Question 1

What baseball team is the second winningest by World Series wins?

Accepted Answer

St. Louis Cardinals

Question 2

Which famous music genre is St. Louis most associated with?

Accepted Answer

Blues

Question 3

St. Louis was once the fourth largest city in the U.S. by population.

Accepted Answer

true

Question 4

Which of the following was popularized at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair?

Accepted Answer

Waffle cone

Question 5

Which company, founded in St. Louis in 1894, was once one of the world’s largest brewing companies?

Accepted Answer

Anheuser-Busch

Question 6

Name two U.S. cities with populations over 100,000 that are also located along the Mississippi River, besides St. Louis.

Accepted Answer

Minneapolis, St. Paul, Memphis, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Davenport

Question 7

What Midwestern city is known as the “City of Fountains,” with more fountains than any city except Rome?

Accepted Answer

Kansas City

Question 8

Which Great Lake does not border any Midwestern U.S. state?

Accepted Answer

Lake Ontario

Question 9

Which of these U.S. cities is NOT located in the Midwest?

Accepted Answer

Lexington

Question 10

Which Midwestern city is home to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?

Accepted Answer

Cleveland

Question 11

What U.S. President was born and raised in Missouri?

Accepted Answer

Harry S. Truman

Question 12

What groundbreaking author from Hannibal, Missouri, wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer?

Accepted Answer

Mark Twain

Question 13

Which famous rock ‘n’ roll pioneer from St. Louis is known for hits like Johnny B. Goode and Roll Over Beethoven?

Accepted Answer

Chuck Berry

Question 14

Which celebrated poet and leader of the Harlem Renaissance was born in Joplin, Missouri?

Accepted Answer

Langston Hughes

Question 15

This actress, who went to Charles and Victoria's high school, played the lead role in Netflix's Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt tv show.

Accepted Answer

Ellie Kemper

Question 16

The Gateway Arch was designed by which architect?

Accepted Answer

Eero Saarinen

Question 17

The Statue of Liberty is taller than the Gateway Arch.

Accepted Answer

false

Question 18

What historic St. Louis building, now a luxury hotel, originally opened in 1894 and once hosted the 1904 Olympics swimming events in its basement pool?

Accepted Answer

Union Station

Question 19

What notable St. Louis church is known for its stunning mosaics and is one of the largest mosaic collections in the Western Hemisphere?

Accepted Answer

Cathedral Basilica

Question 20

The Gateway Arch is the tallest monument in the United States.

Accepted Answer

true

Question 21

BONUS: What Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright who wrote The Glass Menagerie was born in Mississippi but raised in St. Louis?

Accepted Answer

Tennessee Williams

The Ultimate St. Louis Trivia Quiz

2) Which famous music genre is St. Louis most associated with?

3) St. Louis was once the fourth largest city in the U.S. by population.

4) Which of the following was popularized at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair?

5) Which company, founded in St. Louis in 1894, was once one of the world’s largest brewing companies?

6) Name two U.S. cities with populations over 100,000 that are also located along the Mississippi River, besides St. Louis.

7) What Midwestern city is known as the “City of Fountains,” with more fountains than any city except Rome?

8) Which Great Lake does not border any Midwestern U.S. state?

9) Which of these U.S. cities is NOT located in the Midwest?

10) Which Midwestern city is home to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?

11) What U.S. President was born and raised in Missouri?

12) What groundbreaking author from Hannibal, Missouri, wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer?

13) Which famous rock ‘n’ roll pioneer from St. Louis is known for hits like Johnny B. Goode and Roll Over Beethoven?

14) Which celebrated poet and leader of the Harlem Renaissance was born in Joplin, Missouri?

15) This actress, who went to Charles and Victoria's high school, played the lead role in Netflix's Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt tv show.

16) The Gateway Arch was designed by which architect?

17) The Statue of Liberty is taller than the Gateway Arch.

18) What historic St. Louis building, now a luxury hotel, originally opened in 1894 and once hosted the 1904 Olympics swimming events in its basement pool?

19) What notable St. Louis church is known for its stunning mosaics and is one of the largest mosaic collections in the Western Hemisphere?

20) The Gateway Arch is the tallest monument in the United States.

21) BONUS: What Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright who wrote The Glass Menagerie was born in Mississippi but raised in St. Louis?