Question | Answer | % Correct |
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Chicago has the highest average wind speed of any city in the US | False | 100%
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The Chicago Tribune is the oldest continually published newspaper in the US | False | 100%
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Cook County, which contains Chicago, is the most populous county in the US | False | 100%
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Barack Obama is the only US president to have been born in Chicago | False | 100%
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The Willis Tower (formerly the Sears Tower) was once the tallest building in the world | True | 100%
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One in three Chicagoans are black | True | 100%
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The Chicago Cubs are the oldest Major League Baseball team to have never changed their city | True | 100%
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Chicago annually dyes its river green to celebrate St Patrick's Day | True | 100%
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The films Thief, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and The Fugitive are all set in Chicago | True | 100%
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In 2019, Chicago had the highest per capita murder rate of any city in the US | False | 50%
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Over 3,000 people were killed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 | False | 50%
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Infamous Chicago mobster Al Capone was sentenced to prison for smuggling alcohol into the US during Prohibition | False | 50%
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Chicago was the second-largest city in the US before being overtaken by Los Angeles in the 1980s | True | 50%
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McDonald's, Boeing and United Airlines are all headquartered in Chicago | True | 50%
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The first presidential debate of the modern era, between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, took place in Chicago in 1960 | True | 50%
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