After breezing through About.com’s Brooklyn trivia quiz linked by OTBKB, I decided to create one of my own. I spent hours building a lovely scored one, wrestling with the html, only to discover it wasn’t showing up at all in Explorer. So, you’ll have to guess at these and I’ll post the answers later. In the meantime, feel free to leave your guesses in the comments section…but no cheating!

1. What is Weeksville?

a) A week long trip to the Catskills organized by Big Brothers Brooklyn chapter
b) A Sheepshead Bay senior development
c) One of the nation’s earliest free African American communities
d) A row of 1700′s stone houses located in Bay Ridge

2. What is Plum Beach?

a) A private beach for the inhabitants of Coney Island’s Sea Gate community
b) A neglected beach near Sheepshead Bay
c) The rocky area under the Brooklyn Bridge
d) A nickname for Prospect Park’s boat house launch area

3. Which celeb is NOT from Brooklyn?

a) Larry David
b) Adam Sandler
c) Denzel Washington
d) Anne Hathaway

4. Off leash hours in city parks are as follows:

a) Dusk to dawn
b) Before 9am
c) There’s no such thing as an off leash law
d) Before 8am

5. Following the death of disco, Saturday Night Fever’s 2001 Odyssey became a:

a) Gay strip club
b) Supper club
c) Catering hall
d) Punk rock venue

6. Who was Stacy Moskowitz?

a) The original owner of The River Cafe
b) Ed Koch’s deputy mayor
c) Miss Brooklyn 1985
d) The Son of Sam’s final victim

7. Which Brooklyn restaurant has been around the longest?

a) Peter Luger
b) River Cafe
c) Monte’s Venetian Room
d) Patsy Grimaldi’s

8. Which of these is NOT a diner?

a) Caravelle
b) Vegas
c) Moonstruck
d) Dizzy’s

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