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Exploring Albany, New York: A Quiz on Its History and Geography

Test your knowledge about Albany, New York, its history, geography, and demographics with this engaging quiz.

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1 Although it was never adopted by Parliament, it was an important precursor to the ________.

2 What percentage of the area of Albany, New York is water?

3 What is the total population of Albany, New York?

4 When was Albany, New York established?

5 What is the metropolitan population of Albany, New York?

6 What type of subdivision is Albany, New York?

7 How many feet above sea level is Albany, New York?

8 What time offset in UTC is Albany, New York in during daylight savings?

9 Who played centre in the Albany, New York?

10 What is the area of the water of Albany, New York in square miles?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Mansion District was once known as the "Garlic Core" of Albany, New York, due to its large Italian American population.
  • the Golden Cue Billiard Lounge is the only extant billiard hall in Albany, New York.
  • the Clinton Avenue Historic District has the greatest concentration of 19th-century rowhouses (pictured) anywhere in Albany, New York.
  • the former common pasture was the first area outside Albany, New York's stockade to be settled.
  • the W. Averell Harriman State Office Building Campus in Albany, New York, has an underground bunker designed to withstand a nuclear attack and assure continuation of the New York State Government.
  • the four rowhouses at 744–750 Broadway in Albany, New York, are the only ones left along that street in the city's Fifth Ward.
  • the first child of European descent born along the Hudson River was born on Beeren Island near Albany, New York.
  • the pump station built to supply Hudson River water to Albany, New York, is now home to a brewpub, planetarium and the city's visitor center.
  • the Salem, New York, historic district was the site of one of the earliest churches built in New York north of Albany.
  • Rensselaer Lake, created in 1851, was Albany, New York's first municipal water supply.
  • New York Governor David Paterson's press secretary Errol Cockfield Jr. was previously Albany bureau chief of Newsday.
  • before serving in the Union Army during the American Civil War, Brigadier General Stephen Gardner Champlin had his own law practice in Albany, New York.
  • during the First Great Migration, the majority of Shubuta, Mississippi, moved to Albany, New York, with some recreating a religious rural community in Rapp Road Community Historic District.
  • poet and epistolary novelist Ann Eliza Bleecker (pictured) lost three generations of her family fleeing to Albany during Burgoyne's Saratoga campaign.
  • in order to end the dispute over jurisdiction of Fort Orange, Pieter Stuyvesant created the village of Beverwijck in 1652, which eventually became the city of Albany, New York.
  • Albany, New York, has a life-size sculpture of its coat of arms (pictured) that was sculpted by a local political cartoonist.
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