NYC Tour Guide Exam Questions With Certified Answers
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NYC Tour Guide Exam Questions With Certified Answers
Can a tour guide accept commissions or incentives to steer business to a vendor? - Answer-No
/.Can you idle your charter bus if it's under 40 degrees F? Or if it's a very hot day? - Answer-Yes, for up to 3 minutes; no
/.How are many de...
Can a tour guide accept commissions or incentives to steer business to a vendor? -
Answer-No
/.Can you idle your charter bus if it's under 40 degrees F? Or if it's a very hot day? -
Answer-Yes, for up to 3 minutes; no
/.How are many deals made in the Diamond District? - Answer-A handshake
/.How did the Brooklyn Dodgers get their name? - Answer-It is said that it came from
players and fans having to dodge trolley cars on their way to games
/.How has the 1811 grid system affected the city? - Answer-"All of the above": ??
/.How many people pass through Grand Central Terminal per day? - Answer-Test says
500,000; real answer is now 750,000+
/.How much do tickets to Shakespeare in the Park cost? - Answer-Free
/.How would a charter bus get from Astoria Hotel to the Cloisters? - Answer-Not Henry
Hudson Parkway. Not Park Avenue. Broadway? Lexington to 125th to Broadway?
/.Immigration from what areas of Europe was reduced as a result of the 1924
Immigration Act, also known as the Johnson-Reed Act? - Answer-Southern and Eastern
Europe
/.In 1880, over 1,000 people lost their lives in a maritime tragedy, almost all of them
German. What was the name of the boat? - Answer-General Slocum
/.In midtown, you may see a small, discreet building behind other buildings, where you
can see horses. Why are they there? - Answer-NYPD uses horses
/.The Ansonia Hotel was known for what unusual features? - Answer-"All of the above":
The world's largest swimming pool, a rooftop farm with goats and pigs, an indoor
fountain with seals. It was home to Babe Ruth, Igor Stravinsky, Angelina Jolie, Natalie
Portman, and others.
/.The Church of the Transfiguration, at E. 29th between Madison and 5th, is known as a
spiritual haven for what group of people? - Answer-Actors and actresses
, /.The Equitable Building: who designed it? Where is it? When was it built? What did it
cause? - Answer-Ernest Graham; 120 Broadway; 1915; the "setback law," mandating a
minimum distance that a building must be set back from the street, to allow sunlight to
the streets
/.The Kosciuszko Bridge spans what waterway between Brooklyn and Queens? -
Answer-Newtown Creek
/.The people who live in Carnegie Towers traditionally belong to which professions? -
Answer-Musicians and artists
/.There is a question about where to take people to the bathroom while touring. -
Answer-Of choices, the answer is hotel lobbies
/.Throg's Neck Bridge connects which two boroughs? - Answer-Queens and the Bronx
/.To what does the dispensary triangle refer to? - Answer-Medical care for the poor
/.What and where is NYC's largest parade? - Answer-West Indian (or Labor Day)
Carnival and Parade; Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn
/.What and where is the second oldest monument in New York City? - Answer-The
Worth Monument, 25th Street and Broadway
/.What and where was the Jewish Rialto? When was it active? - Answer-A Jewish
theater district, on 2nd Avenue between Houston and 14th Streets; the '20s to '40s
/.What are some of Wallace K. Harrison's accomplishments as an architect? - Answer-
United Nations, Rockefeller Center, Battery Park City, master plan for Lincoln Center
and Metropolitan Opera House, Albany's Empire State Plaza, Corning Museum of Glass
/.What are the New York Major League sports teams, and where do they play? -
Answer-BASEBALL
Yankees - Yankee Stadium, the Bronx
Mets - Citi Field, Queens
FOOTBALL
Jets & Giants - New Meadowlands Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ
BASKETBALL
Knickerbockers (Knicks) - Madison Square Garden, Manhattan
HOCKEY
Rangers - Madison Square Garden, Manhattan
Islanders - Barclays Center, Brooklyn
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