Only A Native New Yorker Will Get 100% On This NYC Slang Quiz!

only a native new yorker will get 100 on this nyc slang quiz

Only A Native New Yorker Will Get 100% On This NYC Slang Quiz!

New Yorkers are fiercely proud of their city, and they’ve come up with a whole set of words they use to describe everyday life. Only a true New Yorker will be able to answer all of the questions on this quiz, can you? Take our quiz and find out!

Old New York Slang

New York has given us a huge legacy of slang words and phrases like: Hot dog, rush hour, butter-and-egg man, gold digger, shyster, buttinsky, smart aleck, sidewalk superintendent, yellow journalism, breadline, straphanger, tar beach, the Tenderloin, the Great White Way, to do a Brodie--these are just a few of the hundreds of popular words and phrases that were born or took on new meaning in the streets of New York

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Question 1/20

"Bridge and tunnel" is a term used to refer to which types of people?

Anyone who lives on Long Island
Tourists on vacation in NYC
Anyone who is from outside of the city, typically New Jersey

Question 2/20

Neighborhood stores that sell convenience items are called what?

Corner stores
Convenience stores
Bodegas

Question 3/20

What is another name for pigeons in NYC?

Air roaches
Flying rats
Plague birds

Question 4/20

If someone is "grilling" you, they are really:

Questioning you
Staring at you
Hitting you

Question 5/20

If someone calls you 730, they are saying you are:

Calling from the wrong area code
Acting crazy
Not understanding the situation

Question 6/20

What does DUMBO stand for?

Down Under the Municipal Building Office
Down Under the Metropolitan Building Observatory
Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass

Question 7/20

What term do New Yorkers use when they are talking about carrying a lot of bags or heavy items?

Schmutz
Schlep
Saddle

Question 8/20

What is the term used for hot dogs served from a hot dog cart?

Mobile wieners
Dirty water dogs
Devil dogs

Question 9/20

What do New Yorkers call a piece of cheese pizza?

Plain slice
Dairy slab
Cheese and crust

Question 10/20

What is the proper way to pronounce Houston?

Hue-ston
How-ston
Hoo-ston

Question 11/20

New Yorkers never refer to train lines by color. What is the correct way to call out the train you are taking?

By stop
By number
By borough

Question 12/20

Where does upstate New York really start?

Rochester
Anything north of Syracuse
Anything north of the northernmost point of NYC

Question 13/20

Where are country houses in New York located?

Upstate
The Beach
Long Island

Question 14/20

What does "The City" refer to for New Yorkers?

Any borough
Any borough excluding Brooklyn
Only Manhattan

Question 15/20

What do New Yorkers call "waiting in line"?

Waiting in queue
Waiting on line
Waiting in formation

Question 16/20

What is a schmear?

Cream cheese on a bagel
A stain on your shirt
A spill on the floor

Question 17/20

What is a straphanger?

Someone who rides the bus
Someone who commutes from New Jersey
Someone who rides the subway

Question 18/20

What is the New York term for a sub sandwich?

Hero
Meat stack
Deli burger

Question 19/20

Tourists may call it the Ed Koch Bridge, but New Yorkers know it as the:

59th Street Bridge
Brooklyn Bridge
Triborough Bridge

Question 20/20

If you hear someone say "yooz," it really means:

You plural
You know
You are crazy

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