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NYC Tour Guide Exam
What 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 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
Where is the Shrine of St. Elizabeth ann Seton located? - ✔️ CORRECT ANSWER✅- 7 State St facing Battery Park
Why was she canonized? - ✔️ CORRECT ANSWER✅-Helped establish the Catholic Church and schools in the US
What was in the building before the Malcolm Shabazz Mosque was converted? - ✔️ CORRECT ANSWER✅-Lenox Casino
Who designed the Malcolm Shabazz mosque? - ✔️ CORRECT
ANSWER✅-Sabbath Brown
Where did the Huxtables of the Bill Cosby Show live? - ✔️ CORRECT ANSWER✅-St. Luke's Pl in Greenwich Village
What borough has Edgar Allen Poe's cottage? - ✔️ CORRECT
ANSWER✅-The Bronx
rooftop farm with goats and pigs, indoor fountain with seals, home to Babe Ruth, Stravinsky, etc.
What is the nickname of Woolworth's Building? - ✔️ CORRECT
ANSWER✅-The Cathedral of Commerce
What is the 21 club? - ✔️ CORRECT ANSWER✅-A famous speakeasy from the 20's. Famous jockeys out front
Where can you find the greatest concentration of cast iron buildings in the world? - ✔️ CORRECT ANSWER✅-SOHO SOuth of HOuston
Where is the Forbes Gallery? - ✔️ CORRECT ANSWER✅- 60 5th Ave. near 12th St.
What is the current name of Hurtig and Seamon's? - ✔️ CORRECT
ANSWER✅-Apollo Theater
When was it opened? - ✔️ CORRECT ANSWER✅- 1913 0r 1914 ( both are written )
What and where is 2nd oldest monument in NYC? - ✔️ CORRECT ANSWER✅-Worth Monument 23rd and Broadway
What does Gustavino refer to? - ✔️ CORRECT ANSWER✅-A type of timbrel roof vaulting that uses lighter terra cotta tiles. Many famous building used him. Ellis Island, Custom House, GCT,( Oyster room ), and more
Which of these theaters doesn't belong in the category of Broadway theaters? Hilton, Music Box, Beacon, St. James - ✔️ CORRECT ANSWER✅-The Beacon
What is the name of the hotel at 59 W. 44th between 5th and 6th, famous as a hangout for writers? - ✔️ CORRECT ANSWER✅- Algonquin famous for it's Roundtable, where actors, critics, writers and wits would gather. The " Vicious Circle "
What is the name of the garden at the Brooklyn Botanical Museum, famous for it's cherry trees? - ✔️ CORRECT ANSWER✅- Japanese Hill-And - Pond Garden
What is Bloomingdale Asylum and where is it? - ✔️ CORRECT ANSWER✅-Administration building of Columbia University
Where is the Gotham Hotel, and what its it currently called? - ✔️ CORRECT ANSWER✅- 700 5 th, at 55 th. The Peninsula
What's another name for the AT&T building? - ✔️ CORRECT ANSWER✅-" Golden Boy "
What is Civic Fame? - ✔️ CORRECT ANSWER✅-a 25 foot tall golden statue , on top of 1898 Manhattan Municapal building. Designed by Adolph A. Weinman
Where is the Dakota Building, who designed it, and who has lived or is living there? - ✔️ CORRECT ANSWER✅- 8 th Ave. and W. 72nd
st. Lauren Bacall,Boris Karloff, Connie Chung and Maury Povich, Judy garland, Roberta flack, Rudolv Nureyev
Name buildings designed by Henry Hardenburg - ✔️ CORRECT
ANSWER✅-Dakota, Plaza, original Waldorf and Astoria on 5th ( Empire State Building there now), Willard, Copley Plaza, Schermerhorn Building
What was the Campbell Apartment? - ✔️ CORRECT ANSWER✅- an opulent space in GCT, occupied by a friend of the Commodore. Police thought it was lived in when they saw a shower and toilet.
Where can you find a famous smallpox hospital? - ✔️ CORRECT ANSWER✅-Roosevelt Island. Designed by James Renwick, Jr.
Equitable Building Who, where, when. What did it cause? - ✔️ CORRECT ANSWER✅-Ernest Graham, 120 Broadway, 1915 Created need for the "set-back law", to allow sunlight to streets.
What was the reason for selling and who sold Manhattan to the Dutch? - ✔️ CORRECT ANSWER✅-Wappinger Federation
What were the Stonewall Riots? - ✔️ CORRECT ANSWER✅-In 1969, gay people fought with police at 53 Christopher St. at the Stonewall Inn, in Greenwich Village. Considered beginning of gay rights movement.
To What does the Dispensary Triangle refer? - ✔️ CORRECT ANSWER✅-Medical care for the poor.
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
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.
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
Where is Tom's restaurant of Seinfeld fame located? - ✔️ CORRECT ANSWER✅-W.112th and Broadway. one block west of St. John the Divine. Morningside Heights
Who designed the Washington Arch? - ✔️ CORRECT ANSWER✅- Stanford White
Any question involving a building being moved should be answered this way - ✔️ CORRECT ANSWER✅-Hamilton Grange ( Alexander Hamilton's home )
Who was the Chrysler Building's Architect? - ✔️ CORRECT
ANSWER✅-William Van Alen
Where was Seneca Village located? - ✔️ CORRECT ANSWER✅- Between 82 and 89th st., between 7th and 8th Ave. Now Central park
What are the cross town bus routes? - ✔️ CORRECT ANSWER✅- Don't try to learn.
What is the oldest continuous Protestant Organization in NYC? - ✔️ CORRECT ANSWER✅-Marble Collegiate Church
Where would you go learn about Santeria - a Caribbean religous mixture - ✔️ CORRECT ANSWER✅-A Botanica
What does the SATMAR Jewish sect believe about Israel? - ✔️ CORRECT ANSWER✅-They interfere with the coming of the Messiah. Not ordained to be here.
What John Lennon song is found in Central park, in an Italian mosaic? - ✔️ CORRECT ANSWER✅-Imagine
Largest Jewish Synagoge in NYC - ✔️ CORRECT ANSWER✅- Temple Emanu-El 2500 - more than St. Patrick's
Where was the Cosby show shot? - ✔️ CORRECT ANSWER✅-Shot in Manhattan, at St. Luke's Place, but supposed to be Brooklyn, on Stigwell Ave.
What is unusual about the statues surrounding the Fountain of Peace statue at St. John the Divine? - ✔️ CORRECT ANSWER✅- They were made by children
Oldest Jewish Synagogue in NYC - ✔️ CORRECT ANSWER✅- Shearith Israel 8 W. 70th St. 1654
Where did Dylan Thomas drink himself silly, shortly before dying? - ✔️ CORRECT ANSWER✅-The White Horse
What is unique about a black congregation in a synagoge in Harlem? - ✔️ CORRECT ANSWER✅-The faithful are black and Jewish.
Where is the original St. Patrick's church located? - ✔️ CORRECT
ANSWER✅-In Nolita, on corner of Prince and Mott, at 263 Mulberry.
