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Positively Naperville announces winners of its 2013 Pop Quiz

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Oh! What a wonderful week it was! Three red-ink pens later and all the Pop Quizzes have been scored.

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For starters, when we published online the Naper Trivia, PN’s 2013 Pop Quiz to be played from Jan. 6 to Jan. 21, we anticipated five, maybe ten, responses.

We thought if we receive 15, we’ll be thrilled.  Well, the response was remarkable.  So we scrambled to get a stash of prizes because one of the challenges was to get all three bonus questions correct, a category that resulted in 12 winners.

Thanks to all for playing our online trivia game. Now it’s history.

Scoring!

The 2013 Pop Quiz featured 50 questions, each worth one point for 50 points, and three bonus questions for an additional 6 points.

We tried to make the Pop Quiz easy enough for everyone to enjoy playing by offering a “25 point” Category. In that category players would only have to mark half right.  Some players came really, really close to 25, scoring in the low 30s. We’re not sure if their low scores were by design for a shot at 25 or true misses. At any rate, we’ll never tell.

We had quite a high number of scores of 45-plus. Scores varied very much, especially on the trick questions.

Feedback!

Many people e-mailed us to say the quiz was too difficult. Others said they knew most. Still others said they deliberately missed questions “so they wouldn’t win.” One player begged us to disqualify her because she was just “testing her new iPad.” Most said it took about 15 minutes to play. Other players failed to click “submit,” so they are in our count, but without a score.

Entry to play was free of charge.  Past issues of PN were a good source for “open-book” answers. Some of the questions were trick questions. One of the questions about local jokesters, John Gallagher and Tom Wehrli, was both true and/or false!

Prizes!

Prizes include $50 and $25 gift certificates to numerous Naperville restaurants; three musical snow globes featuring Naperville landmarks, thanks to the Naperville Conference and Visitors Bureau & Dine Around Naperville; Rotary Gesundheit, a miniature-sized replica of the Rotary giraffe sculpture in City Hall; Horton the Elephant Dolls from the Seuss Estate, compliments of Anderson’s Bookshop; Cock Robin ONE in a Million t-shirts; a classic Mayor Pradel Bobblehead, a product created by Minuteman Press; a piggy bank from First Community Bank; a golfer’s windbreaker from Cafe Buonaro’s and other novelty items with ties to Naperville. Many thanks to our generous independent business and hospitality community for giving items for prizes.

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Congratulations to the Winners!

First Place – Mary Corrigan / 57 Points (Perfect Score of 56-Plus One Bonus Point from WSI Quiz Night at Quigley’s)

Mary Corrigan was entry #13 on Jan. 10. She commented that she’s been a regular reader of PN “since Vol. 1 No. 1.”

Second Place – Debra Sasveed / 53 Points

Third Place – Deb Newman / 50 Points

First to Enter – Jan. 6, 2013 – Tim Jordan

Last to Enter – Jan. 19, 2013 – Marianne Hofmann

First to Enter on Jan. 17, Ben Franklin’s Birthdate in 1706 – Ed Channell

12 Players Had All Three Bonus Questions Correct (Worth 6 points)

Dave Caims, Stephanie Cheehy, Mary Corrigan, Karen Eldrenkamp, Marianne Hofmann, Tim Jordan, Susan Kouri, Gary Leavenworth, Claire Liu, Deb Newman, Patti Roberts and Debra Sasveld.

No one won the prize for targeting exactly 25 correct answers, though several came very close!

Note to winners! If you have yet to be contacted by PN regarding your address for delivery of your prize, please contact tim@positivelynaperville.com. Thanks.

PN’s Pop Quiz with the correct answers

Editor’s Note: The first 50 questions, multiple choice and true/false, are worth one point each. Here all questions have been edited and rewritten as true unless the original statement was false. The final three “bonus” questions are worth 2 points each.
1. The message “PEACE,” designed from Riverwalk tree branches, was featured with Dr. Seuss’ Grinch on the December 2012 cover. (“JOY” was presented in 2011.)
2. Rick Spencer, Rick Hitchcock, Dr. Hal Wilde, Ray McGury and Paul Loscheider were giddy after the final City Council meeting of 2012 because Mayor Pradel had honored Wilde with a proclamation. Following a tribute to Dr. Wilde for 22 years of service as President of North Central College, they announced a new park would be built on the “eyesore” just south of the DuPage River next to Burger King. (The “eyesore” came down January 19, 2013.)
3. During the 5th Annual Rotary Club of Naperville/Downtown Holiday Sign-along, organizer Jim Boyajian led the service club in a trivia quiz featuring the question, “How many points in every snowflake?”
4. Just steps from downtown Naperville, North Central College performance venues and fine art galleries have become a destination for the entire Chicago area to consider dinner and the show such as An Evening with Branford Marsalis on March 1, 2013. (Find North Central College Events in the drop-down under Community Calendar on the navigation bar across the top of this page.)
5. The Judd Kendall VFW Post hosts weekly fish fries every Friday during Lent.
6. Dan Casey claims he grew up behind a meat counter learning about customer service.
7. 2013 Ribfest, hosted by the Exchange Club of Naperville, will be held July 3-7 in Knoch Park.
8. The Naperville Area Chamber of Commerce, now under the new leadership of President/CEO Mike Evans, currently is located on the third level of Main Street Promenade.
9. Anderson’s Bookshops, independently-owned and operated, recently held The Grinch Party to help promote IndieBound-Naperville.
10. The Naperville Public Library hosted the Healthy, Wealthy and Wise initiative with Alice Wood, kicking off on Jan. 31 at the 95th Street Library, 3015 Cedar Glade Dr., to educate how to sustain a healthy physical, financial and mental lifestyle.
11. The Evening Kiwanis will hold its Annual Pancake Festival in March.
12. The Naperville Convention and Visitors Bureau moved in 2012 from the second level of Main Place to the second level of River Square.
13. In October, the Naperville Central High School Girl’s Volley Ball Team participates in “Volley for a Cure” to raise funds for breast cancer awareness and research.
14. Catch 35, offering seafood, fresh fish, steak and lobster in its spacious restaurant in Van Buren Place, joined other restaurants with samples at Rotary Soup’s On and NaperPalooza 4.
15. The Naperville Bank & Trust building, located at 555 Fort Hill Drive, was designed by the same architectural firm that designed the Riverwalk, Charles Vincent George (CVG) Design Group, the architectural firm that designed the house for now-closed The Animal Hospital on Aurora Ave.
16. The Judd Kendall VFW Post 3873 follows the mission of the VFW “To Honor the Dead by Helping the Living.”
17. In 1986, 130 artists were featured in the inaugural Naperville Art League Riverwalk Fine Art Fair.
18. The Naperville Riverwalk was begun to commemorate Naperville’s Sesquicentennial in 1981.
19. Ted’s Montana Grill now occupies the space where Oswald’s Pharmacy used to be before the 135-year old business moved to Naperville Plaza.
20. CityGate Centre is home to Zorba’s, SugarToad at the Hotel Arista and CityGate Grille. (Note that CityGate Centre, located on Naperville’s northwest side, is also home to Calamos Investments, Lavazza Expression Coffee and Olympus Executive Fitness Center, to name three more.)
21. NO hard-boiled colored eggs are hidden in the Naperville Jaycees annual Easter Egg Hunt at Frontier Park.
22. Live entertainment at Meson Sabika on Friday evenings features a guitarist and a flamenco dancer.
23. The Water Street District planned development and renovation projects in the south downtown area could impact traffic.
24. Soukup’s Hardware was located in the Roseland Draperies & Interiors building on Washington and Jefferson for more than 25 years, where “if you needed it, the owner had it.”
25. In June 2010, a public meeting was held in the Naperville Municipal Center to check local interest in educating the community about how to put term limits and district representation on the Nov. 2, 2010 ballot. Yes At Large could be featured on the ballot in the Consolidated Election on April 9.
26. Oswald’s Pharmacy has been serving Naperville’s needs since 1875 in downtown Naperville. FALSE.   Today Oswald’s is located in Naperville Plaza.
27. The slogan for the First Community Bank – Naperville is “Locally Owned, Made for You.”
28. Serving Naperville since 1980, the original owner of Minuteman Press,an independently-owned local franchise and print shop, was Fred Mills.
29. The City of Naperville is conducting the South Downtown Traffic Management Study to evaluate options for improving traffic flow and pedestrian connectivity along the southern perimeter of the downtown area and the impact it will have on the Public Works building at Jefferson and Fort Hill Road.  FALSE.
30. Red is the primary color of the IndieBound logo that is displayed in more than 100 local independent businesses to shout their independence.
31. During the week of Veterans Day, the Naperville Healing Field of Honor at Rotary Hill was filled with 2,012 flags to represent the year.
32. Meson Sabika is a place to discover the true taste of Spain in the ambience of a 19th-century mansion, formerly known as Willoway Manor.
33. Since 1993, BBM Incorporated has steadily grown to manage commercial and residential properties throughout the Chicagoland area, including The Main Street Promenade, Washington Corners and Benton Terrace Residential Condominiums in downtown Naperville.
34. If you ask Dean’s Clothing owner Greg DeGeeter, he’ll tell you that his father had originally established the fine clothing store for boys.
35. Peg Yonker, Tom Bursh, Pat Benton and Dave Kelsch are among a long list of past presidents of the Naperville Heritage Society, celebrating 44 years on Feb. 5, 2013.
36. Naperville Park District Executive Director Ray McGury and family own two Shih tsu pups named Murphy and Duffy.
37. RESTYLE is a place to repurpose home furnishings and accessories.
38. Scott Itter, Ed Channell and Debbie Venezia were PN’s first three monthly columnists.  FALSE.  (PN’s first columnists were Barb Dwyer, Patti Koltes and Tom Beerntsen.)
39. If you ever need a laugh, John Gallagher and Tom Wehrli are willing to share a joke—and some of them are good.  TRUE and FALSE!
40. Ben Gross, Daphne Tice, Robert Pino and Allie Mooney previously served as high school interns for Positively Naperville.
41. Mayor A. George Pradel will present his 25th State of the City Address in January, looking back at the events of 2012 and focusing on the challenges and opportunities facing the City of Naperville in 2013.  The breakfast, sponsored by the Naperville Area Chamber of Commerce, will be held at the Marriott.  FALSE.  Mayor Pradel’s18th address was a luncheon.
42. More than 100 entries are expected to participate in the West Suburban Irish St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Sat., March 16, 2013, in downtown Naperville.
43. Built to commemorate Naperville’s 100th birthday, Centennial Beach is filled with 6.2 million gallons of fresh water every spring.
44. In addition to owning a barbershop, Rick Motta is known for his ideas to begin Last Fling.
45. Dog Patch Pets & Feed, Naperville’s original pet store, is a new type of independent pet store that matches rescues with forever homes as well as a full-service old-fashioned pet store.
46. Springbrook Prairie Center is located along 75th Street.
47. SECA, funded by a city-wide food and beverage tax, means Special Events Cultural Amenities.
48. The Water Street District development was called a “Game Changer” by the Planning & Zoning Commission.
49. The next Consolidated Election for seats on local governing bodies is Tuesday, April 9.
50. Yes at Large is referendum measure regarding opposition to City Council districts. Since 1969, Naperville has operated under the Council-Manager form of government as provided by state law.
Bonus Questions (2 points each)
51. Electronic devices are allowed to be used during West Suburban Irish Quiz Nights at Quigley’s Irish Pub. FALSE.
52. Cameras caught Deb Collander and Sandy Ryan reading PN along the Great Wall of China, thanks to Jack Ryan.
53. Mike Skarr and Dick Kuhn were the first two leaders of the first Naperville United Way outdoor art exhibit in 2001.
Thanks for reading and playing PN’s 2013 Pop Quiz.  All the answers for the open-book Pop Quiz will quickly come to mind to anyone who pays attention to the happenings in Naperville.  Have fun!  And be prepared for the next PN Pop Quiz!

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