OUR POUGHKEEPSIE! QUIZ

How well do you know the history of our city?

Answer the following 10 questions and then check your answers below.

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1. What is the name of the person pictured below? He "blew into" town in the mid-1800s "in a whirlwind," established a highly successful business college, and was elected mayor just twelve years after he arrived. He purchased the Soldiers' Fountain and gave it to the city and laid the cornerstone for a railroad bridge which is now the Walkway Across the Hudson.

2. What is the name of the woman pictured below? She was a native of Poughkeepsie (her father was an executive at DeLaval.) As a young woman she was strikingly beautiful and became a model, a World War II photographer for LIFE Magazine, and a friend and "muse" for such famous artists as Picasso, Man Ray, and the Surrealists.

3. Where did the name Bardavon come from? 

4. Where is the Kirkbride Building located?

5. What is the Native American name for the Fall Kill Creek?

6. How did Hooker Avenue get its name? (Hint: it had nothing to do, as some have joked, with being a red-light district!) 

7. Who or what was the Poughkeepsie Eagle?


8. What was the name of the  Dutchess County Prosecuting Attorney who led a drug raid on Timothy Leary's Millbrook estate? He later became nationally famous for orchestrating another kind of raid.

9. What did Poughkeepsie native, Alfred Mosher Butts invent?

10. According to legend what was the name of the itinerant peddler who gave the Smith Brothers the recipe for their "cough candy," later renamed "cough drops," in exchange for a meal in their restaurant?

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ANSWERS

1. Harvey Eastman. He started Eastman Business College, located on Washington Street. It became the largest school of its kind in the nation. He became extremely wealthy. In addition to giving the fountain to the city, he created Eastman Park and the row of houses called Eastman Terrace. 

2. Lee Miller

3. The name is a combination of bard and avon. It comes from a mural that was at one time above the stage in the theater showing Shakespeare (the bard) reclining on the bank of the River Avon.

4. The Kirkbride Building is on the grounds of the old Hudson River State Hospital.

5. Winnekee

6. It was named after a prominent Poughkeepsie jurist, Judge James Hooker.

7. It was the name of the newspaper before it was changed to the Poughkeepsie Journal.

8. H. Gordon Liddy. He became nationally famous when he worked for Nixon and oversaw the "plumbers" group who burglarized the Democratic Party Headquarters in the Watergate Hotel in Washington, DC. The scandal led to Nixon's resignation.

9. He invented Scrabble.

10. Sly Hawkins. But it's only a legend.

-----I hope you enjoyed the quiz. Let me know how you did.

-Jim Bennett