Question: How many Revolutionary War battles were fought around Philadelphia?
Answer: Several

Question: When did the US government leave Philadelphia for D.C.?
Answer: 1799

Question: What religion did the black community found?
Answer: African Methodist Episcopal Church

Question: Which city surpassed the population of Philadelphia?
Answer: New York City

Question: What type of economy did Philadelphia have?
Answer: industrial

Question: What was Philadelphia's biggest industry during the 19th century?
Answer: textiles

Question: When was the first World's Fair?
Answer: 1876

Question: Which were the two biggest immigrant groups in Philadelphia?
Answer: Irish and German

Question: What is the size in square miles today?
Answer: 130 square miles

Question: Who carried out the first strike in North America?
Answer: immigrants

Question: When did the strike take place?
Answer: 1835

Question: What did the strikers achieve?
Answer: ten-hour workday

Question: Why did so many Irish immigrants come to Philadelphia?
Answer: the Great Famine

Question: When did the black population explode?
Answer: Between 1880 and 1930

Question: Which political party controlled Philadelphia in the early 20th century?
Answer: Republican

Question: What phrase could describe Philadelphia of the early 20th century?
Answer: corrupt and contented

Question: When did the first major political reform occur?
Answer: 1917

Question: When was the peak of Philadelphia's population?
Answer: 1950

Question: Why did the population decline after this time?
Answer: the loss of many middle-class union jobs

Question: What is the main driver of the economy now?
Answer: service businesses

Question: How much of the population left after 1950?
Answer: one-quarter

Question: What is another large industry?
Answer: a tourist destination

Question: Who planned the central city?
Answer: Thomas Holme

Question: Which rivers run through the city?
Answer: The Delaware River and Schuylkill Rivers

Question: How many public parks did Penn plan?
Answer: five

Question: How many live in the central area today?
Answer: 183,240

Question: How many planning districts make up Philadelphia?
Answer: 18

Question: When was the 1980 zoning code revamped?
Answer: 2007–2012

Question: Which two mayors accomplished the zoning code revamp?
Answer: John F. Street and Michael Nutter

Question: Name 6 important Philadelphia architects?
Answer: Benjamin Latrobe, William Strickland, John Haviland, John Notman, Thomas U. Walter, and Samuel Sloan

Question: Who is Philadelphia's greatest architect of the later 19th century?
Answer: Frank Furness

Question: When did building begin on the Philadelphia CIty Hall?
Answer: 1871

Question: What commission was created in 1955?
Answer: Philadelphia Historical Commission

Question: What does this commission control?
Answer: Philadelphia Register of Historic Places

Question: How tall is the City Hall?
Answer: 548 ft

Question: What is the tallest building?
Answer: Comcast Center

Question: Which building under construction will surpass Comcast Center?
Answer: Comcast Innovation and Technology Center

Question: What is the dominant type of house in Philadelphia?
Answer: row house

Question: What are row houses called outside of Philadelphia?
Answer: Philadelphia rows

Question: How old is most of the housing in Philadelphia?
Answer: early 20th century or older

Question: Name a type of row house in the city?
Answer: Victorian-style homes in North Philadelphia to twin row houses in West Philadelphia

Question: Which neighborhood has the oldest housing in America?
Answer: Society Hill

Question: What climate zone does Philadelphia fall under?
Answer: humid subtropical climate zone

Question: What is the summer weather like?
Answer: hot and muggy

Question: What is the normal snowfall?
Answer: 22.4 in

Question: How much rain does Philly get on average?
Answer: 41.5 inches

Question: What is the most rain in one day?
Answer: 8.02 in

Question: What is the average January temp?
Answer: 33.0 °F

Question: What is the July average temp?
Answer: 78.1 °F

Question: What is the average time for freezing temps?
Answer: November 6 thru April 2

Question: How long does the grow season last on average?
Answer: 217

Question: Which month is the driest?
Answer: February

Question: What is the 2014 population?
Answer: 1,560,297

Question: When was the low point in Philadelphia's population?
Answer: 2006

Question: How much is the population predicted to grow by 2035?
Answer: 100,000

Question: What is the percent of blacks?
Answer: 43.4%

Question: What is the percent of whites?
Answer: 41.0%

Question: What is the hispanic make-up of the population?
Answer: 12.3%

Question: What is the largest European ancestry?
Answer: Irish (12.5%)

Question: What is the density?
Answer: 11,457 people per square mile

Question: How many houses or apartments were there in 2010?
Answer: 670,171

Question: What percent are vacant as of 2013?
Answer: 13 percent

Question: What percent don't own cars?
Answer: 32

Question: What percent own 2 or more cars?
Answer: 23

Question: At the last census how many households had children under 18 in them?
Answer: 24.9 percent

Question: What percent were non-family households?
Answer: 43.2

Question: What is the size of the average household?
Answer: 2.45

Question: Percentage of unwed births?
Answer: 56

Question: What was the median household income in 2013?
Answer: $36,836

Question: What is the name of a wealthy neighborhood?
Answer: Society Hill

Question: What is the lowest median income in Philadelphia?
Answer: $14,185

Question: What is the city's largest age group?
Answer: 25- to 29-year-old

Question: How many people at the last census were under 18?
Answer: 343,837

Question: How many baby's were there in 2013?
Answer: 22,018

Question: How many deaths were there in 2013?
Answer: 13,691

Question: Name the six largest European ethnic groups in the city?
Answer: Irish, Italians, Polish, Germans, English, and Greeks

Question: Which city has the largest Irish and Italian populations?
Answer: New York City

Question: What area of the city has a large Italian neighborhood?
Answer: South Philadelphia

Question: Which three areas are high in Irish and Polish?
Answer: Kensington section, Port Richmond, and Fishtown

Question: Which part of the city has a large Jewish area?
Answer: Mount Airy

Question: Name three sub-cultures in the Center City?
Answer: yuppie, bohemian, and hipster

Question: What is the name of the gay district?
Answer: Gayborhood

Question: Name a University located in the city?
Answer: Drexel and University of Pennsylvania

Question: What percent of 5 year olds or older speak English?
Answer: 79.12%

Question: What percent of 5 year olds or older speak Spanish?
Answer: 9.72%

Question: What is the total over 5's that speak another language than English?
Answer: 20.88%

Question: Unemployment rate in 2014?
Answer: 7.8%

Question: What was the average unemployment rate in the U.S. in 2014?
Answer: 6.2%

Question: How many jobs were gained in 2014?
Answer: 8,800

Question: What industries accounted for most of the city's job gains?
Answer: education and health services, leisure and hospitality, and professional and business services

Question: What industries suffered declines?
Answer: manufacturing and government

Question: Which is the biggest historical sites?
Answer: Independence National Historical Park

Question: How many UNESCO sites does the U.S. have?
Answer: 22 UNESCO World Heritage Sites

Question: Where was the Declaration of Independence signed?
Answer: Independence National Historical Park

Question: What famous bell is in Philadelphia?
Answer: the Liberty Bell

Question: What famous writer has a house in Philadelphia?
Answer: Edgar Allan Poe

Question: Name the archaeology museum?
Answer: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Question: Name a museum named after a founding father?
Answer: Franklin Institute