Question: Before the Great Atlantic Hurricane the boardwalk extended from Atlantic City to what other city?
Answer: Longport

Question: The first road connected Atlantic City to which mainland town?
Answer: Pleasantville

Question: The first road that connected Atlantic City to the mainland was completed in what year?
Answer: 1870

Question: How much of a toll was charged on the first road to connect Atlantic City to the mainland?
Answer: 30-cent

Question: What was the name of the first road to the mainland that did not charge a toll?
Answer: Albany Avenue

Question: By what year was demand so great that one railroad line could no longer keep up with the demand?
Answer: 1878

Question: What was the name of the new railway that was constructed to transport tourists to Atlantic City after 1878?
Answer: Philadelphia and Atlantic City Railway

Question: What was the name of the hotel that took up a full city block?
Answer: The United States Hotel

Question: Besides massive hotels, what else was appearing all over Atlantic City during this period?
Answer: rooming houses

Question: What were the names of the four avenues that surrounded The United States Hotel?
Answer: Atlantic, Pacific, Delaware, and Maryland Avenues

Question: When did Atlantic City go through a radical building boom?
Answer: early part of the 20th century

Question: What replaced many of the modest boarding houses? 
Answer: large hotels

Question: What were the names of two of the city's most distinctive hotels?
Answer: Marlborough-Blenheim Hotel and the Traymore Hotel

Question: What happened to Atlantic City in the early part of the 20th century?
Answer: a radical building boom

Question: Where were the modest boarding houses located before they were replaced by large hotels?
Answer: the boardwalk

Question: In what year did Josiah White III by land to build a hotel?
Answer: 1903

Question: What was the name of the hotel built by Josiah White III?
Answer: Marlborough House

Question: In what style was the Malborough House buit?
Answer: Queen Anne

Question: In what year was reinforced concrete invented?
Answer: 1848

Question: What was the name of the second hotel built by Josiah White III?
Answer: Blenheim

Question: What was the name of the hotel located at the corner of Illinois Avenue and the boardwalk?
Answer: The Traymore Hotel

Question: What year was The Traymore Hotel begun?
Answer: 1879

Question: Who was the owner of The Traymore Hotel?
Answer: Daniel White

Question: How many stories was The Traymore Hotel after its renovation?
Answer: 16

Question: What was the name of the firm commissioned to build The Traymore Hotel?
Answer: Price and McLanahan

Question: What year did the Quaker-owned Chalfonte House open?
Answer: 1868

Question: What year did the Haddon House open?
Answer: 1869

Question: How many stories was the modern Chalfonte Hotel when it opened in 1904?
Answer: eight

Question: How many rooms were in the merged Chalfonte-Haddon Hall Hotel?
Answer: nearly 1,000

Question: What was the name given to the 24 story tall, 400-room Claridge?
Answer: Skyscraper By The Sea

Question: In what year was salt water taffy conceived?
Answer: 1883

Question: Who was the creator of salt water taffy?
Answer: David Bradley

Question: What happened to David Bradley's shop that led to the creation of salt water taffy?
Answer: Bradley's shop was flooded after a major storm

Question: Who did Bradley sell salt water taffy to for the first time?
Answer: a girl

Question: Where did the water come from for the creation of the first salt water taffy?
Answer: Atlantic Ocean

Question: What years do many historians consider Atlantic City's golden age?
Answer: 1920s

Question: What year was Prohibition enacted nationally?
Answer: 1919

Question: During Prohibition what name was given to Atlantic City?
Answer: The World's Playground

Question: During Prohibition how high was Nucky Johnson's income?
Answer: as much as $500,000 annually

Question: How long did Prohibition last?
Answer: until 1933

Question: During the 1920s, who was the mayor of Atlantic City?
Answer: Edward L. Bader

Question: What three contributions to Atlantic City was Edward L. Bader known for?
Answer: construction, athletics and aviation

Question: What year did Edward L. Bader lead the initiative to construct the Atlantic City High School?
Answer: 1923

Question: How much was the bond for that was to be used to purchase land for a Convention Center?
Answer: $1.5 million

Question: What year was Boardwalk Hall finished?
Answer: 1924

Question: Who was a meeting organized for in 1929 in Atlantic City?
Answer: organized crime figures from all across America

Question: What family was Charles 
Answer: Charles "Lucky" Luciano and former Chicago South Side Gang boss Johnny "the Fox" Torrio

Question: In what year was there a conference for organized crime figures in Atlantic City?
Answer: 1929

Question: For which family was Charles "Lucky" Luciano a lieutenant?
Answer: Masseria family

Question: What was Charles Luciano's nickname?
Answer: Lucky

Question: Who was a former Chicago South Side Gang boss?
Answer: Johnny "the Fox" Torrio

Question: What was Johnny Torrio's nickname?
Answer: the Fox

Question: Which Atlantic City neighborhood became particularly impoverished in the mid-to-late 20th century?
Answer: the "Inlet"

Question: What was the biggest factor in the decline in Atlantic City's popularity?
Answer: cheap, fast jet service

Question: What were two other locations people began to fly to instead of going to Atlantic City?
Answer: Miami Beach and the Bahamas

Question: After the war, what form of transportation became more readily available to many Americans?
Answer: automobile

Question: What two luxuries that people could have at their own homes led to a diminished interest in luxury beach resorts?
Answer: home air conditioning and swimming pools

Question: What event was hosted by Atlantic City in 1964?
Answer: Democratic National Convention

Question: Who was nominated for Vice President during the 1964 Democratic National Convention?
Answer: Hubert Humphrey

Question: Who was nominated for President during the 1964 Democratic National Convention?
Answer: Lyndon Johnson

Question: Who was the Governor of New Jersey in 1964?
Answer: Richard J. Hughes

Question: Despite being in the midst of a long period of economic decline many felt that the Convention was only held in Atlantic city because of a friendship between what two men?
Answer: Johnson and Governor of New Jersey Richard J. Hughes

Question: By what years were many of the great hotels suffering from high vacancy rates?
Answer: the late 1960s

Question: Prior to and during the advent of legalized gaming, what happened to many of the hotels in Atlantic City?
Answer: demolished

Question: When were many of the large hotels demolished?
Answer: 1970s and 1980s

Question: After the Ambassador Hotel was gutted what did it become?
Answer: Tropicana Casino and Resort Atlantic City

Question: Who purchased the old Ambassador Hotel in 1978?
Answer: Ramada

Question: In what year did New Jersey voters pass a referendum approving casino gambling for Atlantic City?
Answer: 1976

Question: The owners of the Chalfonte-Haddon Hall Hotel converted it into what?
Answer: Resorts International

Question: What was the name of the first legal casino in the eastern United States?
Answer: Resorts International

Question: What year did Resorts International open?
Answer: 1978

Question: How many casinos are there in Atlantic City today?
Answer: eleven

Question: Atlantic City's tourism began to decline due to what failure?
Answer: to diversify away from gaming

Question: Who did the Atlantic City Redevelopment Authority partner with in 1999?
Answer: Steve Wynn

Question: Why did the Atlantic City Redevelopment Authority partner with Steve Wynn?
Answer: to develop a new roadway

Question: What was the project involving Steve Wynn nicknamed?
Answer: The Tunnel Project