The Bronx - Quiz
The Bronx
  • 1. Which Community District includes Woodlawn Heights?
A) Community District 7
B) Community District 8
C) Community District 1
D) Community District 12
  • 2. Which borough is Marble Hill officially part of, despite its connection to the Bronx?
A) Manhattan
B) Queens
C) Brooklyn
D) Staten Island
  • 3. Which river serves as a consistent eastern boundary for the South Bronx?
A) The East River
B) The Harlem River
C) The Hudson River
D) The Bronx River
  • 4. Which landmark is located in the South Bronx?
A) Central Park
B) Yankee Stadium
C) The Brooklyn Bridge
D) The Empire State Building
  • 5. Which road was often used as the northern limit of the South Bronx by the 2000s?
A) Fordham Road
B) Grand Concourse
C) East 149th Street
D) Gun Hill Road
  • 6. Which neighborhood is known as a retail district at Third Avenue and East 149th Street?
A) Port Morris
B) Mott Haven
C) The Hub
D) Belmont
  • 7. Which expressway bisects the South Bronx from east to west?
A) The Cross Bronx Expressway
B) The Major Deegan Expressway
C) The Bruckner Expressway
D) The Hutchinson River Parkway
  • 8. Which community district faces the Hudson River in the Northwestern Bronx?
A) Community District 8
B) Community District 7
C) Community District 12
D) Community District 6
  • 9. What is another name for East Morrisania?
A) Highbridge
B) The Hub
C) University Heights
D) Crotona Park East
  • 10. Which of these is a museum located in the South Bronx?
A) The Guggenheim
B) The Bronx Children’s Museum
C) The Metropolitan Museum of Art
D) The American Museum of Natural History
  • 11. Which neighborhood is found in Community District 7?
A) Longwood
B) Hunts Point
C) Mott Haven
D) Bedford Park
  • 12. The Bronx County Courthouse is located in which region?
A) South Bronx
B) Eastern Bronx
C) Central Bronx
D) Northwestern Bronx
  • 13. Which hospital is located in the South Bronx?
A) Lincoln Hospital
B) Montefiore Medical Center
C) Bellevue Hospital
D) Mount Sinai
  • 14. Which Bronx neighborhood is served by Community District 8?
A) Woodlawn Heights
B) West Farms
C) Belmont
D) Riverdale
  • 15. Which river do community districts 1, 4, 5, and 7 face across from Manhattan?
A) Hudson River
B) Bronx River
C) Harlem River
D) East River
  • 16. Which county is located to the north of the Bronx?
A) Bergen County
B) Nassau County
C) Westchester County
D) Queens County
  • 17. Which county is located to the west of the Bronx across the Hudson River?
A) Bergen County, New Jersey
B) New York County
C) Westchester County
D) Nassau County
  • 18. In what year were the areas west of the Bronx River annexed to New York City?
A) 1900
B) 1895
C) 1880
D) 1874
  • 19. In what year were the areas east of the Bronx River annexed to New York City?
A) 1895
B) 1905
C) 1885
D) 1874
  • 20. What street acts as the east-west divider for designating numbered streets in the Bronx?
A) Pelham Parkway
B) Fordham Road
C) Jerome Avenue
D) Bronx River Parkway
  • 21. The Northeast Bronx is defined as the area north of which road?
A) Pelham Parkway
B) Jerome Avenue
C) Eastchester Road
D) Fordham Road
  • 22. Which side of the Bronx River contains the earlier-settled and hillier sections?
A) East
B) South
C) North
D) West
  • 23. What does Jerome Avenue represent for the borough of Manhattan?
A) The northern border
B) The eastern border
C) A longitudinal halfway point
D) The southern border
  • 24. How many primary systems for dividing the Bronx into regions are described in the text?
A) Four
B) Two
C) One
D) Three
  • 25. What is the total area of Bronx County according to the U.S. Census Bureau?
A) 57 square miles
B) 15 square miles
C) 75 square miles
D) 42 square miles
  • 26. What percentage of the Bronx is comprised of water?
A) 27%
B) 42%
C) 15%
D) 57%
  • 27. Which island is home to the large jail complex for New York City?
A) Marble Hill
B) Hart Island
C) City Island
D) Rikers Island
  • 28. What is the highest elevation in the Bronx?
A) 400 feet
B) 280 feet
C) 150 feet
D) 85 feet
  • 29. After whom is the Hutchinson River named?
A) Anne Hutchinson
B) John Bronx
C) William Pelham
D) Peter Stuyvesant
  • 30. Which body of water separates the Bronx from Nassau County?
A) Harlem River
B) East River
C) Hudson River
D) Long Island Sound
  • 31. Which of these is a peninsula or "neck" of low-lying land in the Bronx?
A) Marble Hill
B) City Island
C) Throggs Neck
D) Hart Island
  • 32. What type of rock is Inwood marble?
A) Marble
B) Feldspar
C) Gneiss
D) Schist
  • 33. What is the total length of the Bronx's irregular shoreline?
A) 75 square miles
B) 57 square miles
C) 15 square miles
D) 42 square miles
  • 34. What was the population of the Bronx in 1900?
A) 1.3 million
B) 100,000
C) 200,000
D) 500,000
  • 35. What was the population of the Bronx by 1930?
A) 592,185
B) 1 million
C) 1.3 million
D) 200,000
  • 36. During which years did the Bronx experience a boom period?
A) 1950–1985
B) 1900–1929
C) 1980–2000
D) 1930–1945
  • 37. What major economic issue impacted the Bronx after the boom period?
A) The Gold Rush
B) The Tech Bubble
C) The Industrial Revolution
D) The Great Depression
  • 38. Between 1950 and 1985, what characterized the change in the Bronx's income level?
A) From moderate-income to lower-income
B) From low-income to high-income
C) Remained stable
D) From rural to urban elite
  • 39. When did the economic and developmental resurgence of the Bronx begin?
A) Late 1990s
B) Early 1920s
C) Early 1950s
D) Late 1980s
  • 40. What did the Bronx primarily consist of for many generations before becoming a railroad suburb?
A) Military bases
B) Small farms
C) Heavy industrial factories
D) Large apartment complexes
  • 41. What form of transportation linked the Bronx to Manhattan in 1904?
A) The subway system
B) Buses
C) Horse-drawn carriages
D) Ferries
  • 42. The South Bronx was a notable center for what type of manufacturing in the early 20th century?
A) Automobile production
B) Textile production
C) Steel forging
D) Piano manufacturing
  • 43. How many piano factories were in the Bronx in 1919?
A) 100
B) 20
C) 63
D) 5,000
  • 44. How many workers were employed by Bronx piano factories in 1919?
A) Less than 1,000
B) Exactly 500
C) More than 5,000
D) 10,000
  • 45. In what year was the small World's Fair held in the Bronx?
A) 1918
B) 1930
C) 1950
D) 1904
  • 46. Which immigrant group made up 43.9% of the Bronx population in 1937?
A) Polish Americans
B) Irish Americans
C) German Americans
D) Jewish Americans
  • 47. Approximately how many Jewish residents lived in the Bronx in 2011?
A) 1.3 million
B) 54,000
C) 200,000
D) 592,185
  • 48. What happened to many of the synagogues in the Bronx over time?
A) Abandoned entirely
B) Converted to other uses
C) Destroyed by fire
D) Expanded into museums
  • 49. Which indigenous group originally inhabited the territory of the Bronx?
A) Siwanoy
B) Munsee
C) Mohawk
D) Iroquois
  • 50. In what year did European colonization of the Bronx begin?
A) 1693
B) 1759
C) 1846
D) 1639
  • 51. Who was the lord of Philipse Manor who owned the King's Bridge?
A) Jacobus Dyckman
B) Benjamin Palmer
C) Frederick Philipse
D) Pierre Lorillard
  • 52. In what year was the free bridge built across the Harlem River?
A) 1693
B) 1895
C) 1874
D) 1759
  • 53. The town of West Farms was created in which year?
A) 1896
B) 1855
C) 1846
D) 1873
  • 54. Which inventor established Mott Haven?
A) Jordan L. Mott
B) Jacobus Dyckman
C) Benjamin Palmer
D) Pierre Lorillard
  • 55. What cemetery is located in the area of the town of Kingsbridge?
A) St. Raymond's Cemetery
B) Calvary Cemetery
C) Ferncliff Cemetery
D) Woodlawn Cemetery
  • 56. In what year did City Island vote to join New York City?
A) 1898
B) 1895
C) 1894
D) 1896
  • 57. When did the consolidated City of New York officially begin?
A) 1912
B) 1898
C) 1895
D) 1914
  • 58. Bronx County was officially created in which year?
A) 1898
B) 1914
C) 1874
D) 1912
  • 59. What entity uses 'Bronx, NY' for mailing addresses?
A) The Bronx Borough President
B) The New York City Council
C) United States Postal Service
D) The Bronx County Historical Society
  • 60. What is the purported origin story for the name 'the Broncks'?
A) A description of the local landscape
B) A naming contest held in 1898
C) Visiting the settler's family
D) A reference to a local bridge
  • 61. When is the definite article 'The' capitalized in general use?
A) Never, under any circumstances
B) Only in mailing addresses
C) Whenever the word is spoken
D) At the beginning of a sentence
  • 62. What comparison is used by the Great and Glorious Grand Army of The Bronx to support capitalizing 'The'?
A) Not capitalizing the 'e' in 'East River'
B) Not capitalizing the 's' in 'Staten Island'
C) Not capitalizing the 'b' in 'Brooklyn Bridge'
D) Not capitalizing the 'i' in 'Island of Manhattan'
  • 63. According to the text, what is the general rule for the definite article in place names?
A) It is omitted
B) It is placed at the end
C) It is lowercase
D) It is always capitalized
  • 64. Who is the specific individual mentioned who advocates for the capitalization of 'The'?
A) John Bronx
B) Lloyd Ultan
C) The Mayor of New York
D) The Postmaster General
  • 65. What was the native Siwanoy name for the Bronx?
A) Aquahung
B) Rananchqua
C) Keskeskeck
D) New Netherland
  • 66. From whom does the name 'Bronx' derive?
A) Pieter Bronck
B) William Bronk
C) Jonas Bronck
D) Brian G. Andersson
  • 67. What was the name of the farm built by Jonas Bronck?
A) Keskeskeck
B) Rananchqua
C) Emmaus
D) New Haarlem
  • 68. How many acres did Jonas Bronck eventually accumulate?
A) 1000 acres
B) 200 acres
C) 50 acres
D) 500 acres
  • 69. Who was the American poet descended from Pieter Bronck?
A) William Bronk
B) Siwanoy
C) Brian G. Andersson
D) Jonas Bronck
  • 70. Who helped organize the 375th Anniversary celebration in Jonas Bronck's hometown?
A) Jonas Bronck
B) Brian G. Andersson
C) William Bronk
D) Pieter Bronck
  • 71. What country is Jonas Bronck believed to have been born in?
A) Germany
B) Netherlands
C) Sweden
D) England
  • 72. What was the relationship between Pieter Bronck and Jonas Bronck?
A) No relation
B) Father and son
C) Nephew or cousin
D) Brother
  • 73. What is the land area of the Bronx in square miles?
A) 35
B) 42
C) 50
D) 60
  • 74. What group of native people were displaced by European settlers after 1643?
A) Mohawk
B) Lenape
C) Cherokee
D) Iroquois
  • 75. What percentage of the Bronx's area is open space?
A) About half
B) About ten percent
C) About a third
D) About a quarter
  • 76. What was the population density ranking of the Bronx among the boroughs?
A) Third
B) Fifth
C) Second
D) First
  • 77. During which years was Prohibition active in the Bronx?
A) 1910-1920
B) 1920-1933
C) 1930-1960
D) 1940-1950
  • 78. Between 1930 and 1960, which demographic group began relocating from the Bronx's southwestern neighborhoods?
A) Affluent retirees
B) Middle-class Hispanic families
C) Moderate and upper income non-Hispanic Whites
D) Low-income immigrant laborers
  • 79. What complex played a significant role in draining middle-class residents from older tenement buildings?
A) The Cross Bronx Expressway
B) Marble Hill Apartments
C) Co-op City
D) The Bronx Courthouse
  • 80. Where are most non-Hispanic White communities located in the Bronx today?
A) Eastern and northwestern sections
B) Southwestern and southern sections
C) Central and western sections
D) The South Bronx
  • 81. Whose biography, The Power Broker, suggests the Cross Bronx Expressway created instant slums?
A) Richard Enright
B) Robert Caro
C) Robert Moses
D) Peter J. McQuillan
  • 82. What is the term for the reduction in real estate listings and mortgage loans in certain areas?
A) Urban renewal
B) Redlining
C) Gentrification
D) Planned shrinkage
  • 83. By the early 1980s, what percentage of housing units did the South Bronx lose?
A) 40%
B) 80%
C) 60%
D) 20%
  • 84. What initiative first stimulated development in the Bronx in the late 1980s?
A) Five-Year Infrastructure Plan
B) Urban Renewal Act
C) Ten-Year Housing Plan
D) South Bronx Recovery Program
  • 85. Which grassroots organization led the Melrose Commons project?
A) Nos Quedamos
B) Bronx Renewal Group
C) City Neighborhood Project
D) South Bronx Housing Alliance
  • 86. What did The New York Times report in 2006 as the 'new visual metaphor' for the Bronx?
A) Window decals
B) Construction cranes
C) Potted plants
D) Drawn curtains
  • 87. Which building is often cited as the largest armory in the world?
A) Kingsbridge Armory
B) South Bronx Armory
C) Bronx County Armory
D) Grand Concourse Armory
  • 88. Which individual is usually credited with the vision of a system of major parks in the Bronx connected by park-like thoroughfares?
A) Robert Moses
B) Frederick Law Olmsted
C) John Mullaly
D) George W. Perkins
  • 89. In what year did Woodlawn Cemetery open?
A) 1863
B) 1888
C) 1865
D) 1904
  • 90. What kind of forest is preserved within the New York Botanical Gardens?
A) Oak forest
B) Chestnut forest
C) Hemlock forest
D) Pine forest
  • 91. What was the previous use of the site where the Jerome Park Reservoir was built?
A) A botanical garden
B) A zoological garden
C) A racetrack
D) A cemetery
  • 92. In what year did New York City buy the land for many of the Bronx parks?
A) 1904
B) 1863
C) 2006
D) 1888
  • 93. How many species of trees are found in Crotona Park?
A) 70
B) 28
C) 300
D) 7,000
  • 94. What is the name of the pathogen that devastated the American Chestnut population?
A) Chestnut Blight
B) Dutch Elm Disease
C) Hemlock Woolly Adelgid
D) Emerald Ash Borer
  • 95. Where is the water filtration plant mentioned in the text located?
A) Under Orchard Beach
B) Under Wave Hill
C) Under the Bronx Zoo
D) Under Mosholu Golf Course
  • 96. According to the Department of City Planning map, how many neighborhoods are in the Bronx?
A) 69
B) 68
C) 49
D) 61
  • 97. Which publisher identifies 69 neighborhoods in the Bronx?
A) Hagstrom
B) The New York Times
C) Mayor's Community Assistance Unit
D) Department of City Planning
  • 98. Who was the Bronx borough president cited regarding the number of neighborhoods in 2006?
A) Pelham Bay
B) Hagstrom
C) Manny Fernandez
D) Adolfo Carrión Jr.
  • 99. In which community district is Co-op City located?
A) 10
B) 12
C) 11
D) 9
  • 100. What is City Island known for?
A) Seafood restaurants
B) Industrial factories
C) Large public housing complexes
D) High-rise apartments
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