Q 01/05

Which body of water does the Brooklyn Bridge span?

A) The Gowanus Canal

B) The Harlem River

C) The East River

D) The Hudson River

Answer · why

C) The East River

The East River is no river at all but a saltwater tidal strait, linking New York's harbour to Long Island Sound with Manhattan on one bank and Brookly...

Q 02/05

What was the Brooklyn Bridge billed as in 1883?

A) Eighth Wonder of the World

B) Crossroads of the World

C) Gateway to America

D) Great White Way

Answer · why

A) Eighth Wonder of the World

Eighth Wonder of the World. The bridge earned the billing with a main span longer than any bridge had managed before, hung from stone towers taller th...

Q 03/05

Which New York bridge took the Brooklyn Bridge's title as the world's longest suspension bridge when it opened in 1903?

A) Williamsburg Bridge

B) Manhattan Bridge

C) George Washington Bridge

D) Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge

Answer · why

A) Williamsburg Bridge

Williamsburg Bridge. Opened upstream in 1903, it took the record with a main span of 1,600 feet, just four and a half feet longer than the Brooklyn Br...

Q 04/05

Before the Brooklyn Bridge, John Roebling spanned the Ohio River with a suspension bridge at which city?

A) Louisville

B) Wheeling

C) Cincinnati

D) Evansville

Answer · why

C) Cincinnati

Cincinnati. His son Washington helped him finish the bridge across to Covington, Kentucky, in 1867, the year Roebling himself was appointed to plan a ...

Q 05/05

How did Brooklyn Bridge designer John Roebling die in 1869?

A) Cholera caught at the waterfront

B) He drowned on a river survey

C) He fell from an unfinished tower

D) Tetanus after a ferry crushed his foot

Answer · why

D) Tetanus after a ferry crushed his foot

Tetanus after a ferry crushed his foot: Roebling sent his doctors away and treated the wound himself by pouring water over it, and he was dead within ...