huutuan/long_squad_v2 huggingface dataset:
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: 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: 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 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 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: 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
Question: Which city in North America held the most slaves in the 1700s?
Answer: Charleston, South Carolina
Question: When was as African burial ground discovered after the building of new courthouse?
Answer: 1990s
Question: On what island did Zenger's trial occur?
Answer: Manhattan
Question: In what year was Columbia University chartered?
Answer: 1754
Question: Under what king did the founding of Columbia University occur?
Answer: George II
Question: What was the original name of Columbia University?
Answer: King's College
Question: Which trial in Manhatten helped establish the right of freedom of the press?
Answer: John Peter Zenger
Question: Columbia University of New York was founded in what year?
Answer: 1754
Question: The Stamp Act Congress had a meeting in 1765 in which US city?
Answer: New York
Question: In what borough did the Battle of Long Island occur?
Answer: Brooklyn
Question: In what month and year was the Battle of Long Island fought?
Answer: August 1776
Question: About how many escaped slaves were in New York during the time the British occupied it?
Answer: 10,000
Question: In what year did the American Revolutionary War end?
Answer: 1783
Question: Which battle was the largest battle of the American Revolutionary war?
Answer: The Battle of Long Island
Question: Which borough of New York was the Battle of Long Island fought?
Answer: Brooklyn
Question: When did the English army start to retreat and evacuate NYC during the Battle of Long Island?
Answer: 1783
Question: On what date did the peace conference on Staten Island occur?
Answer: September 11, 1776
Question: Who was the British representative at the Conference House meeting?
Answer: Lord Howe
Question: What notable catastrophe took place under the British occupation?
Answer: Great Fire of New York
Question: In what modern-day borough did the Great Fire happen?
Answer: Manhattan
Question: What noted religious building was destroyed in the Great Fire?
Answer: Trinity Church
Question: Who was the English general who met with Benjamin Franklin on Septermber 11, 1776?
Answer: Lord Howe
Question: Which natural disaster happened after English occupation of Lower Manhattan?
Answer: the Great Fire of New York
Question: Who was the United States' first President?
Answer: George Washington
Question: In what building did the Supreme Court of the United States first sit?
Answer: Federal Hall
Question: On what street did the writing of the Bill of Rights occur?
Answer: Wall Street
Question: What was the second largest city in the United States in 1790?
Answer: Philadelphia
Question: Which organization made New York the national capital in 1785?
Answer: Congress of the Confederation
Question: New York City became the first what under the new Constitution of the United States?
Answer: capital
Question: The first president, George Washington, took office in what year?
Answer: 1789
Question: By which year, did New York City become the largest city in the United States?
Answer: 1790
Question: In what year did the state of New York pass a law to free the slaves?
Answer: 1799
Question: What borough was home to a notable population of free African-Americans?
Answer: Manhattan
Question: Along with John Jay, who founded the New York Manumission Society?
Answer: Alexander Hamilton
Question: In what year did the state of New York eliminate slavery?
Answer: 1827
Question: In 1840, about how many African-Americans lived in New York City?
Answer: 16,000
Question: The gradual abolition act in New York was formed in what year?
Answer: 1799
Question: When was slavery completely outlawed in the state of New York?
Answer: 1827
Question: What plan of 1811 spread a grid of streets across Manhattan?
Answer: Commissioners' Plan
Question: In what year did the Erie Canal finish building?
Answer: 1825
Question: What political machine controlled New York politics in this era?
Answer: Tammany Hall
Question: Along with German immigrants, immigrants of what nationality supported Tammany Hall?
Answer: Irish
Question: The Erie Canal was finished being built in what year?
Answer: 1825
Question: What was the name of the first urban landscaped park in the United States?
Answer: Central Park
Question: In what year was Central Park founded?
Answer: 1857
Question: Central park, in 1857, became the first park in America to become what?
Answer: first landscaped
Question: What event brought many Irish immigrants to the United States?
Answer: Great Irish Famine
Question: In 1860, approximately how many people of Irish extraction were in New York?
Answer: 200,000
Question: In 1860, what fraction of the city population was composed of Irish immigrants?
Answer: a quarter
Question: In 1860, what percentage of the city population was composed of German immigrants?
Answer: 25%
Question: What events provoked the immigration of people from Germany?
Answer: revolutions
Question: Which event brought upon a lot of Irish immigrants to NYC?
Answer: Great Irish Famine
Question: How many immigrants that were Irish were living in New York in 1860?
Answer: Over 200,000
Question: Who was the mayor of New York City in 1861? 
Answer: Fernando Wood
Question: What was the commutation fee to avoid being conscripted during the American Civil War?
Answer: $300
Question: People of what ethnicity most visibly participated in the Draft Riots of 1863?
Answer: Irish
Question: About how many people died during the Draft Riots of 1863?
Answer: 120
Question: What was the approximate African-American population of New York City in 1865?
Answer: 10,000
Question: The Draft Riots caused which building to burn down in 1863?
Answer: Colored Orphan Asylum
Question: In what year did the subway begin operation?
Answer: 1904
Question: Portions of what modern-day borough were included in the County of New York?
Answer: the Bronx
Question: The subway of New York was first available in what year?
Answer: 1904
Question: In what year did the General Slocum disaster occur?
Answer: 1904
Question: How many people died on the General Slocum?
Answer: 1,021
Question: In what building did the city's deadliest industrial disaster occur?
Answer: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
Question: How many people died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire?
Answer: 146
Question: The growth of what organization was prompted by the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire?
Answer: International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union
Question: A catastrophe in 1911 that killed 146 workers was called what?
Answer: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
Question: How many non-white people lived in New York in 1890?
Answer: 36,620
Question: What was the name of the Prohibition-era African-American cultural flourishing in New York?
Answer: Harlem Renaissance
Question: What was the population of people in New York that were not Caucasian in 1890?
Answer: 36,620
Question: In the early 1920s, what was the second most highly populated city in the world?
Answer: London
Question: What is the term for a city with a population of over 10 million?
Answer: megacity
Question: Who was mayor of New York during the Great Depression?
Answer: Fiorello La Guardia
Question: For about how many years did Tammany Hall control New York political life?
Answer: eighty
Question: In the 1930s, New York City had more than 10 million people becoming the first what in history?
Answer: megacity
Question: Prior to New York, what city was the center of the world of art?
Answer: Paris
Question: What artistic movement caused New York to overtake Paris as the global art center?
Answer: abstract expressionism
Question: The headquarters what organization was done being build in 1952 in New York?
Answer: United Nations
Question: The Stonewall riots are named after what building?
Answer: the Stonewall Inn
Question: In what neighborhood did the Stonewall riots occur?
Answer: Greenwich Village
Question: On what date did the Stonewall riots take place?
Answer: June 28, 1969
Question: In what borough did the Stonewall riots happen?
Answer: Manhattan
Question: What event provoked the Stonewall riots?
Answer: a police raid
Question: Where did the Stonewall riots happen?
Answer: Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan
Question: In what year did the population of New York first reach an all-time high in this period?
Answer: 2000
Question: In what year did the population of New York reach an all-time high for the second time in this period?
Answer: 2010
Question: What was the name of a new sector of the New York economy that appeared in the 1990s?
Answer: Silicon Alley
Question: In what decade did the crime rate drop significantly?
Answer: 1990s
Question: In what decade was there a significant decline in industrial jobs?
Answer: 1970s
Question: Which decade did massive job losses happen in NYC due to industrial issues?
Answer: 1970s
Question: What was the name of the aircraft that crashed into the World Trade Center's North Tower on September 11, 2001?
Answer: American Airlines Flight 11
Question: What was the name of the aircraft that crashed into the World Trade Center's South Tower on September 11, 2001?
Answer: United Airlines Flight 175
Question: How many firefighters died in the World Trade Center attack?
Answer: 343
Question: On what date did the World Trade Center PATH begin operation?
Answer: July 19, 1909
Question: How tall is One World Trade Center in meters?
Answer: 541.3
Question: The Hudson Terminal which was also demolished was build in what year?
Answer: 1909
Question: How many leader terrorists of Al Quada were involved with the 9/11 attacks directly that day?
Answer: 10
Question: What was the plane named that crashed into the World Trade Center?
Answer: American Airlines Flight 11
Question: On what date did the Occupy Wall Street protests commence?
Answer: September 17, 2011
Question: In what park did the Occupy Wall Street protests occur?
Answer: Zuccotti Park
Question: In what borough did the Occupy Wall Street protests take place?
Answer: Manhattan
Question: In what district of Manhattan were the Occupy Wall Street protests?
Answer: Financial District
Question: The Occupy Wall Street protests that took place in Zuccotti Park was on which date?
Answer: September 17, 2011
Question: What individual established the National Review?
Answer: William F. Buckley, Jr.
Question: In what year was the National Review founded?
Answer: 1955
Question: What public figure defended New York in January 2016?
Answer: Donald Trump
Question: A presidential candidate from what party derided the city for its liberalism?
Answer: Republican
Question: In what geographical region of the United States is New York City located?
Answer: Northeastern
Question: In what geographical region of New York state is New York City located?
Answer: southeastern
Question: New York City is about half the distance between Washington DC and what city?
Answer: Boston
Question: New York City is adjacent to what ocean?
Answer: Atlantic
Question: What river is New York City located on?
Answer: Hudson River
Question: New York City is at the base of which American river?
Answer: Hudson
Question: The Hudson River flows into which body of water?
Answer: Atlantic Ocean
Question: The three islands that make up New York city are named what?
Answer: Long Island, Manhattan, and Staten Island.
Question: The Hudson River serves as a dividing line between New York and what state?
Answer: New Jersey
Question: What river flows between the Hudson and East Rivers?
Answer: Harlem River
Question: What is the city's sole fresh water river?
Answer: Bronx River
Question: Into what body of water does the Hudson River terminate?
Answer: New York Bay
Question: Between New York City and what city is the Hudson River an estuary?
Answer: Troy, New York
Question: The Hudson River separates NYC from which US state?
Answer: New Jersey
Question: The single only freshwater river in NYC is what river?
Answer: The Bronx River
Question: Which river seperates The Bronx from Manhatten?
Answer: The Harlem River
Question: What is the total area of New York City in square miles?
Answer: 468.9
Question: In square miles, how much of the city's total area is composed of water?
Answer: 164.1
Question: In square miles, how much of the city's total area is land?
Answer: 304.8
Question: What is the name of New York City's highest point?
Answer: Todt Hill
Question: On what island is New York City's highest point located?
Answer: Staten Island
Question: How many square miles in NYC?
Answer: 468.9
Question: How many square miles are water in NYC?
Answer: 164.1
Question: How many square miles are land in NYC?
Answer: 304.8
Question: The highest peak in the city is what location?
Answer: Todt Hill
Question: How many feet above sea level is Todt Hil?
Answer: 409.8
Question: What structure is an example of saltbox architecture?
Answer: Pieter Claesen Wyckoff House
Question: In what borough is the Pieter Claesen Wyckoff House located?
Answer: Brooklyn
Question: What building is the priciest office tower in the world?
Answer: One World Trade Center
Question: In what borough is One World Trade Center located?
Answer: Manhattan
Question: In what year did construction on the oldest part of Pieter Claesen Wyckoff House begin?
Answer: 1656
Question: The most expensive office tower built in the world today is what?
Answer: One World Trade Center
Question: How many high-rises were present in New York City in 2011?
Answer: 5,937
Question: What city has the most high-rise buildings in the world?
Answer: Hong Kong
Question: How many structures in New York City are over 100m tall?
Answer: 550
Question: In what year was the Woolworth Building completed?
Answer: 1913
Question: How many buildings in New York City are over 200m high?
Answer: 50
Question: NYC has the highest quantity of skyscrapers after which other world city?
Answer: Hong Kong
Question: How many buildings located in NYC are at least 330 feet in height?
Answer: 550
Question: The Chrysler Building reflects what architectural style?
Answer: Art Deco
Question: What floor of the Chrysler Building has sculptures of eagles at its corners?
Answer: 61st
Question: What building known for its bronze-tinted I-beams was completed in 1957?
Answer: Seagram Building
Question: What is the full name of the organization known by the acronym AIA?
Answer: American Institute of Architects
Question: Which animal decorates the corners of the Chrysler Building?
Answer: eagles
Question: When was the Empire State Building constructed?
Answer: 1931
Question: When was the Chrysler building built in NYC?
Answer: 1930
Question: In what borough is the Ditmas Park neighborhood located?
Answer: Brooklyn
Question: In what borough is the Douglaston neighborhood located?
Answer: Queens
Question: Brownstone rowhouse construction is most often associated with the period beginning in 1870 and ending in what year?
Answer: 1930
Question: Along with Tudor Revival, what is a common architectural style of single-family houses in New York?
Answer: Victorian
Question: What type of housing structure makes up most of the large residential districts of NYC?
Answer: brownstone rowhouses
Question: What event led to the decline in wooden construction in New York City?
Answer: the Great Fire of 1835
Question: In the 19th century, New York city required water towers in the roofs of buildings that were more than how many stories tall?
Answer: six
Question: What area was known for its garden apartments?
Answer: Jackson Heights
Question: After the Great Fire of 1835, what became the most widespread building materials?
Answer: Stone and brick
Question: To prevent high water pressures at lower elevations what were built on many of the city's buildings?
Answer: wooden roof-mounted water towers
Question: When did the United States Geological Survey released its seismic hazard analysis?
Answer: July 2014
Question: How many of New York's boroughs would be counted among the United States' ten most populated cities if they were independent?
Answer: four
Question: How many boroughs does New York City have?
Answer: five
Question: Which four boroughs of NYC would be among the the most populous cities in the US if they were independent cities?
Answer: Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, and the Bronx
Question: What is the name of New York City's climate using the Köppen climate classification?
Answer: humid subtropical
Question: How many sunny days does New York average each year?
Answer: 234
Question: How many hours of sunshine does New York receive every year?
Answer: 2,535
Question: The suburbs of the city lie between the humid subtropical and what other climate zone?
Answer: humid continental
Question: What month in New York City is the coldest?
Answer: January
Question: What type of climate does NYC possess?
Answer: humid subtropical
Question: How many days on average does NYC get sunshine annually?
Answer: 234
Question: What planting zone does the city land in?
Answer: USDA 7b
Question: What mountains serve as a barrier to keep New York City comparatively warmer in the winter?
Answer: Appalachians
Question: What is New York City's daily January mean temperature in degrees celsius?
Answer: 0.3
Question: What is the average humidity in July as a percentage?
Answer: 72%
Question: On average, how often do New York temperatures exceed 90 degrees Fahrenheit each year?
Answer: 17
Question: On what date did New York record its highest temperature ever?
Answer: July 9, 1936
Question: What is the highest temperature recorded in NYC?
Answer: 106
Question: When was the lowest temperature recorded in NYC?
Answer: 1934
Question: The highest temperature ever recorded in NYC was in what year?
Answer: 1936
Question: In millimeters, how much precipitation does New York receive a year?
Answer: 1,270
Question: In centimeters, what is the average winter snowfall?
Answer: 66
Question: When did Hurricane Sandy strike New York?
Answer: October 29, 2012
Question: How many inches of precipitation does NYC get in a year?
Answer: 49.9
Question: Which natural disaster occurred on October 29, 2012 in NYC?
Answer: Hurricane Sandy
Question: The mean snowfall between 1981 and 2010 in NYC has been how many inches?
Answer: 25.8
Question: What is the name of the New York City department that operates the park system?
Answer: New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
Question: What is the state office that operates New York City parks?
Answer: New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
Question: What federal service operates New York City parks?
Answer: National Park Service
Question: What city was rated as having the best park system by The Trust for Public Land?
Answer: Minneapolis
Question: What city had the second highest ParkScore rating?
Answer: New York City
Question: The 2013 ParkScore rating for NYC made NYC second in best park system to what other US city?
Answer: Minneapolis
Question: How large is the Gateway National recreation Area in hectares?
Answer: 10,521.83
Question: About how large is the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in acres?
Answer: 9,000
Question: What fort is located on the Rockaway Peninsula?
Answer: Fort Tilden
Question: What park is located on the Rockaway Peninsula?
Answer: Jacob Riis Park
Question: What body of water is Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge adjacent to?
Answer: Jamaica Bay
Question: How many acres of land does Gateway Nation Recreation contain?
Answer: over 26,000
Question: What is the common name for the General Grant National Memorial?
Answer: Grant's Tomb
Question: In what neighborhood is the Stonewall Inn located?
Answer: Greenwich Village
Question: What movement is the Stonewall Inn most famously associated with?
Answer: gay rights movement
Question: The Statue of Liberty is taken care of by what organization?
Answer: National Park Service
Question: The Statue of Liberty is also in what other US state?
Answer: New Jersey
Question: Ellis Island is considered in New York state and which other?
Answer: New Jersey
Question: Which landmark is considered the spark for LGBT rights?
Answer: Stonewall Inn
Question: The landmark, General Grant National Memorial, is also called what?
Answer: Grant's Tomb
Question: How large is Riverbank State Park in acres?
Answer: 28
Question: How many meters is Riverbank State Park elevated above the Hudson River?
Answer: 21
Question: How many New York state parks are within New York City?
Answer: seven
Question: Riverbank State park's highest point is how high above the Hudson River?
Answer: 69 feet
Question: How many miles of public beach are located in New York City?
Answer: 14
Question: What is the biggest public park in the city?
Answer: Pelham Bay Park
Question: How large is Pelham Bay Park in hectares?
Answer: 1,093
Question: New York City has how many acres of land dedicated to parks?
Answer: over 28,000
Question: How long are all the public beaches together in miles?
Answer: 14
Question: What is the largest park in New York City?
Answer: Pelham Bay Park
Question: How many acres of land does Pelham Bay park have?
Answer: 2,700
Question: In what year was Fort Hamilton founded?
Answer: 1825
Question: In what borough is Fort Hamilton located?
Answer: Brooklyn
Question: What division is based at Fort Hamilton?
Answer: North Atlantic Division
Question: What brigade is headquartered at Fort Hamilton?
Answer: 1179th Transportation Brigade
Question: The U.S. military has only one active location in NYC named what?
Answer: Fort Hamilton
Question: When was Fort Hamilton built?
Answer: 1825
Question: Which borough can Fort Hamilton be found?
Answer: Brooklyn
Question: Fort Wadsworth and Fort Totten are located in which area of New York City?
Answer: Queens
Question: What was the population of New York City in 2014?
Answer: 8,491,079
Question: What is the US city with the second largest population?
Answer: Los Angeles
Question: How many people moved to New York City between April 2010 and July 2014?
Answer: 316,000
Question: Approximately what percentage is New York City's population of the entire state's population?
Answer: 40%
Question: About what percentage is New York City's population of the New York metropolitan area's population?
Answer: 40%
Question: What is the population of NYC as of 2014?
Answer: 8,491,079
Question: The second largest city in the US is what?
Answer: Los Angeles
Question: What percentage of people that live in the state of New York live in New York City?
Answer: 40
Question: How many people live in a square mile of New York City?
Answer: 27,858
Question: What is the population density of Manhattan per square kilometer?
Answer: 27,673
Question: Some cities in what county have a higher population density than New York City?
Answer: Hudson County
Question: What percentage of the city's population is Caucasian?
Answer: 44%
Question: What percentage of the city's population is African-American?
Answer: 25.5%
Question: What ethnicity is growing the quickest in New York City?
Answer: Asians
Question: What percentage of the population identifies as Hispanic?
Answer: 28.6%
Question: By what percentage did the non-Hispanic white population decrease?
Answer: 3
Question: As of 2010, what percentage made up white people in NYC?
Answer: 44
Question: Since what event did the first time black people decline in living in NYC?
Answer: the Civil War
Question: Which race of people made it the highest growing ethnicity between 2000-2010 in NYC?
Answer: Asians
Question: What percentage of Africans make up NYC?
Answer: 25.5
Question: How many immigrants arrived at Ellis Island from 1892 to 1924?
Answer: 12 million
Question: 'Melting pot' was first used to describe neighborhoods in what area of the city?
Answer: Lower East Side
Question: What ethnicity comprised the largest number of immigrants at the beginning of the twentieth century?
Answer: Germans
Question: What percentage of the population was Caucasian in 1940?
Answer: 92%
Question: What was the ethnicity of the second largest group of immigrants in 1900?
Answer: Irish
Question: Between 1892-1924, how many immigrants came through Ellis Island?
Answer: more than 12 million
Question: In the year 1942, what percentage of white Americans made up New York City?
Answer: 92
Question: From what country did the largest number of foreign-born immigrants originate as of 2011?
Answer: Dominican Republic
Question: About how many immigrants from Bangladesh lived in the city in 2013?
Answer: 74,000
Question: What country was the second largest source of foreign-born New Yorkers in 2011?
Answer: China
Question: What percentage of the population of NYC was born in another country?
Answer: 37
Question: What borough housed the first Chinatown in New York?
Answer: Manhattan
Question: As of 2012, what percentage of the New York City population was ethnically Chinese?
Answer: 6.3%
Question: What borough is home to a large Tibetan population?
Answer: Queens
Question: What percentage of the New York City population is Japanese?
Answer: 0.3%
Question: How many non-Hispanic whites lived in New York City in 2012?
Answer: 2.7 million
Question: What is the non-Hispanic white population of Houston?
Answer: 550,000
Question: How many New Yorkers are of Polish ancestry?
Answer: 201,000
Question: How many New York City residents are of Greek heritage?
Answer: 65,000
Question: What borough has the largest population of ethnic Albanians?
Answer: the Bronx
Question: NYC has the largest white population by how many people?
Answer: 2.7 million
Question: About how many people live in New York City's metropolitan area?
Answer: 20 million
Question: As of 2012, how many Jewish people lived in the New York metropolitan area?
Answer: 1.5 million
Question: What percentage of the total Indian-American population of the United States lives in the New York metropolitan area?
Answer: 20%
Question: How many Hispanic people live in the New York metropolitan area?
Answer: 4.8 million
Question: Approximately how many Chinatowns exist in New York City?
Answer: 6
Question: In 2013, how many people of Puerto Rican ancestry lived in New York City?
Answer: 1.3 million
Question: What nation provided the most legal immigrants to New York City in the Caribbean?
Answer: the Dominican Republic
Question: Out of all African nations, which provided the most legal immigrants in 2013?
Answer: Egypt
Question: Out of all nations in Central America, which provided the most legal immigrants in 2013?
Answer: El Salvador
Question: Of all the countries in South America, which provided the most legal immigrants in 2013?
Answer: Ecuador
Question: How many self-identified LGB people live in the New York metropolitan area?
Answer: 568,903
Question: On what date did New York legalize gay marriage?
Answer: June 24, 2011
Question: How many days after gay marriage was legalized were gay marriages allowed to take place?
Answer: 30
Question: How many people identify as gay or bisexual in NYC?
Answer: 568,903
Question: Same-sex marriage became legal on what date in New York?
Answer: June 24, 2011
Question: Since Gay marriage became legal, how many days did people have to wait to marry?
Answer: 30
Question: What percentage of New Yorkers follow the Catholic faith?
Answer: 33%
Question: About how many Jews live in New York City?
Answer: 1.1 million
Question: What borough has the largest population of Jewish people?
Answer: Brooklyn
Question: What is the third most popular faith in New York City?
Answer: Islam
Question: What was the most prominent religion in New York as of 2014?
Answer: Christianity
Question: The second most prominent religion in New York is what?
Answer: Judaism
Question: Half the population of Jews live in what borough of New York City?
Answer: Brooklyn
Question: What percentage of people in 2014 had no religion?
Answer: 24
Question: The third most popular religion in NYC is what?
Answer: Islam
Question: What is New York City's Gini Coefficient?
Answer: 0.5
Question: What borough has a Gini Coefficient of 0.6?
Answer: Manhattan
Question: What previous mayor of New York is a billionaire?
Answer: Michael R. Bloomberg
Question: In 2014, millionaires made up what percentage of New York City's population?
Answer: 4.6%
Question: What is the average weekly wage in Manhattan?
Answer: $2,749
Question: The average weekly earnings for a worker in NYC was what in 2014?
Answer: 2,749
Question: By 2013, which city had the most billionaires living in the city?
Answer: New York City
Question: What is the common name for New York's high technology sector?
Answer: Silicon Alley
Question: Who created the Global Economic Power Index that ranked New York first?
Answer: The Atlantic
Question: In what year did the Port of New York and New Jersey deal with unprecedented cargo volume?
Answer: 2014
Question: In what year was New York ranked first on the Global Economic Power Index?
Answer: 2012
Question: What fraction of New Yorkers in the private sector are employed by foreign companies?
Answer: One out of ten
Question: What publication ranked New York first in the 2013 American Cities of the Future rankings?
Answer: FDi Magazine
Question: What was the 2015 assessed value of all the property in New York?
Answer: US$914.8 billion
Question: How much was Time Warner Center worth in 2006?
Answer: US$1.1 billion
Question: What was the price per square foot of 450 Park Avenue when it sold in July 2007?
Answer: $1,589
Question: What was the price per square meter of 660 Madison Avenue in June 2007?
Answer: $15,887
Question: Of the top 10 zip codes with the most expensive housing prices in the United States, how many are in Manhattan?
Answer: six
Question: Which building has the highest market value in NYC?
Answer: Time Warner Center
Question: The previous record beaten by Park Avenue was for what real estate?
Answer: 660 Madison Avenue
Question: About how many people work in the New York fashion industry?
Answer: 180,000
Question: About how much does it cost per year to pay workers in the New York fashion industry?
Answer: $11 billion
Question: With Interpublic Group, what company has a combined annual revenue of roughly US$21 billion?
Answer: Omnicom Group
Question: NYC's fashion industry employs how many people?
Answer: 180,000
Question: The Two highest advertising agencies in the world located in NYC are called what?
Answer: Omnicom Group and Interpublic Group
Question: How many New Yorkers work in the food processing field?
Answer: 19,000
Question: What is the annual revenue of the food processing industry?
Answer: US$5 billion
Question: In what borough is the garment business prominent?
Answer: Brooklyn
Question: What dollar amount of chocolate does New York export annually?
Answer: US$234 million
Question: Where is the "Chocolate District" located?
Answer: Brooklyn
Question: In what borough is Godiva based?
Answer: Manhattan
Question: What is the number one specialty food export of New York?
Answer: Chocolate
Question: What type of food is NYC's leading food export?
Answer: Chocolate
Question: Which one of the world's largest chocolate makers is stationed in Manhattan?
Answer: Godiva
Question: As of 2013, how many people worked for a securities business in New York?
Answer: 163,400
Question: What percentage of New York private sector jobs are in the securities industry?
Answer: 5
Question: How much tax revenue does the securities industry generate?
Answer: US$3.8 billion
Question: What is the average income in the New York securities industry?
Answer: US$360,700
Question: What percentage of the city's wages does the securities industry provide?
Answer: 22
Question: 22 Percent of NYC's total wages are from what industry?
Answer: The city's securities
Question: What is the street address of NASDAQ?
Answer: 165 Broadway
Question: In 2012, how many investment banking fees were paid out to Wall Street?
Answer: $40 billion
Question: In 2013-4, what percentage of New York state tax revenues came from the securities business on Wall Street?
Answer: 19%
Question: Who was the previous overseer of the London interbank offered rate?
Answer: British Bankers Association
Question: The New York Stock exchange is located where in NYC?
Answer: Wall Street
Question: The NASDAQ is located on what street in NYC?
Answer: 165 Broadway
Question: How many square meters of office space does Manhattan have?
Answer: 46.5 million
Question: About how many million square feet of office space is present in Midtown Manhattan?
Answer: 400
Question: How much office space did Manhatten possess in 2015?
Answer: 500 million square feet
Question: What is the street address of the headquarters of Verizon Communciations?
Answer: 140 West Street
Question: How much did Verizon spend on fiber optic upgrades in New York City?
Answer: US$3 billion
Question: Approximately how many tech sector jobs are in New York City?
Answer: 300,000
Question: The technology sector of work in NYC has how many employees in its service?
Answer: 300,000
Question: Along with Cornell University, what institution is involved in the building of Cornell Tech?
Answer: Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
Question: What is the cost to build Cornell Tech?
Answer: US$2 billion
Question: On what island is Cornell Tech located?
Answer: Roosevelt Island
Question: About how much capital did Accelerator raise as of the middle of 2014?
Answer: US$30 million
Question: How large is the Alexandria Center for Life Science in square meters?
Answer: 65,000
Question: In 2011, what school was built on Roosevelt Island?
Answer: Cornell Tech
Question: How many people came to visit New York in 2013?
Answer: 54 million
Question: What is the record number of tourists that have visited New York in a year?
Answer: 56.4 million
Question: How much money did tourism create for New York in 2014?
Answer: US$61.3 billion
Question: How many tourists that visited NYC in 2014 broke the record?
Answer: 56.4 million
Question: How many tourists visited NYC in 2013?
Answer: 54 million
Question: What English phrase does I ❤ NY represent?
Answer: I Love New York
Question: When was I ❤ NY first used in advertisements?
Answer: 1977
Question: Who owns the trademark to I ❤ NY?
Answer: New York State Empire State Development
Question: What is the state song of New York?
Answer: I Love New York
Question: I Love New York was established as advertising in what year?
Answer: 1977
Question: What company sponsors the Thanksgiving Day parade?
Answer: Macy's
Question: At what location is a Christmas tree famously lit every year?
Answer: Rockefeller Center
Question: Where in Central Park are performances offered at no cost?
Answer: Summerstage
Question: In what borough is the Unisphere located?
Answer: Queens
Question: What was the percentage increase of Manhattan hotel rooms between 2013 and 2014?
Answer: 10%
Question: Who owns the Waldorf Astoria?
Answer: Anbang Insurance Group
Question: What was the October 2014 purchase price of the Waldorf Astoria?
Answer: US$1.95 billion
Question: The hotel that sold for the most money in 2014 was which in NYC?
Answer: Waldorf Astoria New York
Question: How many hotel rooms are located in NYC as of the end of 2014?
Answer: 90,000
Question: Who bought the Waldorf Astoria hotel in NYC in 2014?
Answer: Anbang Insurance Group
Question: The Waldorf Astoria hotel sold for how many dollars?
Answer: 1.95 billion
Question: Approximately how many feature films are made in New York City every year?
Answer: 200
Question: How many New Yorkers work in the television and film industry?
Answer: 130,000
Question: How much money does the New York film and television industry create every year?
Answer: $7.1 billion
Question: What United States city is the second most popular for pilot episode location filming?
Answer: Los Angeles
Question: Along with Warner Music Group, what top three record label is based in New York City?
Answer: Sony Music Entertainment
Question: What city is North America's biggest media market?
Answer: New York City
Question: Out of the top eight advertising agency networks in the world, how many are based in New York?
Answer: Seven
Question: Which New York-based newspaper has won the Pulitzer Prize for journalism?
Answer: The New York Times
Question: Along with the New York Times, what national daily newspaper is based in New York?
Answer: The Wall Street Journal
Question: What was the founding year of the New York Daily News?
Answer: 1919
Question: Who was the founder of the New York Post?
Answer: Alexander Hamilton
Question: How many newspaper offices are located in New York?
Answer: More than 200
Question: How many magazines can call NYC home?
Answer: 350
Question: How many national newspapers out of the three are from New York?
Answer: 2
Question: Which two national newspapers are located in New York?
Answer: The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times
Question: When was the New York Daily News founded?
Answer: 1919
Question: Along with ABC and NBC, what other major broadcaster is based in New York?
Answer: CBS
Question: What is the name of the city's public television service?
Answer: NYCTV
Question: What comedy channel on cable television is headquartered in New York?
Answer: Comedy Central
Question: What cable news channel is based in New York?
Answer: Fox News
Question: What is the name of the first public-access TV channel in the country?
Answer: Manhattan Neighborhood Network
Question: In what year did the Manhattan Neighborhood Network begin?
Answer: 1971
Question: What is the primary public television station in New York?
Answer: WNET
Question: What is the largest public radio station in the US by audience size?
Answer: WNYC
Question: In what year did the city cease to own WNYC?
Answer: 1997
Question: The public-assess TV channel that has been around the longest in the US in what?
Answer: Manhattan Neighborhood Network
Question: When was the Manhattan Neighborhood Network created?
Answer: 1971
Question: The largest public radio station by listeners is what in New York?
Answer: WNYC
Question: How many students are in New York City public schools?
Answer: 1.1 million
Question: About how many public schools are there in New York City?
Answer: 1,700
Question: How many high schools for gifted students does New York City have?
Answer: nine
Question: How many students regularly attend schools in NYC?
Answer: 1.1 million
Question: How many highschools are specialized in NYC?
Answer: nine
Question: What institution aids in the creation of charter schools in New York?
Answer: New York City Charter School Center
Question: About how many private schools does New York have?
Answer: 900
Question: About how many students attend schools in the City University of New York system?
Answer: half million
Question: What fraction of Manhattan residents graduated from college?
Answer: three out of five
Question: What fraction of Manhattan residents have graduate degrees?
Answer: one out of four
Question: The City University of New York system consists of how many institutions?
Answer: 24
Question: How many students in New York partcipate in higher education?
Answer: 600,000
Question: What is the second largest library in the US?
Answer: Queens Borough Public Library
Question: What is the name of the library system in Queens?
Answer: Queens Borough Public Library
Question: What is Brooklyn's public library system called?
Answer: Brooklyn Public Library
Question: Along with Staten Island and the Bronx, what borough is served by the New York Public Library?
Answer: Manhattan
Question: The largest municipal healthcare in the US is what?
Answer: New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation
Question: How many hospitals does HHC operate?
Answer: 11
Question: What is the yearly revenue of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation?
Answer: $6.7 billion
Question: How many patients are served annually by HHC?
Answer: 1.4 million
Question: How many uninsured New Yorkers take advantage of HHC?
Answer: 475,000
Question: In what year was the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation founded?
Answer: 1969
Question: How many nursing homes does HHC operate?
Answer: five
Question: The public hospital that has been around the longest in the US is what?
Answer: Bellevue Hospital
Question: Who is the president of HHC?
Answer: Ramanathan Raju
Question: What was the first public hospital founded in the United States?
Answer: Bellevue Hospital
Question: If the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom becomes sick in New York City, what hospital does he go to?
Answer: Bellevue Hospital
Question: Who is the HHC president?
Answer: Ramanathan Raju, MD
Question: In what state did the president of HHC previously work?
Answer: Illinois
Question: What was the president of HHC's previous job title?
Answer: CEO
Question: The largest police presence in the US is NYPD with how many people?
Answer: 35,000
Question: NYPD officers have a nickname that is known as what?
Answer: New York's Finest
Question: What does the acronym NYPD stand for?
Answer: New York City Police Department
Question: About how many police work for the NYPD?
Answer: 35,000
Question: What is the nickname given to New York City Police Department officers?
Answer: New York's Finest
Question: What was the low record for homicides in 2014 in NYC?
Answer: 328
Question: What percentage decrease in violent crime did the city see between 1993 and 2005?
Answer: 75%
Question: As of 2002, to what city did New York have a comparable crime rate?
Answer: Provo, Utah
Question: In what year did the city have less than 500 homicides?
Answer: 2007
Question: How many homicides were there in New York City in 2014?
Answer: 328
Question: In the first half of 2010, what percentage of shooting victims were African-American or Hispanic?
Answer: 95.9%
Question: The first major crime groups in NYC were in the 1820s known as what?
Answer: Forty Thieves and the Roach Guards
Question: What group controlled the Mafia in New York in the 20th century?
Answer: the Five Families
Question: The Forth Thieves and Roach Guards were two gangs that operated in what area of New York in the 1820s?
Answer: the Five Points
Question: What was a notable 20th century gang in New York?
Answer: the Black Spades
Question: What is the second largest fire department force in the world?
Answer: The New York City Fire Department
Question: What is the The New York City Fire Department's motto?
Answer: New York's Bravest
Question: What does FDNY stand for?
Answer: New York City Fire Department
Question: What city is home to the largest municipal fire department in the world?
Answer: Tokyo
Question: How many firefighters work for the New York City Fire Department?
Answer: 11,080
Question: The FDNY employs about how many paramedics and EMTs?
Answer: 3,300
Question: What is the motto of the New York City Fire Department?
Answer: New York's Bravest
Question: What types of fires can start in parks and woodlands?
Answer: brush fires
Question: What is the address for The New York City Fire Department headquarters?
Answer: 9 MetroTech Center
Question: Which island is home to the Fire academy in NYC?
Answer: Randalls Island
Question: Which borough of NYC is home to the The New York City Fire Department headquarters?
Answer: Brooklyn
Question: What is the street address of the New York Fire Department headquarters?
Answer: 9 MetroTech Center
Question: In what borough is the FDNY headquartered?
Answer: Brooklyn
Question: Where is the fire department's training academy located?
Answer: Randalls Island
Question: What is the street address of the Bureau of Fire Communications alarm office in Brooklyn?
Answer: 11 Metrotech Center
Question: Which decade did hip hop start to surface in NYC?
Answer: 1970s
Question: What was the name of the cultural development that defined the black American literary canon?
Answer: the Harlem Renaissance