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Comprehensive Resource To Help You Ace 2026-2027
Exams Includes Frequently Tested Questions With
ELABORATED 100% Correct COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
Guaranteed Pass First Attempt!! Current Update!!
1. What famous author hated brownstones? - Correct Answer: Edith
Wharton
2. Who designed the copper dome of the Woolworth Building? - Correct
Answer: Cass Gilbert
3. Who was Jimmy Walker? - Correct Answer: Mayor of New York City
during the Jazz Age, after defeating Fiorello LaGuardia. He famously ticketed
the cars of police officers conducting a raid on the 21 Club during
Prohibition. He was involved with Tammany Hall. Eventually, he resigned in
1932 at the request of President Roosevelt.
4. Who were the architects of Grand Central Terminal - Correct Answer:
Warren & Wetmore and Reed & Stem
5. What did Jaboc Riis write? - Correct Answer: "How the Other Half Lives"
that was a look at impoverished life in the tenement houses that motivated
social reform
,6. Who designed the outside of the Statue of Liberty? Inside? - Correct
Answer: Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi; Gustave Eiffel
7. Who were the architects of the Manhattan Municipal Building - Correct
Answer: McKim, Mead and White
8. What famous NYC resident invented the telephone? - Correct Answer:
Antonio Meucci
9. Which President regularly used a pew at St. Paul's Church? - Correct
Answer: George Washington
10.Who built Riverside Church? Who was the architect? - Correct Answer:
Allen & Collens and Henry C. Pelton were the architects. John D. Rockefeller,
Jr. led the financing for Baptist Minister Harry Emerson Fosdick.
11.Who was Robert Moses? - Correct Answer: A public figure responsible
for infrastructure building and maintenance in the city. NYC Parks
Commissioner for 26 years. Responsible for: public swimming pools,
including McCarren Park in Brooklyn; Northern State, Southern State, and
Wantagh Parkways in Long Island; Triborough Bridge; (partly) the Dodgers
leaving Brooklyn for Los Angeles.
12.Who did Lou Gehrig play for? - Correct Answer: Yankees
, 13.Who lived in the Turtle Bay apartments? - Correct Answer: Katherine
Hepburn, Tyrone Power, Stephen Sondheim, Mary Martin, E.B. White
14.What governor was reprimanded for allowing only Dutch Reformed people
to settle? (Tried to exclude Jews - no passports) - Correct Answer: Peter
Stuyvesant
15.Where was the first and oldest community of free African-Americans in
New York located? - Correct Answer: Sandy ground, Staten Island. Note:
land was purchased by free blacks when slavery was abolished on July 4th
1827?
16.Where is the memorial fountain for Ida and Isidor Straus. And married
couple that stayed together in the sinking of the Titanic? - Correct
Answer: Broadway at West 106th Street in Straus Park.
17.Where is the Next Wave Festival held each year? - Correct Answer:
Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)
18.Why is the Jewish congregation "The new commandment Keepers" unique?
- Correct Answer: Sect of black Ethiopian Jews that believe they are part
of the lost tribes of Israel
19.What is dim sum? - Correct Answer: A wide range of like Chinese dishes
served with Tea
Comprehensive Resource To Help You Ace 2026-2027
Exams Includes Frequently Tested Questions With
ELABORATED 100% Correct COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
Guaranteed Pass First Attempt!! Current Update!!
1. What famous author hated brownstones? - Correct Answer: Edith
Wharton
2. Who designed the copper dome of the Woolworth Building? - Correct
Answer: Cass Gilbert
3. Who was Jimmy Walker? - Correct Answer: Mayor of New York City
during the Jazz Age, after defeating Fiorello LaGuardia. He famously ticketed
the cars of police officers conducting a raid on the 21 Club during
Prohibition. He was involved with Tammany Hall. Eventually, he resigned in
1932 at the request of President Roosevelt.
4. Who were the architects of Grand Central Terminal - Correct Answer:
Warren & Wetmore and Reed & Stem
5. What did Jaboc Riis write? - Correct Answer: "How the Other Half Lives"
that was a look at impoverished life in the tenement houses that motivated
social reform
,6. Who designed the outside of the Statue of Liberty? Inside? - Correct
Answer: Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi; Gustave Eiffel
7. Who were the architects of the Manhattan Municipal Building - Correct
Answer: McKim, Mead and White
8. What famous NYC resident invented the telephone? - Correct Answer:
Antonio Meucci
9. Which President regularly used a pew at St. Paul's Church? - Correct
Answer: George Washington
10.Who built Riverside Church? Who was the architect? - Correct Answer:
Allen & Collens and Henry C. Pelton were the architects. John D. Rockefeller,
Jr. led the financing for Baptist Minister Harry Emerson Fosdick.
11.Who was Robert Moses? - Correct Answer: A public figure responsible
for infrastructure building and maintenance in the city. NYC Parks
Commissioner for 26 years. Responsible for: public swimming pools,
including McCarren Park in Brooklyn; Northern State, Southern State, and
Wantagh Parkways in Long Island; Triborough Bridge; (partly) the Dodgers
leaving Brooklyn for Los Angeles.
12.Who did Lou Gehrig play for? - Correct Answer: Yankees
, 13.Who lived in the Turtle Bay apartments? - Correct Answer: Katherine
Hepburn, Tyrone Power, Stephen Sondheim, Mary Martin, E.B. White
14.What governor was reprimanded for allowing only Dutch Reformed people
to settle? (Tried to exclude Jews - no passports) - Correct Answer: Peter
Stuyvesant
15.Where was the first and oldest community of free African-Americans in
New York located? - Correct Answer: Sandy ground, Staten Island. Note:
land was purchased by free blacks when slavery was abolished on July 4th
1827?
16.Where is the memorial fountain for Ida and Isidor Straus. And married
couple that stayed together in the sinking of the Titanic? - Correct
Answer: Broadway at West 106th Street in Straus Park.
17.Where is the Next Wave Festival held each year? - Correct Answer:
Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)
18.Why is the Jewish congregation "The new commandment Keepers" unique?
- Correct Answer: Sect of black Ethiopian Jews that believe they are part
of the lost tribes of Israel
19.What is dim sum? - Correct Answer: A wide range of like Chinese dishes
served with Tea
