At-Home Trivia Game: Only in New York…or Not?

False! Your future slice can sit out for up to two hours. After that, bacterial contamination is possible. And by law, while your slice sits out awaiting your mouth, the pie must be kept at 140 degrees. Two hours on a counter at 140 degrees? Yeah, right.

True! He was born Michael McCarty at 70 Allen St. on the Lower East Side, in 1859. He killed a man on Pearl Street in 1876 and fled to New Mexico. He was gunned down in 1881 at the age of 21, never getting the chance to become Billy the Thirty-Something, Billy the Balding, or Billy the Crotchety Old Coot.

False! The same goes for breakdowns.

True! In Tompkins Square Park, near a semicircle of benches, an old elm bears a plaque marking it as the sacred Hare Krishna Tree. Here, in 1966, Swami Prabhupada led a group in chanting a mantra.

False! The Port Authority set a rule that flights that travel more than 1,500 miles cannot depart from LaGuardia. The rule had its birth in 1948, when the Port Authority opened what is now JFK Airport and feared that no one would use it. (Today, JFK’s longer runways, and the greater weight they can support, make them better suited for large cross-country jets.) Ah, but you can catch a flight from LaGuardia to Denver, which is 1,600 miles away. These flights predate the 1,500 rule, so they were grandfathered in. So when you’re on the way to California and are crawling in traffic on the Van Wyck, thank the Port Authority.

False! The U.N. is an international zone, but U.S. laws apply. So if your cab driver jumps the curb and you crash in the U.N. garden…pay that fare.

True! All city horses must have ID brands on their hooves.

True! Lorenzo da Ponte, the librettist of Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Cosi Fan Tutte, and Marriage of Figaro, arrived in New York in 1805 to become Columbia’s first professor of Italian literature. Yet somehow, by the time he died, he had squandered tutte.

False! Capote lived in a basement apartment in Brooklyn Heights, where he also wrote In Cold Blood. His short story “A House on the Heights” begins, “I live in Brooklyn. By choice.”

True! Formed in 1960, they played in the Polo Grounds. In 1963 they changed their name to the Jets, echoing the name of the team that shared the Polo Grounds, the Mets.

True! She also sang “Don’t Sleep in the Subway,” the next line of which is, “…don’t stand in the pouring rain.” Comedian Carol Leifer wondered, “What kind of guys is she going out with that she’s gotta tell them these things? You know, ‘Don’t wash your face with Clorox, don’t shave with a Ginsu knife…’ ”

True! Debbie’s crew did film in the library and the gym locker room, without having explained they were shooting the kind of movie that would wind up rated X.

True! “We were desperately trying to come up with a title,” James told the Times. “It had to be a girl’s name nobody had heard before, you know, a ‘Sloopy’ or a ‘Bony Maronie.’ Nothing was working.” Then they walked out on a terrace of his apartment, looked uptown, and there she was: MONY.

True! The building at 15th Street and Ninth Avenue, now home to Chelsea Market, was once a bakery for Nabisco, where the Oreo was invented in 1912. It went on to become the century’s best-selling cookie.

This one’s true and false! For the 1941-42 season, the New York Americans team changed their name to the Brooklyn Americans, in an attempt to distinguish themselves from the more successful New York Rangers. Yet the Americans never played in Brooklyn. You decide whether you got this question correct. Is your score half empty or half full?

True! In recent years they’ve been spotted at Throgs Neck in the Bronx. A female’s venom can have excruciating effects (nausea, chills, fever, profuse sweating, difficulty breathing, an overall burning sensation) but is rarely fatal. The male is much smaller and harmless. And always calls you when it promised it would.

False! That weird smell comes from the rubber brake shoes, burning from friction. (The MTA says that subway brake shoes are made of “an organic mixture.” Hmm.)

False! There were just two: in 1916 in Sheepshead Bay, and in 1950 at Rockaway Beach. Neither attack was fatal. (Which may be why the Ramones did not sing, “We can get a bite at Rockaway Beach…”)

True! Santa Anna enlisted inventor Thomas Adams to experiment with tropical plant chicle in the hope of creating a superior rubber tire. After years of failure, Adams gave up on tires and realized he could turn the chicle into chewing gum. Four out of five dentists surveyed looked forward to a boom in their practices.

False! It took several months after the December 14, 1773 Boston Tea Party, but rebel New Yorkers rose to the challenge by dumping 18 chests of tea into the Hudson River on April 22, 1774.