IMPROVED NYC Tour Guide Exam Questions with Complete Solutions 100% Verified Graded 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 1 / 3
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 and Central 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 Brooklyn Academy 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. 2 / 3
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? - Correct Answer Jan Martense Schenk & Nicholas Schenk What is the Dahesh Museum? - Correct Answer Only museum in US devoted to collecting, exhibiting, and interpreting works by Europe's academically trained artists of the 19th and early 20th century.What is the newest museum on Museum Mile? - Correct Answer The Neue Galerie at 1048 5th Avenue.Austrian and German art, donated by Ronald Lauder, a cosmetics mogul. In C. Vanderbuilt's old house.What is the best example of Art Deco architecture in New York City? - Correct Answer Chrysler Building
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