S15 E10 - A Cesquizentennial Exposition - a podcast by Quiz and Hers

While everyone else is fixated on 3.14, we’re all about 150, as in our 150th episode! To celebrate, Hallie has written six questions about the US’s 150-year celebration, the Sesquicentennial Exposition! We also chat about tech history, baseball, and one of our favorite TV shows!

2:39: Q1 (Times & Places): The Sesquicentennial Exposition, celebrating 150 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, was held in Philadelphia and planned by what Philadelphian who gave his name to a famous building across the street from Philadelphia’s City Hall?

17:48: Q2 (Arts & Literature): When Wanamaker was postmaster general, his Philadelphia department store ordered copies of what author’s The Kreutzer Sonata?  They ran late so Wanamaker banned the book from the U.S. mail, but it was also banned by the author’s home country of Russia.

23:03: Q3 (Music): What instrument, named for publisher Cyrus H.K. Curtis, was made for the Philadelphia Sesquicentennial Exposition as one of the largest of its kind, with 162 ranks?

34:31: Q4 (Movies & TV): Although completely fictional, what pub owned by Charlie, Dennis, and Mac is located in South Philadelphia, which is where the Sesquicentennial Exposition was held?

40:01: Q5 (Everything Else): What invention that was introduced at the Centennial Exposition, also in Philadelphia, prompted Brazil’s emperor Dom Pedro to say, “My God, it talks!”?

50:22: Q6 (Sports & Games): What big 4 sports team, which relocated to Washington D.C. in 2004, was named after a later World’s Fair?

Theme music: "Thinking it Over" by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY 2.0

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