#NewJersey December 27

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For today’s 30 Day Coach4aday Challenge I thought I dial up a quiz on NEW JERSEY.

The first people to live on the land now known as NJ were the Delaware Indians. or Lenni Lenape. They lived there some 10,000 years before European explorers discovered it.

Around 1524, Giovanni de Verrazano became the first European to explore New Jersey. He sailed along the coast and anchored off Sandy Hook. The colonial history of New Jersey started after Henry Hudson sailed through Newark Bay in 1609. Although Hudson was British, he worked for the Netherlands, so he claimed the land for the Dutch. It was called New Netherlands.

Small trading colonies sprang up where the present towns of Hoboken and Jersey City are located. The Dutch, Swedes, and Finns were the first European settlers in New Jersey. Bergen, founded in 1660, was New Jersey’s first permanent European settlement.

Day 26 Quiz Results

Yesterday’s quiz was on Movies and the results are found below.

Day 27 Quiz on New Jersey

Today’s quiz located on Purpose Games and is answering some trivia about New Jersey. To take the test go to this link NJ Trivia.