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1. What singing waiter named Eddie who worked with pianist Jimmy Durante is legended to have convinced their co-worker named Nathan to quit his job in Coney Island first hot dog resturant, to sell hot dogs at half price ?
4. Samuel invented the six shooter gun, and built Coney Island's 1st observation tower in 1845 to telegraph the movements of ships traveling to the city. What was Samuel's last name ?
6. Yale University students in 1894 started to refer to the carts selling hot sausages in buns as dog wagons, making light of what kind of meat they were using. A story in the Yale Record on October 19, 1895, ended -They contentedly munched hot dogs. Coney Island first hot dog was a hot Vienna sausage in a roll. The inventor of this sandwich named it a Coney Island what ?
7. In 1875 a Danish woodcarver created Coney Island's first ride for Vandeveer's bath-house (later called Balmer's Bathing Pavilion) at West 6th Street and Surf Ave. This kerosene lantern lit ride featured hand-carved horses, animals and iron rings to grab. Feltman's Beer Garden Carousel was the second Carousel in Coney Island and it was built by the same Danish Woodcarver? Who's name was on the first carousel at Coney Island and was also the last name of the man who built both carousels ?
9. The War of the Worlds and the Kansas Cyclone once were featured attractions in a Coney Island amusement park which burnt down in 1944. Besides these two rides, what Coney Island park which bought and destroyed most of Coney Island's first amusement park, developed from a ride called Trip to the Moon, which started at Steeplechase in 1902 ?
10. Real estate mogul Fred C. Trump demolished the Pavilion of Fun in 1964 before it could be saved as a historic landmark. Steeplechase's Pavilion of Fun featured a moving walkway that was called the what Stairway ?
11. In 1916, Nathan and his wife Ida, bought and opened a 8 x 25-foot store at the corner of Surf and Stillwell Avenues. Ida's spicy recipe used all beef hotdogs and lots of what ?
14. Deno's Wonder Wheel was built in 1920 and features some cars that swing on tracks. How many years before the Cyclone was this still standing ferris wheel built ?
15. Destruction of Babylon, Feast of Beshazzar and the End of the World were all attractions at an amusement park in Coney island. The current Aquarium was once the former site of this 1904 Coney Island park which closed after only 7 years, after a huge fire burnt it down in 1911 on the opening day of the season ?
18. 300 dwarfs and midgits lived in a Coney Island amusement park in a 80 x 175 feet experimental village some called Midget City. What was the real name of this Coney Island village ?
19. Knott's Berry Farm did not open until 1968, but Walter Knott built a ghost town in 1940. Holiday World opened in 1946 in Santa Claus, Indiana. What famous 1888 hotel (that became associated with prostitution) was the first Coney island ride near ?
21. What Coney Island ride started the Dreamland fire ?
24. This Long Island poet (West Hills, Huntington Station) used to run naked down the Coney Island shore in 1889. He said about the beautiful vistas of Coney Island-Where I loved after bathing to race up and down the hard sand, and declaim Homer or Shakespeare to the surf and seagulls by the hour. What was this poets name ?
25. Nathan's in Coney Island once paid bums (who the employees dressed up) to sit at their counters to look busy. When customers who came off the train saw all these people eatting at Nathan's, they figured it was safe to eat. Nathan even put up a sign reading - If _____ eat our hot dogs, you know they're good! What profession were the bums dressed as ?
26. The frankfurter wurst, was invented in the 1480's in Frankfurt, but Vienna claims to have 1st created the wienerwurst or Viennese sausage. A Bavarian sausage seller, Anton Ludwig Feuchtwanger was serving sausages in rolls at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. Nathan's opened in Coney Island in 1916. What was Nathan's last name ?
27. Old time resorts in Coney Island included: the Manhattan Beach hotel (1877). the Brighton Beach Hotel (1878), but the most snobbish was a 1876 hotel called what ?
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2. This Coney Island park opened in 1962 as a space-age theme park, that was first designed to be called Wonderland by Coney Island Enterprises (that included Nathan Handwerker as a corporate member). What is this 3.1 acre park which is currently on the site where the hot dog was invented in 1874 ?
3. Mike Norton a Tammany Hall ward heeler, opened up a hotel with seedy rough clientel at Norton's point (western side close to West Brighton) on Coney Island in the 1860's. From 1925 - 1983 (torn down on November 17, 2000), a roller coaster near Steeplechase Park used his nickname which came from his punch. This first roller coaster was also the first to utilize steel supports, what was this coaster called ?
4. The first coaster in the world started in 1873, it was the Mauch Chunk Switchback Railway in Pennsylvania. 43 years after the first ride was opened in Coney Island, a roller coaster was built with a 85 foot drop that speed up to 60 miles/hour. What was this coaster named ?
5. Charles was made famous by his 1867 hot dogs and in 1878 opened a Coney island hotel. What was Charles last name ?
8. Captain Paul Boyton opened Coney Island's first amusement park, it offered an aquatic toboggan slide (Shoot-the-Chutes) and a centrifugal railway which was the first looping coaster in America. What was the name of this railroad ride ?
12. On May 27th, 1911 just hours before the season started, a huge fire burnt down this park that had many attractions that gave customers electric shocks. Other rides were the Flying Turns and the Thunderbolt. What was this park in Coney Island which was famous for its simulated horse race over streams and hurdles down 1,100 feet of track on 6 double-saddled robot horses ?
13. Captain Paul Boyton was a local lifeguard, who in 1895 opened up a park in Coney Island with a water flume ride called Shoot the Chutes, that featured an aquatic toboggan slide for flat bottomed boats. This park also featured a broad lagoon with an old-mill water ride. What was the name of this amusement park that was the first built in Coney Island ?
14. In 1884, LaMarcus Adna Thompson (the Father of Gravity) built the first Coney Island ride. This railroad ride had several cars which used undulating tracks to go down a hill using nothing but gravity. What was the name of this railroad ?
16. The Dragon's Gorge roller coaster in Coney Island burned in 1944, later that season another fire burnt The Tunnel of Love and LaMarcus Thompson's Scenic Railway roller coaster. The creators of this Coney Island park (Frederick Thompson and Elmer Dundy) built a theater in Manhattan on 6th Avenue between Forty-third and Forty-fourth streets. What was this 1905 theatre called ?
17. George opened Coney Island's first ferris wheel in 1894 near Culver's Iron Tower on West 8th street & Bowery. He also owned the Surf Theater at Coney Island. What was George's last name and also the name of the first Coney Island ferris wheel ?
20. Andrew Culver in 1877 erected a 300-foot Steel Tower and the crowds started coming, and coming. Besides the Electric Tower that opened in Luna Park in 1920, there was also an 375-foot tower in Dreamland whose beam could be seen for 50 miles. What was this Dreamland tower (which burnt down in 1911) called ?
22. A winged spaceship was brought to Coney Island after it premiered at the Buffalo Pan-American Exposition in 1901. What was the name of this spaceship that was featured in the ride A Trip To The Moon ?
23. After the fire of 1907, the owner of the Steeplechase Park added a roofed version of this Pavilion which had the Human Zoo, the Human Roulette Wheel and the Human Pool Table. Also featured was the Blowhole Theater, Barrel of Love, Earthquake Stairway, and the Whichway in its Pavilion of what ?
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