May 26, 2026

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How Well Do You Know Lancaster County?

Take the Lancaster Trivia Challenge

Ten questions across ten corners of Lancaster County life: history, geography, music, theater, food, architecture, and more. See how you score, and forward it to your friends.

James Hamilton officially laid out the town in 1729, the same year Lancaster County was carved out of Chester County. What had the area been called before it was named Lancaster?
The Susquehanna River forms Lancaster County’s western boundary. Among rivers on the U.S. East Coast, what distinction does it hold?
Tony-winning actor Jonathan Groff (Hamilton, Frozen, Merrily We Roll Along) grew up in Lancaster County. Where did he get his theatrical start?
Founded in 1861 in Lititz by a 26-year-old German immigrant, this Lancaster County business is recognized as America’s first commercial bakery of what?
Lancaster Central Market in Penn Square holds what national distinction?
Lancaster-born indie folk singer-songwriter Denison Witmer has been releasing introspective albums since the late 1990s. His most recent record, “Anything At All” (2025), was produced by a longtime friend and acclaimed indie artist. Who?
In April 2026, the Fulton Theatre opened its newly renovated Castagna Hall with the inaugural production of which Tony Award-winning Broadway musical?
A delicate spring wildflower carpets Lancaster County preserves like Shenks Ferry every April. Its mottled leaves resemble the speckled side of which Pennsylvania native fish, giving the plant its name?
You can’t drive five minutes through Lancaster County farmland without seeing a classic Pennsylvania bank barn. What architectural feature, brought over by 18th-century German and Swiss settlers, defines the style?
Whoopie pies, Lancaster County’s most beloved Pennsylvania Dutch dessert, supposedly got their name from what?
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