City Quiz - New York

NYC is the largest and most famous city in the United States. Can you guess this trivia about the city that never sleeps and its 5 boroughs? I might make a second quiz that goes more in-depth on the history and notable people.

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Hint	Answer
Nickname of NYC	The Big Apple
Large island with Brooklyn and Queens	Long Island
River between Manhattan and New Jersey	Hudson River
Copper statue designed by Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi	Statue of Liberty
Suspension bridge designed by John A. Roebling that opened in 1883	Brooklyn Bridge
Bridge that connects Manhattan to Fort Lee, NJ	George Washington Bridge
Holland, Lincoln, and Hugh L. Carey are...	Tunnels
Island in the East River previously known as Welfare Island	Roosevelt Island
Entry island for many immigrants in the early 20th century	Ellis Island
Yellow cabs that drive pedestrians around the city	Taxi
Passenger train system that links 4 of the 5 boroughs	Subway
NYC is famous for this food, with the first designated restaurant being Lombardi's	Pizza
Citywide annual sporting event on the first Sunday of November	Marathon
County north of NYC (has cities like Yonkers and New Rochelle)	Westchester
Original name of the city under Dutch rule	New Amsterdam

The Bronx
Major league baseball team based in The Bronx	Yankees
The Bronx has one of the largest locations of this type in the US (hint: lion)	Zoo
Which is just south of the New York...	Botanical Garden
Music genre that is said to have originated in South Bronx during the 70s	Hip-Hop

Brooklyn
Grand Army Plaza is the main entrance for this park	Prospect Park
Popular beach neighborhood with theme park rides and a boardwalk	Coney Island
Which is the namesake for a style of this "sandwich"	Hot dog
Neighborhood with the riverside Domino Park	Williamsburg
The gothic revival gate of this cemetery is a tourist attraction	Green-Wood Cemetery
Almost a quarter of Brooklyn Residents are of this religion, with large numbers in Borough Park	Judaism

Manhattan
Tallest building in the world for 40 years starting in 1931	Empire State Building
It took the record from this building nearby	Chrysler Building
These 2 skyscrapers utilize this style	Art Deco
Urban park between the Upper West and Upper East Sides	Central Park
Entertainment hub with many lit-up billboards, shops and theaters	Times Square
Famous street that forms the above plaza when it intersects with 7th Avenue	Broadway
Building complex that was targeted in a devastating terrorist attack on September 11th, 2001	World Trade Center
Height of the Freedom Tower in feet; honoring a certain patriotic year	1776
Park at the southern tip of Manhattan	The Battery
Street that is synonymous with finance and the stock market	Wall Street
Gothic cathedral adjacent to Rockefeller Center	St. Patrick's Cathedral
World organization headquartered on the East River	United Nations
Majority African-American and Hispanic neighborhood that had a renaissance in the early 20th century	Harlem
Busy train station under the Madison Square Garden arena	Pennsylvania Station
Modern art museum with a circular shaped roof	Guggenheim
Macy's throws a parade every year in Manhattan during this holiday	Thanksgiving
Neighborhoods in Lower Manhattan named for countries	Chinatown
Neighborhoods in Lower Manhattan named for countries	Little Italy
Neighborhood home to Daredevil, but no Gordon Ramsay	Hell's Kitchen
Ivy League school in Morningside Heights	Columbia University
The trendy neighborhood TriBeCa is a shortened version of this	Triangle Below Canal

Queens
Park that hosted the 1964 World's Fair	Flushing Meadows Corona Park
Which has this large steel statue of the Earth	Unisphere
Other MLB team of NYC, based at Citi Field	Mets
Peninsula across Jamaica Bay with many beaches	Rockaway
Airports within Queens that serve NYC	John F. Kennedy
Airports within Queens that serve NYC	LaGuardia

Staten Island
County that Staten Island is part of	Richmond
Old fort that overlooks the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge	Fort Wadsworth
Highest natural point in NYC at 401 feet	Todt Hill

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