Tour Guide NYC Exam Questions and Correct Answers Latest Update (Graded A+)
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Tour Guide NYC Exam Questions and Correct Answers Latest Update (Graded A+)
When did the 5 boroughs consolidate? I - Answers 1898 - Honored with Manhattan Municipal Building with Civic Fame
statue on top.
Where is the Star Walk? - Answers Theatre 80 St. Marks, the former home of the Pearl Theatr...
Tour Guide NYC Exam Questions and Correct Answers Latest Update (Graded A+)
When did the 5 boroughs consolidate? I - Answers 1898 - Honored with Manhattan Municipal Building
with Civic Fame
statue on top.
Where is the Star Walk? - Answers Theatre 80 St. Marks, the former home of the Pearl Theatre
Company.
What was the original name of the Cotton Club? - Answers Club Deluxe
What was the purpose of the 1965 Hart-Cellars Act? - Answers Correct the flaws of the 1924 Johnson-
Reed Act . Allowed many
more Asians. Immigration quotas were based on skills and resident
relatives.
When was slavery abolished in New York? - Answers 1827
Who founded the Free African Church of St. Philip in Harlem? - Answers Peter Williams, Jr. in 1809.
What are Wallace K. Harrison's accomplishments as an architect? - Answers UN, Rockefeller Center,
Lincoln Center,
Battery Park City, Albany Plaza, Corning Glass Center
Where is the Diamond District? - Answers On 47th St. between Fifth and Sixth Ave, near Rockefeller
Center.
What is the name of the poem written by Emma Lazurus on the
Statue Of Liberty? - Answers The New Colossus
Who was the first conductor to perform at Carnegie Hall? - Answers Tchaikovsky
What was the old elevated railway called on Ninth Ave? - Answers Ninth Ave. El is now High Line Park.
What is the Grand Boulevard in the Bronx also known as? - Answers Grand Concourse
What famous author hated brownstones? - Answers Edith Wharton
Who designed the Woolworth Building? - Answers Cass Gilbert
Who sculpted Bethesda Fountain? Where is it? - Answers Emma Stebbins, Central Park
What did Jacob Riis write? - Answers How The Other Half Lives
, Who designed the outside of the Statue Of Liberty? Inside? - Answers Auguste Bartholdi, Gustave Eiffel
Who were the architects of the Manhattan Municipal Building? - Answers McKim, Mead and White
What famous NYC resident invented the telephone? - Answers Antonio Meucci
Where is a revolutionary war monument that honors 11,500 patriots
that died on prison ships? - Answers Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn has the Prison Ships Martyrs
Monument.
Which President regularly used a pew at St. Paul's Chapel? - Answers George Washington
Who was Robert Moses? - Answers Manhattan Master Planner (controversial major
mover and shaker) - bridges, expressways, public housing, UN,
Lincoln Center, Shea Stadium.
Who was Jimmy Walker? - Answers Mayor of NYC during the Jazz Age (Roaring 20's). Defeated Fiorello
La Guardia. His downfall spurred by the stock market crash and
scandal forced him to resign in 1932. Favored chorus women. When
Elliot Ness busted Club 21, he ticketed all the feds' cars!
Who were the architects of Grand Central Terminal? - Answers Warren & Wetmore and Reed & Stem
Who lived in the Turtle Bay apartments? - Answers Katherine Hepburn, E.B. White, Tyrone Power,
Stephen Sondheim,
Mary Martin
What borough has Edgar Allen Poe's cottage? - Answers The Bronx
What is in the Dahesh Museum? - Answers Europe's academically trained artists of the 19th and early
20th century, only museum in US.
What is the best example of Art Deco architecture in NYC? - Answers Chrysler Building
What is a Brownstone? - Answers Originally a rowhouse built almost entirely out of brown sandstone,
later only faced with brownstone.
The Ansonia Hotel was known for what unusual features? - Answers World's largest swimming pool,
rooftop farm with
goats and pigs, indoor fountain with seals, home to Babe Ruth, Igor
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