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State Quiz - Pennsylvania

Can you guess these facts about the U.S. state of Pennsylvania?
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First submittedAugust 1, 2014
Times taken49,050
Average score65.0%
Rating4.50
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Capital city of Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
Most populous city
Philadelphia
Second most populous city
Pittsburgh
Name one of the three rivers which meet in the above
Allegheny / Ohio /
Monongahela
Founder of Pennsylvania
William Penn
Religious group that the above belonged to
Quakers
Religious group which Lancaster County is famous for
Amish
TV show set in Scranton
The Office
Great Lake that Pennsylvania borders
Erie
Chocolatetown, USA
Hershey
Punxsutawney Phil's holiday
Groundhog Day
Mountainous region of northeast PA (hint: starts with P)
The Poconos
Western Pennsylvania way of saying "y'all"
Yinz
State nickname
The Keystone State
Major Civil War battle fought in 1863
Gettysburg
Name of both a city and a (now defunct) steel company
Bethlehem
City that Billy Joel wrote a song about
Allentown
City struck by a deadly flood in 1889
Johnstown
Meatloaf-like dish made with pork scraps and cornmeal
Scrapple
City home to Penn State University
State College
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74 Comments
gerhardm
+13
Level 65
Aug 4, 2014
Youse or Youse Guys should also be accepted for 'Yinz'
SinginDiva721
+17
Level 68
Aug 6, 2014
Yous guys is more of a Philly, Southeastern PA expression. Yinz is for Western PA and Pittsburgh.
tschutzer
+5
Level 93
Aug 19, 2014
True, but that having been said, there's no definitive spelling, it being a verbal expression. So "yins" should also be accepted.
buck1017
+4
Level 78
Aug 19, 2014
I tried Youse AND youse guys thinking that the QM mixed up his east and west. Never heard of Yinz
InterAlia
+1
Level 83
May 1, 2025
Well, we ain't never heard of yinz neither. You think you're special?
Quizmaster
+14
Level ∞
Aug 19, 2014
Yins will work now. Youse is incorrect.
kalbahamut
+2
Level 79
Sep 14, 2014
I made the same attempts that buck did, but I think that's more of a New Jersey thing.
twendesasa
+10
Level 47
Sep 14, 2014
as someone who grew up near Pittsburgh, it is definitely "yinz" or "yins", and never "youse".
twendesasa
+10
Level 47
Sep 14, 2014
actually, Pittsburghers are colloquially known as "Yinzers" in PA and in the region.
EytanMelech
+2
Level 66
Mar 28, 2020
As a native Philadelphian, I have never heard anybody say Youse, although I know it isn't as common as it used to be.

And twendesasa, I have never heard people referred to as Yinzers.

samiamco
+2
Level 67
Sep 6, 2020
It’s good to hear that Philadelphia may have cleaned up its grammar in the intervening decades since I grew up there, but “youse/youze” was absolutely the ONLY way to say the plural “you”. It was a staple of the regional speech.
jayhiatt
+6
Level 72
Sep 15, 2014
Yins, yinz, yunz, you'uns, or youns should all be considered correct. All are listed in the Wikipedia article on Pittsburgh English.
vermiciousknid
+3
Level 91
Oct 15, 2019
I tried youins but didn't think to drop the "ou"
jayhiatt
+3
Level 72
Jan 20, 2021
I came to post the same thing again, only to realize I posted this 6 years ago. Still hasn't been addressed. There is no single "correct" spelling of this, so all similar variants should be accepted.
ander217
+3
Level 73
Jan 26, 2021
I tried youns.
Widgaa
+2
Level 48
Feb 23, 2021
Yeah I was so sure it was y'uns or you'uns (knew it was short for you ones) but neither worked.
zack22
+4
Level 66
Jul 29, 2021
If you ever visit Pittsburgh you will only ever see it spelled yinz. and you will see it on signs everywhere. I have only ever heard someone use it naturally once or twice since I moved here though.
CMC315
+2
Level 58
Feb 4, 2021
I'm from NEPA and I typed youse and tried to spell it a few different ways. Then I re-read the question and saw the western pa part and knew it was yinz.
tschutzer
+3
Level 93
Aug 19, 2014
Panhaas or panhaw should be accepted for the pork scrap question - it's what the makers call it.
Quizmaster
+2
Level ∞
Aug 19, 2014
Panhaas or panrabbit will work now.
Soccer99
+4
Level 85
Sep 14, 2014
YESSSSS easiest quiz ever being a PA native, loved it so much. What a great state, and by the way, scrapple is the greatest food on earth.
mamamidwife
+2
Level 31
Jan 11, 2017
PA native too, transplanted to TX....scrapple is indeed the greatest food ever! my poor deprived cihldren will never know the joys of Saturday morning scrapple, pancakes, and chocolate milk!
dgerg94
+2
Level 28
Dec 27, 2019
why not? its super easy to make.
JWatson24
+2
Level 71
Jan 20, 2021
I feel dumb for not getting that one. I kept trying variations of the word like "scrappy," "scrappie," etc., but I kept forgetting the "l" :P
VolSpike
+4
Level 57
Sep 16, 2014
Yinz cudda had a question about IRON CITY beer...
Bobcat108
+4
Level 69
Jan 21, 2021
That would be ERN City beer...as in "Yinz going ta pump some ern?"
InterAlia
+1
Level 83
May 1, 2025
You mean arn?
Freestatebear
+5
Level 88
May 25, 2016
Totally thrown off by the clue calling scrapple "meatloaf-like!" Dogfood-like, maybe...
Freestatebear
+4
Level 88
Aug 31, 2020
I always enjoy going back and finding my comments from previous times I took each quiz. I may have been a little too hard on our local "everything but the oink" pig product. I know many of my fellow mid-Atlantic brethren love it. But, I still think meatloaf-like isn't really accurate - it always seemed more like sausage (bad sausage) than meatloaf to me.
FyreSt0rm
+1
Level 55
Jul 2, 2025
Is it weird that I don't think you were too hard on it, but I also like it?
geographyisthebestsubject
+5
Level 66
Mar 24, 2017
All of you people who don't live in the mid-atlantic region of the United States are missing out on what scrapple tastes like. Awesome! I live in Delaware by the way :)
POOCH
+3
Level 71
Mar 27, 2019
Scrapple has made it's way out of the Mid-Atlantic states.It is in Kentucky and probably Ohio also. Possibly thanks to the large and growing Amish and Mennonite populations.
ander217
+2
Level 73
Jan 26, 2021
You can't just throw away the hogshead when you butcher. There's lots of good meat left on it. We always made headcheese or souse with it, and my cousin from Pennsylvania told me to add corn meal to it to get something similar to scrapple but I never tried it. I'd like to, though.
xtremeyoylecake
+1
Level 54
Apr 16, 2026
Im from the mid Atlantic region (NJ)

Never had it

divantilya
+5
Level 36
Aug 29, 2019
Scrapple sounds (and tastes) as what it should be: scrapped.
JWatson24
+4
Level 71
Sep 7, 2019
WE ARE
JWatson24
+7
Level 71
Jan 20, 2021
I make this comment 1.5 years ago and no one replies with "Penn State"?
bburroughs
+4
Level 60
Jan 20, 2021
Maybe because they are not the only school to use it...USC started using that chant around the same time, it was made famous for Marshall in a movie, I know they started using it in the late 80s, but that chant was done at my high school in the 50s which is 2 decades before Penn St used it. Countless other high schools also have claim on that chant, it isn't original to PSU.
Bobcat108
+7
Level 69
Jan 21, 2021
PENN STATE! (Just saw this now...class of 1985 here.)
JohnLease
+1
Level 59
Apr 29, 2025
University Park!
mf3
+9
Level 90
Aug 30, 2020
Gee, nothing about TMI? (That's Three Mile Island, not too much information.)
DonTheLamplighter
+5
Level 87
Aug 31, 2020
Yeah, definitely surprised to see no mention of that. That was a pretty significant PA-specific thing.
VickageDC
+2
Level 66
Jan 18, 2021
Since many believe that yinz/yunz/younz is actually a bastardization of young'uns I think that any spelling with "ou" or "u" should be acceptable. For that matter, any spelling with "s" or a "z" should be accepted. Its a visual representation of a spoken word and therefore doesn't actually have a correct spelling.
zack22
+4
Level 66
Jul 29, 2021
Pittsburgh seems to have only really embraced the yinz spelling. You can find it on shirts, signs, mugs, everywhere in the city, but it is always y-i-n-z.
GrammarBeane1
+5
Level 83
Jan 18, 2021
Quick question, according to the Penn State Wiki page, its location is also listed as "University Park." Is there any way this could also be accepted?
berowdy
+6
Level 59
Jan 20, 2021
Seconded. University Park should absolutely be accepted.
JWatson24
+5
Level 71
Jan 20, 2021
I feel like that would be unfair. I'm a State College native who goes to Penn State, and "University Park" really only refers to the section of town that the campus sits on. No one around here would refer to University Park as its own "city."
idontkn1
+5
Level 94
Jan 20, 2021
If you know the minutiae of University Park, you know State College as well.Lots of colleges have separate towns for a mailing address even though they are completely surrounded by a proper city. Notre Dame technically isn't in South Bend, but Notre Dame. Yet the people who know that know it's in South Bend.
Quizmaster
+2
Level ∞
Apr 16, 2025
Yep.
Bobcat108
+3
Level 69
Jan 21, 2021
Main Campus = University Park w/its own zip code. But no one I've ever heard says "Main Campus" is "in University Park"...it's in State College.
Jacktheguy
+3
Level 94
Jan 20, 2021
My grandmother was from Pittsburgh, and I've visited the city a couple times before, so getting the three rivers was easy for me.
mightythor
+3
Level 68
Jan 20, 2021
I L'ed OL when I saw that typing the first 3 letters of one of the rivers gave it to me. I get it, though. It's what people call it, and what else would I be trying to type?

Hey, try the Pittsburgh Translator Quiz

jennywren21
+2
Level 62
Jan 20, 2021
I lived in Bethlehem for a year and I would love to live there again someday. All of PA is beautiful.
bburroughs
+2
Level 60
Jan 20, 2021
Never been to South Philly have you, I wouldn't exactly call that part of Philly beautiful...
nojik
+4
Level 67
Jan 20, 2021
barely knew anything but then i am greek, and i am only doing this for the badge xD
theharknessmo
+8
Level 70
Jan 20, 2021
Possible type-in: "Friends" or "Society of Friends" for "Quakers"?
seabird
+2
Level 69
Jan 20, 2021
Got 16. Not sure how I typed Scrapple but it didn't work and I couldn't think of anything else. I guessed youall. Never heard of yinz.
ander217
+3
Level 73
Jan 26, 2021
I tried Jonestown, Johnson Town, Johnston Town, Jamestown, Johnsville, then gave up. I hate it when I dance all around the answer but never get it.
ander217
+2
Level 73
Jan 26, 2021
When I read the mountain range beginning with P clue I was reminded of romantic resorts for honeymoons. Every bridal magazine in the '60s had dozens of ads for hotels with pink, heart-shaped tubs for two with dewey-eyed couples looking longingly at each other while drinking champagne. Is it still marketed as a honeymoon destination?
Damangio
+3
Level 64
Mar 3, 2021
I'm a descendent of Joseph Johns, founder of Johnstown. He was Amish (the Amish weren't quite so rural back in the early 1800s). The flood was caused by a poorly maintained dam. The ensuing lawsuits led to lasting changes in US liability law.
kogatora
+4
Level 96
Aug 30, 2021
I knew a guy in west Philadelphia, born and raised. On the playground was where he spent most of his days. Wonder what happened to him.
JohnLease
+1
Level 59
Apr 29, 2025
A couple of guys, they were up to no good, started makin' trouble in the neighborhood.
Whuskey
+4
Level 58
Sep 7, 2021
Thinking it was one of the Pittsburgh rivers, I tried about forty different ways of spelling Sesquehanna before I quit in a huff
GrantisAtlantis3
+2
Level 24
Dec 26, 2021
Almost missed Yinz! Whew!

On a side note, great quiz!

Neodymium
+1
Level 63
Dec 2, 2022
I've been to Pittsburgh once, and I've never heard someone say yinz. But I guess they might?
InterAlia
+1
Level 83
May 1, 2025
Oh, they do! I don't want to disparage anyone, but it depends somewhat on the crowd you're with. I grew up there, and never picked it up, but my parents were not native Pittsburghers, so it wasn't part of our household vocabulary.
SpartanLlama
+1
Level 79
May 9, 2023
Never heard of yinz, interesting
Ceramic
+1
Level 24
Apr 25, 2024
I love scrapple and it is definitly not "meatloaf-like".
Turtlemisn232
+1
Level 72
Jul 29, 2024
PA is my home state, so I'm glad i got 100%!
Alexquiz17
+1
Level 95
Apr 17, 2025
Hersheys is NOT chocolate
InterAlia
+1
Level 83
May 1, 2025
It's not my favorite either, but one's opinion is not definitive of the term. Snobbery will get you nowhere.
RuthlessCosmo
+1
Level 78
Apr 29, 2025
When Edward VII toured the U.S. in 1860 as Prince of Wales (it was going to be more than 40 years before he stepped out from behind Victoria's shadow), he excitedly reported that “I met a large and interesting family named Scrapple, and discovered a rather delicious native food they call biddle.”
Albrik
+1
Level 66
Jan 14, 2026
Other states with 20 questions ask 15 to get the badge, Pennsylvania two more cuz why not
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