Q 01/05

Which rock star, raised in Monmouth County's seat, titled his 1973 debut album after the shore city of Asbury Park?

A) Jon Bon Jovi

B) Bruce Springsteen

C) Billy Joel

D) Southside Johnny Lyon

Answer · why

B) Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Springsteen was born in a hospital in Long Branch, another Monmouth County shore city. His debut reached shops in January 1973 and made him a cr...

Q 02/05

Sandy Hook Light, guiding ships into New York Harbor from Monmouth County, holds which record among U.S. lighthouses?

A) Oldest still working

B) Tallest ever built

C) Last with a keeper

D) First lit by electricity

Answer · why

A) Oldest still working

Oldest still working: the tower has shone since 1764, and during the Revolution it survived a Patriot attempt to wreck it so that British ships could ...

Q 03/05

Which wounded president was carried by special train to Long Branch, New Jersey, in 1881 and died there?

A) William McKinley

B) Ulysses S. Grant

C) James A. Garfield

D) Chester A. Arthur

Answer · why

C) James A. Garfield

James A. Garfield was sent to the shore in the hope that sea air and quiet would help him recover. Railroad ties laid to carry his train were later bu...

Q 04/05

Which 1980s movie musical filmed its mansion scenes at Shadow Lawn, now part of Monmouth University?

A) Xanadu

B) Grease 2

C) Fame

D) Annie

Answer · why

D) Annie

Annie cast the house as the Warbucks residence. An earlier Shadow Lawn on the site, destroyed by fire, was Woodrow Wilson's summer White House during ...

Q 05/05

Which jazz bandleader, born in Red Bank, New Jersey, in 1904, gave his name to the town's main theater?

A) Count Basie

B) Duke Ellington

C) Benny Goodman

D) Glenn Miller

Answer · why

A) Count Basie

Count Basie got his schooling in show business at a local theater, the Palace, where doing odd chores earned him free admission to the performances.