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32 Cards in this Set
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How Long and Wide is the Island?
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It is 118 miles long and varies in width between 12 - 23 miles.
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How many square Miles?
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Long Island has an area of 1,401 square miles
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It is the ___ largest island in the United States and the ___ largest island in the world.
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11th largest island in the United States and the 149th largest island in the world.
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How many People Live there
It is the _______ most populated Island in the U.S. and the ____ most populated island in the world |
the population estimated at 7,559,372 as of July 1, 2006, making it the most populated island in any U.S. state or territory. 17th and 1st
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What is the Native American Name for the Island and why it named that?
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The Native American name for Long Island is Paumanok, meaning "The Island that Pays Tribute" —more warlike tribes in the surrounding areas forced the relatively peaceful Long Islanders to give tributes and payment to avoid attacks.
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According to the 2000 Census, Nassau County is the ______ richest county per capita in New York State and the ______ richest in the United States.
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According to the 2000 Census, Nassau County is the second richest county per capita in New York State (behind New York County, which is coterminous with the New York City borough of Manhattan) and the fifth richest in the United States.
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What is the Climate Like?
___ summers ____ winters Atlantic ocean ______ heat and limits _____ |
it has warm, humid summers and cold winters, but the Atlantic Ocean helps bring afternoon sea breezes that temper the heat in the warmer months and limit the frequency and severity of thunderstorms.
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What are the Outer Lands?
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The Outer Lands is a term denoting the prominent terminal moraine archipelagic region off of the southern coast of New England in the United States. This region of Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New York, comprises the peninsula of Cape Cod and the islands of Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, Block Island and Long Island, as well as surrounding islets.
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What is the Island's tallest natural point?
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The island's tallest natural point is Jayne's Hill near Melville, with an elevation of 400.9 feet (122.2 m) above sea level.
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The underground aquifers hold how much water?
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roughly 70 trillion US gallons (260 km³)
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What percentage of people are Jewish in Nassau County,,, Suffolk County?
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16 and 7
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Where is the most expensive estate found and how much is it worth?
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Three Ponds in Bridgehampton. It is estimated to be worth about 75 million.
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Where was the first Trans-Atlantic radio broadcast?
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Long Island is home to the first Trans-Atlantic radio broadcast, made in Rocky Point New York to Paris, France.
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What 3 airports are there in Long Island?
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These are the John F. Kennedy International Airport and LaGuardia Airport, both in Queens County (in New York City), and the Long Island MacArthur Airport, (sometimes referred to as the "Islip Airport"), a smaller airport in Suffolk County. This is the only airport in Nassau or Suffolk counties with regularly scheduled commercial flights, handling about 2 million passengers a year.
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What famous flight took off from ____ airfield in Long Island?
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It was the home of the Roosevelt Airfield - an airfield in Garden City, Nassau County. From this airport, Charles Lindbergh took off for his historic 1927 non-stop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean to Paris, France. Roosevelt Airfield was closed in 1951, and commercial developments built there, including Roosevelt Field Mall.
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Until this event all travel to Long Island was by Boat. What year did this event take place?
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Until the completion of the Brooklyn Bridge in 1883, all travel to Long Island was by boat. The first trains to connect Long Island to Manhattan were elevated rail lines that travelled over that same bridge.
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What annual event is a competition between all the Pizza places on Long Island?
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The Long Island Pizza Festival & Bake-Off is an annual charity event that raises money to feed the hungry.
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What was Brooklyn's baseball team and where did they play? When did they leave and what city did they leave to?
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Ebbets Field, which stood in Brooklyn from 1913-1957, was the home of the Brooklyn Dodgers, who decamped to California after the 1957 season to become the Los Angeles Dodgers.
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What other MLB team is in long island? What Stadium do they play in and where is it?
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The New York Mets play at Shea Stadium in Flushing in Queens. P
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What is the Met's new stadium going to be called and after which field is its exterior facade and rotunda inspired by?
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lans have been announced for a new stadium, Citi Field in Willets Point in the parking lot of the current stadium, to be completed for the 2009 baseball season. The new stadium is designed with an exterior facade and main entry rotunda inspired by Ebbets Field
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Nassau County is home to these two teams in these two leagues, and which stadium do they play?
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Nassau County is home to the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League and the New York Dragons of the Arena Football League, who both play at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale.
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Where is the longest dirt Thoroughbred racecourse in the world located?
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The longest dirt Thoroughbred racecourse in the world is located in the Nassau County community of Elmont at Belmont Park.
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This organization runs this sport as old as firefighting itself?
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New York State Drill Team Captains Association (NYSDTCA. They run Drill Team which is also known as Firematic racing.
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Name this artist and where she was raised. She was the first recording artist to have her first five singles top the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart.
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Superstar diva Mariah Carey was born and raised in Huntington in Suffolk County.
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Name this artist and where she grew up. She was the first female artist to have three Top Ten songs (Foolish, What's Luv, and Always on Time (with Ja Rule)) on the Billboard Hot 100 charts in the same week.
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R&B singer Ashanti grew up in Glen Cove
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Name the artist and where he was raised. One of his songs is "A Touch of Kindness".
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Paris-based singer-songwriter Elliott Murphy was raised in Garden City (the song "Garden City" describing his teenage years is included in the album Murph the Surf)
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Name the Artist and where he is from. His first song is "Piano Man."
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Billy Joel is from Hicksville in Nassau County.
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Where did the Blue Oyster Cult come together.
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Blue Öyster Cult came together around Stony Brook University,
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This 2004 Film, which gets its name from the poem Eloisa to Abelard by Alexander Pope about the story of a tragic love affair, takes place on Long Island. The movie is a romance with a science fiction element and deals with the themes of love and memory.
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The 2004 movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind starring Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet takes place on Long Island, specifically in Rockville Centre and Montauk.
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This show revolves around the life of Italian-American, Ray Barone, a newspaper sportswriter from ________, Long Island.
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The television series, Everybody Loves Raymond (CBS, 1996-2005) takes place in Long Island. Ray is from Lynbrook, Long Island.
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What is the North Fork known for?
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it is known for fishing villages, quaint towns, ferries across to Connecticut or other northern states, and for the world famous wineries.
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What is the South Fork known for?
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The South fork is primarily known for similar features including golf, equestrian, boating, surfing, and fine dining in the Hamptons and Montauk.
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