Question of the Week

During the early 1940s, Paul Robeson starred in what record-breaking Broadway play?
2/14/12
Author: Cary Hutto

 

Topics: 20th century, African American, Arts and Culture, Philadelphia
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A century before Martin Luther King, what Philadelphia social rights activist fought for the abolition of slavery?
1/17/12
Author: Cary Hutto

Answer: James Forten

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What Philadelphia department store began sponsoring a Thanksgiving Day parade in 1920?
11/20/11
Author: Cary Hutto

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A housewife in Philadelphia during the Civil War, Ellen Emlen compiled a cookbook in 1865. How many recipes did she record?
11/14/11
Author: Cary Hutto

Topics: 18th century, Arts and Culture, Civil War, Philadelphia
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Where was one of the oldest and largest iron ore deposits in America found in the 1730s?
11/7/11
Author: Cary Hutto

Topics: 18th century, 19th century, American Revolution, Industry, Pennsylvania
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Philadelphian Charles Godfrey Leland was a journalist, editor, poet, and soldier during the Civil War. What is he most remembered for writing and researching?
10/31/11
Author: Cary Hutto

Topics: 19th century, Civil War, Industry, Philadelphia
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What ship carried William Penn and some of the first settlers to Pennsylvania across the Atlantic Ocean in 1682?
10/24/11
Author: Cary Hutto

Topics: Colonial period, Immigration, Pennsylvania
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Who was the first Democratic mayor elected in Philadelphia in the twentieth century?
10/17/11
Author: Cary Hutto

Topics: 20th century, Government and civics, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Politics
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In 1821, Thomas P. Cope began a freight and passenger service that sailed between what two port cities in Pennsylvania and England?
10/10/11
Author: Cary Hutto

Topics: 18th century, 19th century, Abolition, Community and Public Service, Education, Government and civics, Industry, Philadelphia
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What influential Philadelphia publishing house once produced The Saturday Evening Post and Ladies’ Home Journal?
10/3/11
Author: Cary Hutto

Topics: 19th century, 20th century, Business, Industry, Philadelphia
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