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True or False: Buffalo was the first electrified city in the world.
True! In 1896, Nikola Tesla lit up Buffalo, giving it the name "The City of Lights."
100
Our city smells like ________
Cheerios!
100
Buffalo's Olmstead Park System is America's oldest coordinated system of public parks and parkways. What New York City park did this architect also design?
Central Park / Prospect Park
100
The most successful Buffalo sports team by number of championships.
The Buffalo Bandits (NLL Lacrosse) with 3 straight titles and 7 total championships.
200
This president was fatally shot in 1901 on Fordham Drive.
President William McKinley
200
This berry-flavored beverage is unique to Western New York and Southern Ontario.
Loganberry!
200
A National Historic Landmark, this former Buffalo State Hospital topped in copper is now a hotel.
Richardson Olmsted Campus / Hotel Henry
200
UB is one of two universities created by a president (in 1846). Which president was the founder?
Millard Fillmore
300
During this conflict, all but three buildings in Buffalo were burned by British troops.
The War of 1812
300
This bar is credited with the invention of the chicken wing.
Anchor Bar
300
28 stories tall, this Art Deco building was dedicated on the hundredth anniversary of Buffalo's founding.
Buffalo City Hall
300
Which of the following was NOT invented in Buffalo:
1. Windshield Wipers
2. Air Conditioning
3. Lawn Mower
4. Kan Jam
The Lawn Mower was NOT invented here.
However, our 14th mayor patented the first lawn mower in the US! (William Ketchum)
400
One of the original five nations of Upstate New York's Iroquois Confederacy, this indigenous Nation inhabited this land prior to the city's development.
The Seneca Nation / Onödowá’ga:’
400
Buffalo consumes this soda more than anywhere else in the US and Canada.
Pepsi
400
This 2013 piece of public art sits at Canalside and can be said to be a "fish out of water."
Shark Girl
400
The first person to go over the Niagara Falls in a barrel was 63-year-old schoolteacher Annie Edson Taylor. What is the fine for going over the falls?
$25,000 USD or $10,000 CAD