Chicago True or False? - Statistics

General Stats
  • This quiz has been taken 61 times
  • The average score is 12 of 15
Answer Stats
Question Answer % Correct
Chicago has the highest average wind speed of any city in the US False
100%
The Chicago Tribune is the oldest continually published newspaper in the US False
100%
Cook County, which contains Chicago, is the most populous county in the US False
100%
Barack Obama is the only US president to have been born in Chicago False
100%
The Willis Tower (formerly the Sears Tower) was once the tallest building in the world True
100%
One in three Chicagoans are black True
100%
The Chicago Cubs are the oldest Major League Baseball team to have never changed their city True
100%
Chicago annually dyes its river green to celebrate St Patrick's Day True
100%
The films Thief, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and The Fugitive are all set in Chicago True
100%
In 2019, Chicago had the highest per capita murder rate of any city in the US False
50%
Over 3,000 people were killed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 False
50%
Infamous Chicago mobster Al Capone was sentenced to prison for smuggling alcohol into the US during Prohibition False
50%
Chicago was the second-largest city in the US before being overtaken by Los Angeles in the 1980s True
50%
McDonald's, Boeing and United Airlines are all headquartered in Chicago True
50%
The first presidential debate of the modern era, between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, took place in Chicago in 1960 True
50%
No matching quizzes found
Score Distribution
Percent of People with Each Score
Percentile by Number Answered
Your Score History
You have not taken this quiz