Q 01/05

How many acres does Central Park cover?

A) 760

B) 843

C) 512

D) 640

Answer · why

B) 843

That makes it only the sixth-largest park in New York City, behind Pelham Bay Park, the Staten Island Greenbelt, Freshkills, Van Cortlandt and Flushin...

Q 02/05

Which two landscape architects won the 1858 design competition for Central Park?

A) Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux

B) Andrew Jackson Downing and Jacob Wrey Mould

C) Daniel Burnham and Charles McKim

D) Egbert Viele and Andrew Haswell Green

Answer · why

A) Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux

Their entry, one of 33 submitted, was called the Greensward Plan; Olmsted called the result 'the first real Park made in this country'.

Q 03/05

What was the name of Olmsted and Vaux's winning design?

A) The Meadowland Plan

B) The Croton Plan

C) The Greensward Plan

D) The Manhattan Commons Plan

Answer · why

C) The Greensward Plan

Unlike rival entries it separated the park from the city with sunken transverse roads and avoided symmetry for a picturesque look.

Q 04/05

Which English green space, visited by Olmsted in 1850, inspired the design?

A) Sefton Park

B) Regent's Park

C) Hyde Park

D) Birkenhead Park

Answer · why

D) Birkenhead Park

It is generally acknowledged as the first publicly funded civil park in the world; landscaped cemeteries like Mount Auburn and Green-Wood were the oth...

Q 05/05

What was the name of the majority-Black settlement razed to make way for Central Park?

A) Harsenville

B) Yorkville

C) Seneca Village

D) Pigtown

Answer · why

C) Seneca Village

About 1,600 residents were evicted under eminent domain from villages that had been property-owning communities since 1825.