WorksheetsUnusual facts about NYC
Total questions: 245
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What are the five boroughs of NYC?
The five boroughs of NYC make up how many Disney worlds?
8
7
6
5
How many languages are spoken in NYC?
200
300
400
It is (a) to honk your car horn in the city, except to warn of danger.
What are the colors of the first gas-powered taxis?
(a)
When can you see the six states from the Empire State Building observation decks?
(a)
The Empire State Building has its own zip code.
True
False
When did four "show globes"----- 10-foot (3m)- tall snow globes on display at Times Square?
2013
2022
2018
2019
About a ____ of U.S. bird species have been spotted in Central Park
31
51
81
61
In 2016, how much time did a man set a record by visiting every NYC subway stops?
(a)
Until the 1920s, (a) was "Moving Day" in NYC - the one day of the year when apartment rentals expired.
How long are the bookshelves in the city's biggest public library?
(a)
How many historical menus does the biggest public library in the city have?
(a)
How many billionaires are there in the city?
100,000,000
100
1,000
500
A baby is born in NYC every (a) .
If Brooklyn is an own city, it will be ____ largest of US.
How many people pass through Times Square every day?
400000
40000
4000
400
What bank holds the world's largest known amount of gold?
(a)
How many bars of gold does the gold vault of the Federal Reserve bank have?
(a)
How many African elephants is needed to balance 500,000 gold bars?
(a)
More people live in NYC than in the ___ of the __ states.
(a)
When did the Statue of Liberty arrive?
(a)
How many crates did people took to carry the statue of Liberty?
244 crates
160 crates
56 crates
214 crates
The statue of Liberty is assembled.
True
False
When horses and buggies are the main transportation, how many tons of manure are collected from the streets?
(a)
Why would the voice of yourself will enter the ears of another person in the Grand Central Terminal?
(a)
How many performances of The Phantom Of The Opera on broadway, the longest running broadway show?
(a)
How many pounds of ice are used for each performance?
(a)
The price of a ___ and a ___ has been the same for 50 years.
(a)
Why are endangered species projected onto the side of the Empire State Building?
How many NYC subway cars dropped in the ocean to create an artificial reef?
(a)
What song play every half hour on Central Park's Delacorte Clock and change with seasons?
(a)
In 1886, the first (a) in NYC celebrated the dedication of the Statue of Liberty.
During the NYC Ballet's Nutcracker performance, how long is the artificial Christmas tree?
(a)
New Yorkers drink almost six times more coffee than people in other U.S. do.
True
False
How many miles of public beaches does NYC have?
(a)
How many dogs live in NYC?
6000000
600000
At the Grand Central Terminal, how many items are recovered from trains in the lost-and-found department?
(a)
How many items are returned to owners at the lost-and-found department at Grand Central Terminal?
41 of the items
more than half
15000
less than half
What suite of the Plaza hotel looks like the illustrations in the Eloise children books.
(a)
The portrait of Eloise that hangs in the Plaza's Palm Court isn't a replacement.
True
False
The One Three-Story Brownstone in Brooklyn heights is a house.
True
False
Why do every year people run a race up the 1,576 stairs of The Empire State Building?
If you walk 20 blocks in NYC, how long had you walked?
(a)
How many elevators does the One World Trade Center have?
56
45
49
71
Since the Metropolitan Museum of Art opened in 1872, how many artworks has added each year?
12000
13000
14000
15000
How many miles does an average NYC taxi travel?
(a)
How many million people visit NYC in a year?
(a)
A secret staircase inside the Washington Square leads to the rooftop.
True
False
In one show, how many high kicks does the Rockette dancers do?
(a)
What character has appeared the most in the Macy's Thanksgiving parade?
Snoopy
Pooh
Simba
Ben 10
Where is the magician Harry Houdini buried?
What ceremony took place in Queens to honor the magician Harry Houdini?
(a)
How many hotel rooms are there in the city?
(a)
What material is The City Hall made of?
The first paved road in the US built specially for (a) - the Long Island Motor Parkway-opened in Queens in 1908.
How many subway cars does the NY's mass transit system include?
(a)
Who invented super-durable cement that used to build the Yankee stadium?
(a)
You can't buy seats from the original Yankee Stadium.
True
False
What is called two days a year?
(a)
What is the borough of Queens named after?
How many eastern gray squirrels are in Central Park?
(a)
What tower that we can compare the depth of the 191 street subway station?
Tower of Pisa
Tower of London
How many humpback whales swim through NY harbor every year?
(a)
If you took all the subway tracks and laid them out in a line, how long would they stretch?
Flower arrangements for special events at the Metropolitan Museum of Art can be tall as a (a) .
How many pounds of trash do NY residents throw a year?
(a)
Both backyard chickens and roosters are banned in the city.
True
False
What do the first aerial commuter car in North America connect to?
What is the nickname of the marble lions in front of the NY Public Library?
What do NYers call the red meat sauce that you put on pizza?
(a)
In the 1990s, did the borough of Staten Island vote to leave the city?
Yes
No
How many people did it take to control the largest balloons in the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade?
90
80
56
94
The Apatosaurus ballon in the Macy's Thanksgiving parade is life-size.
False
True
What does the first Macy's Thanksgiving parade have?
The ball that drops in Times Square to ring in the New Year weighs as (a) grizzly bears.
How many LED lights does the Times Square ball to ring in New Year have?
The ice cream shop in Brooklyn sell olive oil flavors.
When did the nickname Big Apple took off?
What did the name of the NBA team Knicks came from?
Where do half the horses that New York's officers ride live?
Why do New York police have two mobile blacksmith vehicles?
How many species of ants does NYC have?
42
25
35
In one year, how many hotdogs can ants and other arthropods eat?
(a)
How many supertall skyscrapers does NYC have?
20
34
25
4
How high are the supertall skyscrapers in NYC?
(a)
How heavy is the biodegradable confetti in NYC that falled in Times Square during New Year?
(a)
Following this question: "How heavy is the biodegradable confetti in NYC that falled in Times Square during New Year?", how much people is need to throw it?
100
58
24
73
List the animals that are illegal to perform tricks in NYC.
NYC = New Amsterdam
True
False
What does the Queens museum include?
What do some people hear when subway train leaves the station?
How do the bird rehab center in Manhattan teach how to foster an injured pigeon?
What is the biggest zoo in US?
(a)
How many snow leopard cubs live in the Bronx Zoo?
(a)
How many hissing cockroaches does the Bronx zoo have?
50000
45786
36320
19553
46800
When can you name someone a hissing cockroach?
Where can you buy a rainbow bagel and have a cotton candy spread?
(a)
Rats have been seen in the subway system carrying cups and pasta.
How does the Visual-Recognition Software at the American Kernel cub pair dogs?
What is used to decorate a public bathroom in a curbside kiosk?
What did a NYC jewelry company made in 2019?
(a)
How heavy is the world's largest batch of purple slime?
(a)
What is a mmuseumm?
When is the first escalator invented?
1985
1967
1943
1948
When did the Harlem Globetrotters got their start in Chicago?
(a)
The Harlem Globetrotters team didn't play a game until 40 games later.
True
False
In a movie Ghostbusters, where were the headquarters filmed?
Why was a NYC bakery had a cheesecake for $5000?
What do people ride in the SeaGlass carousel and what is the carousel's exterior modeled after?
What do offices inside a 12-story Manhattan building overlook?
(a)
Where do they display mosaics of dressed-up Weimaraner dogs?
In 2018, how many goats wandered onto train tracks in Brooklyn?
How old are the glaciers that embedded boulders in Central Park and was melted?
(a)
What does a NYC floral designer use for flower displays?
(a)
Why does the West 63rd street and Broadway renamed Sesame Street?
What transformed the outside of a Manhattan department store to look like the castle from Frozen?
Why would the architect Frank Lloyd Wright want the walls of his museum?
What do museum staff do on the walls of the Guggenheim Museum?
How long is the famous spiral ramp of the Guggenheim Museum?
(a)
What does the winning pup at the Westminster dog show get?
What is placed in the middle of a street in Manhattan's Garment District as part of an interactive art exhibit?
(a)
What can you buy in the Brooklyn Superhero Supply Store?
Where is a four-story statue of a Dalmatian balancing a taxi on its nose?
(a)
Who are the chefs on a restaurant on Staten Island?
(a)
When is used to be home to the world's largest garbage dump?
How many keys are the exterior of a locksmith business in Greenwich Village covered?
(a)
What food contest is opened in Fourth of July?
What do visitors do in Spyscape?
You can buy a diamond ring from a vending machine.
True
False
How many sketchbooks does the Brooklyn Art Library have?
There are no rats in Rat Island.
True
False
Why are green bananas sent to a facility in Bronx?
How do pressurized rooms trick bananas?
A New York City ____ ____ uses city garbage cans as ___ ___ for public flower displays.
(a)
Which street corner was renamed Sesame Street in honor of the TV show?
Where the "Mona Lisa" was displayed in Newyork City in 1963?
National Gallery of Art
American Museum of Natural History
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Rubin Museum of Art
Which country had the "Mona Lisa" been taken left in 1963?
The American Museum of Natural History decorated a holiday tree with more than (a)
In a two-week period in 1961, one New York Rangers hockey player (a)
Some New Yorkers still celebrate Feb 9 as ALLIGATORS IN THE SEWERS DAY when Teenagers found an _________ alligator in a Manhattan storm drain on February 9, 1935.
ten-foot (3m) long
five-foot (1.5m) long
twelve-foot (3.6m) long
eight-foot (2.4m) long
When were New Yokers called in to New York City's help line about rat sightings?
From 2019 to 2020
From 2010 to 2019
From 2020 to 2023
From 1980 to 1985
From 2010 to 2019, (a) rat sightings were called in to New York City's help line.
What special is about the Bug Carousel at the Bronx Zoo?
It is one of largest carousel on the world.
It opens free to children on weekends.
It can run at double speed as compared to other carousel.
Riders on board sit on one of 64 different types of insects.
In winter time at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, a model train passes through
(a)
What had to be brought in to PLANT TREES in Central Park when it was constructed in the mid-1800s?
Soil from New York agriculture areas
Dirt from New Jersey
Man-made soil
Soil from New Jersey river
What author who has a son inspired the Winnie-the-Pooh characters having the stuffed animals on the display at the New York Public Library?
Christopher Robin
Christopher Nolan
Ben Mills
Andy Van
Which country is the Statue of Liberty design originally based on its statue?
Greek
Italy
Egypt
France
You can take a (a) to the Statue of Liberty?
Hint: means of transport
What sits on the roof of a Manhattan office building?
A big clock
A ancient statue
A replica of a British World War I fighter plane
A pyramic symbol
One hundred years ago, what was LAGUARDIA AIRPORT located before?
a building
amusement park
a pond
a forest
Where can we find a section of the BERLIN WALL?
Battery Park City
New Jersey
Washington DC
No, it can be found in Berlin, Germany.
Which name of architecture design in Central Park was designed for children to climb on the mushrooms serve as steps?
(a)
Which year had the winter that was so cold to make NEW YORK HARBOR froze?
Where could people walk on the ice from?
Manhattan
Staten island
Nowhere.
How is The neighborhood of JAMAICA IN QUEENS named their locations on the map?
They are named after the Caribbean Country.
it comes from the Algonquin Indian work for BEAVER, JAMECO.
Where you can ride on a square-wheeled tricycle?
Answer: (a)
In (a) , the broze ugly duckling accompanying the Hans Christian Andersen statue in Central Park was stolen, but it was later found in a scrapyard and reinstalled.
Where was puffed-rice cereal invented in 1901?
(a)
What was WALL STREET, the center of Manhattan's Financial District, named after?
a city
a newspaper agency
An actual-nine-foot (2.7 m) wall
20m wall
EGG CREAMS, a New York City invention, have eggs and cream. True/False?
True
False
Which island can guests spend the night in an isolated and rumored to be haunted-lighthouse?
(a)
Which size of the statue of liberty in Paris, France, as compared to the original?
(a)
The first ___ ___ ___ in the United States, VAN CORTLANDT GOFT COURSE, opended in the Bronx on July 6, 1895?
(a)
Where can we find a room filled with dirt in New York City?
(a)
Where was Scrabble game invented in New York?
Hint: name of a borough in New York.
(a)
Which floor can fossils be found of GRAND CENTRAL STATION?
(a)
Where can we found the largest meteorite on display in the world?
The American Museum of Natural History
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Madame Tussauds New York
Museum of Arts and Design
It takes ____of paint to cover the 94-foot (29m) long blue whale model at the American Museum of Natural History.
25 gallons (95L)
10 gallons
In 2001, artists added a ___ ___ to the blue whale, 40 years after the model was made.
eyes
belly button
fins
tail
There is only one ___ ___ which intentionally designed in the Central Park?
(a)
What special is about the STATEN ISLAND FERRY?
(a)
Which country is the holiday tree at Rockefeller Center traditionally from?
(a)
How many LED lights are strung with holiday tree at Rockefeller Center?
5,000
20,000
50,000
100,000
How long are the wires in holiday tree?
5 miles (8km)
1 miles (400m)
10 miles
8 miles
How can a 25-foot (7.6m) tall waterfall in Manhattan's Greenacre Park drown out the noise of street traffic?
(a)
What name of color that is painted sidewalks in New York city?
(a)
Which name of island that tides washed away a sunbathing hot spot off the coasts of Far Rockaway, in Queens?
(a)
How many species of sharks usually swim off New York City's coastline?
(a)
Which is famous as firehouse dogs as being used in the 1870s?
(a)
Which items that people have accidentally left in the back seats of city taxis?
(a)
What speed of a pneumatic tube system can be get to send letters back and forth between 23 city post offices?
5 miles
30 miles (48 km/h)
20miles
10 miles
Which floors that Edge at Hudson Yard, a 1,131-foot (345 m) high observation deck can connect?
(a)
How many are glass panels that you can lean on at the angle outward for a sky-high view? And how wide is each panel in foot or metre?
(a)
How many days did a man "mine" more than $800 worth of gold flecks from dust on city streets?
(a)
Pedestrians had to pay to cross the city's ___ ___, built in 1693, but British soldiers could cross it for free.
(a)
Ray's Pizza, Original Ray's Pizza, Real Ray's, and Original Famous Ray's Pizza
have all been ___ ___ ___.
(a)
What can you build at the FAO Schwarz toy store with the help of a mechanic?
(a)
What specialty are houses on a block in Brooklyn?
(a)
The ___ ___ is the city's most popular dog breed.
Hint: a dog kind from a European country
(a)
How tall a sewing needle "threads" a 14-foot (4.3m) long button in Manhattan's Garment District?
(a)
HOw many do official signs misspell the name of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge (the second z is missing) and are slowly being replaced?
(a)
Who walked on SIXTH AVENUE making the first ever cellphone call on April 3, 1973?
(a)
What is weird thing at one comic book store in Brooklyn?
(a)
If you (a) the steel strands that support the GEORGE WASHINGTON BRIDGE, they would stretch around the world four times.
How tall is the cuckoo clock at FAO Schwarz toy store?
Hint: this clock was silenced after a neighboring store complained about the noise.
2m
1m
5m
0.5m
How many creatures are there at the TOTALLY KID CAROUSEL in HARLEM come from kids' imaginations?
(a)
ELLIS ISLAND's hospital had ___, ___ ___ contagious patients were sent to the right and noncontagious patients to the left.
(a)
If you walked every trail in Central Park, you'd walk ___ miles (93 km).
58
68
108
38
Central Park is as big as (a) American football fields.
What hang from the corners of the CHRYSLER BUILDING's 31st Floor, Replicas of late 1920s Crysler Car Hood Ornaments?
two egyptian gods
two clocks
two winged helmets
two women statues
What year did a man walk on a tightrope stretched between the two towers of the World Trade Center?
1972
1973
1974
1975
New York City inventor Thomas Adams was the first person to manufacture ___ ___, selling it in vending machines at subway stations in 1888.
(a)
The spire of the New York Life Building is covered in (a) gold-leaf tiles.
Hint: number of tiles
Which is the longest street in Manhattan, stretching 13 miles (21 km)?
(a)
Why does old iron manhole covers in New York City having raised patterns?
(a)
Name the largest stainless steel model of the world in a Queens park.
(a)
Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote two songs for his musical (a) from Aaron Burr's bedroom in the oldest house in Manhattan, the Morris-Jumel Mansion.
Some say that the ghost of Aaron Burr's (a) , Eliza Jumel, haunts the house.
Why do almost all Broadway theaters lack a row I?
(a)
What time is a digital art exhibition "Midnight Moment" that appears on electric billboards in Times Square every night?
(a)
Where can Astronauts see the lights from the International Space Station?
(a)
Name Manhattan Island's only remaining lighthouse, located under the George Washington Bridge.
(a)
What is the other name of the theater section of Broadway? Because it was one of the first streets in the United States to be lit up with white electric lights.
(a)
An 18-foot (5.5-m)-tall (a) made of blue flowers and shrubs and covered in 11,000 blue lights was on display at Rockefeller Center in 2020.
As many as ___ people an hour view Macy's holiday window displays in peak season.
10,000
5,000
12,000
8,000
How many days does it take to install Macy's holiday window displays?
(a)
What does New York City restaurant Serendipity 3 sell?
(a)
In Broadway's LION KING, actors have to ___ ___ to get into the 18-foot (5.5-m)-tall giraffe costumes.
(a)
A musician created a ___ ___ in Times Square- the sound of low-pitched church bells echoes through a street grate 24 hours a day.
(a)
What is the shape of TIMES SQUARE?
(a)
For the 50th anniversary of the 1933 movie King Kong, an 84-foot (26-m)-tall inflatable gorilla was attached to the side of the ___ ___ ___.
(a)
How may days did it take handlers to get 3,000-pound (1,3600-kg) gorilla settled on his perch?
(a)
For more than 25 years, artist HANI SHIHADA has used New York City ___ ___ to make drawings with chalk and pastels.
(a)
Name the post office founded in 1801 by Alexander Hamilton.
(a)
Before a wintertime flight, you can (a) at Runway Rink, located on the tarmac at John F. Kennedy International Airport.
The Coney Island Polar Bear Club hosts the annual New Year's Day Plunge. What happened in that day?
(a)
Name of the children's book which has been checked out of the New York Public Library system more than any other book.
(a)
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority will email you a "___ ___" if your train delay makes you late for work or school.
(a)
Some New Yorkers ___ ___ ___ to take their pups to the countryside so they can run off-leash.
(a)
Name a bronze statue was unveiled to stare down Wall Street's "Charging Bull" statue in 2017.
(a)
Where do they put "Charging Bull" statue?
(a)
How do they make frozen custard? by who?
(a)
Frozen custard was sold more than (a) cones the first weekend.
During the U.S. Civil War, jewery store Tiffany & Co. made (a) for the union army.
How long do New York drivers spend to look for a parking spot?
(a)
When it first opened in 1927, the Coney Island Cyclone roller coaster cost (a) cents to ride.
In 1977, a man set a world record by riding the Cyclone continously for (a) hours.
The famous Central Park restaurant Tavern on the Green was originally designed to house ____ sheep.
100
200
500
700
The locker rooms at Madison Square Garden are (a) so that players can see each other during team meetings.
For more than 20 years, (a) from Brooklyn has dressed in bright green every day and even dyes her hair to match.
It takes two and half hours and 160 workers to transform the Madison Square Garden basketball court into ___ ___.
(a)
What are at a park in Queens arranged to represent phases of the moon?
(a)
Which city that LAGUARDIA AIRPORT scene in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York was filmed?
(a)
You can spend the night in ___ ___ ___ at the Plaza Hotel, where the movie character stayed.
(a)
