Q 01/05

Times Square lies in which part of Manhattan?

A) Lower Manhattan

B) Midtown

C) Upper West Side

D) Harlem

Answer · why

B) Midtown

Midtown: the square takes its name from The New York Times, whose new tower there opened in 1904.

Q 02/05

What was Times Square called before 1904, after a London carriage-trade street?

A) Astor

B) Herald

C) Union

D) Longacre

Answer · why

D) Longacre

Longacre: like London's Long Acre, the neighbourhood was known for the carriage trade, and carriage makers clustered there.

Q 03/05

Which publisher moved The New York Times into the new tower that gave Times Square its name?

A) Arthur Hays Sulzberger

B) Adolph S. Ochs

C) Joseph Pulitzer

D) William Randolph Hearst

Answer · why

B) Adolph S. Ochs

Adolph S. Ochs: yet the paper outgrew its famous tower within a decade and moved to bigger offices a block away in 1913.

Q 04/05

Which nickname has Times Square long been known by?

A) The City That Never Sleeps

B) The Crossroads of the World

C) The Capital of the World

D) The Heart of the Nation

Answer · why

B) The Crossroads of the World

The Crossroads of the World: almost from the start, the square was also where New Yorkers gathered to see in each new year.

Q 05/05

Together with Duffy Square, Times Square is usually likened to which shape?

A) A crescent

B) A horseshoe

C) A bowtie

D) A diamond

Answer · why

C) A bowtie

A bowtie: Broadway slants across Seventh Avenue, leaving two triangles that meet at 45th Street, the northern one being Duffy Square.