Westchester County
Jersey Shore
Italian Towns
Vermont
Karate Kid
200
Approximately how many people board Metro-North in Westchester bound for the City on an average weekday (pre-Covid)?
a) 10,000
b) 25,000
c) 75,000
d) 150,000
c) 75,000
200
Which town does not have a board walk?
a) Seaside Heights
b) Atlantic City
c) Spring Lake
d) Lavalette
e) Cape May
e) Cape May
200
A battle in this town over four months in 1944 was considered one of the pivotal battles of WWII as it allowed the Allied forces to subsequently breach the famous German Gustav Line which was designed to protect the city of Rome. The town was of strategic importance because of an abbey high on the hill overlooking the Latin valley
Monte Cassino
200
The capital of VT is located in this city.
Montpelier
200
How old is Ralph Macchio?
a) 50
b) 55
c) 45
d) 60
e) 40
d) 60
400
Who is NOT buried at Ferncliff Cemetery (behind Nonno & Nonna‘s house)?
a) Malcom X
b) Yul Brynner
c) Joan Crawford
d) Judy Garland
e) Jim Henson,
f) Ed Sullivan
d) Judy Garland
400
Who recorded the song, "Atlantic City"?
a) Bruce Springsteen
b) Billy Joel
c) Frank Sinatra
d) Elton John
e) Jon Bon Jovi
a) Bruce Springsteen
400
This city is located 30 miles north of Naples, sits on the top of hill with a prevailing good wind. It’s patron saint is St Bartholomew, the apostle. It’s soccer team is nicknamed the Stregoni.
Benevento
400
This painter moved from New Rochelle to Arlington, VT in 1939. He became famous for illustrating The Saturday Evening Post covers for 20 years. His subjects were mostly vignettes of contemporary and colonial American life.
Normal Rockwell
400
How did Daniel explain his black eye to his mother and Mr. Miyagi?
Fell off bike
600
The Headless Horseman depicted in the famous short story written by Washington Irving “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” was inspired by a real-life Hessian soldier who lost his head by cannon fire during this famous Revolutionary War battle
The Battle of White Plains
600
This Jersey Shore beach town is home to the longest boardwalk in the world.
Atlantic City (5.75 miles)
600
This soccer team that plays in the town of Turin has won the most Serie A championships, is nicknamed Vecchia Signora and wears the famous black and white pinstriped home jerseys.
Juventus
600
While not a native Vermonter, this eminent American poet resided here throughout much of his adult life. He is the only poet to receive four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry. He was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 1960 for his poetic works and was named poet laureate of Vermont in 1961. One of his most famous poems opens with the line, ”Two roads diverged in a yellow wood”
Robert Frost
600
What was the name of the motel the LaRussos moved into?
The South Seas
800
This tribe of Native Americans lived along the coast of the Long Island Sound near present-day Pelham, New Rochelle, Larchmont, Mamaroneck and Rye
a) The Siwanoy
b) The Apawamis
c) The Wykagyl
d) The Cayuga
e) The Oneida
a) The Siwanoy
800
This town was named after the mythical town where King Arthur was buried.
a) Avalon
b) Margate
c) Brigantine
d) Lavalette
e) Asbury
a) Avalon
800
I was born in the small village of Roccasecca. My most famous work is Summa Theologica. I am considered the greatest theologian of the Catholic church and one of the greatest philosophers of the wester world. Who am I?
Thomas Aquinas
800
This state tree of VT is best known for being the primary source of maple syrup and for its brightly colored fall foliage.
Sugar maple or acre saccharum
800
What costume does Mr. Miyagi make for Daniel to wear at the school Halloween dance?
Shower
1000
I was born in Mount Kisco, played football at Sleepy Hollow High School, won the gold medal in the decathlon at the 1976 Olympics and later ran for governor of the state of California. Despite all that, my in-laws are much more famous than me. Who am I?
Caitlin Jenner
1000
On July 6, 1916, a man was attacked by a shark off the beach of this town as part of a series of deadly shark attacks at the Jersey shore. The incidents occurred during a deadly summer heat wave and polio epidemic in the United States that drove thousands of people to the seaside resorts of the Jersey Shore.
a) Spring Lake
b) Point Pleasant Beach
c) Asbury Park
d) Mantoloking
e) Manasquan
a) Spring Lake
1000
Visitors to this walled medieval hill town in Tuscany will forever remember its world-famous skyline comprised of about a dozen towers.
San Gimignano
1000
Vermont has the greatest ratio of this animal to people of any state in the US.
Cows
1000
What was Mr. Miyagi’s first name?
Kesuke