Trivia: What city was home to the first movie theater in the United States?
Chicago, Illinois
New Orleans, Louisiana
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Indianapolis, Indiana
The correct answer is Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
So why is this answer correct? : The first movie theater in the U.S. opened in 1905 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Called a “Nickelodeon” — a play on the 5-cent price of tickets — the theater showed the silent Western film, “The Great Train Robbery.” While film projectors had been used as acts in vaudeville shows, there had never before been a theater dedicated to only showing movies. Movie theaters quickly popped up across the country as a new national pastime was born.