Which road serves as the major thoroughfare between New York and Philadelphia?
Garden State Parkway
New Jersey Turnpike
Interstate 95
Palisades Interstate Parkway
What is Garden State Parkway?
100
What is New Jersey's Nickname?
What is Garden State?
100
The Lenni-Lenape were early settlers in New Jersey who migrated from Canada. The European colonists called the Lenni-Lenape ______________ because their villages lay along the Delaware River.
Mohawk, Delaware, Cheroee, Cheyene
The Dutch claimed a large part of New Yourk and New Jersey and named it......
New Holland
New Netherland
New Amsterdam
New England
What is New Netherland?
200
Who built the first log cabins in the United States in NJ?
Irish immigrants
Dutch immigrants
English immigrants
Swedish immigrants
Who are the Swedish immigrants?
200
The southern region was named NJ to honor _______, who was governor of England's Jersey.
John Berkeley
Henry Hudson
Sir George Carteret
James, Duke of York
Who is Sir George Carteret?
200
Which religious group settled the villages of Trenton and Mount Holly in the late 1600s?
Puritans
Moravians
Pilgrims
Quakers
Who are the Quakers?
200
For more than 70 years, the colony had two capitals. What were the capital cities?
Perth Amboy and Burlington
Trenton and Hackensack
Shrewsbury and Bergen
Varenskill and Burlington
What are Perth Amboy and Burlington?
200
Where was NJ's first glassmaking factory built in 1740?
Shrewsbury
Allowaystown
Trenton
Bergen
What is Allowaystown?
300
Which hero of the Battle of Monmouth was known as Molly Pitcher?
Betsey Ross
Mary Ludwig Hays
James Monroe
George Washington
Who is Mary Ludwig Hays?
300
What city became the first official state capital in 1790?
What is Trenton?
300
Who built the first successful steam locomotive in the US?John Stevens
Robert L. Stevens
Robert Louis Stevenson
Thomas Edison
Who is John Stevens?
300
New Jersey had more ________ than any other Northern state.
railroads
roads
factories
slaves
What are slaves?
300
In 1903, the first successful commercial movie was made in NJ. What was the movie's name?
Star Wars
Birth of a Nation
The Great Train Robbery
Steamboat Willie
What is The Great Train Robbery?
400
In 1993, Charles Darrow named the properties in his new board game, Monopoly, after the streets in his favorite vacation spot of.....
What is Atlantic City?
400
_____________ on the NJ Turnpike are named for famous people who were born or lived in the state.
service areas
exit ramps
guardrails
median strips
What are service areas?
400
What is the highest point in NJ?
What is High Point?
400
Which president was born in NJ?
Woodrow Wilson
Rutherford B. Hayes
Abraham Lincoln
Grover Cleveland
Who is Grover Cleveland?
400
The Seeing Eye, the first guide-dog school in the US, is located in......
Caldwell
Montclair
Trenton
Morristown
What is Morristown?
500
What candy lovers' favorite was first made on the Jersey shore in the 1870s?
What is saltwater taffy?
500
Which beauty pageant was first held in Atlantic City?
What is Miss America?
500
NJ is one of the two sttes that has no elected
governor
lieutenant governor
mayor
senator
Who is lieutenant governor?
500
What city is where Campbell Soup Company got its start?