Q 01/05

Central Park is larger than which of these European countries?

A) San Marino

B) Monaco

C) Liechtenstein

D) Malta

Answer · why

B) Monaco

Monaco would fit inside the park's 843 acres with room to spare, yet Central Park is far from New York City's biggest: Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx is...

Q 02/05

Which of these parks was also designed by Central Park's creators, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux?

A) Golden Gate Park

B) Griffith Park

C) Prospect Park

D) Bryant Park

Answer · why

C) Prospect Park

Prospect Park in Brooklyn began with a plan Vaux drew in 1865 while Olmsted was away managing a California gold mine; Vaux then persuaded his old part...

Q 03/05

What was the name of the winning design in Central Park's 1858 competition?

A) The Meadowland Plan

B) The Croton Plan

C) The Greensward Plan

D) The Manhattan Commons Plan

Answer · why

C) The Greensward Plan

The Greensward Plan beat 32 rivals, and it was the only entry to hide all four crosstown roads below ground level, so city traffic could cross the par...

Q 04/05

A visit to a public park in which country inspired Frederick Law Olmsted's design for Central Park?

A) France

B) Germany

C) England

D) Italy

Answer · why

C) England

England: after landing at Liverpool in 1850, Olmsted visited nearby Birkenhead Park and wrote that democratic America had nothing to compare with this...

Q 05/05

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

A) Harsenville

B) Manhattanville

C) Seneca Village

D) Pigtown

Answer · why

C) Seneca Village

Seneca Village gave its landowners a rare right: Black men needed $250 in property to vote in New York, and in 1845 about a tenth of the city's eligib...