stations
This purple line station in downtown Evanston is not named after a Cubs and Red Sox pitcher known for his bad Harry Karay impression.
What is Dempster?
This 80s and 90s superstar put on what was considered an all-time great halftime show in the 2006 game between the Bears and Colts. Appropriately, it rained in Miami.
Who was Prince?
A 1990s basketball star tells you he refuses to use the bathroom in the manner of a toddler.
What is Pottie Scippen?
You probably have not thought about this ubiquitous #1 song from 1996 since then but you could probably still do the dance.
What is The Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix) by Los Del Rio
This big cat also known as the ounce is native to mountianous areas of central and south Asia.
What is the snow leopard?
I am not sure who the street where this blue line station near me is named after but it is probably not the people who like to whip Dracula in Nintendo games.
What is Belmont?
This abomination of a halftime show for Super Bowl 31 in 1997 featured Dan Ackroyd, Jim Belushi, and John Goodman as this fake group?
What are the Blues Brothers?
A Star Wars actor lets you know you’re in the presence of a warm-blooded animal in an old-timey way.
What is Hark Mamil?
The number one song in 1985 features a sultry saxophone solo and was performed by a duo where only one of them got very famous and the other one is known as "the other guy" from the band.
What is Careless Whisper by Wham!
Eric Snow played in the NBA finals for three NBA teams, none of which won the championship with him on the roster. Name two.
What are the Sonics, Sixers, and Cavaliers.
This blue line station takes its name from the corresponding street, named after a Polish revolutionary war hero. We used to get a holiday for his birthday.
What is Pulaski?
The halftime show in 1993 held in the Rose Bowl featured several lookalikes of this performer appearing in various corners of the stadium all dressed in his signature glittery military-style shirts before he was launched from a platform below the stage and just stared at everyone for a few minutes while everyone lost their minds.
Who was Michael Jackson?
An 80s professional wrestler and slim jim salesman names his new move this after the amount of damage he would do if he was a superstorm that hit the East Coast in 2012.
What is Sandy Ravage?
The songwriter said this #1 song of 1987 said he was inspired by the way that people moved while trying to steady themselves on a boat during a choppy ferry crossing. You probably could not get away with naming a song like this in 2022.
What is Walk Like an Egyptian?
This 1998 comedy stars Michael Keaton as a musician who dies and then is reincarnated as a snow man.
What is Jack Frost?
This red line station shares a name with a Seven Sisters college in Pennsylvania. Its name means “large hill” in Welsh so why anything in Chicago is named that is beyond me.
What is Bryn Mawr?
When this band were slated to appear as special guests of Bruno Mars in 2014, a comedian created a fake Super Bowl website for them to release a fake single called "Abracadarbafornia" with lyrics like "bing a bing a bing a bang Burbank."
What is Red Hot Chili Peppers?
Software that teaches you to type but only to type heh heh heh heh when making fun of music videos in Georgia?
What is Beavis Macon?
Every member of the group who sang this 1990 #1 song was the daughter of a member of groups each had a #1 song, one in 1963 and the other in 1968. It was clear from their group's name.
What is Hold On by Wilson Phillips?
In the film Batman and Robin, Mr. Freeze asks Batman and Robin “what killedt da dinaooaws?”
What is "Da ICE AGE! FREEZE FREEZE FREEZE FREEZE"?
This South Loop red line stop shares its name with two Chicago mayors, father and son, the eldest of whom was assassinated by a disgruntled office seeker in 1893. Both are distantly related to and share the last name of two U.S. presidents.
What is Harrison?
This act performed at five Super Bowls in the 1970s and 1980s; this in fact may be what they are best known for.
What is Up with People?
An outfielder on the 2004 Red Sox shares a name with a former US President who probably should have used this as his campaign slogan
What is Not Trixon?
This 1994 song was the last to the year's top spot by a Swedish band.
What is The Sign by Ace of Base?
In the 1992 song Informer, Snow says this line after between “informer” and “me licky boom boom down” in the song’s chorus.
What is "ya' no say daddy me Snow me I go blame."