Q 01/05

St. Louis, founded by French fur traders in 1764, was named after which French monarch?

A) The Sun King, Louis XIV

B) The guillotined Louis XVI

C) The crusader Louis IX

D) The boy Louis XIII

Answer · why

C) The crusader Louis IX

The crusader Louis IX was canonised as Saint Louis in 1297, which is why the city carries a saint's name rather than a plain royal one.

Q 02/05

The fur traders who founded St. Louis in 1764 had set out from which French colonial city?

A) Quebec City

B) New Orleans

C) Montreal

D) Detroit

Answer · why

B) New Orleans

New Orleans was home to Pierre Laclède, who headed upriver in August 1763 with his stepson Auguste Chouteau, chose a bluff safe from floods, and laid ...

Q 03/05

How tall is the Gateway Arch?

A) 70 feet

B) 210 feet

C) 630 feet

D) 1,890 feet

Answer · why

C) 630 feet

630 feet is also the distance between its legs at ground level, so the Arch is exactly as wide as it is tall; in a 150 mph wind its top is designed to...

Q 04/05

Which Finnish-American architect designed the Gateway Arch?

A) Alvar Aalto

B) Eliel Saarinen

C) Eero Saarinen

D) Marcel Breuer

Answer · why

C) Eero Saarinen

Eero Saarinen beat a field that included his own father, Eliel, in the 1948 competition, but died of a brain tumour in 1961, before construction of hi...

Q 05/05

The Gateway Arch tram is half elevator, half which ride?

A) Roller coaster

B) Carousel

C) Ferris wheel

D) Log flume

Answer · why

C) Ferris wheel

Ferris wheel cars gave designer Dick Bowser his answer: he drew up the tram in two weeks, though it did not open until 1967, well after the Arch was f...