Statistics for New York - State Trivia

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
State capital	Albany	100%
Nickname of that city	Big {Apple}	100%
State nickname, and world's tallest building from 1931 to 1971	{Empire} State	100%
Largest city (put your thinking cap on)	New York	100%
Second largest city	Buffalo	98%
Largest island in the contiguous US, with ~39% of NY's population	Long Island	98%
Waterfalls that connect Lake Erie to Lake Ontario	Niagara Falls	98%
Statue gifted from France, on island surrounded by New Jersey waters	Statue of {Liberty}	98%
Middle borough of the city, home to Central Park and Times Square	Manhattan	95%
Name one of the two Ivy League schools in NY	Columbia; Cornell	91%
Canal completed in 1825 that connected the Great Lakes to the Atlantic	Erie Canal	88%
Rich family that created two US presidents, name literally means "rose field"	Roosevelt	88%
Largest city in central NY, known for intense snowfall	Syracuse	84%
~13% of the inhabitants of the biggest city are descendants of this Abrahamic religion	Judaism	79%
Lake town in that park which hosted the Winter Olympics	Lake {Placid}	79%
Region in central NY with long and narrow lakes	{Finger} Lakes	77%
Wealthy business magnate who founded Standard Oil	John D. Rockefeller	72%
Mountainous park in the northeastern area of NY	Adirondack	65%
Founding father from Nevis who wanted a strong central government	Alexander Hamilton	60%
Village with a lighthouse at the far eastern tip of that island	Montauk	58%
Fort captured by Ethan Allen in the American Revolution	Fort {Ticonderoga}	49%
Southern mountainous park with 7 reservoirs that provide freshwater to the biggest city	Catskill	47%
State motto, means "ever upward"	Excelsior	37%
Largest lake entirely in NY	{Oneida} Lake	33%
Last governor of New Netherland before it was handed to the English in exchange for Suriname	Peter Stuyvesant	16%