Get out your number 2 pencils! It's time for the first annual BTB Queens IQ Quiz. 5 questions today, 5 tomorrow. They're all, one way or another, related to roads, cars, and drivers in Queens. Sorry, no multiple choice--and no Googling!
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| Blue Sand Box (1950) |
(1) The artist Joseph Cornell lived and worked for nearly his whole life in a house with his mother and his brother Robert on this Queens thoroughfare.
(2) On January 10, 1986, a car being driven erratically by recently reelected Borough President Donald Manes was pulled over on which Queens roadway? (That's Donald below with Ed Koch and John McEnroe in happier times.)
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| Courtesy New York City Archives/DORIS |
(3) "Over my dead body," said Bourough Pres Claire Shulman (she succeeded Donald). What was the project she was talking about?
(4) Willets Point Boulevard forms the hypotenuse of the "Iron Triangle."What streets comprise the other two sides?
(5) Name the author and the book for this quote: "The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty of the world."
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| Photo by Berenice Abbott |
Answers to Part I tomorrow!
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