The New York Quiz

It's your city. How much do you know about it, smarty-pants?

Hard to believe, but there's more to being a New Yorker than having the Soho House concierge on speed-dial. Here's a little quiz designed to test whether you've been paying attention to the grid that surrounds you.

1. Who described New York as 'a ****ed orange'?

2. What is the opening line of Annie Hall?

3. What are the three ingredients in a correctly made egg cream? (Hints: Not egg. Not cream.)

4. What is the oldest house in New York City?

5. How many restaurants does Keith McNally actually own today? Bonus question: Name his newest, which opens next week.

6. Max's Kansas City was the hottest club of the late '60s. Where was it?

7. Who are Betsey, Bunky, and Nini?

8. Who is the famous Walter at the Metropolitan Museum of Art?

9. What is the name of the only wine shop in New York City that is open on Sundays, and why can it stay open when others can't?

10. How many World Series have the Yankees won?

11. Where else can you hear the three women and one man who recorded the announcements for the new subway cars?

12. What was the Flatiron Building originally called?

13. How much distance (in moving traffic) counts as one click on a taxi meter?

14. How many acres is Central Park?

LOL! I have no idea what the answer is to any of those! Those are interesting questions though, I'd like to know the answers!

I bet someone who doesn't live here knows more than a New Yorker....

and the answers are???????

I am horrible but my King of useless information failed this one!

1. Who described New York as 'a ****ed orange'? dcan't search that since I don't know what ****d means, I don't read asterick
2. What is the opening line of Annie Hall? I can't remember, something to do with being in love the year before and then flashbacks

3. What are the three ingredients in a correctly made egg cream? (Hints: Not egg. Not cream.) Milk and seltzer water (and I think vanilla ice cream?)

4. What is the oldest house in New York City? Morris-Jummel Mansion

5. How many restaurants does Keith McNally actually own today? Bonus question: Name his newest, which opens next week. Balthazar and Pastis

6. Max's Kansas City was the hottest club of the late '60s. Where was it?

7. Who are Betsey, Bunky, and Nini? women's clothing store

8. Who is the famous Walter at the Metropolitan Museum of Art?

9. What is the name of the only wine shop in New York City that is open on Sundays, and why can it stay open when others can't? arent all of them open now, I think a law was passed or repealed that allows all of them to open now?

10. How many World Series have the Yankees won?

11. Where else can you hear the three women and one man who recorded the announcements for the new subway cars? I have no idea but what a cool question

12. What was the Flatiron Building originally called? Fuller Building

13. How much distance (in moving traffic) counts as one click on a taxi meter? 1/5 of a mile when travelling 8 miles or more per hour

14. How many acres is Central Park? 843

*Some I knew offhand and some I looked up in books or online. Good questions!

Ralph Waldo Emerson.

'There's an old joke...'

Milk, Fox's U-Bet Chocolate Syrup, seltzer.

The Wyckoff House in Brooklyn which was built around 1652.

Four: Pastis, Pravda, Balthazaar, and Lucky Strike. Schiller's Liquor Bar will make it five.

213 Park Avenue South, near 17th Street.

Betsey Johnson, Barbara Washburn, and Anita Latorre owned the original boutique on East 53rd Street, which is now under new management uptown.

A small blue hippopotamus figurine from Egypt that is the Metropolitan's unofficial mascot.

Vintage NYC in SoHo operates under a vineyard license, and therefore sells only New York State wines.

26.

They are all announcers on Bloomberg News Radio, AM 1130.

The Fuller Building.

One-fifth of a mile.

The park, which celebrates its 150th birthday this year, is 843 acres

The only one I knew was the Yankee one.

I think I need to read more.

I only knew the egg cream one and the Yankee one (& I'm a Mets fan)