Series II. "New York Stories" contest responses, 1992-1995, inclusive
Arrangement
The collection remains in its original folders, which were marked by Lenore Skenazy with their contest number and an abbreviated and/or paraphrased version of the contest question posed. The container list includes the verbatim questions as recorded in the Daily News, followed by the date the results of each contest were published. "NYS" before each file name stands for "New York Stories."
Tear sheets and photocopies of published "New York Stories" contests (scattered)
Offsite-Box: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Scope and Contents
• NYS Contest 19. The least relaxing vacation you ever endured! [results published March 22, 1992]
• NYS Contest 25. Proof that your pet is a genius (or at least pretty darn clever). [results published May 3, 1992]
• NYS Contest 27. What's the silliest thing you ever said in another language—accidentally, of course? [results published May 17, 1992]
• NYS Contest 34. What's the strangest thing you ever witnessed at one of New York's parks or beaches? [results published July 5, 1992]
• NYS Contest 37. What character did you play in make-believe? And what was the basic scenario? [results published July 26, 1992]
• NYS Contest 38. What's the wildest thing you ever did when you came face to face with a celebrity? [results published August 2, 1992]
NYS Contest 74. What neighbor drove you nuts? [results published April 11, 1993]
Offsite-Box: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 75. What childhood incident does your brother or sister still tease you about? [results published April 18, 1993]
Offsite-Box: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 76. What's the most memorable question you kid (or a kid you know) ever asked? [results published April 25, 1993]
Offsite-Box: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 77. What strange thing happened to you because of your name? [results published May 2, 1993]
Offsite-Box: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 78. What's the most drastic step you ever took toward improving your mind, body or circumstances in general? [results published May 9, 1993]
Offsite-Box: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 79. What was the least-perfect quality time you ever spent? [results published May 16, 1993]
Offsite-Box: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 80. What one thing would you like your former teacher to know about you? And why? [results published May 23, 1993]
Offsite-Box: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 81. When did you make a public flub? And did anyone notice? [results published May 30, 1993]
Offsite-Box: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 82. What superstitious little thing do you do . . . even though it may be dumb? [results published June 6, 1993]
Offsite-Box: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 83. What waiter or waitress will you always remember . . . fondly or otherwise? [results published June 13, 1993]
Offsite-Box: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 84. When did you appear to be crazy in public? [results published June 20, 1993]
Offsite-Box: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 85. What personal story of yours from the 1960s says it all? [results published June 27, 1993]
Offsite-Box: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 86. What fact did you have seriously wrong when you were a kid? (Or what facts did someone else you know believe?) [results published July 4, 1993]
Offsite-Box: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 87. What's the wildest pickup line you've ever used . . . or heard? [results published July 11, 1993]
Offsite-Box: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 88. What's the most embarrassing thing your mother ever did in front of you? (Preferably in public, of course.) [results published July 18, 1993]
Offsite-Box: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 89. What sign made a lasting impression on you? [results published July 25, 1993]
Offsite-Box: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 90. What makes you suspect that your pet may be part human? (That goes for pets in your past, too.) [results published August 1, 1993]
Offsite-Box: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 91. What's the most foreign thing you ever found yourself doing? (At home or abroad!) [results published August 8, 1993]
Offsite-Box: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 92. What's the weirdest bet you ever made? [results published August 15, 1993]
Offsite-Box: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 93. When did you have to pretend you were something you weren't? (And how did you pull it off?) [results published August 22, 1993]
Offsite-Box: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 94. What ice cream experience will you never forget? [results published August 29, 1993]
Offsite-Box: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 95. What foreign word or phrase snuck into your vocabulary? (And, if you remember, how'd it get there?) [results published September 5, 1993]
Offsite-Box: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 96. What's the strangest way you ever first met a friend? [results published September 12, 1993]
Offsite-Box: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 97. What's the very strangest thing you ever found yourself ingesting? (And why?) [results published September 19, 1993]
Offsite-Box: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 98. What song always brings back memories you'd rather forget? [results published September 26, 1993]
Offsite-Box: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 99. What one incident made you realize you were or were not popular in high school? [results published October 3, 1993]
Offsite-Box: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 100. How has the Daily News had a direct impact on your life? [results published October 10, 1993]
Offsite-Box: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 101. What is the one thing you do completely different from someone you're close to? [results published October 17, 1993]
Offsite-Box: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 102. What was the most traumatic thing that happened to you on or around the first day of school? [results published October 24, 1993]
Offsite-Box: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 103. What mechanical device did you finally conquer? How awful was it? [results published October 31, 1993]
Offsite-Box: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 104. What one place were you dying to get to . . . then dying to get away from? [results published November 7, 1993]
Offsite-Box: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 105. What was the silliest lie you ever uttered and were there any weird consequences? [results published November 14, 1993]
Offsite-Box: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 106. What's the most amazing thing you ever witnessed on public transportation? [results published November 21, 1993]
Offsite-Box: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 107. What's the wildest thing you ever witnessed in a bar? [results published November 28, 1993]
Offsite-Box: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 108. How did your pet prove that he/she is no genius? [results published December 5, 1993]
Offsite-Box: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 109. What's the weirdest thing a relative of yours ever did at a family gathering? [results published December 12, 1993]
Offsite-Box: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 110. What was your worst cooking disaster? [results published December 19, 1993]
Offsite-Box: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 111. What's the weirdest dream you ever had? [results published December 26, 1993]
Offsite-Box: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 112. What's your most amazing New York car story? [results published January 2, 1994]
Offsite-Box: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 113. What happened to you after your most amazingly good or bad haircut? [results published January 9, 1994]
Offsite-Box: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 114. What is the sweetest, dumbest nickname you've given to someone (or something) you love? [results published January 16, 1994]
Offsite-Box: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 115. What incident, big or small, made you believe in basic human goodness? [results published January 23, 1994]
Offsite-Box: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 116. What's the strangest thing that happened at a wake or funeral you attended? [results published January 30, 1994]
Offsite-Box: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 117. What was the most disappointing present you ever received, on any occasion? [results published February 6, 1994]
Offsite-Box: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 118. Under what circumstances did you receive your most surprising kiss? [results published February 13, 1994]
Offsite-Box: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 119. What's the strangest way you ever got a job? [results published February 20, 1994]
Offsite-Box: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 120. What made you feel like a grownup when you were just a kid? [results published February 27, 1994]
Offsite-Box: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 121. What happened on your cheapest date ever? [results published March 6, 1994]
Offsite-Box: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 122. What's the most memorable thing that ever happened to you on jury duty? [results published March 13, 1994]
Offsite-Box: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 123. What is your family's favorite story about your grandmother or grandfather? (Or both!) [results published March 20, 1994]
Offsite-Box: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 124. What weird thing does your friend or lover do just because he/she is the opposite sex? [results published March 27, 1994]
Offsite-Box: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 125. What incident convinced you that you are really bad at some activity? [results published April 3, 1994]
Offsite-Box: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 126. What did you and your imaginary friend used to do together? (And what was your buddy's name?) [results published April 10, 1994]
Offsite-Box: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 127. What strange thing do you carry around with you? And has it ever come in handy? [results published April 17, 1994]
Offsite-Box: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 128. Who did you know before they were famous—and what was already interesting about 'em? [results published April 24, 1994]
Offsite-Box: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 129. What's the most amazing thing—good or bad—that ever happened to you at a dance? [results published May 1, 1994]
Offsite-Box: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 130. What went completely wrong on a family outing that was supposed to be completely right? [results published May 8, 1994]
Offsite-Box: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 131. What question have you always dreamed of a talk-show host asking you? [results published May 15, 1994]
Offsite-Box: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 132. What's the strangest thing you've ever witnessed on the beach . . . or at the pool? [results published May 22, 1994]
Offsite-Box: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 133. What's the wildest question you ever heard a child ask about religion? [results published June 5, 1994]
Offsite-Box: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 134. When did a bug bug you the most? [results published June 12, 1994]
Offsite-Box: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 135. What's the most interesting thing about the way you proposed marriage . . . or were proposed to? [results published June 19, 1994]
Offsite-Box: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 136. What strange thing occurred while you were waiting for someone? [results published June 26, 1994]
Offsite-Box: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 137. What's the most remarkable thing you ever received in the mail? [results published July 3, 1994]
Offsite-Box: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 138. How do you choose your lottery numbers? [results published July 10, 1994]
Offsite-Box: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 139. What's the wildest way you were ever asked out? [results published July 17, 1994]
Offsite-Box: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 140. What's the most ridiculous thing you've ever done in public? [results published July 24, 1994]
Offsite-Box: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 141. What strange thing did you invent as a child? Or what strange thing did your child invent? [results published July 31, 1994]
Offsite-Box: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 142. How did your parents meet? (Grandparents are eligible, too, if you've got a great story!) [results published August 7, 1994]
Offsite-Box: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 143. What silly little vacation incident or souvenir made the biggest impression on your child? Or what made the biggest impression on you as a vacationing kid? [results published August 14, 1994]
Offsite-Box: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 144. How did an animal unexpectedly enter your life? [results published August 21, 1994]
Offsite-Box: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 145. What's the most creative way you ever tormented your brother or sister . . . or vice versa? [results published August 28, 1994]
Offsite-Box: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 146. What's the most embarrassing thing you ever wore to please someone else? [results published September 4, 1994]
Offsite-Box: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 147. What strange phrase or expression do you use all the time? And where did it come from? [results published September 11, 1994]
Offsite-Box: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 148. What war story can you never forget? [results published September 18, 1994]
Offsite-Box: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 149. What's your most vivid memory about TV? [results published September 25, 1994]
Offsite-Box: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 150. What's the wildest conversation you've had with a child? [results published October 2, 1994]
Offsite-Box: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 151. What was the most remarkable thing you found while looking for something else? [results published October 9, 1994]
Offsite-Box: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 152. Who was the most annoying person you were ever stuck sitting next to? [results published October 16, 1994]
Offsite-Box: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 153. What's your weirdest coincidence story? [results published October 23, 1994]
Offsite-Box: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 154. What extremely silly thing did you want more than anything else when you were a kid? And what happened when (and if) you got it? [results published October 30, 1994] {question posed as #153, a typo in paper}
Offsite-Box: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 155. What's the wackiest thing that ever happened to you at a sporting event? [results published November 6, 1994]
Offsite-Box: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 156. When did a stranger brighten your day? [results published November 13, 1994]
Offsite-Box: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 157. When were you even a tiny part of history? [results published November 20, 1994]
Offsite-Box: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 158. What little bit of conversation can you be sure you'll hear at a family gathering? [results published November 27, 1994]
Offsite-Box: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 159. What's the cutest thing your pet ever did to win your attention? [results published December 4, 1994]
Offsite-Box: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 160. What's your happiest memory of a place that exists no more? [results published December 11, 1994]
Offsite-Box: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 161. What strange information did your mother or father give you about the opposite sex? [results published December 18, 1994]
Offsite-Box: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 162. What awkward bit of information did your child choose to disclose? [results published January 8, 1995]
Offsite-Box: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 163. What person, place or thing came unexpectedly back into your life? [results published January 15, 1995]
Offsite-Box: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 164. When did a creep or a saint get what they truly deserved? [results published January 22, 1995]
Offsite-Box: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 165. What real life ghost story happened to someone in your family? [results published January 29, 1995]
Offsite-Box: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 166. Under what circumstances did you ruin something you really liked? [results published February 5, 1995]
Offsite-Box: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 167. How did you once wrap someone around your little finger (or get wrapped around someone else's)? [results published February 12, 1995]
Offsite-Box: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 168. What wacky thing did you (or a friend) attempt as a child, not knowing it was impossible? [results published February 19, 1995]
Offsite-Box: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 169. What annoying thing were you forced to do that turned out to be a blessing? [results published February 26, 1995]
Offsite-Box: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 170. What question(s) would you like to ask your pet, if you could communicate? [results published March 5, 1995]
Offsite-Box: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 171. When did you first realize not all families do everything the same way yours does? [results published March 19, 1995]
Offsite-Box: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 172. What lyrics did you sing wrong for a while? [results published March 26, 1995]
Offsite-Box: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 173. When did you suffer for a good deed you did? [results published April 2, 1995]
Offsite-Box: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 174. What is the strangest encounter you ever had with a household pest? [results published April 9, 1995]
Offsite-Box: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 175. What's the most memorable thing that happened to you or a relative when you first arrived in New York? [results published April 16, 1995]
Offsite-Box: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 176. What object always brings back a specific memory? [results published April 23, 1995]
Offsite-Box: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NYS Contest 177. How did you and your buddies get your nicknames? [results published April 30, 1995]
Offsite-Box: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)