Exploring Brooklyn: A Knowledge Quiz Quiz - Test Your Knowledge

many works by "Brooklyn's greatest architect", Frank Freeman, have been destroyed, including the Hotel Margaret, Germania Club House, Brooklyn Waterworks, Bushwick Democratic Club House, Brooklyn Savings Bank and Thomas Jefferson Building (pictured).

in 1967, Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz performed the world's second human heart transplant, in a procedure on a 19-day-old infant at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York.

surviving works by Brooklyn architect Frank Freeman include the Herman Behr Mansion, Eagle Warehouse, Brooklyn Union Gas Company Headquarters, Villa Maria and Crescent Athletic Club House (pictured).

the Brooklyn Hospital Center is the oldest hospital of the borough of Brooklyn in New York City.

the illustrated children's book Hot House Flowers, an allegory for illegal immigration, was written by a Brooklyn criminal court judge.

the St. Bernard de Clairvaux Church in North Miami Beach, Florida is a medieval Spanish monastery that was purchased by newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, disassembled, and then kept in 11,000 crates in a warehouse in Brooklyn for 26 years.

in 1919, Brooklyn's Morse Dry Dock and Repair Company, founded by Edward P. Morse, built the world's largest floating dry dock (section pictured).

before starting her modeling career and appearing on America's Next Top Model, Celia Ammerman lived across from a chicken slaughterhouse in Brooklyn.

Nkiru Books, the oldest African American bookstore in Brooklyn, was saved from being closed down by rappers Mos Def and Talib Kweli in 2000.

Yale's two-time All-American "Bo" Bomeisler, called "King of the Hard Luck Players," had his foot crushed by a trolley car on Brooklyn's Flatbush Avenue in 1914.

Paul Kodish, best known as the current drummer for drum and bass band Pendulum, performed in 1986 with Brooklyn hip hop act Whodini.

after previously competing at the 2004 games in Athens, Brooklyn-bred Erinn Smart and her brother Keeth are again part of the U. S. Olympic fencing team at Beijing.

an 1847 New York state law led to bodies buried in Manhattan graveyards being dug up for reburial in Brooklyn and Queens.

physical chemist Jerome Karle won the 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, making him the third alumnus of Brooklyn's Abraham Lincoln High School to win a Nobel.

Exploring Brooklyn: A Knowledge Quiz

1 When was Brooklyn established?

2 What is Brooklyn classified as?

3 It is a hub for African-American culture, often referenced in ________ and African-American arts.

4 Democrat ________ represents 10th Congressional district, which covers Fort Greene, Bedford Stuyvesant, Brownsville, East New York, and Canarsie.

5 Who of the following is/was the leader of Brooklyn?

6 What role did Artur Szõcs play in the movie Brooklyn?

7 What is the leader of Brooklyn called?

8 What role did Máté Haumann play in the movie Brooklyn?

9 Brooklyn's Borough President is ________, elected as a Democrat in 2001 and re-elected in 2005.

10 Which of the following subdivisions is Brooklyn in?

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