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Exploring Louisville, Kentucky: A Quiz on the River City

Test your knowledge about Louisville, Kentucky, its history, culture, and geography with this engaging quiz!

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1 When was Louisville, Kentucky established?

2 ________, one of the most visited parks in the nation, features a 2.6-mile (4.2 km) mixed-use loop and many well-known landscaping features.

3 What is the leader of Louisville, Kentucky called?

4 How many metres above sea level is Louisville, Kentucky?

5 This is also the home of the Louisville Ballet, Louisville Orchestra, Music Theatre Louisville, Stage One, and the Kentucky Opera, which is the twelfth oldest ________ in the United States.

6 What is Louisville, Kentucky's nickname?

7 The public school system, Jefferson County Public Schools, consists of more than 98,000 students in 89 elementary schools, 24 middle schools, 22 ________ and 22 other learning centers.

8 The Kentucky State Fair is held every August at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville as well, featuring an array of culture from all areas of ________.

9 What is the metropolitan population of Louisville, Kentucky?

10 What timezone is Louisville, Kentucky in during daylight savings?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Office Building in Louisville, Kentucky is one of the largest commercial Beaux Arts buildings still in existence.
  • the Peterson-Dumesnil House in Louisville, Kentucky, was once the only club in the United States open exclusively to teachers.
  • the oldest firehouse still standing in Louisville, Kentucky was once a church.
  • the Forecastle Festival in Louisville, Kentucky, was named one of Outdoor Magazine's "Top 15 Outdoor Summer Music Festivals".
  • the United States Navy's Naval Ordnance Station in Louisville, Kentucky was chosen due to being so far inland as to prevent enemy airstrikes.
  • the 32nd Indiana Monument, currently at Cave Hill National Cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky, is the oldest surviving American Civil War memorial.
  • the Schuster Building in Louisville, Kentucky was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 as a "significant example" of Colonial Revival architecture.
  • the United States Marine Hospital (pictured) in Louisville, Kentucky is considered the best remaining antebellum hospital in the US.
  • two-thirds of pioneers arriving in Indiana from Louisville] used the Buffalo Trace to settle the state.
  • when built in 1868, Louisville's Fourteenth Street Bridge was the longest iron bridge in the United States.
  • the traditional song Happy Birthday to You was first sung at the Little Loomhouse of Louisville, Kentucky.
  • the statue of King Louis XVI built in 1829, currently at the Metro Hall in Louisville, Kentucky, was endangered by the Second French Revolution in 1830.
  • the influx of Irish to Louisville (example of Irish-built housing pictured) led to the diminishing of slaves in Louisville by 1860.
  • the Old Fashioned, possibly the first drink to be called a cocktail, was invented at the Pendennis Club in Louisville, Kentucky in the 1880s.
  • singer Elvis Presley (pictured) is said to have made an impromptu performance at Colonial Gardens in Louisville's Senning's Park, while visiting his nearby grandparents.
  • Boxhill, a mansion near Louisville, Kentucky, sat vacant for years after it was the site of a double homicide, and was restored by the wife of a former Kentucky governor.
  • Neville Miller is remembered as Louisville, Kentucky's "flood mayor" for his strong leadership during the Ohio River flood of 1937.
  • New Albany, Indiana's Cedar Bough Place is the only "private street" in a city near Louisville, Kentucky.
  • Louisville, Kentucky's first parking garage was built in 1953, as an addition to the 1913 Starks Building (pictured).
  • Louisville's Eleven Jones Cave is the only known location for the Louisville cave beetle, Pseudanophthalmus troglodytes.
  • Louisville, Kentucky's first rock and roll venue, in Lake Dreamland, may have been burned down by an angry resident.
  • Paul C. Barth, former mayor of Louisville, Kentucky, committed suicide after being ridiculed for a scandal involving the use of city funds to buy an expensive saddle horse.
  • Robert Worth Bingham purchased the Louisville Courier-Journal in 1918 using a bequest from his second wife, to whom he had been married for less than a year before her death.
  • key donors of land to Louisville, Kentucky's 26-mile (42-km) parkway system included a veteran of the Confederate Army and a notorious political boss.
  • political boss John Henry Whallen influenced every election in Louisville, Kentucky from 1885 until his death in 1913.
  • in addition to its bus services, Louisville's Transit Authority of River City operates diesel-powered, rubber-tired trolleys to service downtown hotel and shopping districts.
  • during a flood in 1937, Brown Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky was partially submerged, and a worker caught a two-pound fish in the lobby.
  • a series of explosions destroyed two miles of Louisville, Kentucky's sewer system on Friday the 13th in February 1981.
  • 37 people were killed during construction of the Big Four Bridge (pictured) connecting Louisville, Kentucky to Jeffersonville, Indiana across the Ohio River.
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