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Last Week's Quiz

Created by Jonpaul Guinn
Edited by Eli Robinson

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  • Submit your answers by 4:55pm ET 9/14/26
  • Don't cheat. Cheating is bad. Using Google/AI/ChatGPT/Gemini IS cheating.
  • Trivia graders don't care about spelling (but try your hardest)
  • No negative points for incorrect responses (so guess to your heart's content)
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This week marks 25 years since the Twin Towers came down in the 9/11 attacks.

We're choosing to honor the memory by spending ten questions on the three decades they were up — back when they were a shopping mall, a movie set, a wine school, and the world's most tempting stunt set.



So step into the express car and press the top button. We're going from the sidewalk to the roof, one stop at a time.

Q1. We start on the sidewalk, craning our necks: when the Twin Towers topped out, they ended a 40-year run as world's tallest building for what Art Deco icon a few miles up Fifth Avenue, the one a certain giant ape had already put on the map?



Q2. Riding up, you'd have to switch cars at a "sky lobby" on floor 44 or 78, one of the tricks architect Minoru Yamasaki used to squeeze in 198 of what machines?



Q3. The complex was so thoroughly a city unto itself that it was the only thing in the 10048...WHAT?



Q4. Step out onto the five-acre plaza at the base, which in 1978 got dressed up as the Emerald City for what musical starring Diana Ross as Dorothy and Michael Jackson as the Scarecrow?



Q5. Before any of this went up, the site was a warren of hundreds of shops hawking vacuum tubes, transistors and hi-fi gear, a beloved district locals named after what broadcast medium, followed by the word "Row"?



Q6. All that digging had to go somewhere, so more than a million cubic yards of Manhattan bedrock got dumped into the Hudson to build what landfill neighborhood just west of the site, named for the park at the island's southern tip?



Q7. Fancy dining could be found at the top floor’s Windows on the World. If you were feeling more dressed down, you could also pick up a frankfurter at a 107th floor location of what “famous” hot dog vendor?



Q8. Way up on floors 106 and 107, Windows on the World ran a wine school serious enough to launch actual careers, training students to become what S-word expert — the person in charge of a restaurant's wine list?



Q9. In May 1977, toy designer George Willig inched up the outside of the South Tower with homemade clamps, earning a $1.10 fine (a penny a floor) and a nickname borrowed from what friendly neighborhood hero?



Q10. We finish above the roof entirely, where in August 1974 Philippe Petit accomplished what towering feat after accomplishing a similar goal at the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris in 1971 and Sydney Harbour Bridge in 1973?



TIEBREAKER If you add the four-digit years that each of the seven World Trade Center buildings opened, what’s that equal?

Quiz is closed and your answers are now locked! Graders are grading and results will be sent on 9/14/26