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What percentage of the New York City cab fleet was clean diesel or hybrid in 2010?
80%
What percent reduction of greenhouse gases does Mayor de Blasio want to see by 2050?
Hearst Tower
What is the name of a notable green office building in New York?
Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency
What legal case sought to compel the Environmental Protection Agency to regular greenhouse gases?
6
How long is Newtown Creek in kilometers?
110,000
How many cubic meters of oil is supposed to be in Newtown Creek?
the Greenpoint oil spill
What notable accidental fossil fuel discharge occurred at Newtown Creek?
mayor-council
What type of government does New York City have?
1898
In what year did New York City adopt the mayor-council form of government?
Second
What numbered department of the Supreme Court is located in Brooklyn?
Manhattan
In what borough is the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court located?
executive
What branch of government are the administrative courts a part of?
Manhattan
In what borough is the main courthouse of the District Court for the Southern District of New York located?
the Eastern District of New York
What federal district court has its main courthouse in Brooklyn?
Foley Square
What square is home to the US Court of International Trade?
the District Court for the Eastern District of New York
What federal district court has jurisdiction over Staten Island?
Manhattan
In what borough is the New York City Hall found?
Manhattan
Four-fifths of the ZIP codes that provide the highest amount of political contributions in the United States are located in what borough?
10021
What ZIP code was responsible for the greatest amount of contributions in the 2004 presidential election for both candidates?
83
How much money in cents does New York City receive for every dollar paid in federal taxes?
$11 billion
How much more money does the city give to the state of New York annually than it receives?
$11.4 billion
Each year, how much more money does New York City give to the federal government than it gets back?
New York City Global Partners
What is the new name of the Sister City Program of the City of New York, Inc.?
2006
In what year did the Sister City Program of the City of New York, Inc. have its name changed?
1960
When did To Kill a Mockingbird first get circulated?
Pulitzer Prize
What prize did To Kill a Mockingbird win?
Harper Lee
Who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird?
Harper Lee
Who wrote the novel To Kill a Mockingbird?
1960
What year was To Kill a Mockingbird first published?
her family and neighbors
Whom did Lee base the characters in To Kill a Mockingbird on?
United States
To Kill a Mockingbird is widely read in which countries schools?
Southern Gothic novel
What genre of book is To Kill a Mockingbird?
racial injustice and the destruction of innocence
Some of the central themes of the book are what exactly?
Deep South
Which region of America was the novel set in?
racial epithets
What has caused the use of the novel in classrooms to be challenged?
Mary McDonough Murphy
Who gathered impressions of To Kill a Mockingbird from other authors and famous people?
2006
In which year did British librarians rank To Kill a Mockingbird ahead of the Bible?
1962
When was To Kill a Mockingbird made into a movie?
1990
When did a play for the book begin to perform every year in Monroeville, Alabama?
Robert Mulligan
Who was the director of the adaptation of the movie?
Bible
British librarians in 2006 ranked the book ahead of what famous volume?
Horton Foote
Who wrote the screenplay for the 1962 film?
Robert Mulligan
Who directed the 1962 film?
Monroeville, Alabama
What is Harper Lee's hometown?
February 2016
When did Harper Lee pass away?
Go Set a Watchman
What is the only other work Harper Lee published?
Go Set a Watchman
What is the name of Lee's second published work?
July 14, 2015
When was the second book published?
February 2016
When did Lee die?
Truman Capote
Who did Harper Lee become childhood friends with?
1950
What year did Harper Lee pack up to go live in New York City?
reservation clerk
What job did Harper Lee start in New York City?
Alabama
Which state did Harper Lee spend her childhood?
1926
What year was Harper Lee born?
Truman Capote
Who was the famous writer Lee became close friends with?
Huntingdon College
Where did Lee attend college?
University of Alabama
Where did Lee attend law school?
J. B. Lippincott
What publishing company bought To Kill a Mockingbird?
Go Set a Watchman
The first draft of To Kill a Mockingbird was named what?
Tay Hohoff
Who was the editor who got their hands on the first draft of To Kill a Mockingbird?
Therese von Hohoff Torrey
What was the name of the editor who helped Lee finish her book?
mental illness
What ailment did Harper Lee's mother suffer from?
lawyer
What profession did Harper Lee's father hold?
Her father
Lee modeled the character Atticus after what laywer?
July 11, 1960
What date did To Kill a Mockingbird begin to circulate?
over two and a half years
How long did Lee spend writing the book?
Reader's Digest Condensed Books
What publication's partial reprinting gave the book wide public exposure?
Maycomb, Alabama
Where is the setting for To Kill a Mockingbird?
three
How many years does the story of To Kill a Mockingbird take place?
two
How many children does the protagonist, Atticus Finch, have?
Dill
Atticus Finch's children make friends with whom during the story?
Maycomb, Alabama
What is the name of the town the story takes place in?
the Great Depression
In what historical era does the book take place?
Jean Louise Finch (Scout)
Who is the main character of the book?
Mayella Ewell
What was the name of the woman who was allegedly raped in the book?
Tom Robinson
What is the name of Atticus' client in the rape trial?
Scout, Jem, and Dill
Who stopped the mob by shaming them?
Jem and Scout
What are the names of Atticus Finch's children in the book?
balcony
Where do Jem, Scout, and Dill observe the trial of Tom Robinson?
the colored balcony
Where do the three children watch the trial?
shot and killed
What happens to Tom when he attempts to escape prison?
Jem and Scout
Who did Bob Ewell attack during the story?
Halloween pageant
What event did Jem and Scout attend right before they were attacked at night?
Boo Radley
Who saved Jem and Scout from Bob Ewell?
Bob Ewell
Who attacked Scout and Jem?
Boo Radley
Who rescued Scout and Jem?
Sheriff Tate
What was the name of the police officer who discovered Bob Ewell's body?
fell on his own knife
According to Sheriff Tate's story, how did Ewell die?
autobiography
Harper Lee has stated that To Kill a Mockingbird is not what genre of book?
1919
What year did Harper Lee's father represent two black men accused of murder?
25
At what age did Harper Lee's mother die?
editor and publisher
What titles did Lee's father maintain at the local newspaper?
next door
Where did Truman Capote live in relation to Lee?
1960
What year did Lee and Capote go to Kansas together?
In Cold Blood
Murders were the base for which story that Capote wrote?
Truman Capote
Who was the character Dill modeled after?
old Underwood typewriter
What did Lee and Capote write their childhood stories on?
apart people
What term did Capote use to describe Lee and himself?
10
At what age was Lee when a white woman accused a black guy of rape?
Walter Lett
What was the name of the black man who was accused of rape in Lee's town when she was 10?