IMPROVED NYC TOUR GUIDE EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS 2023/2024 GRADED A+.

IMPROVED NYC TOUR GUIDE EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS 2023/2024 GRADED A+. 2 / 10 1. Who are the architects of Grand CentralTerminal?: Warren and Wetmore,Reed and Stem 2. What subway lines do NOT stop atTimes Square?: 4/5/6, B/D/F/M, A/C/E, G,L 3. What borough has Edgar Allan Poe's cottage?: The Bronx 4. Where can you find the greatest concentration of cast iron buildings in theworld?: SoHo (SOuth of HOuston) 5. What's a nickname for the AT&T Building?: Golden Boy 6. What was the original function of the building that holdsTavern-on-the-Green, an exclusive, eccentric restaurant in Central Park?: It wasa sheep barn 7. What are some ofWallace K.Harrison's accomplishments as an architect?: -United Nations, RockefellerCenter,Battery Park City, master plan for Lincoln Centerand Metropolitan Opera House, Albany's Empire State Plaza, Corning Museum of Glass 8. What famous book did Jacob Riis write about the conditions in tenementhouses, to motivate social reform?: How the Other Half Lives 9. Who designed the outside of the Statue of Liberty?The inside?: FrédéricAuguste Bartholdi; Gustave Eiffel 10. Who designed theWashington Square Arch?: Stanford White 11. Who sculpted Bethesda Fountain?Where is it?: Emma Stebbins; CentralPark 12. What home of a Founding Father was moved from its original location toSt. Nicholas Park?: Hamilton Grange (Alexander Hamilton's home) 13. What is the oldest continuous Protestant organization in NewYork City?: - Marble Collegiate Church 14. Where wasWest Side Story filmed?: Lincoln Center 15. What's at Arthur Avenue in the Bronx?: Belmont, the "Little Italy of the Bronx" 16. What is the oldest Jewish synagogue in NewYork City (founded in 1654),and where is it?: Congregation Shearith Israel, W 70th Street and Central Park West 17. Where isthe Islamic Cultural Center,the first mosque built in the US,whichfaces Mecca?: 1711 Third Avenue, between E 96th Street and E 97th Street 18. Who was Malcolm Shabazz? What two locations on W 116th Street are named for him?: Malcolm X's grandson; Malcolm Shabazz Mosque and MalcolmShabazz Harlem Market (market for 3 / 10 African goods and clothes) 19. The Kosciuszko Bridge spans what waterway between Brooklyn andQueens?: Newtown Creek 4 / 10 20. Where isthe NewWave Festival held each year?: Brooklyn Academy of Music(BAM) 21. Which great painters are on display atthe Hispanic Society of America?: ElGreco, Diego Velázquez, Francisco de Goya, and others 22. What is CBGB?: A music club that opened in the East Village in 1973 and helped launch punk and new wave music. "Country, BlueGrass, and Blues." Police,the B-52s, the Talking Heads, and Blondie played here. 23. What is a bialy?: A Jewish pastry similar to a bagel but without a hole. Usuallycovered with onions. 24. What is unique about wooden water towers?: Wood expands when wet, preventing leaks. Cheaper to build and maintain.Water freezes later than in steel. 25. Where is the NewYork City Panorama, the largest architectural model inthe world?: Queens Museum in Flushing Meadows Corona Park 26. What is the largest Jewish congregation in NewYork City?: TempleEmanu-El 27. Where was the Bill Cosby Show shot? Where were the Huxtable familysupposed to live?: St. Luke's Place in the West Village; Brooklyn Hei