Name a Bronx High School that has pumps running in its basement 24/7 to keep the building from sinking. ------------------------------------------------------ ANSWER: DeWitt Clinton
Which of the following was not a Bronx Borough President: James Lyons Robert Abrams Carmine Di Sapio Herman Badillo ------------------------------------------------------ ANSWER: Carmine DiSapio
Name the following OLD bronx bus routes: Bx25-----Morris-Jerome Avenues Bx 28----Williamsbridge Bx 19----207th Street Crosstown Bx 37----Ogden Avenue Bx 3-----Prospect Avenue
Who wrote the Bronx Bandwagon column in The Bronx Home News/New York Post Bronx Edition? ------------------------------------------------------ ANSWER: Bert Gumpert
Which of the following never played for The Yankees? Jack Reed Johnny Schmitz Bob Porterfield Jackie Jensen Frank Malzone**************** Rocky Colavito Camilo Pascual*************** Pedro Ramos Fenton Mole Jim Pisoni Gordon Windhorn Eli Grba Dom DiMaggio****************** Lou Berberet Gaylord Perry Al Rosen**********************
Those marked with asterisks never played for The Bronx Bombers. All the others did.
Which of these former major league ballplayers did not come from The Bronx? Frank Malzone Vito Valentinetti Ken Aspromonte***************************** Arnie Portocarrero Rico Petrocelli**************************** Lou Gehrig********************************* Whitey Ford******************************** Lou Limmer Rocky Colavito Joe Pignatano******************************
Those marked with asterisks did not come from The Bronx.
Where in The Bronx did the IRT 7th Avenue Express terminate before 1952?? ------------------------------------------------------ East 180th Street-Bronx Park. The station was at the end of a short spur extending north from the IRT elevated just north of the East 177th Street-West Farms Square station. (The main structure curved sharply to the right; the spur ran staright ahead.)
The spur and the Bronx Park station were demolished in 1952, and the 7th Avenue express terminal was shifted to East 180th Street-Morris Park Avenue.