February 19, 2007

Over Here, Mr. President

President’s Day Quiz

TGI President’s Day. It feels like we haven’t had a vacation in four score and seven years.

How will you pass your free time? Start with an NYC trivia test with a presidential twist.

1. This man of Natural History rode his private rail car right out of The Waldorf-Astoria.

2. The cost from here to anywhere in Manhattan is $45.

3. The name (Hell’s Kitchen, a popular LES dining spot, a main thoroughfare in Cobble Hill/Carroll Gardens) — and man — sure get around.

4. Your favorite Dead bootlegs were recorded at this old Village “church of rock and roll.”

5. In 2004, these First Children got rejected from a back alley eatery.

6. Which four presidents share surnames with two local gossip columnists?

7. For less than a twenty, you can fill up on the best Indian diner food in this neighborhood.

8. Emancipate yourself from a bar in Weehawken through this art deco portal.

9. He’s buried in the western hemisphere’s second largest mausoleum. And is often visited by the Giuliani turkey.

Answers: 1. Roosevelt 2. John F. Kennedy 3. Clinton 4. Fillmore East 5. Bush 6. John Adams & John Quincy Adams; Andrew Johnson & Lyndon B. Johnson 7. Jackson Heights 8. Lincoln Tunnel 9. Ulysses S. Grant