Q 01/05

The glowing slogan on Trenton's Delaware River bridge boasts about the city's role as a center of what?

A) River shipping

B) Manufacturing

C) Banking

D) State government

Answer · why

B) Manufacturing

Manufacturing is the boast, coined by lumberman S. Roy Heath for a 1910 Chamber of Commerce contest. Neon letters went up on the present bridge in 193...

Q 02/05

John Roebling, who moved his wire rope mill to Trenton in 1848, designed which famous New York span?

A) Manhattan Bridge

B) Queensboro Bridge

C) Brooklyn Bridge

D) Williamsburg Bridge

Answer · why

C) Brooklyn Bridge

Brooklyn Bridge designer Roebling died of tetanus in 1869, after a ferry crushed his foot at the site. He is buried in Trenton's Riverview Cemetery.

Q 03/05

Which New Jersey breakfast meat did John Taylor of Trenton develop in 1856 and first sell as a "Prepared Ham"?

A) Scrapple

B) Pork roll

C) Corned beef

D) Liverwurst

Answer · why

B) Pork roll

Pork roll lost the word ham after the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 set a legal definition it failed to meet. North Jersey still calls it Taylor ham,...

Q 04/05

When Trenton served as capital of the United States for two months in 1784, where did Congress meet?

A) A courthouse

B) A college hall

C) A church

D) A tavern

Answer · why

D) A tavern

A tavern hosted the Congress of the Confederation from November 1 to December 24. Northern states wanted the city as the permanent capital, but the so...

Q 05/05

Trenton composer George Antheil developed a frequency-hopping torpedo guidance system with which Hollywood actress?

A) Hedy Lamarr

B) Greta Garbo

C) Marlene Dietrich

D) Ingrid Bergman

Answer · why

A) Hedy Lamarr

Hedy Lamarr and Antheil used a code on punched paper tape to keep the transmitter and receiver changing frequency together, so the torpedo's radio con...