CLEVELAND, Ohio – How well do you know Cleveland?
“Danger!” gave viewers Thursday night the chance to test their knowledge of the city, as it contains an entire category on Cleveland.
The category, “Cleveland: News Clues”, appears in the first round of the program and the clues are read by Channel 19 news anchors Chris Frye and Nichole Vrsansky.
So how do you think you would do? For people who even live in the area for a short while, the clues should not be too difficult … it was not difficult for the participants, who answered each clue correctly.
Time to start, starting with the choice of $ 200. The correct answers are at the end.
In 1967, Cleveland voters elected Democrat Carl Stokes over Republican Seth Taft, making Stokes the first African-American to hold office in one of America’s major cities.
This institution opened on September 2, 1995 in downtown Cleveland and celebrated with a star-studded show featuring legend after legend, including Johnny Cash, Aretha Franklin, Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan.
In 2018, this hometown hero and his foundation teamed up with Akron, Ohio’s public school district to open a new school that provides innovative education for at-risk students.
In 1967, dr. Rene Favaloro of the Cleveland Clinic removed a vein from a patient’s bone and used it to direct blood flow around a clogged coronary artery, which has reached a beacon in this now common type of heart surgery.
In 1969, the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland was so badly polluted that an oil slick on the river’s surface caught fire, causing national uproar and sparking the creation of this federal agency in 1970.
$ 200: What’s Mayor?
$ 400: What’s the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
$ 600: Who’s LeBron James?
$ 800: What is bypass?
$ 1000: What is the EPA?