Washington D.C.

Question 1

Inhabitants

Answer 1

640000, mostly black

• the capital

Question 2

Who chose it for the capital?

Answer 2

George Washington (1st president)

• named after him

Question 3

Where it is situated?

Answer 3

In an independent area on the east coast of the Potomac River, named district of Columbia (named after Christopher Columbus) and it was planned by a French artist and architect who had fought in the Revolutionary War - Pierre L’Enfant

Question 4

The conception, the look of it

Answer 4

• French

* long wide avenues, gardens, beautiful parks, no skyscrapers

Question 5

The climate

Answer 5

• one of the worst in the US
• very hot and muggy - summer
• not to cold but dump - winter

Question 6

What it contains?

Answer 6

• the White House
• the president’s residence
• the capitol
• on Capitol hill, the seat of the American Congress
• the headquarters of the FBI
• the Pentagon
• the offices of the Defence department
• Arlington Cemetery (John Kennedy, assassinated by a mad man in Dallas in 1963)

Question 7

Place of culture

Answer 7

• Georgetown university
• George Washington university
• Howard university
• National Gallery of arts
• National Portrait Gallery
• the Smithsonian institution (arts, space, natural history museums)