How Well Do You Know Our Local Mascots?
Portland Fire, the city’s WNBA team, revealed their new mascot this week after much fanfare.
Thanks to City Cast Portland contributor Bryan M. Vance for contributing to this quiz.
Portland Fire, the city’s WNBA team, revealed their new mascot this week after much fanfare: Rose the Dragon flew around Portland, sparking some intriguing speculation that Rose is a drag queen dragon.
In honor of the new mascot, we are testing your knowledge of local mascots.
Test your Portland knowledge with these other quizzes:
- How well do you know the Oregon Coast?
- Test your knowledge of Portland art
- How well do you know your Portland crows?
- How well do you know Portland roses?
- How well do you know Portland pronunciations?
- How well do you know Portland snow?
- Test your knowledge of state trivia
- How well do you know famous Oregon businesses?
- Do you recognize this Portland pizza?
- How well do you know the Portland fiction is based on?
- How well do you know Portland restaurants?
- How well do you know Oregon industry?
- How well do you know Portland in December?
- How well do you know Oregon's oldest institutions?
- How well do you know Portland museums?
- How well do you know Portland memorials?
- How well do you know Portland's rainy weather?
- How well do you know Portland protests?
- How well do you know Oregon apples?
- How well do you know the Willamette River?
- How well do you know Oregon wine country?
- How well do you know Portland's skyline?
- How well do you know Oregon's wildfire?
- How well do you know Oregon volcanoes?
- Do you know how international Oregon is?
- How closely were you reading Portland news?
- How well do you know Portland berries?
- How well do you know Portland history?
- How well do you know Portland bridges?
- Do you know summer in Portland?
- How well do you know Portland origin stories?
- How well do you know Portland parks?
- Which local government takes care of these overlapping responsibilities?
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