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NYC Tour Guide Exam
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NYC Tour Guide ExamWhat is the best example of Art Deco in NYC ? - ✔️CORRECT
ANSWER✅-Chrysler Building
What is the oldest Jewish Congregation in NYC? - ✔️CORRECT
ANSWER✅-El Shearith Israel
What is the largest Jewish Congregation? - ✔️CORRECT
ANSWER✅-Emanu-El
What is a fam trip? - ✔️CORRECT ANSWER✅-Slang for
"familiarization trip". professionals in training are taken to tourist
sites to learn about it.
What is a " Meet and Greet"? - ✔️CORRECT ANSWER✅-Usually
at an airport, but could be anyplace, a meet and greet is a
professional rendezvous, where a person is assigned to meet one
or more people, greet them, and take them someplace.
,What comedy club used to be at Giovanni's ? - ✔️CORRECT
ANSWER✅-The IMPROV
Where was the "Bill Cosby " show shot? - ✔️CORRECT
ANSWER✅-St. Luke's Place
Where did James Van Der Zee live? - ✔️CORRECT ANSWER✅-
Across from St. Philips. and the 10 rowhouses purchased by ??
Why does steam rise up from vents and other areas of the city's
streets? - ✔️CORRECT ANSWER✅-Huge steam plants are built
throughout the city, heating nearby buildings. The ground water
hitting these 1,500 degree pipes turns to steam, and rises.
When was the Apollo Theater opened.? - ✔️CORRECT
ANSWER✅-1914
,What can be found at Madison Square? - ✔️CORRECT
ANSWER✅-????????????????
Why did the Dutch settle in Manhattan? - ✔️CORRECT
ANSWER✅-Financial gain
NBC radio greeting - ✔️CORRECT ANSWER✅-Similar to "faster
than a speeding bullet, etc."
French word to "market" tenaments - ✔️CORRECT ANSWER✅-i
beleive out of the choices Apartment was the correct one. Arms
and Flat were the two other choices I remember
Where Jackie O lived - ✔️CORRECT ANSWER✅-1040 Fifth
Avenue
What is Bialys - ✔️CORRECT ANSWER✅-Round with a depressed
middle filled with cooked onions and sometimes poppy seeds.
originated in Poland
, What is Batidas - ✔️CORRECT ANSWER✅-Brazilian cocktail
Prior to its present location where was the Diamond District? -
✔️CORRECT ANSWER✅-Canal st
Where are the great works of Picasso found? - ✔️CORRECT
ANSWER✅-Gagosian Gallery - which has 3 locations in NYC and
numerous worldwide
What book did photographer/reformer Jacob Riis write? -
✔️CORRECT 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? - ✔️CORRECT ANSWER✅-The
first American born saint in the US & NY
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