Can you name the New York City Mayors (since 1900)?

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New York City Mayors Quiz

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Published: August 20th, 2009
Category: History
Plays: 11,783

Tags: City Quizzes, 1900, mayor, us history pack, New York

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	Etheridge2:	Aug 20th, 2009 at 15:33 GMT	5 points
	tough i got all the ones in my lifetime and 3 from the 1934-1973 era, but none before that...and I don't even recognize those names then again I am from Chicago...hey how about chicago mayors or better yet illinois governors (The ones that have gone to jail could get special coloring ;)

	Nuclear_Knuckles:	Aug 20th, 2009 at 15:38 GMT	5 points
	Bah. Tried 50 different ways of spelling Impellitteri and couldn't get it.

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	jlangr:	Aug 20th, 2009 at 16:23 GMT	6 points
	always love the number of people who get all of quizzes like these right, as if.

	zigra:	Aug 20th, 2009 at 16:32 GMT	2 points
	Dinkins - aaaargh!! Not Dinkens, or Dinkers, or Dinkel.

	cmkeller:	Aug 20th, 2009 at 16:35 GMT	2 points
	I'm a lifelong New Yorker, but only got those within my lifetime, plus LaGuardia.

	CoolerKing:	Aug 20th, 2009 at 17:12 GMT	2 points
	Well, I got the last four correct. Not bad since I live in the Midwest.

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	starfish:	Aug 20th, 2009 at 17:29 GMT	1 point
	So it seems that doing well on the NYC bridges and tunnels quiz won't actually help me on this one. Darn.

	jaymc:	Aug 20th, 2009 at 17:56 GMT	2 points
	Thank you, "Nixonland," for John Lindsay.

	y2jdilemma:	Aug 20th, 2009 at 18:30 GMT	6 points
	Mayor Lenny should be a bonus! "I spent an hour in my room last night talking to Fiorello La Guardia, and he's been dead for forty years. Now where are the Ghostbusters?"

	debbiedoesnothin:	Aug 20th, 2009 at 18:46 GMT	3 points
	I thought there was a mayor named Fiorella. Didn't realize it was actually La Guardia's first name. Oh well.

	kidcanada:	Aug 20th, 2009 at 19:00 GMT	6 points
	Dinkins would have beaten Giuliani if not for Lloyd Braun's name tag suggestion.

	bsd987:	Aug 20th, 2009 at 19:36 GMT	0 points
	i think i speak for all spin city fans when i ask "where's randall winston?!?"

	quiztaker:	Aug 20th, 2009 at 20:14 GMT	4 points
	Great Quiz. I say bring on the Governors of New York.

	otarmy:	Aug 21st, 2009 at 00:35 GMT	3 points
	Thank you The Bronx Is Burning for letting me remember Beame

	Camden:	Aug 21st, 2009 at 02:29 GMT	0 points
	No Randall Winston??

	mschrist:	Aug 21st, 2009 at 03:06 GMT	2 points
	I'll second Chicago mayors--there's enough people there who are nationally famous.

	shakescene:	Aug 21st, 2009 at 04:51 GMT	2 points
	I'm slightly mortified because I did much of the editing of Wikipedia's year-by-year article on New York City mayoral elections (as well as the specific article on the 1917 mayoral election and most of the one on Ardolph Loges Kline), and yet I still couldn't come up with two (Van Wyck and McKee). But to look on the bright side: if I only got 90% of them, then your own score should look better by comparison. :-)

	btroup1:	Aug 21st, 2009 at 12:16 GMT	1 point
	The first one has a road named after him. Other than that, I can't say there were any that I missed that I should have known, or fancied an educated guess. My knowledge (save for the airport guy) pretty much stopped at the People's Court judge.

	btroup1:	Aug 21st, 2009 at 12:18 GMT	5 points
	@Jeremy: How hard could a quiz be when all the answers are "Daley?"

	davebesag:	Sep 10th, 2009 at 10:39 GMT	1 point
	Got Koch, Bloomberg and Giuliani (I'm not convinced I spelt the latter right). The only other three I've heard of are La Guardia (because of the airport), Lindsay (because he won as the Liberal Party nominee) and Dinkins (because of A Tribe Called Quest song).

	mtc:	Nov 2nd, 2009 at 05:07 GMT	1 point
	only ever heard of guiliani

	icing:	Nov 16th, 2009 at 15:36 GMT	1 point
	This was a very good quiz to offer. I did quite poorly on it, because I only knew a handful, but still quite educational.

	RLthehammer:	Jan 16th, 2010 at 22:13 GMT	1 point
	Got all modern era ones except for Impellitteri. The only thing Van Wyck I ever heard of is the expressway and I lived in NY my whole life. Great Quiz! Learned a little something.

	AdamBishop:	Mar 7th, 2010 at 21:02 GMT	1 point
	The only reason I knew Dinkins is because of Seinfeld, ha.

	sobdennis:	Jun 18th, 2010 at 06:27 GMT	1 point
	I knew everyone in my lifetime, which is since Wagner. I also knew LaGuardia because he is possibly the most famous and Walker because of a Bob Hope movie. The only other one that maybe I should have gotten is O'Dwyer.

	Mr_Bad_Example:	Mar 18th, 2011 at 01:48 GMT	1 point
	Poor Van Wyck, what an awful namesake they left him

	Roman:	Apr 18th, 2011 at 20:26 GMT	1 point
	Dinkins I got because he was and remains the only African-American mayor of New York. Giuliani due to his hardassed crime policies and 9/11 Koch because he fixed New York's economic problems after Lindsay screwed it up LaGuardia was instrumental in building much of the modern infrastructure in New York due to the Great Depression.