Chicago History
On this holiday in March, the Chicago River is dyed green.
What is St. Patrick's Day?
Based in Oregon, this company is well known for its "swoosh" logo.
What is Nike?
This 1995 film telling a story about toys coming to life was the first film released by Pixar.
What is Toy Story?
This essential gas is necessary for humans to breath.
What is Oxygen?
The Smith family lived in this town when Joseph Smith received the first vision.
What is Palmyra, NY?
The number of stars on the Chicago flag.
What is four?
Famous for wearing #23, this player led the Bulls to 6 championships over 8 years.
Who is Michael Jordan?
Based on the life of the first US Treasury Secretary, this musical debuted on Broadway in 2015, drawing musical inspiration from hip hop and R&B.
What is Hamilton?
Excluding Pluto :'( this is the smallest planet in the solar system.
What is Mercury?
This "elect lady" served as the first General President of the Relief Society.
Who is Emma Smith?
Fabled to have been started by Mrs. O'Leary's cow, this 1871 event changed the course of Chicago history.
What is the Chicago Fire of 1871?
This U.S. athlete holds the record for most Olympic medals of all time, with 28.
Who is Michael Phelps?
The first of two released by Taylor Swift in 2020, this album recently won the Grammy award for album of the year.
What is Folklore?
This theorem, named after a famous Greek thinker, represents the relationship between the sides of a right triangle.
What is the Pythagorean theorem?
This family was crucial to the early development of the church, with 5 of the 11 witnesses of the gold plates coming from the family.
What is the Whitmer Family?
This classic amusement ride created by George Washington Gale Ferris made its first debut at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893.
What is the Ferris Wheel?
After catching the final out of the 2016 World Series, this Cubs player secured the ball by placing it in his back pocket.
Who is Anthony Rizzo?
Author JK Rowling wrote her early thoughts about this "magical" book series on a napkin.
What is Harry Potter?
This famous German-born physicist discovered the mass-energy equivalence formula E = mc2
Who is Albert Einstein?
This man mortgaged his farm to help finance the first printing of the Book of Mormon.
Who is Martin Harris?
Taken from the Algonquian word "Chigagou", Chicago is named for this vegetable.
What is an onion?
After leading the US Women's National Soccer Team to win the 2019 World Cup, this athlete received both the Golden Ball award and Golden Boot award.
Megan Rapinoe
Originally released in 2009 and re-released in 2021, this film is set in mythical Pandora and recently regained the title for highest-grossing film of all time.
What is Avatar?
This Polish-born physicist was the first women to win a Nobel Prize after her discovery of radioactivity.
Who is Marie Curie?
Historical records indicate that this individual is the only woman to have seen the gold plates.
Who is Mary Whitmer?