Question: How many boroughs comprise New York City?
Answer: five

Question: In what year were the five boroughs combined into one city?
Answer: 1898

Question: In 2014, what did the census estimate the population of New York City to be?
Answer: 8,491,079

Question: What is the size of New York City in square miles?
Answer: 305

Question: What is the population of New York's Combined Statistical Area?
Answer: 23.6 million

Question: How man boroughs does New York City contain?
Answer: five

Question: The five boroughs of New York City are named what?
Answer: Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island

Question: All five boroughs of New York City formed into one city on what date?
Answer: 1898

Question: What is the population of New York City as of 2014?
Answer: 8,491,079

Question: How many languages are spoken by the people of New York City?
Answer: 800

Question: What was the trading post that preceded New York City called?
Answer: New Amsterdam

Question: What nation founded New Amsterdam?
Answer: the Dutch Republic

Question: In what year did New York become the largest city in the United States?
Answer: 1790

Question: When did the English take over the area from the Dutch?
Answer: 1664

Question: In what year did New York cease the be the capital of the United States?
Answer: 1790

Question: When was New York City established?
Answer: 1624

Question: New Amsterdam became the title of New York City in what past date?
Answer: 1626

Question: The English occupied New York City beginning on what date?
Answer: 1664

Question: New York City is the biggest city in the United States since what historical date?
Answer: 1790

Question: How many tourists visited New York in 2014?
Answer: 56 million

Question: How many stations are operated by the New York City Subway?
Answer: 469

Question: In what borough is Wall Street located?
Answer: Manhattan

Question: How many school and universities are in NYC?
Answer: 120

Question: NYC has the two largest stock exchanges in the world which are called what?
Answer: New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ

Question: What island was once a part of Long Island?
Answer: Staten Island

Question: During what period was the area around New York City located at the edge of an ice sheet 1,000 feet deep?
Answer: the Wisconsinan glaciation

Question: Long Island and Staten Island were split in half by what geographical phenomenon?
Answer: ice sheet

Question: What was the name of the Lenape homeland?
Answer: Lenapehoking

Question: In what year did the first European arrive in the New York area?
Answer: 1524

Question: What was the name of the first European who arrived in the New York area?
Answer: Giovanni da Verrazzano

Question: What was the name of Giovanni da Verrazzano's ship?
Answer: La Dauphine

Question: What nation did Giovanni da Verrazzano serve?
Answer: France

Question: What did Giovanni da Verrazzano call the area when he staked claim on it?
Answer: Nouvelle Angoulême

Question: When was the first European to visit the area of NYC?
Answer: 1524

Question: Giovanni da Verrazzano's ship that sailed to New York was named what?
Answer: La Dauphine

Question: Giovani da Verrazzano was an explorer from which country?
Answer: France

Question: In what year did a Spanish expedition visit New York Harbor?
Answer: 1525

Question: Who commanded the Spanish expedition?
Answer: Estêvão Gomes

Question: What was the nationality of Estêvão Gomes?
Answer: Portuguese

Question: What monarch did Estêvão Gomes serve?
Answer: Charles V

Question: What was the name of Estêvão Gomes's ship?
Answer: La Anunciada

Question: The front of the Hudson River was named what by Estevao Gomes?
Answer: Rio de San Antonio

Question: What was the first map to show the whole North American East coast?
Answer: Padrón Real

Question: What was the name of the explorer who visited the area in 1609?
Answer: Henry Hudson

Question: Who was Henry Hudson working for?
Answer: Dutch East India Company

Question: In what year did the Netherlands claim the area between Delaware Bay and Cape Cod?
Answer: 1614

Question: How many days did Henry Hudson spend exploring the region?
Answer: ten

Question: What did Henry Hudson call the river that is now called the Hudson River?
Answer: North River

Question: Henry Hudson worked for which company in the 1600s?
Answer: Dutch East India Company

Question: In what year was the land between Cape Cod and Delaware Bay claimed by the Dutch?
Answer: 1614

Question: Which explorer sailed his ship into New York harbor in 1609?
Answer: Henry Hudson

Question: Where was Juan Rodriguez born?
Answer: Santo Domingo

Question: What did the Dutch call Juan Rodriguez?
Answer: Jan Rodrigues

Question: What was Juan Rodriguez's occupation?
Answer: trader

Question: What is the street that is named after Juan Rodriguez?
Answer: Juan Rodriguez Way

Question: During what season did Juan Rodriguez first come to New York?
Answer: winter

Question: Who was the first non-Indian person to live in what is now NYC?
Answer: Juan Rodriguez

Question: Which street in NYC today is now named after Juan Rodriguez?
Answer: Broadway, from 159th Street to 218th Street

Question: On what island did the Dutch set up a settlement to trade furs?
Answer: Governors Island

Question: On what island was Fort Amsterdam built?
Answer: Manhattan Island

Question: In what year did construction begin on Fort Amsterdam?
Answer: 1625

Question: What person bought Manhattan from the Canarsie for the Dutch?
Answer: Peter Minuit

Question: In what year did the Dutch buy Manhattan?
Answer: 1626

Question: New Netherland established a permanent European presence in what year?
Answer: 1624

Question: What year did building begin of Fort Amsterdam on Manhattan Island?
Answer: 1625

Question: What was the myth that Manhattan was bought for by General Peter Minuit ?
Answer: glass beads

Question: What did the English call New Amsterdam after its capture?
Answer: New York

Question: What was the regnal name of the Duke of York?
Answer: James II

Question: What person gave up New Amsterdam to the English?
Answer: Peter Stuyvesant

Question: What was Peter Stuyvesant's title?
Answer: Director-General

Question: In what year did the English take over New Amsterdam?
Answer: 1664

Question: Who gave up New Amsterdam to the English without a fight in 1664?
Answer: Peter Stuyvesant

Question: What was the regnal name of the Prince of Orange?
Answer: William III

Question: What was the date of Anthonio Colve's capture of New York?
Answer: August 24, 1673

Question: What did Colve call New York after he captured it?
Answer: New Orange

Question: In what year did the Dutch give New York back to the English?
Answer: 1674

Question: August 24, 1673 is when which Dutch officer  took control of NYC?
Answer: Anthonio Colve

Question: The Dutch gave back the island to which country in 1674 after their trade routes had been destroyed?
Answer: England

Question: New York was called New Orange for a period based off which historical figure?
Answer: King William III

Question: After what war did the English receive New Amsterdam?
Answer: Second Anglo-Dutch War

Question: How many Lenape lived in the area in 1700?
Answer: 200

Question: What was the name of the island the English traded to the Dutch in return for New Amsterdam?
Answer: Run

Question: In 1700, the Lenape Native American population had dwindled to how many?
Answer: 200

Question: After which war did England gain New York in exchange for Run, an Indonesian island?
Answer: Second Anglo-Dutch War

Question: In 1730, what percentage of New York households were slave-holding?
Answer: 42%

Question: In 1730, what American city had the highest percentage of slaveholders?
Answer: Charleston, South Carolina

Question: Near what square was the African Burial Ground unearthed?
Answer: Foley Square

Question: What was being built that resulted in the discovery of the African Burial Ground?
Answer: courthouse