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Exploring Baltimore: A Quiz on the City

Test your knowledge about Baltimore with this engaging quiz covering its demographics, geography, and notable figures.

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1 ________ made up less than 0.1% of the city's population.

2 Where is Baltimore?

3 The Maryland colonial legislature made the area near Locust Point as the port of entry for the ________ trade with England.

4 What type of subdivision is Baltimore?

5 The population density of Baltimore: How many people are there per square mile?

6 How many feet above sea level is Baltimore?

7 How many metres above sea level is Baltimore?

8 What role did Nato Jude play in the movie Baltimore?

9 City officials have come under scrutiny from Maryland legislators regarding the veracity of crime statistics reported by the ________.

10 House Speaker ________ grew up.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • after retiring from professional wrestling, Ida Mae Martinez was one of the first nurses in Baltimore to work with AIDS patients.
  • the chicken tax led to Ford importing light trucks to the United States from Turkey and immediately shredding portions of their interiors in Baltimore.
  • The Wire actress Felicia "Snoop" Pearson wrote an autobiography, Grace After Midnight, chronicling her drug-dealing days in Baltimore, imprisonment on murder charges and rehabilitation.
  • Key Highway, built to provide better access to the municipal piers in Baltimore in preparation for increased trade through the Panama Canal, is now a truck bypass of the historic Federal Hill neighborhood.
  • James Lingan, officer of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War, was beaten to death by a mob in Baltimore, Maryland for defending the freedom of the press.
  • Dr. John Stevenson, 18th century Scottish merchant and developer of Baltimore, was known as the "American Romulus".
  • Judge Henry Stump of Baltimore's circuit court was the only jurist in the history of Maryland to be removed from the bench by the Maryland General Assembly.
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