NYC Tour Guide License Exam Questions and Answers Graded A+ Where is the diamond District? - Correct Answer 47th St between 5th & 6th Avenues What is unusual about the diamond trade? - Correct Answer There are no contracts only handshakes Prior to its present location where was the Diamond District - Correct Answer Canal Street Where are the great Works of Picasso found? - Correct Answer Gasosian Gallery - Which has 3 locations in NYC and numerous worldwide Where does the New York Ballet perform the Nutcracker Suite during Christmas time? - Correct Answer 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? - 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 U.S.
What are the addresses of:
Madison Square Garden?Grand Central Station?
Time Square? - Correct Answer Madison Square Garden:
- Penn Plaza
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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? - Correct Answer Salsa What is the current neighborhood name where the original St. Patrick's Church was built? - Correct Answer Notita (In Manhattan) - Mott Ave across from Prince St.During what war did the battleship USS Maine Sink - Correct Answer Spanish-American War, Mast of battleship is at Arlington Cemetery What 6 items would you find on Roosevelt Island? - Correct Answer 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? - Correct Answer 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? - Correct Answer Brooklyn Labor Day Parade - West Indian American Day Parade & Carnival
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