Times Square
The ball descends atop One Times Square. This topic is part of Landmarks within Geography. This page currently draws on 6 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
Times Square trivia questions
Times Square is located in which city?
Answer: New York City
Bonus fact: It lies in Midtown Manhattan.
Times Square is especially famous for its annual New Year's Eve what?
Answer: Ball drop
Bonus fact: The ball descends atop One Times Square.
Times Square took its current name from which newspaper?
Answer: The New York Times
Bonus fact: The newspaper moved its headquarters there in 1904.
Which photographer made the famous Life image of a sailor kissing a woman in Times Square on V-J Day?
Answer: Alfred Eisenstaedt
Bonus fact: Eisenstaedt's photograph became one of the magazine's iconic images.
"The Life" is set around which New York City area?
Answer: 42nd Street
Bonus fact: The show depicts the gritty Times Square world before the neighborhood's late-20th-century redevelopment.
Broadway theaters are concentrated near what famous New York district?
Answer: Times Square
Bonus fact: Most Broadway houses are in Midtown Manhattan.