Step 1 : Introduction to the question "6. Several historians have ascertained that a newspaperman named John Fitzgerald was the first to publicly employ the term 'The Big Apple' in reference to which storied American city?"
...1. Los Angeles 2. New Orleans 3. Chicago 4. New York City In 1924 Fitzgerald referred to the various horse racetracks in New York as 'The Big Apple', a name that seemed to have stuck within the popular jargon. There are several other possible sources for the use of 'apple' to describe New York City, and indeed inevitable sexual references are part of the story...bordellos and bedrooms, naturally. I'll leave it to you to dig up the dirt! Thank you for trying this quiz, please give my other quizzes a try if you enjoyed this one.