(upbeat music) - Hi, I'm Geoffrey Baer, and this is "The Great Chicago Quiz Show."

Coming up, contestants from all over Chicagoland show us what they know- - All right!

(laughs) - I think you want me to thrive here.

- That's right, my friendt!

- I think it's the fourth one.

- That's wrong.

(buzzer sounds) - Oh, man!

- Or don't know about the city and suburbs.

Tonight, we ask, where's the station to board the "Soul Train"?

We look for the Jewels in Chicago's crown, and we dig up some dirt in a backroom deal.

All that and more in a minute.

But first, as we do each week, we start with a pop quiz just for you at home.

So pay attention right now.

(bell dings) All right, here's your quiz.

(paper rustles) Chicago is a Native American word meaning what?

I'll have the answer next on "The Great Chicago Quiz Show."

(upbeat music) (paper rustles) The rules of this game show are simple.

Have fun, and the correct answer is always C. Maybe.

We're gonna kick off the competition in just a moment.

But first, the answer to our pop quiz.

(bell dings) Chicago is a Native American word that roughly translates to smelly onion.

(tone chimes) Specifically, it refers to what naturalists call, I hope I get this right, Allium tricoccum, a kind of ramp or leek or wild garlic that once perfumed the air around the mouth of the Chicago River.

Do they mean it as a compliment?

(upbeat music) Introducing, the First Round.

Hi!

- Hi, how are you today?

- Thank you for doing this.

- Thanks for asking me.

This is so much fun.

I hope I don't embarrass myself.

- I hope so, too.

- (laughs) - I don't know, we'll see.

I'll try not to disappoint.

- You are a fellow tour guide, is that right?

- Yes, I did two summers on top of the Red Bus.

- [Geoffrey] Does that get a little scary, when you go under the "L"?

- You know, there's times where people are like, "I'm gonna get a great picture," and they take their camera out, and they stand up, and it's like, "Sit down!"

- (laughs) - I think it's one of the greatest jobs that I ever had.

(bell dings) - All right, we have just learned that Chicago is the Native American word for smelly onion.

When French explorers and British colonizers arrived in this region, which would have been in the late 1600s, early 1700s, many of the local Native Americans belonged to a confederation of tribes called the Council of the Three Fires.

Those tribes where the Potawatomi, the Ojibwe, and one other.

What was the third tribe that was part of the Council of Three Fires?

Was it A, the Miami, B, the Illiniwek, C, the Ottawa, or D, the Sauk?

- I kinda like the Illiniwek, 'cause it has kinda that same Illinois spelling.

(buzzer sounds) - Oh, I'm sorry, no.

That is where the name of our state, Illinois, comes from, from the Illiniwek.

- I also want to say Ottawa was one of them.

(tone chimes) - Yes, that is correct.

- (chuckles) Okay.

- (laughs) Yes, all right!

(laughs) - And all of these tribes actually were in the Chicago area, but it was the Ottawa- - Okay.

- Who were part of the Council of Three Fires.

That's okay, we're moving on.

Victoria Danz, you have a really special souvenir of Chicago history.

I want to see it.

Can you show it to me?

- Sure, it's right here.

- [Geoffrey] Now, what is that?

- It's a little glass from the World's Fair.

- Which World's Fair is that from?

- 1893.

- If one of my kids was holding that, it'd be like, "Ahh!"

Now, where in the world did you get that from, or steal it from?

- I begged and pleaded, cried, and my mother bought it for me.

- Oh!

(chuckles) - It was $165.

(chuckles) - Can I get your mother's phone number?

There's a few things I might want to add to my collection.

- (laughs) (bell dings) - Next question.

"Soul Train," the dance show created by the host, Don Cornelius, broadcast nationally from 1971 to 2006, but it started in Chicago, and for one year, 1970, it was produced out of a studio in Chicago that was located where?

A, the Board of Trade building.

B, the Central Park Theater on Roosevelt Road in North Lawndale.

C, the Forum on 43rd Street in Bronzeville, or D, Fred Niles Studios on the Near West Side, which later became Harpo Studios?

- Out of all of them, D makes the most sense.

(buzzer sounds) - Yeah, sometimes it may be the one that makes the least amount of sense.

- I kinda like the idea of Bronzeville.

- Well, you might think that.

(buzzer sounds) Of course, that could be a little deception.

- I'm pretty sure that I know this one, because I worked at WCIU.

Original "Soul Train" was on the top floor of the Chicago Board of Trade.

(tone chimes) - And that is correct!

Very good.

- I danced on the floor right there.

I knew that one.

That's very exciting I knew that one.

- What if they put those dancers down on the trading floor, and every time they waved their arms, they were, like, making trades?

- Oh, that would be awesome.

- I've got to ask you, you decided to make a film about an opera.

You know nothing about opera.

- Yeah, so, it was a totally bizarre situation, but I learned that my great-grandfather wrote this opera that had never been performed.

So when I saw this antique handwritten sheet music, I thought, well, let's solve the mystery and find out what this music sounds like.

It was totally outside of my comfort zone 'cause I knew nothing about music, and here I am trying to put this thing together.

- Okay.

Third question for you.

(bell dings) The Chicago Pride Parade draws more than a million people to Halsted Street each year to celebrate the city's LGBTQ community.

The first Pride Parade in 1970 only drew around 175 people.

What was the origin of that first Pride Parade?

A, it was a Halsted Street pub crawl starting at Little Jim's Tavern.

B, gay pride marchers were part of that year's May Day parade.

C, a rally in Bughouse Square spontaneously turned into an unplanned march to the Picasso statue in Daley Plaza, or D, it was organized by counterculture artists in Old Town, and circulated throughout that neighborhood.

- I'm not really sure, but- - Have you ever been to the Pride Parade?

- I have.

- Pretty fun, huh?

- That is a party, for sure.

(Geoffrey laughs) - Old Town?

(buzzer sounds) - That is a good guess.

Not correct.

- (laughs) Oh, no!

- Kinda be a lame story, if it just started as a little pub crawl.

- All right, we'll rule that one out.

- I kinda like the idea of them headed down to the Picasso.

- Spontaneity seems emotionally good to me.

- Spontaneity is good.

- I'm gonna say they spontaneously marched and did their thing.

(tone chimes) - And that is correct.

- All right, yay!

(chuckles) - Wonderful!

- Here's the story.

(paper rustles) (calm music) Every year, more than a million people line Broadway and Halsted Streets the last weekend in June to watch a moving celebration, literally, of LGBTQ pride.

The story of Chicago's parade starts in New York in June of 1969, when police raided a gay bar called The Stonewall Inn.

Unlike past raids, this time, patrons fought back.

Violent protests lasted three days, inspiring a national gay rights movement.

On the one-year anniversary of the uprising, a demonstration was scheduled in Chicago outside Newberry Library in Bughouse Square, a place known for cruising and counterculture soapbox orators.

The demonstration was supposed to conclude with a march to the Magnificent Mile, but marchers spontaneously continued on to the Picasso sculpture outside City Hall.

(calm music) The only other march that day was in San Francisco, making Chicago one of the first two cities in the nation to host a Pride Parade.

(paper rustles) Wendy Miller, you are such a fan of game shows that your own wedding was a game show?

- Yeah, that's right.

We wanted to do something special, and so we played it straight.

It was a game show.

- The movie title (attendees clap) that best describes your love life.

- It was sort of like "The Newlywed Game."

It's like, we tested each other on how well we knew each other, and if we got 100 points, we could get married.

- I say "Best Friends."

- [Wendy] "Gone With the Wind."

- [Attendees] Aww.

- There were people there who didn't think that we were gonna get enough points to get married.

(laughs) - How many hours have you spent apart?

- 812 hours, 46 minutes, and nine seconds.

Luckily, there was a 100-point bonus question, which was rigged.

- [Emcee] 812 hours, 46 minutes, nine seconds!

(attendees cheer) - But in the great tradition of the game show scandal, you made it work.

- We did make it work, yeah.

- Thank you for sharing that, and we're gonna go to a Lightning Round.

(lightning crashes) I am going to give you a quote, a famous Chicago quote, with one word missing.

You tell me the missing word.

- Okay.

- You ready?

- Ready!

- Chicago, City of the blank Shoulders.

- Big.

(tone chimes) - Big Shoulders, yes.

Make no blank plans, they have no magic to stir men's blood.

- Big!

(buzzer sounds) - Little, little plans.

- Ah!

- Daniel Burnham.

Where you always save more- - Money!

(tone chimes) - Money, yes!

- Baseball one, here.

It's a beautiful day for a ballgame.

Let's play blank today!

- Two.

(tone chimes) - Two, Ernie Banks, yes.

A mayor of Chicago.

You want blank?

You got him!

- I don't know.

- First name, Chicago's first black mayor.

- Drew Washington.

(tone chimes) - Harold, you want Harold?

You got him.

Okay, here we go.

♪ Five, eight, eight, two, 300 ♪ ♪ Empire ♪ (laughs) There you go.

72 and 10 don't mean a thing without the- - Ring.

(tone chimes) - Ring, very good.

Give the lady what she blank.

- Wants.

(tone chimes) from Marshall Fields.

- Wants, Marshall Field.

We don't want nobody, nobody blank.

- I don't know.

(buzzer sounds) - Sent.

Cigar-chomping alderman, and that is time.

(lightning crashes) - Thank you so much, Geoffrey.

It's such a pleasure, thank you for asking me.

I had a great time.

- It was really fun.

(upbeat music) Thanks a lot.

(upbeat music) (paper rustles) So, all of our contestants have been doing an outstanding job throughout this series.

Everyday Chicagoans have represented, but now, it's time to raise the stakes, turn up the difficulty level, and bring in four special guests for a Chicago expert round.

Julia Bacharach, Bill Savage, Lee Bey, and Robert Loerzel.

- That's a tough crowd, man.

- Lee Bey, writer and photographer, and you've really made it kind of a cause celeb to celebrate underappreciated architecture, and particularly on the South Side?

- Indeed, particularly modernist buildings, but the whole catalog, if you will, of buildings on the South Side.

This is Pride Cleaners at 79th and St. Lawrence.

It has this hyperbolic paraboloid roof.

Just a great piece of architecture just sitting there.

- I actually know what a hyperbolic parabola is.

- It's a self-supporting roof.

That's the function of it, that's the purpose of it.

- We are such geeks, aren't we?

I mean, really.

(Lee chuckles) I think this first one, you might know.

- Let's see.

(bell dings) - What famous athlete owned a milk company in Chicago?

A, boxer Joe Louis, the Joe Louis Milk Company, pride you can pour.

B, Bulls legend Michael Jordan.

His company was called DAIRy Jordan.

C, Chicago Cubs great Ron Santo, Grand Slam Milk, heel-clicking goodness, or D, Blackhawks Stanley Cup winner Harold "Mush" March, mushes milk, builds strong bones and teeth.

- I'm gonna guess Ron Santo.

- Why would you guess Ron Santo?

- I'm a Cubs fan, and I can't imagine Michael Jordan doing it.

- The thing about loyalty to the Cubs, it's always a heartbreak, almost, isn't it?

(buzzer sounds) (chuckles) - I, not the first time I've lost on a Cubs thing, let's put it that way.

(Geoffrey chuckles) - I think it's the fourth one.

- That's my guess.

(buzzer sounds) - Oh, I'm sorry, no.

- (laughs) - That makes sense, though.

You know, the calcium, and they're always getting their teeth knocked out, so- (Julia laughs) - But the truth is, it is Joe Louis.

(tone chimes) - And that is correct.

Now, how do you happen to know about Joe Louis Milk?

- You know, they still made Joe Louis Milk when I was a kid, so, being on the South Side, a kid in a black family, you had to have Joe Louis Milk.

- All right, Julia Bacharach, you are the former historian of the Chicago Park District.

You know, we have something really special in Chicago with our parks.

- Right, yes!

Chicago really was at the forefront in the early 20th century, coming up with innovative new ideas about what parks could be.

It was really the idea of bringing all of the parks out to the neighborhoods, to the people.

- I'll bet you're gonna know this, Julia.

(chuckles) - I don't know, I have to get at least one.

- Here we go.

(bell dings) Workmen were totally unable to correctly build the waterfall inside Garfield Park Conservatory, until the frustrated designer, Jens Jensen, ordered the foreman to do what?

A, add more ferns.

B, switch from cheap concrete block to more expensive limestone.

C, make an unauthorized connection to a nearby fire hydrant for better water pressure, or D, go home and listen to Felix Mendelssohn's "Spring Song."

- Well, the most Chicago lore-sounding answer is the fire hydrant.

- I'm gonna guess unauthorized connection.

- As someone who studies the underbelly of Chicago, I can see why you would think that.

- I was right?

- No!

(buzzer sounds) - Ha!

- Oh, doggone it!

- But that does totally sound like a Chicago thing, doesn't it?

- Those answers were great.

I love the answers.

It's D. - Correct!

(tone chimes) Very good.

- You told me that story, that's how I know it.

- I did a good job of telling you that story, 'cause you love that story.

- The workmen couldn't get the sort of waterfall to look poetic enough or something, and- - No, it was the sound.

(slow orchestral music) It had to sound the way water should sound in prairie country, that's what Jensen said.

- There we go, okay.

- Good lord.

See what I mean?

- Bill Savage, you are a Northwestern University professor, and you have mined Chicago's underbelly for years (Bill chuckles) for your scholarly research, is that correct?

- Some of my scholarly research does indeed involve saloons and vice culture and crime, and things of that nature.

- And you have a saloon history in your own family, I understand?

- Yes, my great-great-grandfather ran saloons, which were basically gambling dens, on the South Side of Chicago.

You know, I tend to think all family legends in Chicago about Al Capone are mostly myth, but apparently, sometimes they're true.

- See, this is why we have the history experts on.

Okay, here we go.

This one is right in your wheelhouse because it is a saloon question.

- If I don't get this one right, can we just cancel this whole show?

- I think maybe we'll just leave you on the cutting room floor.

(Bill laughs) (bell dings) What was the backroom of Alderman Johnny Powers' saloon in the Loop being used for in 1899?

A, a private bank where corrupt politicians could deposit their bribe money.

B, the entrance to secretly construct the Chicago freight tunnels without City Council permission.

C, distilling Chicago's first batch of Malort, or D, (Bill laughs) a brothel operated by the Everleigh sisters?

- I'm gonna rule out the Malort one, because I don't like Malort.

(Geoffrey laughs) That's reason enough.

- Okay, good.

We'll wipe that one out.

- I think it's the Everleigh sisters.

(buzzer sounds) - That's wrong.

- Oh, man, jeez.

(chuckles) - I do know the answer to this one, 'cause I've read up about the freight tunnels.

- B.

(tone chimes) - And that is correct.

Absolutely right.

- The permission that they got to dig tunnels was for telephone wire.

- [Geoffrey] Like little tiny tunnels.

- And it turns out that they were actually designing them so they could run little trains through them.

- How did you become an expert on Chicago?

- Am I an expert on Chicago?

I guess we'll find out.

- (laughs) Of course you're an expert on Chicago.

- Yeah, I wrote a book called "Alchemy of Bones," which is a true crime book about the Adolph Luetgert murder case in 1897.

Sort of a gruesome mystery in which a woman's body disappeared, and the husband, who owned a sausage factory, was charged with killing her and dissolving the body.

- So, was he convicted?

- You'll have to read the book to find out.

- Ah!

(Robert chuckles) Available at a bookstore near you.

(Robert chuckles) Okay, here we go.

Fourth question.

(bell dings) On 26th Street, there is a gateway that reads, "Bienvenidos a Little Village."

It was designed by architect Adrian Lozano in a traditional Mexican style.

What else did Lozano design?

A, the mosaic tile murals on Orozco school in Pilsen.

B, the University of Illinois Chicago Circle Campus.

C, the Paseo Boricua Arch on West Division Street, or D, the National Museum of Mexican Art in Pilsen.

(Lee exhales heavily) Let's hear your inner monologue as you work this out.

- Which would be punctuated by the sound of me kicking myself.

(Geoffrey laughs) - It's definitely not U of I, because Brutalism has little to do with traditional Mexican culture.

- True.

- I'm trying to remember if the museum is a repurposed building, or if it was built- - It is repurposed, but they did hire an architect to do a lot of the repurposing, so- - Any clues here?

- I think I just gave you one.

(laughs) - Oh, yeah, I'll go with the museum.

(tone chimes) - Very good.

(chuckles) Okay.

- All right, all right, yeah.

- I like how we work together on this.

(paper rustles) (calm music) In Pilsen, murals and the National Museum of Mexican Art proudly celebrate the neighborhood's culture.

To the West, a traditional Mexican arch proclaims, "Bienvenidos a Little Village," and one man connects them all.

Mexican-born architect Adrian Lozano painted Chicago's first Mexican mural in 1941 at Hull House when he was just 20 years old.

He designed the Little Village Arch in 1989 in traditional Mexican style inspired by then-Alderman Jesus "Chuy" Garcia, who wanted a symbol of pride for his neighborhood.

One Mexican president donated a clock for the arch, and another rode in a parade beneath it.

And, Lozano remodeled a nondescript former Park District boathouse, adding iconic Mexican motifs, for the largest museum of Mexican art in the country.

Lozano died in 2004, leaving a proud legacy for generations to come.

(paper rustles) (upbeat music) Hi, Eve!

- Nice to meet you.

- Is that, like, a vintage Com Ed logo on your hat there?

- I work for Com Ed, you know, and I live in a bungalow, so, you don't get any more Chicago than that.

- It's called "Secret Chicago: "A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure."

- I gotta give you a marketing tip.

You've gotta hold up the book longer so we can see that.

There you go.

(Jessica chuckles) (chuckles) It's the Third Round.

- What's shaking, Norm?

- All four cheeks and a couple of chins, Coach.

(audience laughs) - So the iconic sitcom "Cheers" was set in Boston, but Norm was a complete fraud, because, George, you're not from Boston!

You are Chicago, through and through, aren't you?

- That's right, my friendt.

South Side of Chicago.

- (laughs) How did you make that left turn into being an actor?

- Well, I saw Second City, late '60s.

I thought it was the coolest thing I ever saw, 'cause it just looks like a bunch of people goofing off.

That, I could do!

(Geoffrey laughs) After I'd been in the workshops for about a year, my teacher, Josephine Forsberg, said, "I think you might be ready for 'The Children's Show.'"

I was like, (Geoffrey chuckles) "Oh my god, that's amazing," and she hands me a broom and a dustpan.

(Geoffrey laughs) She said, "Welcome to the theater, kid."

- (laughs) All right, I've got some Chicago history questions for you.

Have you ever shopped at Jewel?

- Yes, but we call it Jewel's.

- The Jewel's, of course, yes.

- Yeah, I shop at the Jewel's.

(bell dings) - All right.

What is the origin of the name Jewel Foods?

A, a hidden reference to the founders' pride in their Jewish heritage.

B, the founders were jewelers who switched businesses in the Great Depression.

C, popular slang for just something special, (Eve laughs) or D, it was the name of the founder's oldest daughter, Jewel.

Maybe you can answer all of these in a Chicago accent, I don't know.

- That's right, my friend.

- I'm gonna go with a family name, 'cause that just feels like, you want to take pride in your family.

I'm gonna say that.

(buzzer sounds) - I'm sorry.

It's actually not that.

(woman claps) (chuckles) - This is so tough!

I thought you were gonna ask me, like, when the Great Chicago Fire was.

- When was that?

- 1871.

- Okay, good.

- But, (laughs)- - I believe the answer is B.

(buzzer sounds) - Oh, no, I'm afraid not.

- Aw.

- I'm just gonna have to guess that it's just, sounded fancy.

Something special, Jewel.

(tone chimes) - You are correct.

- Yay!

Awesome.

- Dr. Eve Ewing, you are a contestant who has a special lifeline if you need it.

An actual Marvel superhero.

- That's the rumor.

I can neither confirm nor deny whether that's the case.

- You actually sort of are Riri Williams, are you not?

- Well, we've never been in the same room at the same time.

That's all I'll say about that.

- (chuckles) And of course, you have been very successful with other writing, which is on issues of equity in the schools.

- You know, I think, so I do research on race, racism, and inequality, specifically as they emerge in education systems.

And really, what I want people to think about is how all of us can be accountable for the success of public schools, and to think about all of these kids as our kids, and what it looks like as a society to be collectively accountable for their success- - Yeah.

- And not just the problem of a few people over here.

So that's kinda what I'm passionate about.

- Very good.

- Thank you.

- Okay, here's your next question.

(bell dings) Which of the following bands was not formed in Chicagoland?

A, the Smashing Pumpkins, B, Pearl Jam, C, Fall Out Boy, or D, Earth, Wind, & Fire.

- Well, I know at least one that was.

- Which one?

- Earth, Wind, & Fire is from Chicago.

- Absolutely, the White brothers.

Okay, so that one we can rule out.

- I'm gonna go with Pearl Jam.

- I'll say Pearl Jam.

- That's easy, Pearl Jam.

(tone chimes) - And you're correct.

- Yes.

- You know, it's a Seattle band.

- You're doing very well.

Seattle grunge music.

Now, Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam is from Evanston, Illinois, where we have a lot of grunge, 'cause I'm from Evanston, but (woman chuckles) the band was formed in Seattle.

Jessica Mlinaric, you mentioned a book.

What book?

What, tell me about this book.

- Definitely.

There are things, because it's about secret and hidden places, and so, a lot of the time I was like, is this secret enough?

Do people know about this already?

And one of the most bizarre things I encountered is Chicago's smallest cemetery in a scrapyard on the South Side, and it's just one man named Andreas von Zirngibl, and he fought in the Battle of Waterloo against Napoleon.

He moved to Chicago and passed away here on his land along the Calumet River.

When it became industrial, a scrapyard was built there, and it was ruled that the company owned the land, but family is allowed to visit the grave forever.

It's a strange story that I feel like you only get in Chicago.

- Truly!

Okay, third question.

This is about gospel music.

(bell dings) Songwriter Thomas A. Dorsey created the first gospel choir while working as the music director at what Chicago church?

A, Ebenezer Baptist Church in Bronzeville.

B, Quinn Chapel on the Near South Side.

C, Pilgrim Baptist Church in the Douglas neighborhood, or D, Antioch Missionary Baptist Church in Englewood.

- This is so tricky, Geoffrey.

You know, I said Pilgrim before the options were even on the table, but you're really making me second guess myself, and I think you want me to thrive here.

- (chuckles) I do.

I do, I want you to thrive.

- (laughs) I'm gonna say Quinn Chapel AME.

(buzzer sounds) - No, I'm sorry.

- Oh!

- I believe it is C. - Pilgrim Baptist Church?

- Yeah, that's my answer.

(buzzer sounds) Ah!

- Okay, so this is kind of a tricky one, because I believe he was working at Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church, but then he went on to work at Pilgrim for many decades.

- I'll go with number one.

- So, Ebenezer.

(tone chimes) - Absolutely!

That is varsity knowledge.

- What can I tell ya?

I'm sort of a genius.

It's a gift.

- (chuckles) (paper rustles) (mellow blues music) Thomas A. Dorsey started out as Georgia Tom, writing and playing blues music with Ma Rainey and her Wild Cats Jazz Band, but the wild life of a nightclub musician led to a crippling breakdown, until a faith healer steered Dorsey to sacred music.

Preachers branded his blues-inspired religious songs "the devil's music," so Dorsey had to split his time between the sacred and the sinful, until tragedy struck again (slow piano music) His wife and son died in childbirth.

Consumed with grief, Dorsey wrote "Precious Lord, Take My Hand," considered the first true gospel song.

After leading the choir at Ebenezer Baptist Church, Dorsey moved to Pilgrim Baptist, a former synagogue celebrated for its acoustics, where he worked for decades, and collaborated with legends like Mahalia Jackson.

The church was gutted by fire in 2006, but there's still a dream to rebuild it as a museum of gospel music.

(paper rustles) All right, as we do every week, I don't get off the hook.

We bring back one of our contestants for the Contestant's Revenge, (suspenseful organ music) where they get to ask me a question and see how much I know, and to do that, we've brought back Sherman Thomas.

- Hey, how are you doing, Geoffrey?

- So, just in case you thought TikTok was only for 15-year-olds, (Sherman laughs) here's a guy who has a TikTok channel of Chicago history.

Tell me about it.

- Three cool things invented in the city.

My children were on TikTok, and I figured there needed to be a way for them to learn about the city that they were from.

Vincennes Avenue is named after this gentleman, whose name I'm not even gonna try to say.

So I figured the best way to reach them is their phones, and that's why I started the TikTok channel.

- But do you have to dance?

- No, no, I don't.

I'm terrible at it.

(chuckles) (Geoffrey chuckles) (bell dings) I did have a question, though.

I was wondering if you can tell me who Jones College Prep is named for?

Is it William Jones, the first president of the Chicago Board of Education?

Is it John Jones, an early black pioneer, or is it Quincy Jones?

- Okay, I do not think it's Quincy Jones.

I think that's in there to throw me off.

So I'm gonna say the first head of the Chicago school board, William Jones.

- That is correct.

(tone chimes) - All right!

- There is a bit of ambiguity in it, though, because the land that the school sits on was all owned by John Jones, and so, very early on, South Siders thought the school was named in his honor.

- How about it?

So a little Chicago mystery there.

- Thank you very much.

- Thanks to all of our other contestants.

Thanks to you at home for watching "The Great Chicago Quiz Show."

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