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It's the Brian Merichot on WNYC. Good morning again everyone. It's membership drive quiz time. Today New York City History Part 2. We had Part 1 last week.

This week, New York team names, coffee cup designs, names of mayors and more. If you think you know stuff about the city and it's past call up now to play, we're doing a membership drive quiz at this time every day. There'll be one final one tomorrow. We're not going to reveal the topic just yet. But today it's New York City History with this low stakes pop quiz Part 2. And we don't give grades. But yes, we do give prizes.

So call up and get in line if you want to try your hand to one, two, four, three, three, WNYC. Again, get two in a row right. And you'll win the recently popular trending on the thank you gifts page. Brian Lair Show, Shambray Blue baseball cap who wants to give it a shot. Two, one, two, four, three, WNYC and Elliott and Manhattanville ready to play.

And we're going to actually start today on sports for those of you who were or weren't watching the New York Jets, be the New York Giants 13 to 10 yesterday in one of the worst football games you will ever see.

True or false, the Jets were originally named the New York Titans, but their name was changed to rhyme with the New York Mets.

That is correct. Although I thought there was another reason that they were changed to the Jets, but that's correct. Yes, I thought they true.

That is true. Yes, according to Bleacher Report, a five man syndicate headed by Sonny Werblin, who is Jets owner executive at the time, saved the team from certain bankruptcy, purchasing the lowly Titans for $1.3 million in 1963.

Werblin renamed the team the Jets because it rhymed with the Mets and they would both be playing a chase stadium. Off sports. In 1827, before Central Park was created, the land around what is now the park's perimeter from West 82nd to West 89th Street was the site of a thriving community of predominantly African Americans.

Do you know the name of that community at that time?

I could do a multiple choice.

This is a harder one. I've seen drawings of it and I know that it was that it was destroyed to create the park.

I'll give you one little hint. I don't know if it's going to be a good enough hint, but it's making of a think of a known Native American nation name.

Okay, give me a sec. Please, sorry. I won't think I know how to talk.

In two. In one.

Algonquin. Nice drawing. That is a good club, but it's Santa個 Village. Elliott, thanks for playing Christopher in a story. Are you ready to play?

Yes. Can you hear me?

Yes, and luck of the joy you're calling from Astoria where there's a lot of Greek culture and our question happens to pertain to a bit of that.

The iconic anthora cup is the name of that cardboard cup that everybody sees of Greece and design that is held New Yorkers coffee for decades.

It seems like it's been around forever, but the question is what decade in what decade was the anthora cup created?

Four cup, what decade of the sixties maybe?

It was the sixties. It was designed by Holocaust survivor Leslie Buck in the 1960s in order to appeal to Greek and Greek American restaurants. How about that?

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