Estate Tour Guide Exam
Exam1
What is the name of the stadium known as the "
House That Ruth Built"? - ✔️CORRECT ANSWER✅-
Yankee Stadium
What Latin dance was popular in the 80's? -
✔️CORRECT ANSWER✅-Salsa
Know that Bryant Park, named after William Cullen
Bryant, was the site of the Croton Reservoir, and
later the Crystal Palace. Behind current NYC Library -
✔️CORRECT ANSWER✅-The question will want to
ask something on left
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, What is the name of an early black settlement in
Brooklyn, settled by freedmen in 1838? -
✔️CORRECT ANSWER✅-Weeksville, James Weeks
What was the name of a popular vending machine
system for food? - ✔️CORRECT ANSWER✅-
Automats
How has the 1811 grid plan affected the city? -
✔️CORRECT ANSWER✅-All of the above
What is the origin of the word "Bowery" ? -
✔️CORRECT ANSWER✅-Dutch, for farm
Tenement Law of 1879 What was it designed to
correct? - ✔️CORRECT ANSWER✅-Designed to
correct the flaws of the 1867 Laws, caused
"dumbbell apartments ", and were worse.
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, What areas of Europe were reduced as the result of
the 1924 Immigration Act? ( Johnson -Reed Act ) -
✔️CORRECT ANSWER✅-Southern and Eastern
Europe.
What is Morningside Heights, and what is found
there? - ✔️CORRECT ANSWER✅-A neighborhood
on the Upper West Side. Columbia University, the
Old Bloomingdale Asylum, Tom's Restaurant (
Seinfeld ), St, John the Divine, Riverside Church,
Grant's Tomb
Throg's Neck bridge connects which two boroughs? -
✔️CORRECT ANSWER✅-Queens and the Bronx
What famous sculptor did General Sherman near
Central Park, by Plaza Hotel? - ✔️CORRECT
ANSWER✅-Augustus St. Gaudens
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, What famous architect was shot by Harry K. Thaw on
top of the Madison Square Garden? - ✔️CORRECT
ANSWER✅-Stanford White, of McKim, Mead and
White
Which train will take you Native American caves of
Inwood in Upper Manhattan to the ocean beaches
of the Rockaways in Queens? - ✔️CORRECT
ANSWER✅-IND " A " train
Where is the Hall of Fame for great Americans? -
✔️CORRECT ANSWER✅-Bronx Community College
Who was the Russian Jew with the French name that
did the panels at the Lincoln Center? - ✔️CORRECT
ANSWER✅-Marc Chagall
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