Quiz Time, Part II

Okay, Queens Cognoscenti, how'd you do on Part One? The answers follow the photo below, so if you haven't taken it, there's still time.

In the Triangle (Courtesy Bridgeandtunnelclub.com)

(1) Joseph Cornell lived and worked nearly his whole life in a house on Utopia Parkway in Flushing.

(2) Donald Manes was pulled over by the police on Northern Boulevard near 126th St. He was dazed and bloody, telling the cops he had escaped two men who had abducted him at knifepoint and forced him to drive to Flushing Meadows Park. The story came under intense scrutiny and details of the PVB (Parking Violations Bureau) payoff scandal came to light. Manes killed himself in his own home with a knife on March 14, 1986.

(3) Manes was succeeded as Queens B.P. by Claire Shulman who put the kibosh on her predecessor's dream of an Indy-style track in Flushing Meadows. Claire to developers: "Over my dead body."

(4) The Iron Triangle (see photo above), that bastion of hub-cap capitalism, is bounded by Northern Boulevard (north), Willets Point Boulevard (east), and 126 St (west).

(5) "The city seen from Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its wild promise of all the mystery and beauty of the world." That's Nick Carraway from F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. The city he's referring to, of course, is Manhattan. Queens is basically the ash-heap between Manhattan and East Egg (aka, Great Neck, Long Island).

Grade your own quizzes. Remember, honor system! Now, get ready for Part II:

Queens logician

(6) Tom Waits' character in Queens Logic (1981), Monty McFadden, is known for doing one thing every year. What is it?

(7) Queens has great cemeteries. Excluding the BQE, which single road would allow you to see the greatest number of cemeteries?

(8) Governor Andrew Cuomo loves muscle cars. In high school, he worked at a garage in Hollis and drove a AAA pick-up truck. He used to buy broken down cars, fix them up, and sell them for a tidy profit. The scheme worked well, but one prize eluded him. Despite weeks of work, when he took this "car"for a drive, he hit the gas and it exploded. What model was it? (Year optional.)

(Courtesy New York Times)

(9) In 1986, three black men whose car had broken down in Broad Channel were chased by a group of white Howard Beach teenagers, at least one with a baseball bat. One of the men fleeing was fatally struck by a car on which Queens roadway as he tried to elude his pursuers?

(10) In the HBO show Entourage, Vince made an indy about his native borough (also Turtle's, Eric's, and Drama's). What was the movie called?

Touché

(Bonus Question!) The great Polish-born memory painter, Karol Kozlowski, traveled every day from the house he lived in on India Street in Greenpoint to the Con Edison works in northern Astoria. Before the IND subway line connected Queens and Brooklyn, how did he get across the Newtown Creek? Hint: He didn't know how to drive.

Japan's Mt. Huzi

Answers tomorrow!