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NYC Tour Guide License Exam Questions Solved 100% Correct 2024Where is the diamond District? - ANSWER-47th St between 5th & 6th Avenues
What is unusual about the diamond trade? - ANSWER-There are no contracts only handshakes
Prior to its present location where was the Diamond District - ANSWER-Canal Street
Where are the great Works of Picasso found? - ANSWER-Gasosian Gallery - Which has 3 locations in NYC and numerous worldwide
Where does the New York Ballet perform the Nutcracker Suite during Christmas time? - ANSWER-David H Koch Theater - formerly the NY State Theater - which is part of the Lincoln Center for performing Arts
What book did photographer/reformer Jacob Riis write? - ANSWER-"How the other Half
Lives" that was a look at impoverished life in the tenement houses that motivated social reform
Who was Elizabeth Ann Seton? - ANSWER-The first American born saint in the US & NY
Where is the Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton located? - ANSWER-7 State St facing Battery Park
Why was she canonized? - ANSWER-Helped establish the Catholic Church and schools in the U.S.
What are the addresses of:
Madison Square Garden?
Grand Central Station?
Time Square? - ANSWER-Madison Square Garden:
4 Penn Plaza
Grand Central Station:
42nd and Park Ave
Time Square:
Junction of Broadway & 7th Ave between W 42th and W 47 St
What style music in the 1970's blended Latin Puerto Rican and African American style music? - ANSWER-Salsa What is the current neighborhood name where the original St. Patrick's Church was built? - ANSWER-Notita (In Manhattan) - Mott Ave across from Prince St.
During what war did the battleship USS Maine Sink - ANSWER-Spanish-American War,
Mast of battleship is at Arlington Cemetery
What 6 items would you find on Roosevelt Island? - ANSWER-Renwick Smallpox Hospital
Blackwell Farmhouse - 6th oldest 18th Century house
Lihthouse Park - Northern tip
Chapel of the good Shepherd
Strecker Memorial Laboratory - pathological bacteriological search
FDR's Four Freedoms Park - speech, worship, want, and fear
Where is Roosevelt Island? - ANSWER-Between Manhattan & Queens in the East River 2 miles long & 800 ft wide, total 147 acres.
What is the name and purpose of the colorful Brooklyn parade that is held on Labor Day? - ANSWER-Brooklyn Labor Day Parade - West Indian American Day Parade & Carnival
Where is the largest Carillon in NYC - ANSWER-Riverside Church - installed 1925 with additional bells later
490 Riverside Dr & W 120th St
Who financed the Carillon at Riverside Church and Why? - ANSWER-John D Rockefeller, Jr, in memory of his mother Laura Rockefeller
Who were the architects of the Riverside Church? - ANSWER-Allen & Collens & Henry Pelton
What was the inspiration for the design of the Riverside Church? - ANSWER-The Cathedral of Chartres (Gothic Catherdral)
Whats the biggest cultural attraction in NYC? - ANSWER-Broadway Plays
What was the building before the Malcolm Shabazz Mosque was converted? - ANSWER-Lenox Casino
Who designed the Malcolm Shabazz mosque - ANSWER-Sabbath Brown
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