'21' Trivia Challenge

How much do you know about one of New York City’s favorite Restaurants? Take the '21' Trivia Challenge! 

Category: ‘21’ Lore

1. Whether dining with her husband or Frank Sinatra, which First Lady ended her meals with pistachio ice cream? 
 
2. The first toy hung on the Bar Room ceiling was a model “Flying Boat” from British Airways. Not to be outdone, which famous filmmaking aviator donated the second toy? 

3. Bonus: What is it? 
 
4. Which Oscar winner’s private stock wine is still in the cellar now that she’s a teetotaler? 
 
5. Rockefeller Center couldn’t expand to 52nd Street. Why? 
 
6. Jack and Charlie bought 21 West 52nd from the Hochstadter family in 1928, but earlier on, the building is rumored to have once housed what type of business? 
 
7. Groucho Marx thought it was hilarious when he sent back his dinner. What did he order, and why did he send it back? 
 
8. Which former U.S. President was Forbes FYI’s first wine columnist and still has three bottles of private stock wine in the cellar. 

9. Bonus: Who are his formerly feuding daughters? 
 
10. The first jockey behind the iron gates of '21' was given by Jay Van Ark in the late 1930s. The most recent jockey came from which stable, whose notable horse just missed winning the Triple Crown in 2003. 

11. Bonus: How many jockeys are outside '21'? 
 
12. With a myriad of paintings, drawings, cartoons and sculptures from some of America’s best artists, many patrons have said dining at '21' is like dining in a museum. Which artist has the most works in '21'? 
 
13. Each NFL team is represented on the Bar Room ceiling, but two teams are represented more than once. Name the teams. 

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Category: Overheard at ’21’ - Who said... 

14. "Lunch is for wimps!" 
 
15. “A lot of people still don’t really know who I am.” 
 
16. “Age before beauty.” 
 
16A. “Pearls before swine.” 

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Category: Lights, Camera, Action 

Al Pacino and Matthew McConaughey shot a scene at '21' for the movie "Two for the Money". According to James Sanders’ Celluloid Skyline: New York and the Movies, no NYC restaurant has been seen onscreen more.
 
17. While Michelle Pfeiffer talked business inside '21', People Magazine's perennial “sexiest man” sat outside with the jockeys in this 1996 movie. Name the star and the movie. 

18. '21' regular Alfred Hitchcock incorporates his favorite restaurant into this movie when Grace Kelly has one of its waiters deliver dinner to a laid up James Stewart. 
 
19. 21st birthdays are often celebrated at '21'. Which film reunites Diane Keaton and Woody Allen (in co-starring roles after a 14 year hiatus since 1979's "Manhattan") celebrating their son’s 21st birthday at '21'? (note: she made a cameo in 1987’s "Radio Days.") 
 
20. From the sublime to the ridiculous (Green Acres), ’21’ has also been featured in several sitcoms, including this "sexy" show.

21. This table #, sometimes considered “Siberia” is now one of the most specifically requested. Why?

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