JERSEY FIRSTS & RECORDS
$100
Which famous game uses street names from Atlantic City?
A. Life
B. Monopoly
C. Clue
D. Sorry!
Answer: Monopoly
🎉 Fun Fact: The real streets include Boardwalk, Baltic Avenue and Marvin Gardens—but the game accidentally misspelled it! The real neighborhood is Marven Gardens.
$300
Which New Jersey town has the world's longest boardwalk?
A. Ocean City
B. Wildwood
C. Atlantic City
D. Seaside Heights
Answer: Atlantic City
C. Atlantic City ✅
🎉 Fun Fact: At over 5½ miles long, it's one of the longest boardwalks in the world—over 100 years old and still going strong.
BONUS QUESTION -
Approximately how many visitors come to Atlantic City each year?
A. 5 million
B. 12 million
c. 27 million
D. 50 million
$100
Which NFL teams play their home games in East Rutherford, New Jersey?
A. Giants & Jets
B. Giants & Eagles
C. Jets & Patriots
D. Giants & Cowboys
giants & jets!
🏈 Fun Fact: They share the same stadium but have different locker rooms and colors.
💲100
Frank Sinatra was born in which New Jersey city?
A. Newark
B. Hoboken
C. Trenton
D. Atlantic City
B. Hoboken
🎤 Fun Fact: Sinatra's parents nicknamed him "Frankie." Before becoming famous, he worked as a singing waiter.
Which New Jersey city was once nicknamed "America's Playground"?
A. Asbury Park
B. Atlantic City
C. Long Branch
D. Wildwood
B. Atlantic City
🎰 Fun Fact: Before Las Vegas became the gambling capital, Atlantic City was one of America's premier vacation destinations.
Where was the first intercollegiate football game played in 1869?
A. Princeton vs. Yale
B. Rutgers vs. Princeton
C. Rutgers vs. Harvard
D. Princeton vs. Columbia
Answer: Rutgers vs. Princeton
B. Rutgers vs. Princeton ✅
🏈 Fun Fact: Rutgers won 6–4, and the game looked much more like soccer than today's football.
Which famous invention was first successfully demonstrated in Menlo Park, New Jersey?
A. Television
B. Phonograph
C. Air conditioner
D. Traffic light
Answer: The Phonograph
🎶 Fun Fact: When Thomas Edison first played back a recorded voice, many people thought it was a magic trick because they'd never heard a machine "talk."
Which New Jersey university is known as the birthplace of college football?
A. Princeton
B. Rutgers
C. Monmouth
D. Seton Hall
Rutgers!
🏈 Fun Fact: Rutgers played Princeton in 1869, the first college football game ever.
💲300
Which famous actress from Summit, New Jersey has won more Academy Awards than any other performer?
A. Julia Roberts
B. Meryl Streep
C. Glenn Close
D. Susan Sarandon
Answer: Meryl Streep
🎬 Fun Fact: Meryl Streep has received more Oscar nominations than any actor or actress in history.
BONUS QUESTION:
Meryl Streep was once voted "Most Likely to _____"... and also got detention for talking too much?
a. succeed
B. have the best smile
C. become president
D. travel the world
Which of these foods was first commercially sold in New Jersey?
A. Saltwater taffy
B. Campbell's Condensed Soup
C. Peanut butter
D. Soft pretzels
Answer: Campbell's Condensed Soup
🥣 Fun Fact: Campbell's introduced condensed tomato soup in Camden in 1897, making it one of America's most famous food products.
$300
Which famous entertainment attraction first opened in Camden in 1933?
A. Roller coaster
B. Drive-in movie theater ✅
C. Mini golf course
D. Bowling alley
Answer: Drive-in movie theater
B. Drive-in movie theater ✅
🎬 Fun Fact: The very first movie shown was Wife Beware, and admission was 25¢ per car plus 25¢ per person (up to $1 total).
💲300
Which of these famous attractions was the FIRST of its kind in the entire world?
A. Six Flags Great Adventure
B. Atlantic City Boardwalk
C. Liberty State Park
D. Jenkinson's Boardwalk
Answer: Atlantic City Boardwalk
🎉 Fun Fact: It opened in 1870 simply to keep sand out of nearby hotels. No one imagined boardwalks would become a worldwide tradition!
Which of these New Jersey sports facts is FALSE?
A. Two NFL teams play in New Jersey.
B. Rutgers helped start college football.
C. New Jersey has hosted a Super Bowl.
D. The NBA Hall of Fame is in New Jersey.
D. The NBA Hall of Fame is in New Jersey.
😂 Fun Fact: The Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame is actually in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Which New Jersey singer once had 100 screaming fans hide under a hotel bed just to meet him?
A. Frank Sinatra
B. Connie Francis
C. Danny DeVito
D. John Travolta
A. Frank Sinatra
😂 Fun Fact: During the height of "Sinatramania," fans did all kinds of outrageous things to meet him—including hiding under hotel beds and sneaking into hotel rooms!
🤯 Which one is NOT a real New Jersey town?
A. Ho-Ho-Kus
B. Loveladies
C. Cheeseville
D. Buttzville
Answer: Cheeseville
😂 Fun Fact: Buttzville and Loveladies are both real New Jersey communities—and yes, people love taking selfies with the town signs!
$400
New Jersey is the ______ most densely populated state in America.
A. 2nd
B. 1st
C. 5th
D. 8th
Answer B: 1st
🏡 Fun Fact: Even though New Jersey is America's most densely populated state, about 42% of it is still covered by forests!
Which famous military figure once called Morristown, New Jersey, the "military capital" of the American Revolution?
A. Benedict Arnold
B. George Washington
C. Marquis de Lafayette
D. Alexander Hamilton
Answer: George Washington
🇺🇸 Fun Fact: Washington and the Continental Army spent two brutal winters in Morristown, and historians often call it the military capital of the Revolution because of its strategic importance.
💲200
Which of these athletes is from New Jersey?
A. Shaquille O'Neal
B. Mike Trout
C. Tom Brady
D. Peyton Manning
Answer: Mike Trout
⚾ Fun Fact: Mike Trout grew up in Millville and is considered one of the greatest baseball players of his generation. His high school even has a weather station called the "Trout National Weather Center."
Mike Trout set a New Jersey high school record with 18 home runs in his senior season before becoming one of baseball's greatest players
💲400
Which New Jersey rock star's real last name is Bongiovi?
A. Bruce Springsteen
B. Frankie Valli
C. Jon Bon Jovi
D. Southside Johnny
Answer: Jon Bon Jovi
🎸 Fun Fact: Before becoming famous, Jon worked at his cousin's recording studio in New Jersey, where his first songs were recorded.
Which of these unusual things is completely legal to own in New Jersey with the proper permits?
A. An alpaca
B. An emu
C. A camel
D. All of the above
ALL THE ABOVE!
🐪 Fun Fact: Farms and licensed owners in New Jersey keep alpacas, emus, and even camels. You might not expect to see one in the Garden State—but they really are here!
$500
Name the New Jersey town where the world's first nearly complete dinosaur skeleton was discovered in 1858.🦖
Cape May
Haddonfield
Clinton
Morristown
Answer: Haddonfield
🦖 Fun Fact: The dinosaur was Hadrosaurus foulkii, and the discovery is considered one of the events that launched modern American paleontology. Today there's even a life-size Hadrosaurus statue downtown.
BONUS QUESTION:
How many million years ago did Hadrosaurus live?
A. 20
B. 66
c. About 80
D. 150
🦖 Fun Fact: At that time, much of New Jersey was underwater!
Which New Jersey landmark has been shining continuously since before the American Revolution?
A. Sandy Hook Lighthouse
B. Lucy the Elephant
C. Princeton’s Nassau Hall
D. The Atlantic City Boardwalk
A. Sandy Hook Lighthouse
💡 Fun Fact: It was first lit on June 11, 1764, making it the oldest continuously operating lighthouse in the United States. It was already 12 years old when America declared independence
🚀 Option 3
Which Olympic gold medalist and New Jersey native was the second person to walk on the Moon?
A. Carl Lewis
B. Mark Spitz
C. Buzz Aldrin
D. Michael Phelps
C. Buzz Aldrin
He became the second person to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969, during the Apollo 11 mission at age of 39!
His nickname "Buzz" came from his little sister, who couldn't pronounce "brother" and called him "buzzer." He liked it so much that he legally changed his first name to Buzz in 1988.
Before NASA, he flew 66 combat missions as an Air Force fighter pilot during the Korean War and shot down two MiG-15 fighter jets
💲500
Which famous boxer from Bayonne inspired Sylvester Stallone to write the movie Rocky?
A. Joe Frazier
B. Chuck Wepner
C. George Foreman
D. Jersey Joe Walcott
Answer: Chuck Wepner
🥊 Fun Fact: Wepner shocked the world by knocking Muhammad Ali down during their 1975 fight. Stallone watched the match and said it inspired him to write Rocky.
Which of these New Jersey claims to fame is actually TRUE?
A. The first drive-in movie theater opened here.
B. The first escalator was invented here.
C. The first shopping mall was built here.
D. The first skyscraper was built here.
Answer: The first drive-in movie theater
🎥 Fun Fact: The world's first drive-in theater opened in Camden County in 1933. Admission was 25¢ per car plus 25¢ per person!