As we near the end of the school year, we thought it would be fun to test your knowledge of local history. So, try out the first Our History quiz based on the historical stories that have appeared in The Enquirer over the past few years.
As with all good educational tools, if don’t know the answer now, then you can learn something. Good luck!
Questions
(Scroll after the questions for the answers)
1. In 1924, DeHart Hubbard of Avondale was the first Black athlete to win an Olympic Gold Medal. What event did he win?
2. When Mayor Edward N. Waldvogel died in office in 1954, who was the vice mayor who became the first woman to serve as Cincinnati’s mayor?
3. Cincinnati was a major meat-packing city in the mid-19th century. What was the city’s not-so-nice nickname?
4. The castle-like Chamber of Commerce Building at Fourth and Vine streets, completed in 1889, was destroyed in a fire in 1911. It was the last design by what famous American architect, whose style is named for him?
5. John Filson, one of the founders of Cincinnati who died before it was settled in 1788, wrote the first biography of what frontiersman?
6. The Reds’ Crosley Field was renamed for team owner Powel Crosley Jr. in 1934. What was the ballpark’s original name when it opened in 1912?
7. The Cincinnati Enquirer debuted April 10, 1841. The first edition reported the death of what U.S. president six days earlier?
8. True or false? Rabbi Sally Priesand, who became the first female rabbi in the United States when she was ordained at what Plum Street Temple in 1972, was only the second ordained female rabbi in Jewish history.
9. What two Cincinnatians have served on the Supreme Court as the chief justice of the United States?
10. What Disney actor planned to build a theme park in Northern Kentucky called Frontier Worlds, but gave it up when plans for Kings Island were announced?
11. Cincinnati is named for the Society of the Cincinnati, an organization of Revolutionary War officers that was in turn named for what Roman general?
12. Sarah Fossett, an early advocate for African American rights, won a landmark case in 1859 to desegregate what Cincinnati establishment?
13. Composer Albert Hague, who escaped from Nazi Germany and graduated from the College of Music in Cincinnati, composed the music for what classic Christmas special?
14. In 1864, Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman met at what famous Cincinnati hotel to make plans for ending the Civil War?
15. What Cincinnati radio station helped launch the careers of Doris Day, Rosemary Clooney, Andy Williams, Ruth Lyons, Red Skelton and Fats Waller?
16. True or false? The Cincinnati Bengals are named for a stove.
17. Dr. John Lambert Richmond performed the first recorded Caesarian section operation in America in 1827 in what Hamilton County village?
18. What famous maestro launched his career as conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in 1909?
19. In 1985, radio ads created by Jerry Galvin and Jay Gilbert played on stations all over town to advertise what fictitious shopping center?
20. Jerry Rubin, a Walnut Hills graduate and former Cincinnati Post reporter, was a member of the Chicago Seven, who went on trial for disrupting the 1968 Democratic National Convention. He also co-founded what counterculture political group?
21. What Cincinnati Royals basketball star was paralyzed after a fall in a 1958 game, and is honored along with Jack Twyman as the namesake of the NBA’s Teammate of the Year Award?
22. Soap operas were so called because they were sponsored by soap companies, many of them owned by Procter & Gamble. P&G’s Oxydol sponsored what long-running radio soap opera starring Virginia Payne of Price Hill?
23. The Cincinnati Reds have won five World Series titles, in 1919, 1940, 1975, 1976 and 1990. Which is the only one clinched in their home ballpark?
24. Which of these were not invented in Greater Cincinnati: Frank’s RedHot sauce, Play-Doh, Formica, Pringles, Uno or Magic 8 Ball?
25. True or false? Mark Twain once said, “When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Cincinnati because it’s always 20 years behind the times.”
Answers:
1. The long jump. He also set a long jump world record in 1925.
2. Dorothy Dolbey. She served for six months as interim mayor.
3. Porkopolis.
4. H.H. Richardson. Cincinnati City Hall (1893), designed by Samuel Hannaford, is in the Richardsonian Romanesque style as well.
5. Daniel Boone. The biography was included as an appendix to Filson’s book, “The Discovery, Settlement and Present State of Kentucke” (1784).
6. Redland Park.
7. President William Henry Harrison of North Bend.
8. True. Rabbi Regina Jonas of Berlin was the first ordained female rabbi in 1935; she was killed at Auschwitz in 1944.
9. Salmon P. Chase and William Howard Taft.
10. Davy Crockett actor Fess Parker.
11. Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus.
12. The streetcar. African American women were then allowed to ride, but it took several years before African American men won that right.
13. “Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!” (1966).
14. The Burnet House at Third and Vine streets.
15. WLW (700 AM) founded by Powel Crosley Jr. in 1922.
16. True, sort of. Paul Brown named the team after an earlier professional football team called the Cincinnati Bengals from 1937. Coach Hal Pennington had named his team after his mother’s Bengal stove.
17. Newtown. A five-foot-tall granite marker honoring Richmond stands on Church Street.
18. Leopold Stokowski.
19. Plummet Mall, the world’s first vertical underground shopping mall.
20. The Youth International Party, also known as Yippies.
21. Maurice Stokes. Twyman, who was white, became the legal guardian of his Black teammate, Stokes, to help him get hospitalization and care.
22. “Ma Perkins,” which ran on radio from 1936 to 1960.
23. The 1940 World Series at Crosley Field.
24. Trick question. They were all made in Cincinnati.
25. False. There is no evidence that Twain ever said it. We do have proof that he once wrote, “I think The Cincinnati Enquirer must be edited by children.”
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