Name the ten largest cities in Pennsylvania - quiz

Mental Floss has a quiz to name the ten largest cities in Pennsylvania in 5 minutes. No choices you just have to type them in. I only got 8, though the quiz declares that anything over 6 would be considered a win. The stats when I took it said that of 1542 people took it with an average score of 53%.

As a former Pennsylvanian who is from the Philadelphia area but went to Pittsburgh for college, I should have gotten all ten. I have been to the eastern one of the two I missed. The other was in the west. Good Luck.

Take the quiz here.

How well can you do?

Cell Phone Camera Photo Essay: Tunnels From Pittsburgh to Harrisburg

I happened to take a picture of each of the tunnels we traveled through yesterday from the Pittsburgh Airport Marriott where we stayed east to Harrisburg where we got off of the Pennsylvania turnpike to begin the southeastern slog to Delaware. As a bonus we took I376 through Pittsburgh so we got two extra tunnels to make up for the fact that we didn't drive hundreds of miles out of our way to go through the Lehigh tunnel, which is on the Northeastern Extension (I476), and definitely not on the way home to Delaware.

Fort Pitt Tunnel.

Fort Pitt Bridge, and Pittsburgh.

More Fort Pitt Bridge, and Pittsburgh.

Squirrel Hill Tunnel.

Some cool wind turbines near Somerset, PA.

Allegheny Mountain.

Some cool and huge electrical equipment on a truck.

Tuscarora Mountain.

Approaching Kittatinny Mountain.
Kittatinny Mountain.

Blue Mountain.

Kittatinny Mountain and Blue Mountain are the double tunnels on the turnpike west of Harrisburg. You leave one and immediately enter the next.

After these tunnels we traveled over the Susquehanna river bridge which is not visually interesting, though the river below and the view of Three Mile Island is. However the best photography would come from stopping and taking a picture which would be too dangerous.

If you have a favorite tunnel from this photo essay, please comment.

Head and headless a bit too early for Halloween

It isn't just Delaware that has crazy news. To the north of us in Pennsylvania police have found a head floating in a lake, and all of its teeth were pulled! They were hoping to identify the head as belonging to a headless body found earlier in August. Forensic pathologists found no evidence of Novocaine in blood samples from the head, making this crime especially heinous.

I imagine there is now a search for the teeth to identify the head to identify the body in the house that Jack built.