Q 01/05

In which New York City borough was Donald Trump born?

A) Manhattan

B) Brooklyn

C) Queens

D) The Bronx

Answer · why

C) Queens

He grew up in a 23-room house in Jamaica Estates, the fourth of Fred and Mary Anne Trump's five children.

Q 02/05

Trump graduated in 1968 from the Wharton School, which is part of which Ivy League institution?

A) Harvard

B) Penn

C) Columbia

D) Cornell

Answer · why

B) Penn

He spent his first two years at Fordham before transferring; he had considered film school in California.

Q 03/05

Which boarding school did Trump's father send him to from eighth through twelfth grade?

A) Phillips Exeter Academy

B) Choate Rosemary Hall

C) The Hill School

D) New York Military Academy

Answer · why

D) New York Military Academy

He had attended the private Kew-Forest School through seventh grade before the move.

Q 04/05

What new name did the family real-estate company get when Donald took over as its president in 1971?

A) Trump Enterprises

B) The Trump Organization

C) Trump Properties

D) Trump & Sons

Answer · why

B) The Trump Organization

Fred Trump's business managed middle-class apartments in Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island; his son pushed it into Manhattan.

Q 05/05

Trump's first big Manhattan project, opened in 1980, was the renovation of which derelict hotel by Grand Central?

A) The Plaza

B) The Waldorf

C) The Biltmore

D) The Commodore

Answer · why

D) The Commodore

It reopened as the Grand Hyatt with help from a $400 million city tax abatement arranged by his father.