September 3, 2026

Lancaster Review

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How Well Do You Know Lancaster City?

Lancaster City Trivia

This week’s quiz features ten questions on the culture, characters, and history of Lancaster city. We added the story behind each answer at the end.

In First Friday's early years, gallery owner Joyce Heberlein of Lancaster Galleries made a round of phone calls to local businesses. What was she asking for?(Required)
Charlie Smithgall, mayor from 1998 to 2006, owned the largest private collection of Civil War-era cannons in the country. What did Lancastrians hear them do each summer?(Required)
What national distinction does Lancaster Central Market hold?(Required)
The Horse Inn, a longtime local favorite tucked behind East Fulton Street, started out as what?(Required)
The Lancaster County Convention Center, opened in 2009, was built behind the preserved facade of what?(Required)
Steinman Park, the waterfall-lined pocket park off West King Street, is named for brothers John Frederick and James Hale Steinman. What did they run?(Required)
Lancaster's first skyscraper, the 14-story Griest Building at Penn Square, was designed by which architect?(Required)
Lancaster once served as the capital of the United States. For how long?(Required)
Lancaster's nickname, the Red Rose City, comes from where?(Required)
Congressman Thaddeus Stevens chose to be buried in Lancaster's small Shreiner-Concord Cemetery for what reason?(Required)