In Gulliver’s Travels, the tiny people of Lilliput were at war with another nation of equally tiny people. What was that nation?Blefuscu
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[li]New York County, which occupies the same physical land as the Borough of Manhattan.[/li][li]Indian Road (just north of the Cloisters, IIRC).[/li][li]Marble Hill, which used to be cut off from the Bronx / mainland USA by a loop of the Harlem River that later got filled in.[/li][/ul]
Well, one of them is South Ferry, on the loop under Battery Park.
Archibald Leach, Bernard Schwartz, and Lucille LaSueuer.
Those are all correct. And South Ferry is the easy one (and is getting a new, 10 car, 3 track platform built underneath it as we speak). Nobody ever seems to know about the second station with a short platform though! I’ll see if anyone else wants to try a crack at my other answers before I post the real ones.
Related to the New York county/Manhattan borough trivia - this entity is best known for the island of Manhattan, but also includes the islands of Governor, Randalls, Wards, and Roosevelt. Despite the popular trivia “fact” that Liberty island (home of the statue) is part of New Jersey, this is incorrect - although not part of New York county (it is considered a private territory), it IS part of New York State, even though the water surrounding it is technically New Jersey.
France! St Pierre et Miguelon (sp)
Kalawao County, Hawai’i has only 13 square miles of land. New York County has 22.96 sq mi.
In the most realistic way, that is actually correct, seeing as there is less LAND there. However, since boundries are determined by land AND water, New York County is still smaller (33 vs 52 square miles). I know, it’s stupid
ETA - oh wow, I just realized that I did actually say LAND SIZE in the trivia question, but I was refering to physical size vs population size.
This thread has, I think, turned into a game.
Moved from IMHO to TGR.
David Tennant. The current one. He was Barty Crouch, Jr. in The Goblet of Fire.
Steamboat Mickey?
Nooo, “Steamboat Willie” was the third Mickey cartoon, IIRC.
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Bradley in Hartford, too. (Butch O’Hare and Saint-Ex were shot down, not crashed in the usual sense).
well for a very slight nitpick for the O/P of the question), as the body of Kingsford Smith was never found, he may not have died in a plane crash. He may have survived and died of exposure or drowning.
He did die as a result of a plane crash 
The first one was Plane Crazy. I don’t know the first color one, though;
Well, I like to think that Denver International Airport (opened in 1995) was named after aviation enthusiast John Denver, who of course had chosen his stage name to match that of the capital city of Colorado.
Given his worldwide popularity, it’s entirely possible that millions of people around the globe knew the name “John Denver” who had never heard of the Mile-High City.
Given that the previous airport was called Stapleton, it seems pretty clear that the namers of the new facility chose to ride on the singer’s coattails. Pretty clever, and perhaps inspired by the cunning renaming of King County, WA. Name recognition, and plausible deniability of licensing obligations – win/win all round!
Then, in 1997, John Denver crashed his Long-EZ into the Pacific and perished, thus joining the pantheon of those who satisfy the literal reading of this trivia question [note that the wording is not “…previously died in a plane crash”].
Hubris, matched by a feeling of invincibility, at having one of the world’s busiest airports named after him? Depression at the delays and baggage-handling SNAFUs? Sadly, we will never know. The truth went with him to his watery grave.
[Yes, I realize that this is a minority viewpoint.]
Okay, since nobody has taken a stab at these…
What is the only station in the NYC subway system which is outdoors in one direction, and indoors in the other? - Wilson Ave on the L. The Manhattan-bound track raises above the Canarsie-bound track, which puts it above street level.
What are the two closest subway stations by track distance? - Chambers St & Parl Place on the 2/3 - literally just a 90° curve.
Everybody know the two farthest stations in the city (JFK Airport and Broad Channel), but what are the two farthest stations which aren’t separated by water? - Prospect Park and 7th Ave on the B/Q - 1.6 miles apart (although the B/Q tracks do pass directly underneath the Grand Army Plaza 2/3 station between them). Also, the B train makes a stop at ANOTHER 7th Ave station in Manhattan!
Name the three subway stations that are not open 24/7. - 148 & 145 St on the 3 are closed from midnight to 5AM every night, when the 3 doesn’t run. There’s a shuttle bus that connects these stations to 135 St on the 2. Broad St on the J/M/Z is open 24/5 - they close it on Saturday & Sunday to save a couple measy dollars since they figure if anybody wants to go to the financial district during the weekend, the 4/5 train is only a block away. Aqueduct Racetrack on the A is also an acceptable answer, although this station is closed more often than it is open (it’s only used when the nearby horse racetrack is open)
Which two active stations can not fit an entire train onto its platform? - South Ferry, as mentioned above, and 145 St-Lenox Ave on the 3. Both of them only open the front 5 cars - South Ferry because the track is on a loop and the gap would be too large if it were expanded (although it’s getting a new, normal station built underneath it this year) and 145 St because it is a very lightly used station on a line which used to only run 5 car trains, and the MTA never felt like it was worthwhile to expand it.
Which subway line has the most stops during day service, and during night service (two answers)? - This was sort of a trick question. During the day, it is the 2 express with 50 stops. At night, it is ALSO the 2 with 62 stops. However, from 10PM-midnight, the A is running local with 55 stops while the 2 is still express.
What is the longest subway ride that you can take, while being allowed one multiplex-station transfer to a different line going in the same direction? - Start at Far Rockaway on the A, and change to the 2 at Columbus Circle (only when the 2 is running local, otherwise change at Times Square for an insignificantly shorter distance) and ride it to 241 St, and you’ll go nearly 40 miles.
There aren’t ANY subway routes that have multiplex transfers to EVERY other line, but which line connects to the most different lines at least once? - During the day, the A has a transfer to every line EXCEPT the 6 and the Franklin Shuttle. During the night, it also connects to the Franklin Shuttle (but not the 5, which doesn’t run in Manhattan at night)
What is the rarest station to next station route you can ride, which is still operated every weekday? - Riding between Broad St and Court St. This is only possible when the M is extended to downtown Brooklyn during rush hours.
Bumping to share one of my favorites:
Andy Warhol’s famous portraits of Marilyn Monroe are based on a publicity still from what movie? (This one’s not hard to Google, of course.)
Name sports in which you win by moving backwards:
rowing, backstroke swimming, tug of war
When you watch the video look at the judge at the end of the ski jump. he skiier goes right over his head. He almost got killed. What was his name.?
I’m fairly certain it’s Wells, which became Sandford in Hot Fuzz.