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Monday, December 8, 2025

How Well Do You Know Evansville?

Do you think you are a local trivia expert? Let Evansville Living put that to the test.

  1. Name the Evansville paint company that originated the bull’s-eye logo now used by national retail chain Target.
  2. What does Lic’s stand for?
  3. What kids’ TV show aired on WEHT-TV — then on Channel 50 — from 1961 to 1986 and featured characters named Peggy, Clancy the Cop, and puppets like Buster Bear?
  4. Where did Evansville’s founder Hugh McGary build his cabin?
  5. Who is the namesake of Enlow Field?
  6. What television station used the slogan “First In Evansville” as its call letters?
  7. Name the famous blues composer from Henderson, Kentucky, who once worked on the brick paving of Fourth Street in Downtown Evansville.
  8. What future U.S. president ate at The Log Inn restaurant in 1844?
  9. Name the Harrison High School football player who was a linebacker for the Minnesota Vikings from 1977 to 1990.
  10. What paving company marked its new sidewalks with a bronze horseshoe that still can be seen throughout the Riverside Historic District?

Highlight the hidden text below for answers!

  1. Red Spot Paint & Varnish
  2. Lloyd’s Ice Cream Shoppes
  3. The Peggy Mitchell Show
  4. Main Street and Riverside Drive
  5. Charles “C.B.” Enlow, a local banker and newspaper executive
  6. WFIE Channel 14
  7. W.C. Handy
  8. Abraham Lincoln
  9. Scott Studwell
  10. Crescent Paving Co.
Jodi Keen
Jodi Keen
Jodi Keen joined Tucker Publishing Group, Inc., in April 2021 as Managing Editor. She previously served as the special publications editor for the Messenger-Inquirer newspaper in Owensboro, Kentucky. A native of Mt. Vernon, Illinois, Jodi is a Murray State University journalism graduate. After college, she spent two and half years in Vienna, Austria, first as an au pair, and then as the publisher’s assistant and events editor for The Vienna Review, a monthly English-language newspaper. Jodi has lived on Evansville’s East Side since 2016 and enjoys reading, walking her German shepherd Morgan, and exploring Evansville. She also serves on the board of directors for Foster Care In the The U.S.

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