Big Apple Quiz: What Do You Know About New York?

New York City was the original capital of the United States.

True

False

Manhattan is probably the most famous part of New York City, but the city is actually made up of five boroughs. Aside from Manhattan, the boroughs of Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx are also well known. What's the fifth borough?

Governor's Island

Staten Island

Coney Island

Roosevelt Island

Among the following, which is considered one of the origins of New York City's nickname, "The Big Apple"?

On a map, the city's borders appear in the shape of a giant apple, with Long Island forming the stem

As the cultural center of the United States, New York City is considered "the apple of the nation's eye" or, simply, "the big apple"

In the 1600s Dutch settlers in present-day New York City planted prolific apple orchards that earned a reputation even in Europe for producing singularly large fruits

Among jazz musicians, "the big apple" was slang for "the big time," and to play the clubs of Harlem or Broadway was to be at the top of the jazz world

Which of these New York City boroughs is the smallest in size?

Queens

Brooklyn

Manhattan

The Bronx

For many years the theme song for the great Duke Ellington jazz band was named after which New York City subway line?

"3"

"A"

"7"

"D"

Who designed New York's Central Park?

Thomas Jefferson

Frank Lloyd Wright

Frederick Law Olmsted

Peter Stuyvesant

The owners of which building in the early 1930s refused to sell their lease to John D. Rockefeller, forcing the multimillionaire to redesign his original plans for Rockefeller Center?

The New York Times building

St. Patrick's Cathedral

Emil's Magic Emporium

Hurley's Saloon

What is Cleopatra's Needle?

A giant diamond-studded brooch at the Tiffany & Co. jewelry store on 5th Avenue

An 18th-dynasty Egyptian obelisk in Central Park

The stainless-steel art deco spire atop the Chrysler Building

A vertical rock outcropping on Long Island

New York City's signature fountain drink, the egg cream, is made with which combination of ingredients?

Egg yolks, cream, malt, chocolate syrup

Egg yolks, milk, seltzer, vanilla syrup

Cream, malt, seltzer, chocolate syrup

Milk, seltzer, chocolate syrup

Which New York City building was the tallest in the world from 1931 to 1972?

Empire State Building

Chrysler Building

Woolworth Building

Bank of Manhattan

Where did the New York Stock Exchange begin?

In present-day New Jersey, by English explorer Henry Hudson and the indigenous Delaware people

At the mouth of the Hudson River, by the Dutch West India Company

Under a buttonwood tree at the site of present-day Wall Street

In the Bowery, among confidence men

Until it was destroyed on September 11, 2001, the World Trade Center occupied how many square blocks in lower Manhattan?

2 square blocks

8 square blocks

16 square blocks

24 square blocks