IMPROVED NYC TOUR GUIDE EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERSGRADED A+
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NYC Tour
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NYC Tour
IMPROVED NYC TOUR GUIDE EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERSGRADED A+ Who are the architects of Grand Central Terminal? - Correct answer -Warren and
Wetmore, Reed and Stem
What subway lines do NOT stop at Times Square? - Correct answer -4/5/6,B/D/F/M,
A/C/E, G, L
What borough has Edgar Allan Poe's cotta...
IMPROVED NYC TOUR GUIDE EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERSGRADED A+
Who are the architects of Grand Central Terminal? - Correct answer -Warren and
Wetmore, Reed and Stem
What subway lines do NOT stop at Times Square? - Correct answer -4/5/6,B/D/F/M,
A/C/E, G, L
What borough has Edgar Allan Poe's cottage? - Correct answer -The Bronx
Where can you find the greatest concentration of cast iron buildings in the world?
- Correct answer -SoHo (SOuth of HOuston)
What's a nickname for the AT&T Building? - Correct answer -Golden Boy
What was the original function of the building that holds Tavern-on-the-Green, an
exclusive, eccentric restaurant in Central Park? - Correct answer -It was a sheep barn
What are some of Wallace K. Harrison's accomplishments as an architect? - Correct
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 famous book did Jacob Riis write about the conditions in tenement houses, to
motivate social reform? - Correct answer -How the Other Half Lives
Who designed the outside of the Statue of Liberty? The inside? - Correct answer -
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi; Gustave Eiffel
,Who designed the Washington Square Arch? - Correct answer -Stanford White
Who sculpted Bethesda Fountain? Where is it? - Correct answer -Emma Stebbins;
Central Park
What home of a Founding Father was moved from its original location to St. Nicholas
Park? - Correct answer -Hamilton Grange (Alexander Hamilton's home)
What is the oldest continuous Protestant organization in New York City? - Correct
answer -Marble Collegiate Church
Where was West Side Story filmed? - Correct answer -Lincoln Center
What's at Arthur Avenue in the Bronx? - Correct answer -Belmont, the "Little Italy of the
Bronx"
What is the oldest Jewish synagogue in New York City (founded in 1654), and where is
it? - Correct answer -Congregation Shearith Israel, W 70th Street andCentral Park West
Where is the Islamic Cultural Center, the first mosque built in the US, which faces
Mecca? - Correct answer -1711 Third Avenue, between E 96th Street and E 97th Street
Who was Malcolm Shabazz? What two locations on W 116th Street are named for him?
- Correct answer -Malcolm X's grandson; Malcolm Shabazz Mosque and Malcolm
Shabazz Harlem Market (market for African goods and clothes)
The Kosciuszko Bridge spans what waterway between Brooklyn and Queens? -Correct
answer -Newtown Creek
, Where is the New Wave Festival held each year? - Correct answer -BrooklynAcademy
of Music (BAM)
Which great painters are on display at the Hispanic Society of America? - Correct
answer -El Greco, Diego Velázquez, Francisco de Goya, and others
What is CBGB? - Correct answer -A music club that opened in the East Village in 1973
and helped launch punk and new wave music. "Country, BlueGrass, and Blues." Police,
the B-52s, the Talking Heads, and Blondie played here.
What is a bialy? - Correct answer -A Jewish pastry similar to a bagel but without a hole.
Usually covered with onions.
What is unique about wooden water towers? - Correct answer -Wood expands when
wet, preventing leaks. Cheaper to build and maintain. Water freezes later than in steel.
Where is the New York City Panorama, the largest architectural model in the world? -
Correct answer -Queens Museum in Flushing Meadows Corona Park
What is the largest Jewish congregation in New York City? - Correct answer -Temple
Emanu-El
Where was the Bill Cosby Show shot? Where were the Huxtable family supposed to
live? - Correct answer -St. Luke's Place in the West Village; Brooklyn Heights
Where are the great works of Picasso found? - Correct answer -The Gagosian Gallery,
which has 3 locations in NYC and numerous worldwide
Who designed the Malcolm Shabazz Mosque? - Correct answer -Sabbath Brown
Who were the original owners of the Dutch farmhouses in the Brooklyn Museum?
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