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