Movies
Brooklyn
Facts about L and J
Weiss-Benardo outings
General Knowledge
100

Name two movies starring Robert DeNiro

What are: Taxi Driver, Mean Streets, Godfather part 2, raging Bull, etc.?

100

Name two neighborhoods that abut or are next to Park Slope

What are Gowanus, Prospect Heights, Windsor Terrace, South Slope

100

Name the gated community where Jennifer grew up.

What is Cornell Village?

100

Name the musician whose house we visited in Corona, Queens.

Extra 100 points if you can name what we did after

Who is Louis Armstrong?

Got Italian ices at the Ice King of Corona

100

The first product Amazon ever sold.

What are books?

200

Name three movie theaters we have gone to several times in NYC.

What are BAM, Alamo, IFC, Film Forum?

200

Who is the publisher of Brooklyn by Name?

What is New York University (NYU) Press?

200

What Papa concentrated on in college and later in graduate school

What is history and political science?

200

The city in France we visited where Picasso stayed in a house by the water and painted for a couple months.

What is Antibes?

200

A person with diabetes is not producing enough of this

What is insulin?

300

The documentary about Russian doping

What is Icarus?

300

What is the population of Brooklyn (closest to aggregate number wins)?

What is 2.65M

300

Name two cities Lenny and Jennifer visited on their honeymoon.

What are Selma and Montgomery?

300

The town where we went to the thermal baths outside of Vienna.

What is Baden?

300

John Larson invented the "polygraph" in the early 1900s. Give the common name for a polygraph

What is a lie detector?

400

Name two movies you've both seen (or seen part of) that take place in space.

Answer varies:

The Martian, 2001, Star Wars

400

The 4 bridges that go into Brooklyn

What are the Williamsburg Bridge, Brooklyn Bridge, Manhattan Bridge and Verrazzano Bridge?

400

Where Jennifer worked after college and before graduate school

What is Planned Parenthood?

400

The name of the museum in Madrid where we saw Velazquez's Las Meninas

The Prado or El Prado

400

The university where Barack Obama taught constitutional law

What is University of Chicago

500

Name three directors who are not American

Who are: Godard, Truffaut, Ray, Fellini, Diop, et.al

500

Another name for the Battle of Brooklyn that took place during the Revolutionary War in 1776

What is the Battle of Long Island

or

The Battle of Brooklyn Heights?

500

Name where Lenny and Jennifer met.

For extra points (100) name the month of the year.

Donnell Library

January

500

The number of New York professional sports teams Felix and Anya have seen live

Six

New York Jets, Nets, Knicks, Yankees, Mets, Red Bulls

500

The two things a star's color indicate about it

What is age and temperature?