IMPROVED NYC TOUR GUIDE EXAM WITH GUARANTEED ACCURATE ANSWERS
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IMPROVED NYC TOUR GUIDE EXAM WITH GUARANTEED ACCURATE ANSWERS
Who are the architects of Grand Central Terminal? - ACCURATE ANSWERWarren and Wetmore, Reed and Stem
What subway lines do NOT stop at Times Square? - ACCURATE ANSWER4/5/6, B/D/F/M, A/C/E, G, L
What borough has Edgar Allan Poe's ...
IMPROVED NYC TOUR GUIDE EXAM
WITH GUARANTEED ACCURATE
ANSWERS
Who are the architects of Grand Central Terminal? - ACCURATE
ANSWER✅✅Warren and Wetmore, Reed and Stem
What subway lines do NOT stop at Times Square? - ACCURATE
ANSWER✅✅4/5/6, B/D/F/M, A/C/E, G, L
What borough has Edgar Allan Poe's cottage? - ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅The
Bronx
Where can you find the greatest concentration of cast iron buildings in the world? -
ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅SoHo (SOuth of HOuston)
What's a nickname for the AT&T Building? - ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅Golden
Boy
What was the original function of the building that holds Tavern-on-the-Green, an
exclusive, eccentric restaurant in Central Park? - ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅It
was a sheep barn
What are some of Wallace K. Harrison's accomplishments as an architect? -
ACCURATE 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? - ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅How the Other Half Lives
Who designed the outside of the Statue of Liberty? The inside? - ACCURATE
ANSWER✅✅Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi; Gustave Eiffel
Who designed the Washington Square Arch? - ACCURATE
ANSWER✅✅Stanford White
Who sculpted Bethesda Fountain? Where is it? - ACCURATE
ANSWER✅✅Emma Stebbins; Central Park
What home of a Founding Father was moved from its original location to St.
Nicholas Park? - ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅Hamilton Grange (Alexander
Hamilton's home)
What is the oldest continuous Protestant organization in New York City? -
ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅Marble Collegiate Church
Where was West Side Story filmed? - ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅Lincoln Center
What's at Arthur Avenue in the Bronx? - ACCURATE 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? - ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅Congregation Shearith Israel, W 70th
Street and Central Park West
, Where is the Islamic Cultural Center, the first mosque built in the US, which faces
Mecca? - ACCURATE 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? - ACCURATE 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? -
ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅Newtown Creek
Where is the New Wave Festival held each year? - ACCURATE
ANSWER✅✅Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)
Which great painters are on display at the Hispanic Society of America? -
ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅El Greco, Diego Velázquez, Francisco de Goya, and
others
What is CBGB? - ACCURATE 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? - ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅A Jewish pastry similar to a bagel
but without a hole. Usually covered with onions.
What is unique about wooden water towers? - ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅Wood
expands when wet, preventing leaks. Cheaper to build and maintain. Water freezes
later than in steel.
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