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1
What community, settled in 1660, is usually considered New Jersey's first permanent European settlement?
Trenton
Newark
Bergen
Amboy
2
The largest number of people ever indicted for murder in the nation at the time, were who?
The Mayor Murderers
The Hoboken 14
The Denville 13
Boy Scout Troop 19
3
In 1935, Central New Jersey hosted the Trial of the Century for which 1932 crime?
Colgate conspiracy
The Great Rahway Escape
Lindbergh kidnapping
Dunellen musical murderer
4
Which US President was born in New Jersey?
Woodrow Wilson
Richard Nixon
Martin Van Buren
Grover Cleveland
5
In 1783 the Continental Congress met in New Jersey. Where?
Fort Dix
Princeton
Bayonne
Camden
6
In 2014, New Jersey hosted the 3rd coldest Superb Owl in history. Who won?
Patriots
Seahawks
Packers
Broncos
7
In 1830, the United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Company launched what train line?
Burlington and Long Branch
Fort Lee and Hoboken
Orange and Weehauken
Camden and Amboy
8
Which county is the largest, by
land
area?
Burlington
Ocean
Sussex
Atlantic
9
The Pinelands has a memorial to Emilio Carranza Rodriguez, sometimes called what?
The Lindbergh of Mexico
The Exiled Englander
The Spanish Spruce King
The Masked Magician
10
In 1933, America's first drive-in theater opened which New Jersey town?
Bayonne
Ventnor City
Pennsauken
Washington
11
Aside from Phillip Roth and Joyce Carol Oates, which pair of Pulitzer winning novelists are New Jerseyans?
Mary Higgins Clark and Ursula K. Le Guin
Eudora Welty and Harper Lee
Richard Ford and Junot Diaz
Thomas Pynchon and Pearl S. Buck
12
The Whippany, Rockaway, Pequannock, Wanaque, Ramapo, and Pompton Rivers all drain into what body of water?
Saddle River
Raritan River
Delaware River
Passaic River
13
How long is the bicycle ride from the Northernmost to the Southernmost point of the state (Google Maps)?
11.11 hours
18.75 hours
29.5 hours
7 hours
14
New Jersey's North American Phalanx and Raritan Bay Union were what?
Guatamalan exile communes in the Pinelands
National Guard companies deployed to NJ campuses after Kent State
1850s utopian societies
1970s Union City dancing squads in holiday parades
15
What minor convenience store was the filming location for the classic film,
Clerks
?
Wah Wha Convenience in Long Branch
Ease-E Convenience in Asbury Park
Quick Stop in Leonardo
Race Away Foods in Red Bank
16
Rutgers has a Shellfish Research Laboratory in which appropriately named town?
Oyster Ridge, NJ
Bivalve, NJ
Molluskville Township, NJ
Clam Shell, NJ
17
Which New Jersey river gushes over the falls at the Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park?
Paterson River
Hackensack River
Passaic River
Wallkill River
18
Which city is inaccurately nicknamed "The Mile Square City"?
Camden
Passaic
Hoboken
Hasbrouck Heights
19
According to the 1900 US Census, what was the most populous county in New Jersey?
Camden
Mercer
Passaic
Hudson
20
The City of Elizabeth is named for whom?
Elizabeth I of England
Lord Sterling's favorite Great Dane
Sir George Carteret's wife
Bernard Alexander Elizabeth
21
Where is the New Jersey Devil from?
Pinelands
Meadowlands
Wetlands
Highlands
22
The 2020 Census found Newark and Jersey City to be the most populous cities in New Jersey. What was #3 on the list?
Paterson
Trenton
Tom's River
Bayonne
23
Which Oscar-winning film was set primarily in Hoboken?
Wtiness
Plains, Trains and Automobiles
On the Waterfront
The Prince of Tides
24
Which European royal was exiled to New Jersey in 1815?
Prince of Lichtenstein
King of Spain
Duke of Malta
Queen of Luxemburg
25
Which Englewood, New Jersey act recorded the first rap single to become a top 40 hit on the
Billboard
Hot 100?
Nipsey Hussle
Sugarhill Gang
Sir Mix-a-Lot
RunDMC
26
Gustav Stickley used Craftsman Farms to promote his ideas about what?
Ethnic foods
Natural gas
Boy Scouts
Furniture and architecture
27
While Paterson Falls most famously powered the Silk City, what other factory ran on the gravity of the Passaic River?
Colt Gun Mill
Calumet Flour Mill
Parker Brothers' board game assembly house
Chef Boyardee's first pasta cannery
28
What can be fairly described as being "mostly in New Jersey"?
Ellis Island
Jersey Mike's Subs locations
Liberty Island
Long Beach Island
29
Thomas Edison's innovative Menlo Park labs are no longer in New Jersey. Where are they?
Smithsonian Museum just outside Washington DC
Scranton, PA
Dearborn, MI
Chicago Museum of Science and Industry
30
Which New Jersey town name is real?
The Township of Urban City
Underwater Township
National Park Borough
Land of the Lakes Village
31
Ben Franklin's son, William, served as Royal Governor of New Jersey while living in the mansion at which city?
Morristown
Perth Amboy
Gloucester
Haddonfield
32
Which US President is buried in New Jersey?
Martin Van Buren
Calvin Coolidge
Woodrow Wilson
Grover Cleveland
33
Which current New Jersey school was founded by the Sisters of Mercy in 1908?
Fairleigh Dickinson University
Seven Sisters College
Georgian Court University
Bloomfield College
34
Which legend came out of the Battle of Monmouth?
Legend of the Manalapan Swamp Creature
Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Legend of Molly Pitcher
Legend of the Jersey Devil
35
In 1800, the US Census listed the total population of New Jersey as what?
1,112,149
112,149
211,149
491,112
36
Which actor did
not
grow up in New Jersey?
Meryl Streep (Summit)
Jack Nicholson (Neptune)
Danny DeVito (Asbury Park)
George Clooney (Maysville)
37
The Garden State
, starring Zach Braff, Peter Sarsgaard and Natalie Portman, is set where?
Inside one characters imagination
New Jersey
Staten Island
Florida
38
The Black Tom Incident was what?
Simultaneous collision of three ferries on the Passaic
Massive Sayreville lead paint spill
The theft of a computer chip from a research lab
Terrorist explosion of a munitions dump
39
Which US President died at the Jersey Shore?
James Garfield
Chester A Arthur
David Rice Atchison
William McKinley
40
In 1959, who moved their headquarters from NYC to North Brunswick?
Rutgers Alumni Club
Boy Scouts of America
Xerox
International Business Machines
41
Vito Perillo is the newly re-elected Mayor of Tinton Falls and also what?
"The worlds biggest raccoon train enthusiast"
The CIA operative that bugged the Kremiln
Professional party clown
97-year old WWII veteran
42
The first non-royal governor of New Jersey was whom?
William Livingston
George B. McClellan
Foster McGowan Voorhees
Mahlon Dickerson
43
The New Jersey classic, The Pine Barrens, was written by which author?
Cary Elwes
Michael McDonald
Wendell Berry
John McPhee
44
What New Jersey family built the Brooklyn Bridge?
Haertz
Hasbrouck
Van Heusen
Roebling
45
Googling "New Jersey scandal" will return which top search result?
Bridgegate
Brucegate
McGreevey scandal
Mike RIce scandal
46
Which musical group has roots in Middlesex County?
The Marvelettes
Mumford and Sons
Motorhead
Metallica
47
In 1926, New Jersey grabbed the nation's attention with the Trial of the Century for the 1922 crime in which area?
Vineland-Millboro
Camden-Cherry Hill
New Brunswick-Somerset
Hoboken-Weehauwken
48
Midland Park's Martinka claims to be which?
The oldest continuously operating silent jazz club in the world
America's longest running magic store
The largest kazoo factory in the US
The world's only Polish-Congolese fusion restaurant
49
Hinchliffe Stadium hosted Negro League baseball for the New York Black Yankees and the New York Cubans in which city?
South Amboy
Paterson
Plainfield
Newark
50
The highest point in New Jersey is where?
Highlands Mountain
High Point
Hillary Mountain
Heavenly Hill