Question: Why did New Haven fair better than other invaded cities?
Answer: New Haven was not torched

Question: What was the size  of the invading force?
Answer: 2,600

Question: Who was the governor of New York under which the loyalist and British raid of New Haven took place?
Answer: General William Tryon

Question: The students of what New Haven university formed an ad-hoc militia to confront the Redcoats?
Answer: Yale

Question: Who was the professor of Yale Divinity School that led the student militia to confront the Redcoats?
Answer: Naphtali Daggett

Question: On what date did the loyalists and Redcoats land in New Haven Harbor to commence a raid on New Haven?
Answer: July 5, 1779

Question: Who was the president of Yale that provided diary accounts expressing disbelief over the commencement of the revolution in New Haven?
Answer: Ezra Stiles

Question: What is the name of the general that lead British regulars to New Haven Harbor?
Answer: William Tryon

Question: At the time what was the population of New Haven Harbor?
Answer: 3,500

Question: A group of militia from a very famous modern town in Connecticut came to fought in the Harbor, what was the name of their town?
Answer: Yale

Question: The militia that fought in New Haven was lead by who? 
Answer: Naphtali Daggett

Question: After the battle were New Haven historical features lost or torched?
Answer: town's colonial features were preserved.

Question: Who is the Yale graduate, inventor, and arms manufacturer that had a large positive impact on the New Haven economy in the late 18th century?
Answer: Eli Whitney

Question: What invention, for which he is primarily known, did Eli Whitney develop in New Haven?
Answer: the cotton gin

Question: What is the area near Hamden that was renamed for Eli Whitney?
Answer: Whitneyville

Question: What was the nickname given to Connecticut due to the large number of arms manufacturers that arose in the state? 
Answer: "The Arsenal of America"

Question: In 1836, who invented the automatic revolver in Eli Whitney's gun manufacturing plant?
Answer: Samuel Colt

Question: What is the name of the inventor that created the cotton gin in New Haven?
Answer: Eli Whitney

Question: What is the name of the main road that connects New Haven to Hamden?
Answer: Whitney Avenue

Question: What was the company that was responsible Connecticut rise as a manufacturing economy? 
Answer: A. C. Gilbert

Question: The rise of gun factories within Connecticut earn the state what name?
Answer: The Arsenal of America

Question: In what year was the first automatic revolver invented?
Answer: 1836

Question: In what year did an important trial take place which situated New Haven among the forefront of the growing anti-slavery movement?
Answer: 1839

Question: What tribesman were being transported  as slaves on a ship by the Spanish?
Answer: Mende

Question: What was the name of the Spanish slave ship used to transport the Mende tribesmen?
Answer: Amistad

Question: Who was the informal leader of the slaves to whom there is a statue dedicated beside City Hall in New Haven?
Answer: Joseph Cinqué

Question: In 1860, what notable U.S. president gave a speech on slavery in New Haven?
Answer: Abraham Lincoln

Question: Who was the leader of slaves during the New Haven anti slavery movement in 1839
Answer: Joseph Cinqué

Question: What famous president made a speech in New Haven in 1860?
Answer: Abraham Lincoln

Question: Exactly who were the slaves upon the Spanish slaveship?
Answer: Mende tribesmen

Question: What is the name of the slaveship that once sit in New Haven Harbor?
Answer: Amistad

Question: What major war stimulated the New Haven economy by way of industrial goods purchased through the New Haven Arms Company?
Answer: American Civil War

Question: What was the New Haven Arms Company later renamed?
Answer: Winchester Repeating Arms Company

Question: The increase in immigrants from what country in southern Europe had a notable impact on the population growth in New Haven in the early 20th century?
Answer: Italy

Question: What ethnic group currently comprises approximately half the population of East Haven, West Haven and North Haven?
Answer: Italian-American

Question: What area of New Haven was known for being the center of the Jewish community?
Answer: Westville

Question: What was the original name of the famous rifle manufacturing companies in New Haven?
Answer: New Haven Arms Company

Question: In modern day New Haven who makes up for majority of the demographics in terms of ethnicity?
Answer: Italian-American

Question: The Civil War had many effects after the war, what was the main effect for New Haven?
Answer: population grew and doubled

Question: What New Haven mayor is responsible for projects that placed the city among the forefront of urban renewal in the U.S. circa 1954? 
Answer: Richard C. Lee

Question: What major U.S. interstate runs along the Long Wharf section of New Haven?
Answer: Interstate 95

Question: What New Haven thoroughfare runs between Interstate 95, downtown, and the neighborhood known as The Hill?
Answer: The Oak Street Connector

Question: What area of New Haven was Route 34 originally intended to service?
Answer: the city's western suburbs

Question: What did the western portion of Route 34 ultimately become?
Answer: a boulevard

Question: What was the name of the mayor that lead the urban development project in New Haven 1954?
Answer: Richard C. Lee

Question: What was of the major urban development that affected several New Haven neighborhood?
Answer: construction of Interstate 95

Question: During this redevelopment process what happen to the West part of Route 34?
Answer: becoming a boulevard

Question: In approximately what year did revitalization most recently begin to occur in downtown New Haven?
Answer: 2000

Question: What specific area of downtown New Haven enjoyed a notable increase in apartments in condominiums at the beginning of the current century?
Answer: the area surrounding the New Haven Green

Question: What specific service sector has substantially increased in downtown New Haven in recent years?
Answer: retail

Question: In addition to Stop & Shop, what new supermarket is located one block from the Green and is poised to serve the growing downtown population?
Answer: Elm City Market

Question: In the 21st Century what has happen to most of Downtown New Haven in terms of retail?
Answer: the opening of new stores

Question: How has the media perceive most of these changes to the Downtown area?
Answer: positive press from various periodicals.

Question: What has happen in New Haven Green during the 2000s?
Answer: experienced an influx of apartments

Question: Including to the growth, what market chain have expanded nearby Downtown New Haven?
Answer: Stop & Shop

Question: What multi-use project in New Haven is the largest residential building in Connecticut?
Answer: 360 State Street

Question: What park is anticipated to extend to downtown New Haven?
Answer: Farmington Canal Trail

Question: For what area are a new boathouse and dock being planned?
Answer: New Haven Harbor

Question: What is the city landmark demolished in 2007 that the city ultimately wish to redevelop?
Answer: New Haven Coliseum

Question: What is the name of building project is taking place in Gateway Community College downtown?
Answer: 360 State Street.

Question: The New Haven Harbor is receiving what kind of adjustment?
Answer: dock is planned

Question: The city of New Haven wants to redevelop/build what sort of structure?
Answer: New Haven Coliseum

Question: In terms of infrastructure, what is being develop in the downtown area?
Answer: linear park Farmington Canal Trail

Question: What type of bridge is replacing the old Q Bridge?
Answer: an extradosed bridge

Question: In what year did the U.S. Supreme Court entertain a lawsuit filed by 18 New Haven firefighters against the city of New Haven?
Answer: 2009