Daily NJ Trivia
@DailyNJTrivia
Facts about and from the great state of New Jersey!
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71st Emmy Award winners include Morristown's Peter Dinklage for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series as Tyrion Lannister in @GameOfThrones & @Princeton grad @clmazin for Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special for #Chernobyl. Fact!
Quinton Twp in Salem County (31.3%), Kingston on the South Brunswick/Franklin Twp border (30.9%), Port Elizabeth in Cumberland County (30%), and Richwood in Gloucester County (29.6%) have the highest percentage of residents with German heritage in NJ. Fact! #Oktoberfest #Prost!
The Port Authority Transit Corporation (PATCO) Speedline which first operated between Lindenwold, NJ & Center City Philadelphia on February 15, 1969, is one of only six U.S. rapid transit systems to operate 24 hours a day. Fact!
After winning in 1995, the @NJDevils were the first @NHL team to give their players a day with the @StanleyCup, a tradition that lives on with each Cup winner since. Fact!
Democratic presidential candidate NJ connections: @CoryBooker: raised in Harrington Park, former Newark mayor, current U.S. Senator. @JohnDelaney: born in Wood-Ridge, Bergen Catholic HS graduate. @EWarren: taught speech at Riverdale elementary, Rutgers Law School graduate. Fact!
Around 1670, legend says that to settle a territorial dispute, the Duke of York decreed that anything circumnavigable in less than 24 hours belonged to NY. Capt. C. Billopp did it within a few minutes, and that's supposedly how Staten Island became part of NY instead of NJ. Fact!
Of the 681 job classifications in NJ, Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows that surgeon is the highest paid NJ job ($285,850 average annual salary), followed by orthodontist ($274,400), general internist ($249,200) and psychiatrist ($245,990). Fact! @BLS_gov
At the time of its conclusion, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, a show that was set in a suburban neighborhood in South Jersey (season 1 - 7) and fictional Seattle, NJ (season 9), was the longest-running original series on @adultswim. Fact!
NJ is the northern limit of the native range of Argopecten irradians, commonly known as Atlantic bay scallop, an edible species of saltwater clam, a marine bivalve mollusk. Fact!
NJ is the first state in the nation to provide access to arts education (dance, music, theater or visual art) in every public school. In those disciplines, about 81 percent of students participate. Fact! @ArtsEdNJ @GovMurphy
With five NY Waterway ferry terminals, and more than 55,000 ferry passenger trips per week, Jersey City has the most extensive ferry service of any city in NJ and one of the most extensive commuter ferry networks in the U.S. Fact!
Of the 694 NJ victims of the 9/11/01 terrorist attacks, Middletown Township lost the most residents per capita and Hoboken lost the most of any zip code (07030). Fact. #September11 #Neverforget
The Atlantic City Conference of May 1929 was a summit of U.S. crime leaders (including Capone, Luciano, Lansky, Siegel, et al) considered to be the earliest organized crime summit. The conference also represented the first concrete move toward a National Crime Syndicate. Fact!
NJ Motorsports Park is a road course "Motorsports Entertainment Complex" in Millville, and one of only a few facilities in the world housing two circuits that can be operated simultaneously - the 2.25-mile Thunderbolt Raceway and 1.9-mile road course – Lightning Raceway. Fact!
NJ is the #1 producer of eggplants in the United States according to the Federal Census of Agriculture - growing 849 acres of eggplants. CA grows 705 acres, FL 685 and GA 624. Fact! @JerseyFreshNJDA @USDA
Matt Jacovelli, a retiree and backyard gardener living in Deptford, now holds the Guinness record for "most corn cobs on a single plant" after growing a stalk this summer with a staggering 29 cobs. Fact! @GWR @cpsj
Thomas Mundy Peterson (Thomas Henry Peterson), born in Metuchen, was the first African American to vote in the United States after the passage of the 15th Amendment, when he voted in a local Perth Amboy election about the town charter on March 31, 1870. Fact!
Accounting for overall ratings and the quality and quantity of reviews, @TripAdvisor listed Manco & Manco Pizza in Ocean City as the best pizza place in NJ - mentioning their Jersey Shore boardwalk setting and no-frills, just-plain-good slices. Fact!
Cases of humans infected with Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE), a rare virus that causes brain inflammation, have been recorded in NJ (1), MA (4 with one death) and MI (1). There is currently no EEE vaccine for people. Fact! @CDCgov
5 NJ natives have won @USOpen (formerly US National Championships) singles titles: Aline Terry (Princeton) - 1893; Juliette Atkinson (Rahway) - 1895, 1897, 1898; William Larned (Summit) - 1901, 1902, 1907-1911; Helen Homans (Englewood) - 1906; Ted Schroeder (Newark) - 1942. Fact!
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