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Multiple Choice City Quiz – Baltimore

Can you answer these multiple choice questions about the city of Baltimore, Maryland?
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Ptcairn
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Last updated: May 4, 2025
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First submittedMarch 13, 2025
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1. On what bay is Baltimore located?
Baltimore Bay
Chesapeake Bay
Delaware Bay
Hudson Bay
2. What was inspired by the British bombardment of Fort McHenry during the War of 1812?
Morse Code
The Bill of Rights
The Star-Spangled Banner
The Submarine
3. What author's house in Baltimore is a popular tourist attraction?
Ernest Hemingway
Edgar Allan Poe
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Mark Twain
4. What HBO police drama portrayed the grittier side of Baltimore?
Bodymore
Hill Streets Blues
The Sopranos
The Wire
5. What is Johns Hopkins University best known for?
Computer science
Economics
Marine biology
Medicine
6. What musical featured the song "Good Morning Baltimore"?
Dreamgirls
Grease
Hairspray
Kinky Boots
7. What happened to Baltimore in 2024?
A bridge got hit by a container ship
A sinkhole swallowed several houses
A sniper killed 10 people
The mayor was caught selling public artwork
8. Baltimore's airport is named for America's first black Supreme Court justice. Who was he?
Louis Brandeis
John Lewis
Thurgood Marshall
Clarence Thomas
9. What Baltimore native was sent by his parents to live in a reform school / orphanage at age seven?
Michael Phelps
James K. Polk
Kid Rock
Babe Ruth
10. The first telegraph in history was sent between Baltimore and Washington DC. What did it say?
Eureka!
Test code KL-541
Watson, it's working
What hath God wrought
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31 Comments
Ptcairn
+9
Level 68
May 5, 2025
This came completely out of nowhere, thank you to everyone for supporting me and to you, the quiztaker for taking the quiz! This feels insane taking my own quiz for points, I'm glad everyone liked it!
Pontiac
+2
Level 61
Mar 13, 2025
8/10
Thisisreal
+2
Level 90
May 4, 2025
Congrats on the feature!
McKenzieFam
+2
Level 68
May 4, 2025
Hey congrats on the feature Ptcairn!
LuckyCat
+2
Level 72
May 4, 2025
Yay! Nice Feature!
undeadwarrior
+2
Level 66
May 4, 2025
I know my musical theatre, so the only answer I could truly answer confidently was the "Good Morning, Baltimore!" question. I got the medicine and The Wire questions right too, so only got 3/10.
Minecraftyoshi2
+2
Level 57
May 5, 2025
Congrats, I guess I predicted it
Ptcairn
+1
Level 68
May 5, 2025
Surely have!
Capybarra
+2
Level 45
May 5, 2025
Good job on your first feature!
Pontiac
+2
Level 61
May 7, 2025
My dad is from Baltimore
SpartanLlama
+2
Level 79
May 11, 2025
9/10, forgot about Babe Ruth and tried Polk
GrammarBeane1
+2
Level 83
May 18, 2025
Wow, I have lived 20 minutes outside of Baltimore for over 20 years and had no idea that BWI wasn't the airport's official name. I was sitting here like "It's Baltimore-Washington International???? None of those words are Justices???"
Ptcairn
+1
Level 68
May 20, 2025
It is but the full official name is the Baltimore-Washington International (Court Justice Name) Airport.
RobNobody
+3
Level 80
Aug 24, 2025
If it makes you feel better, the Justice's name was only added in 2005. Before that it was indeed just Baltimore/Washington International Airport, and literally everyone still just calls it BWI.
FyreSt0rm
+6
Level 55
Jun 11, 2025
Any Marylanders who don't get 10/10 will be sacrificed to the crabs
RuthlessCosmo
+3
Level 78
Aug 24, 2025
When Virginia started promoting itself with the motto "Virginia Is For Lovers" some wit started selling t-shirts, bumper stickers and coffee mugs with the slogan "Maryland Is For Crabs." Old Line State I, Old Dominion 0.
vindsins
+1
Level 47
Aug 27, 2025
now i need that!
Pontiac
+1
Level 61
Aug 25, 2025
Glad I am from West Virginia then lol
Freestatebear
+3
Level 88
Jun 13, 2025
Congrats on the feature! Native to the area, so an easy 10/10 for me.

A couple nits to pick: 1) technically, Baltimore sits on the Patapsco River, which flows into the subject bay about 5 miles to the southeast. 2) in the telegraph question, it would be more accurate to say "...first telegraph MESSAGE in history..."

RuthlessCosmo
+3
Level 78
Aug 24, 2025
I'm not a Baltimore native, but I'm married to one. She is, like you, a stickler for geographic correctness: when UMBC got nationwide attention for upsetting Virginia in the 2018 NCAA men's basketball tournament she objected that UMBC's team should not be named the Retrievers because UMBC was not located in a bayside community. And while she would concede that Baltimore is on an inlet of the Bay, her response to your suggestion that Baltimore was not on the Chesapeake Bay was "C'mon."

I believe that settles the matter--at least in my household.

chanandulabong
+7
Level 55
Aug 24, 2025
And again..questions that only americans may know! 100 cities, and 70% are US cities...
PurpleMage
+5
Level 77
Aug 24, 2025
Don't you know that this is an American quiz site and so everything is skewed towards America (which is also of course the greatest, freest and bestest country in the universe). To say otherwise is blasphemy!

Apologies to Ptcairn - nothing against your quiz, it's a great quiz for Baltimore, it's just quite a few of us are salty over quizmasters choice of cities for the 100 cities in 100 days list being overwhelmingly Yank.

AlmostAGenius
+6
Level 89
Aug 24, 2025
That’s actually not even close to correct. I just counted, and of the 100 featured quizzes, only 28 are U.S. cities, which I think is actually pretty reasonable given the target audience for these quizzes.
shrekcena
+1
Level 60
Aug 24, 2025
Git gud
shrekcena
+3
Level 60
Aug 24, 2025
Who the heck knows anything about musicals? No way 68% of people got that one right
idontkn1
+2
Level 94
Aug 25, 2025
I know nothing about musicals, but the four were all turned in popular movies. All you needed to know was the setting or a very general plot line for each movie to know which one was about Baltimore. The others were southern California, Detroit and the UK.
Pontiac
+2
Level 61
Aug 25, 2025
Hey Ptcairn, where have you been?
vindsins
+2
Level 47
Aug 27, 2025
10/10 and proud marylander! only one I wans't sure on was the wire but i took a lucky guess!
ItzIngenious
+2
Level 66
Dec 21, 2025
Up now on the Frankenstein building team… we have Ptcairn!
Ptcairn
+1
Level 68
Dec 25, 2025
HELP-

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Okay, but like, I was afk the entire time...

Eumenes
+2
Level 65
Apr 20, 2026
7/10 yeouch! Nice quiz though!
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