Quiz #20 - New York City

Ponster

Seeing as I've just moved from Paris to New York I thought about having a Gotham-themed round


Object of the game:

The point of the game is pretty simple. In a PM to me, answer each of the 10 questions below. There are no wrong answers.

The point is to give the most popular, correct answer that you think the majority of the people will give.

So give each question some thought and try to figure out what you think the others will answer and not just the first answer that comes into your head.



Formatting:

To make my life easier, make your post look exactly like this:

1. answer
2. answer
3. answer
4. answer
...



Questions:

1. Name a movie associated with NYC
2. Name a band/musician associated with NYC
3. Name a river which flows through NYC
4. Name a famous native New Yorker
5. Name a sports team based in NYC
6. Name one of the 5 NYC boroughs
7. Name a TV show set in or associated with NYC.
8. Name a group of immigrants associated with NYC
9. Name a song associated with NYC
10. Name a famous district of Manhattan

Send me a PM with your answers!

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aido76

PM sent.

LiamMc

PM sent

Scorpion Sting

Cheers for the quiz, Ponster. PM sent.

Edser

PM sent, thanks. Tough one!

Ponster

Edser wrote: »

Tough one!

yep! I tried to make it a little more harder than usual.

TommieBoy

thanks ponster pm sent

annascott

PM Sent!

p to the e

Done. Thanks

davetherave

Answers sent in there. Some of those were real noodle scratchers

Ponster

9 replies... a lot less than usual...was it too difficult?

Scorpion Sting

It was challenging but I wouldn't say it was too difficult. It makes you think anyway which is good.

davetherave

Bump, and possibly a reminder for ponster to tally up the scores.

Ponster

davetherave wrote: »

Bump, and possibly a reminder for ponster to tally up the scores.

Thanks for the bump! I got entry number 10 which I kinda needed to make it easier to work out the scoring.

Ponster

And the winner of the NYC quiz is LiamMc with 480 points !

Well done to all who entered


1. Name a movie associated with NYC Taxi driver
2. Name a band/musician associated with NYC The Velvet Underground
3. Name a river which flows through NYC Hudson
4. Name a famous native New Yorker Woody Allen
5. Name a sports team based in NYC New York Yankees
6. Name one of the 5 NYC boroughs Brooklyn
7. Name a TV show set in or associated with NYC. Friends
8. Name a group of immigrants associated with NYC Irish
9. Name a song associated with NYC New York, New York
10. Name a famous district of Manhattan Harlem


The rest...


Tommieboy 460
jebforever 440
aido76 410

davetherave 400
edser 380
paulbock 340

ihatecuddles 320
p to the e 300
anniescott 250


This one was much trickier than the most recent ones. Some of the questions had a lot of possible answers even if none came to mind right away. Yet there were a couple that if you didn't get the most obvious answer then you lost all chances of winning.


Top answers in italics

Name a movie associated with NYC

Taxi driver 2
Home alone 2
Annie Hall 1
BIG 1
King Kong 1
Mean Streets 1
The Godfather 1
Wall Street 1



Name a band/musician associated with NYC


The Velvet Underground 2
Alicia Keys 1
Beastie Boys 1
billy joel 1
Blondie 1
Frank Sinatra 1
The Ramones 1
The Strokes 1
Tony Bennett 1


Name a river which flows through NYC

Hudson 10

The East river was the other option that no one went for.


Name a famous native New Yorker

Woody Allen 2
Donald Trump 2
Adam Sandler 1
Al Pacino 1
Barbra streisand 1
Martin Scorcese 1
Michael Jordan 1
Robert De Niro 1


Name a sports team based in NYC

New York Yankees 7
Knicks 2
New York Giants 1

Name one of the 5 NYC boroughs

Manhattan 4
bronx 2
Brooklyn 1
Queens 3

Name a TV show set in or associated with NYC

Friends 7
King of Queens 1
Letterman 1
Sex and the City 1


Name a group of immigrants associated with NYC

Irish 6
Italian 3
Jews  1


Name a song associated with NYC

New York, New York 7
Bleecker Street 1
Fairy Tale of New York 2


Name a famous district of Manhattan

Harlem 5
Chinatown 1
Downtown 1
Greenwich Village 1
Little Italy 2

LiamMc

I have never felt so connected to total strangers in my entire life.... I must tell my Shrink about it.

I want to thank Ponser for organising the quiz.
This was the first of these 'reliant on fellow contributor' quizzes I've done, interesting thought process. Including hedging answers by choosing Taxi Driver as Film but not Martin Scorsese as a Famous Person.

TommieBoy

Congratz Liam Mc - great job!
Ponster, thanks for the fun, challenging quiz - hope your move to NYC is a good one!
...Hey Jeb - we got second and third yay - I can't believe I wasn't at the bottom of the list

Ponster

LiamMc wrote: »

This was the first of these 'reliant on fellow contributor' quizzes I've done, interesting thought process. Including hedging answers by choosing Taxi Driver as Film but not Martin Scorsese as a Famous Person.

It was a pretty close one this time. You got no points for Q6 "Brooklyn" but you got the 4 big scoring questions where 7 or more people gave the same answer.

The really tricky one is when I ask to give an answer that is correct but that you believe the fewest amount of other people will answer.