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What is TriBeCa shorthand for?
1) Tributary Basin Canal
2) Triangle Below Chambers Street
3) Triangle Below Canal Street
4) Triborough Commercial Area
3) Triangle Below Canal Street
What was the original name of Times Square?
1) Hudson Square
2) Midtown Mall
3) Broadway Square
4) Longacre Square
4) Longacre Square
What does B.E.C. stand for?
1) Big expensive coffee
2) Bacon, egg and cheese
3) Bridge and Expressway Commission
4) Brooklyn Environmental Corp.
2) Bacon, egg and cheese
Which New York City borough was its own independent city until 1898, when it consolidated into Greater New York?
1) Queens
2) Staten Island
3) Brooklyn
4) The Bronx
3) Brooklyn
Langston Hughes’s poem “Harlem” begins with the question, “What happens to a dream deferred?” The poem later inspired the title of which famous play?
1) “Fences”
2) “A Raisin in the Sun”
3) “Death of a Salesman”
4) “Long Day’s Journey Into Night”
2) “A Raisin in the Sun”
Which is the only borough whose entirety is part of the mainland United States?
1) Queens
2) Manhattan
3) Brooklyn
4) The Bronx
4) The Bronx
Which of these New York pizzerias was the first to open?
1) Lombardi’s
2) Totonno’s
3) John’s of Bleecker Street
4) Roberta’s
1) Lombardi's
Which famous New York City skyscraper has metal eagles on its corners?
1) One World Trade
2) Bank of America Tower
3) Chrysler Building
4) Flatiron Building
3) Chrysler Building
What is Hot Duck?
1) The New York Liberty’s team mascot
2) A viral dance craze
3) A brightly colored duck that appeared in Central Park’s pond in 2018
4) A deep-fried delicacy sold in New York City’s Chinatown
3) A brightly colored duck that appeared in Central Park’s pond in 2018
Which New York City neighborhood is home to the block that Jennifer Lopez famously claims in her 2002 single “Jenny From the Block”?
1) The South Bronx
2) Washington Heights
3) Astoria
4) Bedford-Stuyvesant
1) The South Bronx
What’s the real name of the diner featured in “Seinfeld”?
1) Empire Diner
2) Katz’s Delicatessen
3) Square Diner
4) Tom’s Restaurant
4) Tom’s Restaurant
Which borough voted to secede from New York City?
1) The Bronx
2) Staten Island
3) Brooklyn
4) Queens
2) Staten Island
Where is the “Whispering Gallery” located?
1) The Metropolitan Museum of Art
2) The Morgan Library
3) Grand Central Terminal
4) Central Park
3) Grand Central Terminal
The Knicks made it to the Eastern Conference Finals in 2025. Before that, when was the last time they advanced that far?
1) 1994
2) 1999
3) 2000
4) 2013
3) 2000
Which legendary New York City nightclub did Bianca Jagger ride into on a white horse?
1) Studio 54
2) The 21 Club
3) The Boom Boom Room
4) The Copacabana
1) Studio 54