Nyc Tour Guide License Exam Questions
AND ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE
Where is the diamond District?
47th St between 5th & 6th Avenues
What is unusual about the diamond trade?
There are no contracts only handshakes
Prior to its present location where was the Diamond District
Canal Street
Where are the great Works of Picasso found?
Gasosian Gallery - Which has 3 locations in NYC and numerous worldwide
Where does the New York Ballet perform the Nutcracker Suite during Christmas
time?
David H Koch Theater - formerly the NY State Theater - which is part of the Lincoln
Center for performing Arts
What book did photographer/reformer Jacob Riis write?
"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?
The first American born saint in the US & NY
Where is the Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton located?
7 State St facing Battery Park
Why was she canonized?
Helped establish the Catholic Church and schools in the U.S.
What are the addresses of:
Madison Square Garden?
Grand Central Station?
Time Square?
Madison Square Garden:
4 Penn Plaza
, Grand Central Station:
42nd and Park Ave
Time Square:
Junction of Broadway & 7th Ave between W 42th and W 47 St
What style music in the 1970's blended Latin Puerto Rican and African American
style music?
Salsa
What is the current neighborhood name where the original St. Patrick's Church
was built?
Notita (In Manhattan) - Mott Ave across from Prince St.
During what war did the battleship USS Maine Sink
Spanish-American War, Mast of battleship is at Arlington Cemetery
What 6 items would you find on Roosevelt Island?
Renwick Smallpox Hospital
Blackwell Farmhouse - 6th oldest 18th Century house
Lihthouse Park - Northern tip
Chapel of the good Shepherd
Strecker Memorial Laboratory - pathological bacteriological search
FDR's Four Freedoms Park - speech, worship, want, and fear
Where is Roosevelt Island?
Between Manhattan & Queens in the East River 2 miles long & 800 ft wide, total 147
acres.
What is the name and purpose of the colorful Brooklyn parade that is held on
Labor Day?
Brooklyn Labor Day Parade - West Indian American Day Parade & Carnival
Where is the largest Carillon in NYC
AND ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE
Where is the diamond District?
47th St between 5th & 6th Avenues
What is unusual about the diamond trade?
There are no contracts only handshakes
Prior to its present location where was the Diamond District
Canal Street
Where are the great Works of Picasso found?
Gasosian Gallery - Which has 3 locations in NYC and numerous worldwide
Where does the New York Ballet perform the Nutcracker Suite during Christmas
time?
David H Koch Theater - formerly the NY State Theater - which is part of the Lincoln
Center for performing Arts
What book did photographer/reformer Jacob Riis write?
"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?
The first American born saint in the US & NY
Where is the Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton located?
7 State St facing Battery Park
Why was she canonized?
Helped establish the Catholic Church and schools in the U.S.
What are the addresses of:
Madison Square Garden?
Grand Central Station?
Time Square?
Madison Square Garden:
4 Penn Plaza
, Grand Central Station:
42nd and Park Ave
Time Square:
Junction of Broadway & 7th Ave between W 42th and W 47 St
What style music in the 1970's blended Latin Puerto Rican and African American
style music?
Salsa
What is the current neighborhood name where the original St. Patrick's Church
was built?
Notita (In Manhattan) - Mott Ave across from Prince St.
During what war did the battleship USS Maine Sink
Spanish-American War, Mast of battleship is at Arlington Cemetery
What 6 items would you find on Roosevelt Island?
Renwick Smallpox Hospital
Blackwell Farmhouse - 6th oldest 18th Century house
Lihthouse Park - Northern tip
Chapel of the good Shepherd
Strecker Memorial Laboratory - pathological bacteriological search
FDR's Four Freedoms Park - speech, worship, want, and fear
Where is Roosevelt Island?
Between Manhattan & Queens in the East River 2 miles long & 800 ft wide, total 147
acres.
What is the name and purpose of the colorful Brooklyn parade that is held on
Labor Day?
Brooklyn Labor Day Parade - West Indian American Day Parade & Carnival
Where is the largest Carillon in NYC
