Former Galesburg High School girls basketball coach Evan Massey shares his insights on the game and other topics through his Massey Basketball blog, now featured here on WGIL.
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This is a picture quiz to see if you can recognize some of the sights in Galesburg.
There are 15 places or things around town.
The correct answers are at the end of the quiz – keep your score.
#1- What is this building?
#2- What was this building in the early 1900’s?
#3- What is this building?
#4- Where is this?
#5- What street is this impressive house located on?
#6- Who lives in this house?
#7- What building is this?
#8- What was this building built to be?
#9- This is the top of what building?
#10- This is the top of what building?
#11- Where is the wall painting?
#12- Where is this church located?
#13- Where is this post located?
#14- Where is this street located?
#15- Where is this located?
Answers
#1- It is Whiting Hall, it was a dormitory for Knox College female students. Today it is apartments.
#2- Brown Business School
#3- Central Congregational Church
#4- Bridge over Cedar Fork, this one is on Broad Street
#5- Broad Street
#6- This house is where each Knox College president lives.
#7- First Presbyterian Church on the corner of Ferris and Prairie streets.
#8- The old Galesburg City Hall.
#9- The Bondi Building
#10- The Kensington- the old Hotel Custer.
#11- It is on Prairie Street, between Ferris and Main streets.
#12- Hawthorne Center
#13- Entrance to Lincoln Park.
#14- It is the main road around Carl Sandburg College.
#15- It is at GHS. The Charles Bednar Softball and Baseball Complex.
Scoring
14-15 Correct- Did travel to Galesburg with George Washington Gale?
12-13 Correct- Were you neighbors with Carl Sandburg?
9-11 Correct- You went to Galesburg schools.
6-8 Correct- You really need to get out of the house more.
0-5 Correct- You are from Quincy aren’t you?
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