Bill O'Reilly: News Quiz

1. On May 4, 1626, Peter Minuit, arrived at the island of Manhattan from where?

Great Britain

Netherlands

India

France

Spain

2. Who employed Peter Minuit?

Dutch East India Company

Holland American Corporation

Coffee House Company

Dutch West India Company

British Raj Corporation

3. Minuit is famous for what action involving the island of Manhattan?

Founding

Settling

Purchase

Selling

Naming

4. Who seized New Amsterdam from the Dutch in 1664?

Spain

France

Portugal

Germany

Great Britain

5. What nation controlled New York City until the American Revolution?

Great Britain

France

Colonists

Spanish

Algonquians

6. In the nineteenth century, like today, New York City was one of the nation's largest ports, playing a role in marketing what Southern staple?

Corn

Indigo

Cotton

Rice

Flour

7. The completion of what commercial byway in 1825 made New York City the trading capital of the nation?

Transcontinental Railroad

Erie Canal

Western Union

Southern Railway

City Canal

8. In what year did Manhattan merge with the four boroughs to form what we know today as New York City?

1898

1905

1920

1945

1950

9. Who was the first European to see the land that became New York City?

Hudson

Stuyvesant

De Gama

Cortez

Verrazano

10. After the Revolution, New York City served as the first what?

Capital

Incorporated City

Banking Hub

Post Office

Military Academy

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