IT CAME FROM NEW JERSEY
We rule that Samuel Alito & Antonin Scalia came from this state capital
Trenton
Traffic is tricky on this bridge across the Hudson from Jersey to New York, so a lower deck with 6 more lanes was finished in 1962
The George Washington Bridge
Sitting Bull called her "Little Sure Shot' in the 19th century; N.J. called her Hall-worthy in 21st
Annie Oakley
On Oct. 18, 1931 in West Orange the lights went out for this inventor who held over 1,000 patents
Thomas Edison
Born To Run, Dancing In The Dark
Bruce Springsteen
Songs in this Broadway show include "Walk Like A Man" & "Big Girls Don't Cry"
Jersey Boys
You can land on St. James Place, Pacific Avenue or Vermont Avenue in this oceanfront resort city
Atlantic City
This ex-"Daily Show" host "was born in New York City but...was raised in N.J., part of the great Jewish emigration of 1963"
Jon Stewart
Nuclear geniuses, avoid Princeton! Both Oppenheimer & this man, who proposed relativity at age 26, died there
Einstein
Maggot Brain, One Nation Under A Groove
Funkadelic
An origin story of this candy involves the sweets in an Atlantic City shop being flooded by the ocean
Saltwater Taffy
This singer who is Jersey all the way brought Richie Sambora into his self-named band
Bon Jovi
The 2016 induction ceremony could have been called "Live! With" this female honoree from Camden County
Kelly Ripa
This baseball pioneer grounded out in Mendham on January 26, 1893
Abner Doubleday
Welcome to the Black Parade, Helena
My Chemical Romance
It was actually a trio of brothers who founded this New Brunswick-based healthcare company in 1886, but it goes by this & this
Johnson & Johnson
In the early '20s Lakehurst, N.J. had a hangar as big as 3 football fields, built to hold 2 of these aircraft
Zeppelins
This 19th century author & creator of Natty Bumppo got the call in 2015
James Fenimore Cooper
There was no more rumbling in "The Jungle" for this writer after he died in Bound Brook in 1968
Upton Sinclair
The Knickerbockers
James Madison attended the College of New Jersey; Jeff Bezos went to the same school, by then called this
Princeton
In 2021 he became the first Democrat re-elected Jersey's gov. since Brendan Byrne in 1977; maybe an arena will be named for him
Phil Murphy
Alphabetically, this early American pamphleteer immediately preceded Joe Piscopo as 2013 honorees
Thomas Paine
This Union general whom Lincoln relieved of command in 1862 gave up the fight in Orange in 1885
McClellan
Crazy Rhythms, The Good Earth
The Feelies