--- title: Jimmy Kimmel Quiz: Is That Beard From Brooklyn or Gettysburg description: Jimmy Kimmel asked people whether they though a beard was from Williamsburg, Brooklyn or Civil War-era Gettysburg, Virginia canonical: https://time.com/4990953/jimmy-kimmel-asked-people-to-identify-brooklyn-beards-or-gettysburg-beards/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-10-20T15:49:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:48:10.680Z og:title: Jimmy Kimmel Quiz: Is That Beard From Brooklyn or Gettysburg? og:description: Turns out, it's a very challenging question og:url: https://time.com/4990953/jimmy-kimmel-asked-people-to-identify-brooklyn-beards-or-gettysburg-beards/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt885bc9a29f5eeae1/6988e2cccf40a8ecd6c49e5c/williamsburg.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Williamsburg og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jimmy Kimmel Quiz: Is That Beard From Brooklyn or Gettysburg? twitter:description: Turns out, it's a very challenging question twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt885bc9a29f5eeae1/6988e2cccf40a8ecd6c49e5c/williamsburg.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Jimmy Kimmel Asked People to Identify Brooklyn Beards or Gettysburg Beards by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Oct 20, 2017 3:49 PM UTC  by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Oct 20, 2017 3:49 PM UTC [Jimmy Kimmel](http://time.com/4949522/jimmy-kimmel-healthcare-transcript/) has been producing [his show](http://time.com/4987364/letterman-on-jimmy-kimmel/) from the East Coast all week, specifically Brooklyn. The New York City borough is known for many things—good pizza, loud traffic, and apparently, retro facial hair—_very retro_. “Brooklyn is home to some of the thickest and scraggliest beards this side of Fallujah,” quipped Kimmel. “Sometimes I’m not sure if we’re in Brooklyn or a Civil War reenactment.” To make that determination once and for all, during Thursday night’s episode of _Jimmy Kimmel Live!,_ [Kimmel challenged](http://time.com/4952957/jimmy-kimmel-donald-trump-graham-cassidy/) the audience at the Brooklyn Academy of Music where he was filming to play a beard guessing game. All they had to do was look at a close-up picture of a beard, and try to guess whether the facial hair in question was photographed in the modern-day hipster neighborhood of Williamsburg, Brooklyn or in Civil War-era Gettysburg, Virginia some 150 years ago—and it stumped a lot of people. 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