2016[48]Q -- Ins-Net Qs Nov 25, 2016: Pittsburgh, PA

Insomniac-Net Questions -- Friday[48], Nov 25, 2016
Tonight's Topic: Pittsburgh, PA
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    2016 commemorates the western Pennsylvania city of Pittsburgh's 200th Anniversary of being incorporated as a city. 
    Named for the Earl of Chatham, William Pitt (the British Secretary of State), during the French and Indian Wars in the 1750s, Pittsburgh has been home to many.
    These include native Indian tribes, the French, English, German, other European, Asians, et. al., and even George Washington in 1753.
    Today, Pittsburgh is transforming from the heavy industries (like steel and glass making) into being a world class center of education, medicine, and technology.
    Accordingly, we submit for your approval, 3 questions about Pittsburgh, PA.
    Please choose your answers from any of the 3 (reuseable) answers of "A", "B", or "C" (if applicable!) for each of the following question.  
    OK, are yinz ready fer tonight's questions -- they are easy -- trust me....
++ Pittsburgh, PA ++
QUESTION #1: Some Pittsburgh streets have changed a lot over the centuries from dirt roads, to streets paved with coblestones, then Belgian blocks, and finally bricks. Why pave with bricks?
    A. They are proudly provided (i.e., paid and donated) by hometown Pittsbughers' baseball, football, hockey, etc. sports teams and fans, or
    B. They are a local, easily recycled steel-making by-product found in hundreds of surrounding "coke-slag" mounds and pits, or
    C. They are easier to lay and pull up when changing infrastructure works.

QUESTION #2: Local Pittsburghers have there own dialect called "Pittsburghese". Also, surprisingly, some of the locals may have problems driving around Pittsburgh. Why?
    A. Many of the streets are paved with bricks, or
    B. Most locals can't read street signs, but rely on using landmarks -- like City Hall, Three River Stadium, or the Alcoa, the US Steel, and the PPG buildings), or
    C. Many of the streets are aligned with rivers and there are a lot of hills, gulleys, and nearly 450 bridges.

QUESTION #3: Today, Pittsburgh's biggest employer is the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, which employes more than 50,000 people. True or False?
    A. True, or
    B. False

        [SOURCE: TBA ]

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++ DA PITTSBURGH TRANSLATION OF THE DAY ++
   "Fer alls of yinz who have ever been to dahntahn picksburg, yinz probably seen some of da streets paved wit bricks."

[SOURCE:  Pittsburghese Translator]

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Posted by K7LWA.INS  at  2016-11-25 22:00 PT USA

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