LANDMARKS

Question 1

Beijing, China. Chinese imperial palace from the Ming dynasty to the end of the Qing dynasty.

Answer 1

Forbidden City

Question 2

Amritsar, Punjab, India. Holiest Sikh gurdwara, officially known as the Harmandir Sahib. It was designed by the fifth guru, Guru Arjan.

Answer 2

Golden Temple

Question 3

Located in its namesake city in Cambodia. The temple was built by the Khmer King Suryavarman II in the early 12th century, and it is dedicated to Vishnu. The temple is at the top of the high classical style of Khmer architecture.

Answer 3

Angkor Wat

Question 4

Temple on the Acropolis in Greece attributed to Phidias. It is the most important surviving building of Classical Greece, generally considered the zenith of the Doric order.

Answer 4

Parthenon

Question 5

Building in Rome, Italy, commissioned by Marcus Agrippa during the reign of Augustus (27 BC - 14 AD) and rebuilt by the emperor Hadrian about 126 AD. The building is circular with a portico of large granite Corinthian columns under a pediment. A rectangular vestibule links the porch to the rotunda, which is under a coffered concrete dome, with a central opening (oculus) to the sky.

Answer 5

Pantheon

Question 6

The cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Venice, northern Italy. It is the most famous of the city’s churches and one of the best known examples of Italo-Byzantine architecture.

Answer 6

St. Mark’s Cathedral

Question 7

Palace and fortress complex in Grenada, Spain. It was originally constructed as a small fortress in 889 and then largely ignored until its ruins were renovated and rebuilt in the mid-11th century by the Moorish emir Mohammed ben Al-Ahmar of the Emirate of Granada, who built its current palace and walls.

Answer 7

Alhambra

Question 8

Historic castle located on the north bank of the River Thames in central London. It was founded towards the end of 1066 as part of the Norman Conquest of England.

Answer 8

Tower of London

Question 9

Large Gothic church in London. It is one of the most notable religious buildings in the United Kingdom and has been the traditional place of coronation and burial site for English and, later, British monarchs. Since 1066, when Harold Godwinson and William the Conqueror were crowned, the coronations of English and British monarchs have been held here.

Answer 9

Westminster Abbey

Question 10

Historic Catholic cathedral on the eastern half of the Île de la Cité in the fourth arrondissement of Paris, France. The cathedral is widely considered to be one of the finest examples of French Gothic architecture, and it is among the largest and most well-known church buildings in the world. The naturalism of its sculptures and stained glass are in contrast with earlier Romanesque architecture.

Answer 10

Notre Dame

Question 11

The main church of Florence, Italy. Il Duomo di Firenze, as it is ordinarily called, was begun in 1296 in the Gothic style to the design of Arnolfo di Cambio and completed structurally in 1436 with the dome engineered by Filippo Brunelleschi.

Answer 11

Florence Cathedral

Question 12

Late Renaissance church located within Vatican City. It was designed principally by Donato Bramante, Michelangelo, Carlo Maderno, and Gian Lorenzo Bernini. It is the burial site of one of the twelve apostles of Jesus and the first Pope and Bishop of Rome.

Answer 12

St. Peter’s Basilica

Question 13

Royal château in the Île-de-France region of France. The court was the center of political power in France from 1682, when Louis XIV moved from Paris, until the royal family was forced to return to the capital in October 1789 after the beginning of the French Revolution. It is therefore famous not only as a building, but as a symbol of the system of absolute monarchy of the Ancien Régime.

Answer 13

Palace of Versailles

Question 14

Iron lattice tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris. Erected in 1889 as the entrance arch to the 1889 World’s Fair, it was initially criticised by some of France’s leading artists and intellectuals for its design, but has become both a global cultural icon of France and one of the most recognizable structures in the world.

Answer 14

Eiffel Tower

Question 15

White marble mausoleum located in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India. Commissioned in 1632 by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan to house the worldly remains of his third wife, Mumtaz Mahal, it stands on the southern bank of the Yamuna River. The mausoleum is widely recognized as “the jewel of Muslim art in India” and remains as one of the world’s most celebrated structures and a symbol of India’s rich history.

Answer 15

Taj Mahal

Question 16

Also called the Rose City, it is a historical and archaeological city in the southern Jordanian governorate of Ma’an that is famous for its rock-cut architecture and water conduit system.

Answer 16

Petra

Question 17

Series of fortifications made of stone, brick, tamped earth, wood, and other materials, generally built along an east-to-west line across the historical northern borders of China to protect the Chinese states and empires against the raids and invasions of the various nomadic groups of the Eurasian Steppe. Especially famous is the wall built 220-206 BC by Qin Shihuang, the First Emperor of China.

Answer 17

Great Wall of China

Question 18

Art Deco style skyscraper in New York City, located on the east side of Manhattan in the Turtle Bay area at the intersection of 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue. At 1046 feet, it was designed by William Van Alen.

Answer 18

Chrysler Building

Question 19

Art Deco skyscraper located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and West 34th Street. It has a roof height of 1,250 feet (380 m), and with its antenna spire included, it stands a total of 1,454 feet (443 m) high. Designed by Shreve, Lamb, and Harmon.

Answer 19

Empire State Building

Question 20

Skyscraper designed by Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe in Manhattan, New York City. It stands 515 feet (157 m) tall with 38 stories, and was completed in 1958. It stands as one of the finest examples of the functionalist aesthetic and a masterpiece of corporate modernism.

Answer 20

Seagram Building

Question 21

Colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York City, in the United States. The statue, designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, a French sculptor and dedicated on October 28, 1886, was a gift to the United States from the people of France.

Answer 21

Statue of Liberty

Question 22

Once referred to as the Sears Tower, designed by Fazlur Khan and Bruce Graham, it is a 1451 foot skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

Answer 22

Willis Tower

Question 23

Built as a monument to the westward expansion of the United States, it is the centerpiece of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial and has become an internationally famous symbol of St. Louis. It was designed by Eero Saarinen.

Answer 23

Gateway Arch

Question 24

Sculpture carved into granite near Keystone, South Dakota, in the United States. Sculpted by Danish-American Gutzon Borglum and his son, Lincoln Borglum, it depicts the heads of four United States presidents: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln.

Answer 24

Mount Rushmore

Question 25

Neo-Gothic hybrid cable-stayed/suspension bridge in New York City and is one of the oldest bridges of either type in the United States. It was designed by John Augustus Roebling.

Answer 25

Brooklyn Bridge

Question 26

Suspension bridge in San Francisco. It was designed by Joseph Strauss, Irving Morrow, and Charles Ellis.

Answer 26

Golden Gate Bridge

Question 27

Observation tower in Seattle, Washington, a landmark of the Pacific Northwest, and a symbol of Seattle. It was built in the Seattle Center for the 1962 World’s Fair and designed by John Graham & Company.

Answer 27

Space Needle

Question 28

Nickname for the Great Bell of the clock at the north end of the Palace of Westminster in London. The tower is officially known as the Elizabeth Tower, renamed as such to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II.

Answer 28

Big Ben