Tell Me You Went to High School in NYC
Before Your Time
Top Five!
The Law (according to popular culture)
100

These New York State high school exams test students’ knowledge in subjects such as math, science, and English.

What are the New York State Regents Exams?

100

These publications were once a morning time staple, delivering yesterday’s events in today’s edition.

What are newspapers?

100

There are the top five streaming platforms for tv shows and movies.

What is Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, HBO Max, and Paramount+

100

In what long-running crime drama did Detective Olivia Benson partner with Detective Elliot Stabler to investigate crimes in New York City?

What is Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (SVU)?

200

NYC has this many specialized high schools, including Stuyvesant, Bronx Science, and LaGuardia.

What is nine?

200

Before laptops, this machine put your words directly onto paper, with no “undo” button to rescue you from a typo.

What is a typewriter?

200

Name NYC’s five boroughs in order from most residents to fewest.

What is Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island,

200

Rumor has it that Cleary Gottlieb inspired the fictional law firm in this hit legal drama.

What is Suits?

300

When ranking programs on your NYC high school application, you can list this many choices. Two different answers are acceptable.

What is an unlimited amount?

What is 12?

300

In 2021, the College Board discontinued this part of the SAT.

What is the SAT essay?

300

Name any five justices currently serving on the United States Supreme Court. Last names only are acceptable. 

Who are John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, Ketanji Brown Jackson

300

In this Broadway musical, the title character declares, “I practiced the law, I practically perfected it.” 

What is Hamilton?

400

According to an NYU Research Alliance study, the average NYC ninth grader’s one-way trip to school took approximately this many minutes. We’ll accept an answer within five minutes.

What is 31 minutes?

Anything within 26–36 minutes.

400

Before TikTok and Instagram, users customized their profiles, added music, and ranked their “Top 8” friends on this social networking site.

What is MySpace?

400

These five players make up the starting unit of the NY Knicks basketball team.

Who are Jalen Brunson, Josh Hart, Mikal Bridges, OG Anunoby, and Karl-Anthony Towns?

400

This widely taught novel follows attorney Atticus Finch as he defends a Black man falsely accused of rape in Alabama.

What is To Kill a Mockingbird?

500

Washington Irving is famous for writing short stories, including these two classics about a very long nap and a headless horseman.

What are “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”?

500

From 1953 to 2003, NYC public transportation riders used this to pay their fair.

What are subway tokens?

500

New York State shares a land border with exactly five other U.S. states. Name all five.

What are Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania?

500

In what courtroom drama does Jack Nicholson’s character famously yell, “You can’t handle the truth!” after Tom Cruise’s character demands answers on the witness stand?

What is A Few Good Men?