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New York City Trivia Quiz Questions and Answers
What is the most populous city in the United States?
A: New York City.
Where is New York City located?
A: At the southern tip of the state of New York.
The city is the center of the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the
world by what?
A: Urban landmass.
It’s one of the world's most populous megacities, with an estimated population of how many
people in its 2017 Metropolitan Statistical Area?
A: 20,320,876, and 23,876,155 residents in its Combined Statistical Area.
A global power city, New York City has been described as the cultural financial, and media capital of what?
A: The world, and exerts a significant impact upon commerce,
entertainment, research,
technology, education,
politics, tourism, art,
fashion, and
sports.
The city's fast pace has inspired what term?
A: The term “New York minute”.
Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for what?
A: International diplomacy.
He claimed the area for France and named it what?
A: Nouvelle Angoulême (New Angoulême).
A Spanish expedition led by captain Estêvão Gomes, a Portuguese sailing for Emperor Charles V, arrived in New York Harbor in January 1525 and charted the mouth of what?
A: The Hudson River, which he named Río de San Antonio (Saint Anthony's River).
Who is credited with the purchase of the island of Manhattan in 1626?
A: Peter Minuit.
In 1609, the English explorer Henry Hudson rediscovered the New York Harbor while searching for what?
A: The Northwest Passage to the Orient for the Dutch East India Company.
Hudson sailed roughly 150 miles (240 km) north, past the site of the present-day New York State capital city of Albany, in the belief that what?
A: It might be an oceanic tributary.
He made a ten-day exploration of the area and claimed the region for whom?
A: The Dutch East India Company.
In 1614, the area between Cape Cod and Delaware Bay was claimed by the Netherlands and called what?
A: Nieuw-Nederland (New Netherland).
Who was the first non-Native American inhabitant of what would eventually become New York City?
A: It was Juan Rodriguez (transliterated to Dutch as Jan Rodrigues), a merchant from Santo Domingo.