{"id":272658,"date":"2026-08-26T16:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T16:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/272658\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T16:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T16:36:08","slug":"test-your-philly-history-knowledge-against-local-tour-guides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/272658\/","title":{"rendered":"Test your Philly history knowledge against local tour guides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Think you know enough about Philadelphia history to outsmart the people who explain it for a living? The Association of Philadelphia Tour Guides is inviting the public to find out during a free trivia competition Sunday, Sept. 27, at Ladder 15 in Center City.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre You Smarter Than a Tour Guide?\u201d will put members of the public across the table from local tour guides for an afternoon of questions about Philadelphia and its past. Doors open at noon, and trivia begins at 1 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Players may arrive with a team of up to five people. Those attending alone can be matched with other participants at the event.<\/p>\n<p>Bragging rights will not be the only thing at stake. Teams will compete for prizes tied to Philadelphia and local history.<\/p>\n<p>Admission and participation are free, but\u00a0advance registration is required.\u00a0Food and drinks will be available for purchase from Ladder 15.<\/p>\n<p><a data-original-title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/phillyguides.org\/event\/are-you-smarter-than-a-tour-guide\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Are You Smarter Than a Tour Guide?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nSunday, Sept. 27 | Doors open at noon; trivia begins at 1 p.m.<br \/>Ladder 15<br \/>1528 Sansom St.<br \/>Philadelphia, PA 19102<br \/>Free; advance registration required<\/p>\n<p>This content was generated by PhillyVoice Media Events, not by the newsroom staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Think you know enough about Philadelphia history to outsmart the people who explain it for a living? The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[25763,94,69,71,70,50871],"class_list":["post-272658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-games","tag-history","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-trivia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}