Guitarists
Pittsburgh
Guns & Ammo
Pittsburghese
Rocky
Potpourri
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Growing up in extreme poverty by his single father, who berated his playing style (his father thought playing left-handed was an act of the Devil!), this ambidextrous guitarist usually played as a southpaw and wrote with his right.
Who is Jimi Hendrix?
100
A reflection of Pittsburgh Polish past, these widely-served throughout the city dumplings are stuffed with potatoes and other flavorings and cooked in butter.
What are pierogies?
100
This is the takedown mechanism location for an AK-47.
What is at the back of the receiver?
– When a latch at the back of the receiver of an AK-47 is depressed, it releases the top of the receiver.
100
This is how true Pittsburghers pronounce their NFL Team.
Who are "the Stillers"?
100
The very first scene in the first Rocky movie took place on November 25, 1975 and featured a fight between Spider Rico and Rocky Balboa in this type of building.
What is a church?
100
Designated "greatest actor of the 21st century" by the NY Times in 2020 and having work span four decades, this actor met his wife that he is still married to in 1977 and is the first African American actor to have won 2 Grammy awards.
Who is Denzel Washington?
200
Although most known for his noodling skills, this rock guitarist with the middle name Lodewijk (a tribute to Ludwig Von Beethoven) started out as a drummer but truly excelled at piano- winning many competitions playing Bach and Mozart as a youngster, even though he couldn't read piano music!
Who is Eddie Van Halen?
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200
Pittsburgh is home to more than 446 of these structures, more than any other city in the world!
What are bridges? Pittsburgh is often called The City of Bridges
200
This is the Condition One carry for a 1911
What is "Chamber loaded, thumb safety on, hammer cocked?"
200
Pittsburghese meaning "more than one person."
What is "yinz?"
200
In Rocky II, this character says to Rocky- 'You've got a shot at the greatest title in the world, and you're gonna be swappin' punches with the most dangerous man on the planet.'
Who is Mick?
200
This machine was invented during the Civil War.
What is the gatling gun?
The Gatling gun was a hand-driven machine gun that was the first to solve the problems of loading, reliability, and the firing of sustained bursts. It was invented in 1862 by Richard Jordan Gatling during the American Civil War. Gatling contrived a cluster of 10 barrels, each of which, when rotated by a crank, was loaded and fired once during a complete rotation.
300
This "sting ray" was the first white performer to win the W.C. Handy Blues Foundation's Blues Entertainer of the Year award, playing with the wrong side of the pick- the fatter end-because he loved the sound it made, and his last album "In Step" was a nod to the 12 step programs that helped him get sober right before he died in a helicoptor crash.
Who is Stevie Ray Vaughan?
300
This material was made in Pittsburgh and was used to build iconic structures like the Empire State Building, Golden Gate Bridge, and many of the ships built during World War II.
What is steel?
300
John Browning’s Auto-5, the first semiautomatic shotgun design, worked on this principle.
What is the Long Recoil?
The entire barrel and bolt of the A-5 move backward together for about three inches upon firing. The A-5 was not only revolutionary, it was the state-of-the-art semiautomatic for over 50 years.
300
It's what you might say if you are angry at your spouse for hogging the remote.
What is "give me the clicker, you jagoff"?
300
In Rocky III, while in the gym, Apollo tells his friend that he had this, which Apollo admits he did not when he lost to Rocky, but that Rocky had now lost it and needed to get it back.
What is "the edge, the eye of the tiger"?
Apollo said that when he and Rocky fought the second time, Rocky had the edge and the eye of the tiger, and he didn't and that's how come he lost to Rocky. Apollo said that Rocky had lost it, and that the only way to get it back was to go back to the beginning.
300
The three continents in which writers of the Bible lived.
What are: Europe, Asia and Africa?
400
This double-neck guitarist, nicknamed "Led Wallet" due to his tight-fistedness playing, allegedly found his first guitar when he moved into a new house with his family at the age of 12.
Who is Jimmy Page?
400
Voted top 5 Hall of Famer Steelers players of all time in this order: 1)Defensive Tackle, 2) Defensive Back, 3) running back, 4) Iron Curtain defensive line backer, 5) Center offensive lineman
Who are: 1) "Mean" Joe Greene
2) Mel Blount
3) Franco Harris
4) Jack Lambert
5) "Iron" Mike Webster
400
This is largest caliber the Desert Eagle is chambered for.
What is the .50 cal?
400
This thrill-seeking, popular ride at Kennywood Park was originally created in 1924, renovated in 1968 and is still available to ride today. (extra points if you say it in Pittsburghese)
What is the "Dunner Bolt" (Thunderbolt)? As in: After riding da Still Phannom yinz wanna rid da Dunner Bolt?
400
This character famously and angrily proclaimed in Rocky IV: 'You've gotta punch and punch till you can't punch no more!"
Who is Duke?
400
These are the fastest growing tissue on Earth, growing up to an inch every two days during the velvet stage.
What are antlers?
500
This funky guitarist's solo on Maggot Brain, which George Clinton helped him create by asking him to "pretend he was just told his mother had died and then now to find out she is in fact alive", is hailed to be one of the best solos musical of all time played on an instrument.
Who is Eddie Hazel?
500
These 3 rivers meet at a point in Pittsburgh.
What are the Allegheny, the Monongahela, and the two rivers meet to form the Ohio River?
500
The Glock was originally designed and produced in this country.
Where is Austria?
– the Glock Safe Action Pistol was designed and produced by Glock Ges.m.b.H, located in Deutch-Wagram, Austria. The company’s founder was engineer, Gaston Glock, who had extensive experience in advanced, synthetic polymers.
500
How a normal person would pronounce "Did you eat yet? After you all are finished vacuuming- do you all have a real need to go out? We could go downtown and get a sandwich with processed lunch meat made from ham trimmings and eggs over easy and then do some other activities."
What is..... "Jeet jet? After yinz finished sweepin' do you have a hankering to go at? Let's go dawntawn, get a samwich with chipped ham and dippy egg n'at."
500
Every true Rocky fan knows it's not just a boxing movie but a love story- this is where Rocky proposes to Adrian in Rocky II.
Where is the Philadelphia Zoo?
500
This other "Chuck" is only one of three Americans to achieve eighth-degree black belt status in tae-kwon-do.
Who is Chuck Norris?
