The Stage
This musical recently became a movie that flopped at the box office
Cats
Boroughs that are Islands?
Staten Island, Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens (Bronx is the only continental Borough)
Where was Hip/Hop Invented?
The Bronx (Extra 100 points for anyone who names Morris Heights)
Which building does King Kong climb on in New York City?
Empire State Building
How many square miles is Manhattan
24
Where does West Side Story Take Place?
Upper West Side of Manhattan
What is the longest Street in NYC?
Broadway (16.3 miles across manhattan and the bronx)
Which Native New Yorker has sold the most records?
Billy Joel (B. 1949 in the Bronx) has sold over 150 million records globally
"You talkin to me?" This iconic line comes from what New York Classic
Taxi Driver
Harlem is named after a city in ____?
The Netherlands
What is the Highest Grossing Broadway Musical of all time?
The Lion King
Where is New York's Highest Point?
Which Iconic Female Singer Debuted at the Apollo Theater?
Mariah Carey (Lauryn Hill and Ella Fitzgerald also acceptable)
This New York movie brought the Bee-Gees music to stardom and helped popularize the disco point dance move
Saturday Night Fever
Which district of NYC gets it's name from a building?
Flatiron
What is the longest running musical of all time?
The Phantom of the Opera (12,000 performances as of 2018)
What is the largest park in NYC?
Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx
Which famous female musician went to the same performing arts highschool as Al Pacino, Jennifer Aniston, and Timothee Chalamet?
Nicki Minaj
Wolf of Wall Street (392 Million)
Above Harlem and below Inwood
Washington Heights
What is the most Tony Award nominated Broadway musical?
Hamilton
Boroughs in order by population
Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, Bronx, Staten Island
(If Brooklyn and Queens were their own cities, they would be the 3rd and the 4th largest US cities!)
Who held the largest concert in Central Park?
The New York Philharmonic (1986 and 800,000 people) or Garth Brooks (1997 ~800,000)
Gotham City (meaning Goat town in old english) is the fictional Batman city named after what New York Neighborhood?
Upper West Side
What does Soho mean?
South of Houston