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This quiz covers a variety of topics including the only sports trivia that I know. I cover topics from food to serial killers. Let’s see how you do.

  • Question of

    The Chicago Cubs won the World Series in 2016. How many years had it been since they had played in a World Series?

    • 71
    • 83
    • 97
    • 108
  • Question of

    In the Star Trek TV shows and movies, who commanded the Enterprise immediately before Captain Kirk?

    • Clarence Pike
    • William Pike
    • Christopher Pike
    • Robert Pike
  • Question of

    Violent crime has gotten much worse in the USA in the past 25 years.

    • True
    • False
  • Question of

    The following exchange took place in which movie? “Have you ever killed anybody?” “Yes, but they were all bad.”

    • Die Hard
    • Lethal Weapon 3
    • True Lies
    • Kindergarden Cop
  • Question of

    New York City renamed one of it’s airports John F. Kennedy Airport in honor of the recently-assassinated president. What was it named before that?

    • New York International
    • Metro International
    • Idlewild Airport
    • Roosevelt International Airport
  • Question of

    Name the first movie ever made for public viewing.

    • Birth of a Nation
    • Sherlock Holmes
    • The General
    • The Great Train Robery
  • Question of

    Which two teams played in the first Superbowl?

    • Kansas City Chiefs v Green bay Packers
    • Dallas Cowboys v New York Jets
    • Denver Broncos v Kansas City Chiefs
    • Dallas Cowboys v Green bay Packers
  • Question of

    Which famous Chicago gangster was shot by the FBI in front of the Biograph Theater in Chicago?

    • Al Capone
    • Bugsy Malone
    • Hymie Weiss
    • John Dillinger
  • Question of

    Considered to be America’s first serial killer, he was active during the World Columbian Exposition in 1893.

    • H.H. Holmes
    • Donald Henry Gaskins
    • Charles Edmund Cullen
    • Dennis Raider
  • Question of

    Which of the following condiments does not belong on a “Chicago-Style” hotdog?

    • Mustard
    • Celery Salt
    • Ketchup
    • Relish

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Written by Gary J Sibio

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  2. 4/10 – too American for me! Also, do be careful about assigning cause and effect when it comes to violent crime and gun ownership – the UK has a fraction of the US murder rate and most gun ownership is illegal.

    • I specifically did not say there was a cause and effect between gun ownership and the reduction in crime although many people do. I said the two corresponded. Violent crime in the USA has dropped during the same period that gun ownership has increased and by pretty much the same amount.

      I would also point out that if you can’t tie the two together in the USA, then neither can you tie gun ownership to violent crime in the UK. There’s also the case of Switzerland which has almost no violent crime when compared to the USA but where about 50% of the population owns a gun.

      • I certainly appreciate that these are difficult matters to assign cause and effect to. However, the fact remains that some years ago there were some notable gun outrages in the UK (Hungerford and Dunblane). The government banned all handgun ownership, since when nothing of the sort has occurred. Agreed – violent crime has occurred using other means, but deaths from firearm use are extremely rare. There has been no outcry from the general population that they feel defenceless in their homes at night, or that they demand the right to bear arms.

        I agree – the situation is not the same. The US still has a frontier mentality, and it is bound by a constitution that is way out of date, and that does not apply to the UK or other European countries.

        • I would disagree that the constitution is out of date. We have the amendment process for that.

          I’m aware of the argument that weapon technology has advanced since the time of the founding fathers but that doesn’t mean that we have to junk our rights. We don’t junk freedom of speech because those people who wrote the constitution didn’t have the Internet.

          • But when does it ever get amended? It is pretty obvious that much of it was written with very different objectives in mind than those that pertain to modern circumstances.

            The famous 2nd Amendment is a notorious example – if read as originally written and intended, hardly anyone would be allowed to bear arms, due to not being members of a “well-ordered militia”, but that is not how people interpret it today. It is the only amendment that gives a reason for its existence – namely the necessity for states to have militias for their security – but that simply isn’t true in the modern world, so the reason for the “right to bear arms” – as originally stated – has gone clean out of the window. However, the words and the intentions of the writers of that amendment have been re-interpreted in more recent years to mean something completely different.