Levittown Trivia

1) How did Bill Levitt get started in home building business?

(A) He learned how to build tract housing while in the Navy.

(B) His older brother taught him the business.

(C) He learned on the job when his father, Abraham, was stuck with a tract of 40 unfinished homes as settlement for a bad debt.

 

2) The designer of the Levittown homes was...

(A) A team of Long Island, New York architects.

(B) Bill's brother, Alfred, a teenager with no formal training as an architect.

(C) Bill's father, Abraham.

 

3) Where was the first Levittown built?

(A) Long Island, New York

(B) Willingborro, New Jersey

(C) Bucks County, Pennsylvania

 

4) During what years was Levittown PA built?

(A) 1952 to 1958

(B) 1942 to 1952

(C) 1952 to 1963

 

5) At the completion of Levittown PA Levitt and Sons started building in...

(A) Willingboro, New Jersey.

(B) Just outside Paris, France.

(C) Chicago, Illinois.

 

6) How many homes were built in Levittown, PA?

(A) Over 10,000

(B) Over 17,000

(C) Over 25,000

 

7) Why could Levittown, PA home buyers get a mortgage with little or no down payment?

(A) The loans were backed by the United States Government because they were being built for workers making steel for use in the Korean War.

(B) Levitt and Sons backed the mortgages with their own money.

(C) U.S. Steel (now USX) backed the mortgages.
  8) Levittown, PA lies in the Bucks County Townships of Falls, Bristol, and Middletown and in the Borough of...

(A) Tullytown

(B) Bristol

(C) Fairless Hills

 

9) Before the building of Levittown, PA, what was the name of the largest planned community in Bucks County Pennsylvania?

(A) Fairless Hills

(B) Meadowbrook

(C) Bristol Gardens

 

10) Which of the following did not attract Levitt to the Bucks County Pennsylvania site?

(A) The building of the Fairless Steel Mill and the need for housing the projected 6000 new employees.

(B) The site was designated a Korean War "critical defense area".

(C) The guarantee that Levittown, PA would be incorporated as a single municipality.

 

11) How many houses were built each week in Levittown, PA?

(A) 100

(B) 200

(C) 300

 

12) Levitt's master plan included in the purchase price : landscaping, major appliances, and...

(A) A TV set.

(B) A white picket fence around each house.

(C) A detached garage for every house.

 

13) Which of the following was NOT a restriction on property use included in the agreements of sale :

(A) Changing the colors of houses.

(B) Hanging wash outside on a Sunday.

(C) Owning more than one of any variety of pet.

 

14) Had Levittown become a municipality, at its completion, how would it's size have compared with other municipalities?

(A) Tenth largest in Pennsylvania and fiftieth in the nation

(B) Fourteenth largest in the nation

(C) Fifth largest in Pennsylvania

 

15) What makes locating a house in Levittown's miles of roadways easy?

(A) Street names begin with the same letters as names of sections

(B) Streets are named after presidents in order of their presidency

(C) Large maps marked "you are here" grace the entrance to each section of the community