Reasons Behind City Nicknames Trivia Quiz

Answer: Truckers on their CB

Shaky City was used in the lyrics of a top hit dated January 1976, recorded by C.W. McCall, which is actually a pseudonym of Bill Fries. The songs lyrics are in CB lingo and tells the story of a trucker who leads a fleet of trucks from Los Angeles to the Jersey shore.
Daniel Kortchmar also used Shaky Town in a song, sung by Jackson Browne, but not earlier than 1978.
Even later two Scottish brothers, Colin and Euan Gunn, used the trucker phrase as the title of their 55 minute documentary to describe the, as they saw it, "unstable foundations of a city built on immorality". They thought the nickname was used for San Fransico, but that is nowadays known as "Gay Bay".
Anyhow, the truckers were the first to use the nickname.

Answer: The San Diego music scene

It originates from the Punk music scene which was really booming in San Diego, but the police who were feeling threatened by the way punkers looked, started shutting down every concert. Punks would now refer to San Diego as "Slow Death" because the punk scene was starting to die over there.

Answer: All these cities claim that name

Of course the titles are self claimed by the several local travel industries. In my opinion Venice Italy is the only Venice, the others are just wannabes. But did you know that there even is a Venice of the East namely Bangkok? Also, the country name of Venezuela means "little Venice". There even is a Venise-en-Québec, Canada.

Of course the US has it's own Venice look-a-like. Fort Lauderdale, Florida is the "Venice of America". It has more than 300 miles of waterways to account for that.

Answer: The Apple from Adam and Eve

In fact only the Apple Macintosh company has nothing to do with New York. All other answers do, but it was in a house of prostitution where the first apple reference appeared. Evelyn Claudine de Saint-Évremond established a "salon" after she was left at the altar by John Hamilton. The name Evelyn was anglicized to "Eve". Evelyn linked the biblical name to the story of Eve who seduced Adam (or men in general) with an apple. She called her "ladies" her "irresistible apples of temptation". So there you have it! The phrase "apple" really caught on among the needy men in New York.
William Jennings Bryan was the first to use the term "apple" publicly in his 1892 speech by calling New York "the foulest rotten apple on the tree of decadent Federalism".
Much later, around 1900, the Apple Marketing Board normalized the word "apple" in their campaign to get the New Yorkers to eat more healthy fruit. You might call it an early example of product placement.
Evelyn never lived to see her Apple creation to blossom like that into the the nickname for New York.

The apple it self also has a history with New York. European settlers brought apple seeds to New York in the 1600s. The colonists ate dried apples during the winter, and also baked apple pies and drank apple cider.

Answer: Chimneys were all that remained after the American Civil War

Jackson became known as "Chimneyville" during the American Civil War (1861-1865). When Union troops destroyed the town, they left behind a flattened and charred landscape, with only an occasional stone or brick chimney left standing.

Answer: The city of a hundred bell towers

Although there are many libraries and literary events in Montreal "La ville aux cent clochers" means "the city of a hundred bell towers". Montreal is well known for its churches. As described by Mark Twain, "This is the first time I was ever in a city where you couldn't throw a brick without breaking a church window."

Answer: Because of the high level of assaults on people with knives

Stabbing incidents in Limerick are actually limited to a number of families living in Southhill and their eye for an eye policy dates back to the 70's. It is recorded however that stabbings already occurred in the depression years (1930 - 1940). Weapon at the scene of these crimes were usually knives (cheaper and easier to find and carry). Pitchforks and crossbows have supposedly been used as well. Anyhow, the image stuck and gave the city an complex and the name still lingers on. The Gaelic name is Luimneach" (pronounced Lim-nach). Luim can mean bare, dull or grey.

Not a happy place indeed, but to start stabbing?

Answer: It is the residence of a major light bulb manufacturer

On May 15th 1891, father and son Philips founded the company "Philips & Co". They started to produce carbon wire light bulbs. This was six years before Edison presented "his" invention by the way!. In 1907 the "Philips light bulb factory" was founded. Now employing 25,000 people Philips played a major role in the development of the city Eindhoven.

But did you know Mr. Philips started his factory in Eindhoven because of the cheap child labour. How ungentlemanly like.

Answer: False

The second longest river of Europe even runs through the centre of the city where some beautiful car free areas are designated to enjoy the scenery.
It has different names in several countries like Donau (German), Duna (Hongarian) or Danuvius in Latin.

Answer: It is a combination of Bombay(now known as Mumbai) and Hollywood

Bollywood is also commonly referred to as "Hindi cinema" but the nickname is so well known, it is even mentioned in the English Dictionary. Bollywood films are usually musicals. The nickname of Bollywood is a combination of Bombay (the former name of Mumbai) and America's Hollywood located in California.