New York
This borough is the only one in NYC that sits on the U.S. mainland.
The Bronx
This iconic theater hosts America's longest running talent show and launched stars like Ella Fitzgerald and Lauryn Hill.
The Apollo Theater
In May, Pope Leo XIV became the first Pope from this American city.
Chicago
This neighborhood has the most houses of worship per resident in Manhattan.
Harlem
Once known as Constantinople, this is the only major city in the world that sits on two continents.
Istanbul
Built in just 410 days, this Fifth Avenue skyscraper was once the tallest in the world.
Empire State Building
In the 1920s and 1930s, Harlem was the center of this movement of Black art, music and literature.
Harlem Renaissance
In an Oval Office press conference, what word did Trump allow Mamdani to use to describe him?
Fascist
This posh Brooklyn neighborhood used to be known as Gowanus Heights.
Park Slope
Once called Siam, this Southeast Asian country is the only one in the region never colonized by a European power.
Thailand
The numbered street grid in Manhattan officially begins just north of this famous east–west street.
Houston Street
This avenue, officially renamed Malcolm X Boulevard, is still widely known by its older name.
Lenox
What major global summit this month did the United States send no representatives to?
COP 30
Few know that a famous park in this neighborhood has more than 20,000 unidentified bodies buried below.
Greenwich Village
Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest and Belgrade all sit on this major European river.
Danube
This borough’s official motto is “Borough of Homes and Churches.”
Brooklyn
This poet’s ashes are interred under a mosaic in a 135th Street library that bears his name.
Langston Hughes
In 2025, which country’s ex-president whose initials are J.B. was arrested for leading an alleged coup attempt?
Scientists discovered an unusually aggressive subspecies of ant, dubbed the ManhattAnt, in a 13-block stretch of this neighborhood.
The Upper West Side
Gaining full independence on July 4, 1946, this country had been ceded by Spain to the U.S. after the 1898 Spanish–American War.
This body of water, not the Hudson or the East River, separates the Bronx from Manhattan.
Harlem River
This former world leader caused a stir at the 1960 UN General Assembly when he opted to stay in Harlem rather than Midtown Manhattan.
Fidel Castro
Lawmakers in 2025 focused bipartisan action on which environmental hazard, known as “forever chemicals”?
PFAS
This Queens neighborhood is where Scrabble was invented.
Jackson Heights
This country has the world’s longest coastline, stretching along the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic Oceans.
Canada