QUESTIONS FOR THE GAME

Which is the origin of the Statue of Liberty? Who discovered America?

a) It was built to commemorate 9/11 a) Giovanni da Verrazzano
b) It was built by the slaves b) Henry Hudson
c) It was a present from France c) Christopher Columbus

Who lived in the region of NYC before of the

When was America discovered?
arrival of Europeans?
a) 1524
a) Native Americans
b) 1492
b) The Dutch
c) 1664
c) Iberians

What language did Native Americans of the Who was the first European visitor to the
New York region speak? New York area?
a) Algonquian a) George Washington
b) Hebrew b) Giovanni da Verrazzano
c) Punjabi c) Christopher Columbus

How many Native Americans lived in the Which NY street was first created by Native
area of NY before the arrival of Europeans? Americans?
a) 30,000 a) Broadway
b) 150,000 b) Brooklyn
c) 15,000 c) The 5th Avenue

What was NYC called during the Dutch

Who was the Hudson River named after?
period?
a) Michael Hudson
a) New Angoulême
b) Kate Hudson
b) New Amsterdam
c) Henry Hudson
c) New England

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Who were the majority of British settlers? Which of these names are of Dutch origin?
a) The Irish a) Manhattan & Harlem
b) The Scottish b) Harlem & Brooklyn
c) The Puritans c) Broadway & Brooklyn

When was the Independence of the United Who was the first president of the United
States declared? States?
a) 1776 a) George Washington
b) 1775 b) Abraham Lincoln
c) 1790 c) Benjamin Franklin

What was the American Civil War (1861-

What was Ellis Island?
1865)?
a) A prison
a) It was a war of the northern states
b) A slave refugee camp
against the southern states who
c) An immigration station
had declared secession.
b) It was the war to gain independence
from the British.
c) It was a war against the Dutch.

What was the Great Depression?

When were the first New York skyscrapers
a) A financial crisis in the 1930s
built?
b) President Roosevelt’s depressive
a) In the early 19th century
state
b) In the early 20th century
c) A geographical depression in the
c) In the 21th century
New York area

What was the Great Migration that took

place from 1910 to 1970?
a) Migration of African Americans
When did the Japanese attack Pearl
from the southern to the northern
Harbor?
states
a) During the World War I
b) Migration of Americans from the
b) During the World War II
northern states to the southern
c) During the Cold War
states
c) Migration of the Puritan from
England to America

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What was the Harlem Renaissance?
a) An African American cultural
How do you call the inhabitants of NYC?
movement in Harlem during the
a) New Yorkings
1920s and the 1930s
b) New Yorkish
b) An African American literary
c) New Yorkers
Renaissance in the 20th century
c) A jazz Renaissance in Harlem
during the 1930s

In which borough is the World Trade Center When were the terrorist attacks on the Twin
located? Towers?
a) In Manhattan a) On September 11th 2001
b) In Staten Island b) On November 9th 2001
c) In Queens c) On September 11th 2000

Which are the airports of NYC? Which of the following rivers doesn’t belong
a) JFK Kennedy, Heathrow and to NYC?
Newark a) The Hudson River
b) Luton, Heathrow and Stansted b) The East River
c) JFK Kennedy, La Guardia and c) The Fraser River
Newark

Which of the following cities has never been When was the Empire State Building
the capital of the United States? erected?
a) New York a) In the early 20th century
b) Washington b) At the end of the 19th century
c) San Francisco c) In the 1930s

Which of these are the five boroughs of

NYC?
a) Manhattan, Bronx, Broadway,
Queens and Staten Island.
b) Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn,
Queens and Staten Island.
c) Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn,
Queens and Long Island.

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