Bergen County, New Jersey
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40 free Bergen County, New Jersey trivia questions with answers — geography quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Bergen County sits at the northeastern corner of New Jersey, just across the Hudson River from New York City, and it is divided into 70 separate municipalities, more than any other county in the state. Its cities, boroughs, townships and villages run from crowded shopping strips to quiet hill towns, and almost every one has a story. This quiz works through the county town by town: which community hosts professional football, which one keeps its stores shut on Sundays, and where film studios, astronauts, presidents and pop stars made their homes. Along the way it covers the first colonial settlers, the Revolutionary War and the sports complex built on the marshes. It is written for locals testing their hometown knowledge, newcomers learning the map, and anyone putting together a New Jersey trivia night. Every answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01What name is given to the Sunday shopping bans that every New Jersey county except Bergen has voted out?
Blue laws
Blue laws still close Bergen County's clothing, furniture and electronics stores on Sundays, though food and gasoline can be sold. Repeated attempts by voters to repeal them have failed.
Q 02Which vanished Teamsters boss was long rumored to lie buried beneath an end zone at Giants Stadium in the Meadowlands?
Jimmy Hoffa
Jimmy Hoffa disappeared in 1975, just as the stadium was going up, which fed the legend. Sportscaster Marv Albert once joked that a team was kicking toward the Hoffa end of the field.
Q 03Which Bergen County borough, mostly covered by an airport, counted just 61 residents in the 2020 census?
Teterboro
Teterboro takes its name from Walter Teter, a New York banker who bought the land in 1917 to build a racetrack. Neighboring towns have tried several times to dissolve the tiny borough and failed.
Q 04Satin Dolls, the go-go bar filmed as the Bada Bing in The Sopranos, stands in which Bergen County borough?
Lodi
Lodi owes its name to the Italian city of Lodi in Lombardy. Satin Dolls served as the filming location for the fictional club where the HBO drama's mobsters did business.
Q 05Which Hudson River crossing, the busiest in the world for motor vehicles, links Bergen County with Upper Manhattan?
George Washington Bridge
The George Washington Bridge is the only suspension bridge in the world with 14 lanes of traffic. It opened in 1931, eight months ahead of schedule.
Q 06Which future vice president married the widow Theodosia Prevost at The Hermitage, a house in Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey?
Aaron Burr
Aaron Burr married her there in 1782, after her husband died during the war. Lafayette and Alexander Hamilton had both visited the house during the Revolution.
Q 07Which pop band's members were raised in Wyckoff, New Jersey, before finding fame through the Disney Channel?
Jonas Brothers
Jonas Brothers Kevin, Joe and Nick left Wyckoff for Little Falls in 2005, where they wrote their first record for Hollywood Records, a Disney-owned label.
Q 08Which Bergen County borough, site of Edwin Armstrong's FM radio tower, did Forbes rank as America's priciest ZIP code?
Alpine
Alpine topped the 2012 Forbes list with a median home price of $4.25 million. Armstrong built his tower and laboratory there after RCA evicted him from the Empire State Building.
Q 09Which Bergen County borough rings up over $6 billion a year in retail sales while banning almost all work on Sundays?
Paramus
Paramus forbids even office work on Sundays under a borough code stricter than the county's own law. One of its shopping centers was built on old celery farms.
Q 10Which Bergen County borough was America's motion picture capital in the 1910s, before the studios moved to Hollywood?
Fort Lee
Fort Lee hosted studios for Fox, Goldwyn, Biograph and Pathé in the 1910s and 1920s. A forerunner of Universal built the first one there in 1909.
Q 11Which Bergen County township was the first place in America where a white majority voted for school integration?
Teaneck
Teaneck integrated its public schools in 1965 with no court order forcing the change. Its Board of Education had approved a bussing plan by a 7–2 vote the year before.
Q 12Which venue in the Bergen County Meadowlands is home to both of New York's NFL teams, the Giants and the Jets?
MetLife Stadium
MetLife Stadium hosted Super Bowl XLVIII in February 2014, the first Super Bowl played at an open-air stadium in a cold-weather city.
Q 13Which city of about 46,000 people is both the county seat and the most populous place in Bergen County?
Hackensack
Q 21Which Bergen County township, the county's largest by area, houses the New York Stock Exchange's data center?
Mahwah
Mahwah covers about 26 square miles, roughly two and a half times the area of the county's next-largest town. Ford built six million cars there before its plant closed in 1980.
Q 22Radburn, a 1929 planned community billed as a town for the motor age, lies within which Bergen County borough?
Fair Lawn
Fair Lawn's Radburn was designed to keep walkers and traffic apart, with a footpath system that never crosses a major road at street level.
Q 23The Sugarhill Gang, makers of the first hip-hop single to reach the Top 40, formed in which Bergen County city?
Englewood
Hackensack was chosen as county seat in 1710 because most of the county's residents could reach it easily. The city was officially named New Barbadoes Township until 1921.
Q 14Which assassinated US president gave his name to a Bergen County city that used to be called East Passaic?
James Garfield
James Garfield had just been elected when, by one account, the town's founder told people to stop saying East Passaic. He was shot seven months later, but the name stayed.
Q 15Which former US president spent his final years in the Bergen County boroughs of Saddle River and Park Ridge?
Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon moved to Saddle River in 1981 after 18 months in a New York City townhouse. He suffered his fatal stroke in 1994 while preparing to eat dinner at his Park Ridge home.
Q 16Which Native American nation, including a subgroup called the Tappan, lived in Bergen County when Europeans arrived?
Lenape
The Lenape homeland, known as Lenapehoking, took in New Jersey, eastern Pennsylvania and eastern Delaware. English colonists named them the Delaware Indians.
Q 17Bergen County's first known colony, Vriessendael, was founded in 1640 by settlers of which nationality?
Dutch
Dutch settler David Pietersz de Vries bought 500 acres from the Tappan people for the New Netherland colony. Parts of it were destroyed in a war just three years later.
Q 18Which line of sheer cliffs along Bergen County's Hudson River shore was saved from quarrying by a 1900 park commission?
The Palisades
The Palisades rise almost straight up from the river, reaching about 540 feet at their northern end. In the 1800s they were being blasted apart for railroad ballast.
Q 19Which NHL team played at the Meadowlands arena in Bergen County from 1982 until moving to Newark in 2007?
New Jersey Devils
The New Jersey Devils arrived as the relocated Colorado Rockies and clinched two of their three Stanley Cups on home ice there, in 1995 and 2003.
Q 20Which Bergen County borough of about 10,000 people has been home to five professional sports teams at once?
East Rutherford
East Rutherford got its teams when the Meadowlands Sports Complex rose on its marshland. The racetrack and the football stadium there both opened in 1976.
Englewood was home to all three members: Big Bank Hank, Wonder Mike and Master Gee. Their breakthrough single, Rapper's Delight, came out in 1979.
Q 24Which Prussian-born Revolutionary War general was given a confiscated Loyalist house in River Edge, New Jersey?
Baron von Steuben
Baron von Steuben received the sandstone house from the New Jersey Legislature in 1783 and sold it back to the Zabriskie family in 1788. It had been seized from the Loyalist Jan Zabriskie.
Q 25Which astronaut, honored as the first New Jerseyan to orbit Earth, grew up in the Bergen County borough of Oradell?
Wally Schirra
Wally Schirra circled the planet six times in October 1962. He remains the only astronaut to have flown in the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs.
Q 26Which carmaker has its North American headquarters in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey, on land Ingersoll Rand once occupied?
BMW
BMW took over the property after Ingersoll Rand moved its world headquarters out of the borough in 2004. The site lies on Chestnut Ridge Road.
Q 27Which New York county, home to Nyack and Nanuet, lies directly north of Bergen County across the state line?
Rockland
Rockland and Bergen were split into separate political areas in June 1664, when the Berkeley-Carteret land grant set up the colony of New Jersey.
Q 28What nickname stuck to the 2013 scandal in which Chris Christie's allies shut toll lanes to jam a Bergen County town?
Bridgegate
Bridgegate began on September 9, 2013, when two of three toll lanes at a local entrance closed for the morning rush. The Supreme Court unanimously overturned two convictions in 2020.
Q 29Which Bergen County mall, first planned as Meadowlands Xanadu, opened in 2019 with an indoor ski slope?
American Dream
American Dream took 15 years to build. Work began in 2004 and stalled in 2009, when a Lehman Brothers subsidiary missed its payments and other lenders pulled out.
Q 30Which NFL coaching legend began his career in 1939 at Saint Cecilia, a Catholic high school in Bergen County?
Vince Lombardi
Vince Lombardi stayed eight years, teaching Latin, chemistry and physics alongside his coaching. His 1943 team was recognized as the best high school side in the nation.