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

Donald Trump was born in Queens on June 14, 1946, the fourth of Fred and Mary Anne Trump's five children, and grew up in a 23-room house there.

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

Wharton is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania (Penn); Trump transferred there and earned a bachelor's degree in economics in 1968.

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

Trump entered New York Military Academy in Cornwall-on-Hudson at 13 and graduated from it in 1964, after attending the private Kew-Forest School throu...

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

Trump took over Elizabeth Trump & Son in 1971 and renamed it The Trump Organization, pushing his father's outer-borough apartment business into Manhat...

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

The Commodore, a rundown hotel beside Grand Central Terminal, reopened in 1980 as the Grand Hyatt after Trump's renovation with Hyatt, helped by a 40-...