Q 01/05

The Leaning Tower of Pisa is the bell tower of which building?

A) Pisa Cathedral

B) Pisa Baptistery

C) Camposanto Monumentale

D) Basilica of San Piero a Grado

Answer · why

A) Pisa Cathedral

The Leaning Tower of Pisa is the freestanding campanile of Pisa Cathedral in the Piazza dei Miracoli; construction began in 1173 and the tilt appeared...

Q 02/05

Who engineered the great dome of Florence Cathedral, completed in 1436?

A) Lorenzo Ghiberti

B) Donato Bramante

C) Filippo Brunelleschi

D) Leon Battista Alberti

Answer · why

C) Filippo Brunelleschi

Filippo Brunelleschi designed the cathedral's double-shell dome and raised it without wooden centering between 1420 and 1436; his rival Lorenzo Ghiber...

Q 03/05

Which Danish architect won the Sydney Opera House competition, then resigned before it was finished?

A) Arne Jacobsen

B) Jørn Utzon

C) Alvar Aalto

D) Eero Saarinen

Answer · why

B) Jørn Utzon

Jørn Utzon resigned in 1966 amid cost overruns and rows with the state authorities; in 2007 the Opera House became a World Heritage Site while its arc...

Q 04/05

Angkor Wat, the largest religious complex in the world, is in which country?

A) Cambodia

B) Thailand

C) Laos

D) Vietnam

Answer · why

A) Cambodia

Cambodia shows Angkor Wat on its national flag; built in the 12th century as a Hindu temple to Vishnu, it later became Buddhist, and monks kept it in ...

Q 05/05

The Great Pyramid of Giza, Khufu's tomb, dates from which period of ancient Egyptian history?

A) New Kingdom

B) Old Kingdom

C) Late Period

D) Middle Kingdom

Answer · why

B) Old Kingdom

The Old Kingdom was Egypt's age of the pyramid builders; by the New Kingdom, pharaohs fearing for their rich burials hid their tombs deep in the cliff...