The Littles
At the Movies
Where am I?
With Lox
Back in the Day
100
Hoeveelheid Little Italys in New York City
Wat zijn twee?
100
Why are these two gangs fighting in the opening scene of gangs of New York?
What is ethnic and religious rivalries (anti-immigrant anti-Irish sentiment)?
100
1, 2, 3, 4, 5
What is Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island?
100
A bagel with cream cheese and lox is
What is a bagel with cream cheese and salmon?
100
The original name of New York City.
What is New Amsterdam?
What is Manahatta?
200
The most diverse place (county, borough, city) in terms of ethnicity and spoken languages in the world.
Wat is Queens?
200
How Vito Corleone gets his name in The Godfather Part II
What is that the customs officer hastily changed it to the name of the town where he came from?
200
What are cities approximately the population of these corresponding NYC boroughs? (*Paris within the ring, not quite as impressive, but still...)
200
A type of restaurant that is often open 24 hours, where you get unlimited refills of coffee, and you can order breakfast, lunch or dinner, anytime of day.
What is a diner?
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200
Wall Street is the heart of the American financial industry. It takes its name from:
What is a wall to protect against Native American attacks?
300
Number of Chinatowns in New York City.
What are six to nine?
300
Where Carmen wants to be (in West Side Story)
What is in America?
300
Uptown, Downtown, Crosstown
What are north, south, east to west?
300
The for a ubiquitous business where New Yorkers go for beer, chips. batteries, flowers, a quick breakfast or lunch, subs, eggs on the grill, danish, coffee to go, basically whatever.
What is a bodega or a corner store?
300
Match the original Dutch name with the current name. Breuckelen.
What is Brooklyn?
400
Two "-est" facts about New York's Saint Patrick's Day Parade
What is the oldest and biggest parade?
400
When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie.
What is That's Amore!
400
Which direction do the streets run?
What is crosstown = east/west?
400
First sold by German immigrants and popularized by Famous Nathan's of Coney Island.
What is the hot dog?
400
Boswijck
What is Bushwick?
500
The only majority Latino borough/county in New York and in the eastern part of the U.S.
What is the Bronx?
500
The store that the Miracle on 34th Street takes place.
What is Macy's?
500
Which direction do the avenues run?
What is north-south?
500
Two essential characteristics of New York pizza.
What is thin crust, and sold by the slice (or large pies to share)?
(Unless it's grandma style)
500
Early New York City mayor Peter Stuyvesant owned a farm. An important, current avenue and neighborhood take their name from this farm.
What is The Bowery?
600
This Ukrainian city is the nickname of a large Russian and Ukrainian community in Brooklyn.
What is Little Odessa? (Brighton Beach)
600
The 1983 documentary Style Wars depicts differing opinions about at least two new art forms in the city.
What are graffiti and rap music (also breakdancing battles)?
600
10th Avenue is __________ of 9th Avenue
What is west?
600
This mighty deli sandwich shares the same name of someone in this class (though spelled differently).
What is the Reuben Sandwich?
600
The Statue of Liberty became a symbol of American freedom and opportunity for immigrants. It inspired a famous poem with this verse, ""Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to...
What is "breathe free"?
700
The intellectual and artistic center of black culture in the United States in the 20th Century.
What is Harlem?
700
In Do the Right Thing, Mookie's friend Buggin-Out and Sal get into a disagreement in Sal's Pizzeria. The disagreement is about two things. Name one.
What is: there's not enough cheese on the slice?
What is: why aren't there any Black people on the pizza parlor's Wall of Fame?
700
You want to get from W. 40th Street btw 7th & 8th Avenues (Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism) to Central Park on 59th Street, you walk:
What is north? (The street numbers go up.)
700
Hot pretzels, knishes, Jamaican beef patties, hot dogs, churros, and chicken over rice share this aspect of New York cuisine.
What is they can all be purchased at a push cart?
700
The Brooklyn Bridge is younger/older than London Bridge.
What is older?
800
Neighborhood historically known for the birth of folk rock and bohemian poets, now home to celebrities.
What is Greenwich Village?
800
Travis Bickle, the anti-hero in Taxi Driver, decides to clean up the city on his own as a vigilante. He was inspired to this by driving through this New York City neighborhood.
What is Times Square?
800
You want to get from W. 40th Street btw 7th & 8th Avenues (Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism) to the Empire State Building on 34th Street and 5th Avenue, you walk:
What is you walk south and east?
800
Younger New Yorkers born and raised will know this unique NY dish often called a "deconstructed hamburger". It was created by one worker in a bodega/corner store in Harlem, and is not (yet) widely known outside of New York City.
What is the chopped cheese?
800
A typical New York hobby (and word) is to sit on the ________ . Hint: Dutch heritage
What is stoop?
900
This scene from When Harry Met Sally takes place in a classic Jewish deli in this neighborhood.
What is the Lower East Side?
900
In the gritty 1970s crime drama The French Connection, Detective Popeye Doyle enjoys this New York City lunch while:
What is while watching a criminal enjoy a fancy meal?
900
The numbers stop at Houston Street. What is the name of the neighborhood south of Houston?
What is SoHo?
900
Name one of these popular New York baked goods that (may) contain chocolate. Two hints!
What is babka? What is black and white cookie? What is (chocolate) cheesecake? 
900
This should be a famous address:
What is the origin of hip-hop?
1000
Neighborhood between downtown and uptown that was hit hard by remote work during and post-Covid.
What is Midtown?
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1000
The documentary Paris is Burning is not about the city of Paris on fire.
What is about New York City ball culture and vogue-ing?
1000
An old indigenous trail from the southern tip of Manhattan and NY Harbor to Canada that diagonally crosses Manhattan's grid creating Times Square and other squares.
What is Broadway?
1000
- Ice, for stirring
- 2 ounces rye or blended whisky
- 1 ounce sweet vermouth
- 2 dashes Angostura bitters.
- 1 Luxardo cherry or other cocktail cherry, for garnish.
What is the Manhattan?
1000
Term for banks not giving loans to people living in certain neighborhoods. Discriminatory policy against Black Americans in northern cities.
What is redlining?
1100
This classic New England fishing village is located in this New York City borough:
What is City Island?
1100
The place where Audrey Hepburn has breakfast.
What is Breakfast at Tiffany's?
1100
The name for an event during which the setting sun or the rising sun is aligned with the east–west streets of the main street grid of Manhattan.
What is Manhattanhenge?
1100
This important economic principle relating food to transportation is in danger of ending due to high inflation in 2022.
What is the Pizza Principle?
1100
To go all city.
What is have your graffiti make it to all five boroughs?
