Spirit of '76 Test

Question 1

How much money did it cost to restore Union Station?

Answer 1

Hundreds of millions of dollars

Question 2

Who painted “The Apotheosis of Washington” inside the capitol?

Answer 2

Constantino Brumidi

Question 3

What is the name of the headquarters for the national armed forces?

Answer 3

Pentagon

Question 4

Where is Pierce Charles L’Enfant buried?

Answer 4

Arlington Cemetary

Question 5

How many names are inscribed on the Vietnam Memorial Wall?

Answer 5

58,280

Question 6

What war memorial depicts soldiers on patrol along a wall that depicts veterans from that war?

Answer 6

Korean War Memorial

Question 7

What is the name of the statue on top of the capitol building?

Answer 7

Statue of freedom

Question 8

What is the headquarters for Amtrak?

Answer 8

Union Station

Question 9

How many acres make up Arlington Cemetery?

Answer 9

624

Question 10

In what order on the Vietnam Memorial are the names inscribed?

Answer 10

By the year they were killed

Question 11

Once the US government confiscated Arlington, what did they use it for?

Answer 11

Cemetary

Question 12

What war memorial is in honor of the thousands of marines who lost their lives to take the South Pacific Islands from the Japanese?

Answer 12

Iwojima

Question 13

Writings from this document can be found engraved in the walls of the Jefferson Memorial.

Answer 13

Declaration of Independence

Question 14

Which word means building? Capital or Capitol?

Answer 14

Capitol

Question 15

Why does the Capitol city lie in a diamond shape?

Answer 15

Each point is facing a cardinal direction

Question 16

Whose great grandson was the owner of present day Arlington?

Answer 16

Martha Washington’s

Question 17

How tall is the Jefferson Memorial from floor to head?

Answer 17

25 feet

Question 18

Where would one find George Washington’s false teeth on display?

Answer 18

American History Museum

Question 19

How tall is the Statue of Freedom?

Answer 19

19.5 feet

Question 20

Sixty-five thousand visitors pass through the doors of this place daily.

Answer 20

Union Station

Question 21

George Custis inherited Arlington from his father. Who did the daughter of Mr. Custis marry?

Answer 21

Robert E. Lee

Question 22

Hat Fort was being bombed when the Star Spangled Banner was being written? Also, what war was this in?

Answer 22

Fort McHenry, Maryland, War of 1812

Question 23

What body of water does the Jefferson Memorial overlook?

Answer 23

Tidal basin

Question 24

In Arlington, who has a simple white cross to his memory?

Answer 24

Bobby Kennedy

Question 25

Where would one find the Hope Diamond on display?

Answer 25

Natural History Museum

Question 26

Hat drama was Lincoln watching when he was shot?

Answer 26

"My American Cousin"

Question 27

What are the original dimensions of the Capitol city?

Answer 27

10 miles by 10 miles

Question 28

Over what issue did the government confiscate Arlington?

Answer 28

Civil War

Question 29

What portrait was saved from the White House by Dolly Madison during the War of 1812?

Answer 29

George Washington

Question 30

What ship's anchor and mast can be seen at Arlington?

Answer 30

USS Maine

Question 31

What type of tree was given by the Japanese to Washington, D.C.?

Answer 31

Cherry Blossom

Question 32

What river runs through the Capitol city?

Answer 32

Potomac River

Question 33

Who shot Lincoln?

Answer 33

John Wilkes Booth

Question 34

How many sides is the building of the U.S. Pentagon?

Answer 34

5 sides

Question 35

What is the Lee Custis Mansion in the Arlington called today?

Answer 35

Arlington Mansion

Question 36

How many steps do the guards at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier take?

Answer 36

21

Question 37

What is the name of the elephant found in the middle of the Natural History Museum?

Answer 37

Jumbo

Question 38

Where would one find the dinosaur fossils displayed?

Answer 38

Natural History Museum

Question 39

He was the chief engineer to design the capital city.

Answer 39

Pierre Charles L'Efant

Question 40

What is the name of the theater where Lincoln was shot?

Answer 40

Ford's Theater

Question 41

Which two presidents are buried in Arlington?

Answer 41

Taft and Kennedy

Question 42

What wars are represented at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier?

Answer 42

World War 1, World War 2, and Korea

Question 43

Which Smithsonian Museum is the most heavily attended?

Answer 43

Air and Space Museum

Question 44

Who sold his personal library to congress to restart the Library of Congress?

Answer 44

Thomas Jefferson

Question 45

During what World War was the Pentagon built?

Answer 45

World War 2

Question 46

How many flags surround the Washington Monument?

Answer 46

50 flags

Question 47

What is the name of the dome on capitol building? How tall is it?

Answer 47

Rotunda, 180ft

Question 48

What is the name of the house where Lincoln died?

Answer 48

Petersen House

Question 49

This Presidential Memorial is 5 acres long and is divided into sections according to his four terms as U.S. President

Answer 49

FDR

Question 50

He laid the cornerstone of the capitol building

Answer 50

George Washington

Question 51

How tall is the Washington Monument?

Answer 51

555.5ft tall

Question 52

Where would one go to see the origins clothing and personal possessions that Lincoln was carrying the day he was shot?

Answer 52

Ford’s Theater Museum

Question 53

This memorial consists of 36 columns, one for each state that was preserved in the Union and a statue of the president who preserved the Union.

Answer 53

Lincoln Memorial

Question 54

What year did Congress move to Washington, DC?

Answer 54

1800

Question 55

Prior to moving to D.C., what city was the temporary capital city?

Answer 55

Philadelphia

Question 56

Where would one find the Gutenberg Bible, famous speeches, and the copyright office of Washington, D.C.?

Answer 56

Library of Congress

Question 57

Who wrote the Star Spangled Banner?

Answer 57

Francis Scott Key

Question 58

Where will one find the history of man’s flight on display?

Answer 58

Air and Space Museum

Question 59

What states have land to form D.C.?

Answer 59

Virginia and Maryland

Question 60

What was going on in our country that stopped the construction of the Washington Monument?

Answer 60

Civil War

Question 61

How many statues is each state allowed to have in Statuary Hall?

Answer 61

2

Question 62

Where would one go to see the original Star Spangled Banner flag?

Answer 62

US History Museum

Question 63

What street will one not find in Washington, D.C.?

Answer 63

J Street

Question 64

The construction of the Washington Monument stopped at this point for 25 years.

Answer 64

150ft

Question 65

In what wing of the capitol building do the House of Representatives meet?

Answer 65

Left wing

Question 66

How many seconds does it take for the elevator to get to the top of the Washington Monument?

Answer 66

70 seconds

Question 67

The capitol building was torched during which war?

Answer 67

War of 1812

Question 68

Whose memorial is a 30 foot sculpture made from white granite and opened in 2011?

Answer 68

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Question 69

The World War II Memorial is most well known for what feature found in its center?

Answer 69

Water fountains

Question 70

Where are the locations where we enter and exit the Metro?

Answer 70

Get on at Arlington and at the 10th stop we get off at Capital South

Question 71

Name things you are looking to see at the National Portrait Gallery.

Answer 71

Pocahontas, John Brown, all presidents

Question 72

What Museum is dedicated to the memory of six million Jews who were systematically killed during World War II?

Answer 72

The Holocaust Museum

Question 73

Who was the first Postmaster General and has a statue in front of the Old Post Office Pavilion?

Answer 73

Ben Franklin

Question 74

In what Museum can you see the exhibits dedicated to the American Presidents, all American Wars, the History of Transportation, and Pop Culture?

Answer 74

American History Museum

Question 75

What grace in Arlington Cemetery is noted by an eternal flame?

Answer 75

JFK

Question 76

What two teams are playing in the baseball game we are planning to attend?

Answer 76

Orioles vs. Royals