Downtown Madison Trivia
Tim's Trivia - Madison Night Market Edition
To celebrate the first ever
Virtual Madison Night Market
, we have decided to do a Madison Night Market edition of Tim's Trivia. Try your hand at our Downtown Trivia quiz below.
Answers will be posted at the answer key link below after the event.
Questions
1) What was the date of the first Madison Night Market?
2) Madison Night Markets now play host to more than 80 vendors per market. How many vendors were at the first market?
3) The Downtown Visitor Center is an important hub for our Staff during the Night Markets. The Information Ambassadors that staff the Visitor Center have been around for 20 years, but what year was the Visitor Center built?
4) This business is not only a regular vendor at the markets, they also help supply and install the beautiful lighting for the Madison Night Markets as well as our Shine on Madison displays.
5) We now plan four markets every year (not including the Winter Night Market), how many markets were there in the first year?
6) What popular local band headlined the first Madison Night Market stage in Peace Park?
7) The abbreviation for the Madison Night Market sounds extremely similar to this popular snack, which we handed out at one of our first markets compliments of It’Sugar.
8) If you’ve been to any of the previous markets you know that MG&E loves to show of their ?
9) What year was the first Winter Night Market in partnership with Shine on Madison?
10) Part one: Name the three streets that intersect to create the hub for the past Madison Night Markets.
Part two: We are always trying to make the market bigger and better. This year we received approval for a NEW location for the 2020 Madison Night Market which will be on what popular downtown street?
11) Playing host to our entertainment and just a great place to relax, Peace Park can be considered one of the centerpieces to the Night Markets. But Peace Park is the shortened name, the park is also named for what historical Madison activist?
12) Bonus Question: What is the best vendor or experience from the past Night Markets?
13) Which Overture Center program for up and coming young local artists has participated every year by sending performers for the Madison Night Market stage at Peace Park?
Tim's Trivia - Part of the Downtown Madison LIVE - Spring Watch Party
Being Ambassadors for downtown, our staff collects a bunch of great nuggets of information about the area. We want to share that information with you, but also see how well you know downtown! Try your hand at our Downtown Trivia quiz below.
A link to the answers can be found below, but don't cheat, give it a try!
Questions
1) The statue on top of the Wisconsin State Capitol dome is named Wisconsin and was created by Daniel Chester French in 1913-14. What animal is perched on top of Wisconsin’s head?
2) The Monona Terrace opened it’s doors in 1997. What famous architect proposed the project and created their first design in 1938?
3) Named “Spare Time,” this sculpture keeps an eye out for you if you’re outside Candia’s Chocolatier at 11 W. Main St. What is it?
4) The Capitol Theater façade was incorporated into the building during construction of the Overture Center for the Arts. By what other name shared by a long time Madison business was the Capitol Theater known?
5) Where on State St. will you find the See no Evil, Hear no Evil, Speak no Evil monkeys?
6) Founded in 1837, the first residential settlement in Madison was in what popular area of Downtown, also known as the First Settlement District?
7) Constructed in 1926, the Orpheum Theater is now home to an amazing lineup of entertainment. The Orpheum was also the first building in Wisconsin to have which modern amenity?
8) With roots in Wisconsin, it was not uncommon to see Harry Houdini perform at which downtown theater that opened in 1906 as a vaudeville theater?
9) State Street was not always a pedestrian mall. Construction began in 1974 to convert it from a four lane road under the vision of what former Madison mayor?
10) The drinking fountains found around the Capitol building were created by Wisconsin based Kohler and some of the first available to the public. But these particular drinking fountains were branded by Kohler under what name that became a Wisconsin-ism?
Stump Tim's Trivia Questions!
These two questions are Tim's favorite questions submitted by contestants.
From Sherry - What year did the state fair take place at Camp Randall and what President visited it that year?
From Jamie - What year did UW start making their own ice cream?
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