| Hint | Answer | % Correct | |
|---|---|---|---|
| F | 1871 disaster falsely thought to have been started by a cow kicking over a lantern | Great Chicago {Fire} | 94%
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| M | Great Lake Illinois borders | Lake Michigan | 94%
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| O | Main airport of Chicago | O'Hare | 91%
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| K | Never put this on a hot dog | Ketchup | 90%
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| S | State capital | Springfield | 89%
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| L | State nickname | Land of {Lincoln} | 85%
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| C | This city is prounounced Care-O | Cairo | 83%
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| W | Stadium where the Cubs play | Wrigley Field | 81%
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| P | Al Capone was the most notorious gangster in Chicago area during this era | Prohibition | 78%
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| N | University located in Evanston | Northwestern | 76%
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| G | Civil War general who lived in Galena, Illinois | Ulysses S. Grant | 76%
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| A | Second most populated city | Aurora | 72%
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| I | Longest river that is entirely located inside the borders of Illinois | Illinois River | 72%
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| T | Name of the biggest daily newspaper based in Chicago | Tribune | 70%
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| X | Roman Catholic university founded in 1846 in Chicago | Saint {Xavier} | 68%
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| U | Nickname of mail bomber Ted Kaczynski | Unabomber | 67%
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| H | notable novelist was born in Oak Park, Illinois in 1899 before traveling to Missouri, Italy, France, Spain, Cuba, and Africa | Ernest Hemingway | 66%
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| J | Major city that stretches in Will and Kendall counties | Joliet | 56%
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| V | City in southern Illinois named after a European city | Vienna | 54%
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| B | Team that was accused of intentionally losing the 1919 World Series | Black Sox | 53%
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| D | Longest-serving Chicago mayor, 1989-2011 | Richard M. Daley | 51%
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| Y | Former meatpacking district in Chicago for more than a century | Union Stock {Yards} | 51%
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| R | Blue-collar sitcom set in the fictional town of Lanford | Roseanne | 46%
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| Z | Actress who plays Roxie Hart in the 2002 musical "Chicago" | Renée Zellweger | 43%
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| Q | Governor of Illinois from 2009-2015 | Pat Quinn | 39%
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