DC Quiz Flashcards
What does the metal sign read in the Holocaust exhibit? What does it mean?
Arbeit Macht Frei, Work will set you free
What is significant about the wright flyer 1903?
It is the actual aircraft in which the brothers made the “first flight”
The pressurized suit of which man who took a “small step” is on display at the Air and Space Museum?
Neil Armstrong
Most of the Mesusams in DC are known by the name of?
Smithsonian
The presidential monument with a dome on top?
Jefferson Memorial
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere” is engraved on which monument?
MLK Memorial
The presidential monument that displayed a man in a wheelchair with a dog named Fala
FDR Monument
The Gettysburg event shown in the 42-foot high “Gettysburg Cyclorama oil Painting”
Picketts Charge
Why is #15 on the brochure map called “The high water Mark”
The Angle was the climax of the battle-the furthest the Confederacy penetrated into the Union line.
Where is Reynolds Avenue? Why is it called Reynolds Avenue?
North of the town where the Dunlap Restaurant was located, Named after Union General Reynolds-the highest ranking soldier to die at Gettysburg
After Day 1 of Gettysburg, the Confederates occupied ________ Ridge, while the Union occupied __________ Ridge
Seminary ridge, Cemetery ridge
What is the number of Peach Orchard on the Brochure Map? Which Union General lost his leg there? Where can we go to visit his leg?
10, Daniel Sickles, The National Museum of Health and Medicine
Has a portion of his December 8th speech engraved in the Pacific side of the WWII memorial
FDR
The tallest monument in Washington DC is dedicated to?
George Washington
What is the memorial located 50 yards from Washington’s tomb? Who is it dedicated to?
The slave memorial, dedicated to the enslaved men and women of Mt. Vernon
The outside of GWs mansion appears to be made of stone, but it is really made of?
wood
The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception is the _______ Catholic church in the United States and North America.
largest
Name all the Kennedys buried in Arlington
Joe, JFK, Bobby, Teddy, Jackie (his wife), and 2 infants
His former house is perched on a hill at the highest point in Arlington Cemetery?
Robert E Lee
The number of flag raisers depicted on the Iwo Jima Memorial?
6
The largest office building in the world?
Pentagon
Why does the Pentagon have a memorial?
one of the 4 9/11 planes purposely crashed here, killing 184
The memorial with the Gettysburg address engraved on the wall
Lincoln Memorial
The Interactive feature on the Vietnam memorial that allows many to remember loved ones who died.
etching their loved ones names onto paper
