Statistics for History of New Jersey

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  • The average score is 14 of 18

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QuestionAnswer% Correct
What real estate board game, released in 1935, is based on the streets of that city?Monopoly
94%
What inventor's laboratory was located in Menlo Park?Thomas Edison
92%
What Jewish scientist fled his native Germany to study at Princeton?Albert Einstein
88%
What coastal city was known as "The World's Playground" in the 1920s?
(It is the subject of the HBO show "Boardwalk Empire")
Atlantic City
86%
What zeppelin famously burst into flames while trying to dock in 1937?The Hindenburg
84%
Who shot Alexander Hamilton in Weehawken in 1804?Aaron Burr
80%
What invention did Samuel Morse demonstrate for the first time in Morristown in 1838?Telegraph
80%
What blue-eyed crooner was born in Hoboken in 1915?Frank Sinatra
79%
What river did George Washington cross to launch a surprise attack in Trenton in 1776?Delaware
78%
New Jersey is named after the island of Jersey. In what body of water would you find that island?English Channel
76%
What aviator's son was kidnapped from his home in Hopewell, New Jersey in 1932?Charles Lindbergh
75%
What governor's 2016 Presidential aspirations were torpedoed by the "Bridgegate" scandal?Chris Christie
70%
What "superstorm" devastated New Jersey's beaches in 2012?Sandy
70%
What suspension bridge, connecting New Jersey and New York,
was the longest in the world from 1931-1937?
George Washington
Bridge
67%
What boxer defeated Michael Spinks in just 91 seconds in a 1988 bout in New Jersey?Mike Tyson
65%
What deadly bacteria was contained in four letters thought to be
mailed from New Jersey in 2001?
Anthrax
64%
What city had race riots that resulted in 26 deaths in 1967?Newark
61%
What U.S. President also served as President of Princeton University?Woodrow Wilson
61%

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