How Hunterdon are you?

Scoring needs JavaScript, which is off. The fifteen questions are below, and the five tiers are at the bottom, so you can still keep score on paper.

1. Sergeantsville spent its early years under a blunter name, until it was renamed in 1827. Which one?
   • Skunktown (3)
   • Dogtown (0)
   • Sodom (0)
   • Burnt Mills (0)
2. Califon was called California first, after a resident caught the 1849 Gold Rush bug. Locals still argue about how it got shortened. Which version have you heard somebody give?
   • The sign painter could not fit California on the train depot sign (3)
   • Two sign painters had too much to drink (3)
   • It came off a bright yellow brand of cattle feed (3)
   • I did not know Califon was ever California (0)
3. Flemington Speedway ran its last race on November 8, 2002. Long before the cars, what raced on that half mile oval?
   • Horses, going back to 1848 (3)
   • Nothing, it was farmland until the 1950s (0)
   • Motorcycles (0)
   • Bicycles (0)
4. Liberty Village in Flemington opened in 1981 as the country's first large scale designer outlet mall. Where do you land on it?
   • I shopped there when people drove in from three counties for it (3)
   • I knew it in the years when it was mostly shuttered (2)
   • I only ever saw the demolition (1)
   • Never heard of it (0)
5. Two lane road, double yellow line, tractor. What actually happens next?
   • Nothing. You ease off and settle in, because this is just the drive now (3)
   • You peel off at the next turn you know, even if it is longer (2)
   • You ride the center line looking for a gap (1)
   • You genuinely wonder whether that is allowed on a road (0)
6. Your water and your waste, at the house you live in now.
   • Well and septic, and I know roughly when the tank was last pumped (3)
   • Well and septic, and I would have to go dig up the paperwork (2)
   • One of the two, and town service for the other (1)
   • Public water and public sewer (0)
7. Hunterdon is one of twelve New Jersey counties where the state makes you test a private well for one extra thing before you can sell the house. What is it?
   • Uranium (3)
   • Radon (0)
   • Chlorine (0)
   • Fluoride (0)
8. Round Valley.
   • I know the beach hours and what a car costs to get in (3)
   • I have swum there, but I would have to look the fee up (2)
   • I have driven past the reservoir and never stopped (1)
   • Round Valley is what, now (0)
9. A farm stand with nobody in it, a price list taped to the shelf, and a coffee can for the money.
   • Normal. I keep small bills in the car for exactly this (3)
   • I have used one, but I had to think about it the first time (2)
   • I have driven past one and assumed it was closed (1)
   • That cannot possibly be how that works (0)
10. Deer.
    • I have hit one, or one has hit me (3)
    • I have had the near miss where you feel it go past the mirror (2)
    • I slow down at dusk on principle (1)
    • Not really a factor in how I drive (0)
11. The Delaware comes up and the gauge at the Frenchtown bridge reads 16 feet, which is minor flood stage. What do you already know without looking?
    • Which roads shut first, and which one I take instead (3)
    • That I should check before I drive anything along the river (2)
    • That it is bad somewhere, but probably not near me (1)
    • I have never once thought about the river level (0)
12. High Bridge is named for a genuinely high bridge, a railroad trestle across the South Branch built in 1852. Roughly how high?
    • About 100 feet (3)
    • About 40 feet (0)
    • About 300 feet (0)
    • It is not actually named for a bridge (0)
13. The Flemington Fair ended in 1999. The county 4-H fair kept going at the old fairgrounds a few more years, then moved. Where did it land?
    • East Amwell, out toward Ringoes (3)
    • It never came back (0)
    • Clinton (0)
    • Lambertville (0)
14. Ringoes grew up around a tavern on the Old York Road, which started life as a Lenape footpath. What do we call that road today?
    • Route 179 (3)
    • Route 31 (0)
    • Route 12 (0)
    • Route 202 (0)
15. Somebody gives you directions and just says "the highway." No number.
    • I know exactly which road they mean, and I would have said it the same way (3)
    • I work it out from the rest of the directions (2)
    • I ask whether they mean 31, 202 or 78 (1)
    • I put the address in my phone and stop listening (0)

The five tiers

• 0 to 12, New Plates. You are early, and everybody here was early once. Give it one winter, one flood and one tractor, and half these answers stop being trivia.
• 13 to 21, Getting Your Bearings. You have the map in your head but not the shortcuts yet. You already know more than you were giving yourself credit for.
• 22 to 30, Local Enough. You can hold up your end of a conversation at the farm stand and nobody is checking your plates. This is the comfortable part.
• 31 to 38, Knows the Back Way. You route around the county without thinking about it, and you have firm opinions about which bridge. People follow you in bad weather.
• 39 to 45, Old Hunterdon. You remember buildings that are now parking lots. Newcomers are quietly copying you and you have not noticed.