Q 01/05

Which federal agency has looked after the Statue of Liberty since 1933?

A) The National Park Service

B) The Smithsonian Institution

C) The US Coast Guard

D) The US Forest Service

Answer · why

A) The National Park Service

The National Park Service took over in 1933, when a presidential order moved the statue out of the War Department's hands; the Army kept the rest of t...

Q 02/05

Statue of Liberty sculptor Bartholdi also made which giant sandstone animal, set below the citadel of Belfort?

A) A lion

B) An eagle

C) A bear

D) A bull

Answer · why

A) A lion

A lion: the Lion of Belfort, 22 metres long and finished in 1880, honours the town's months of resistance to a Prussian siege in 1870-71, when Barthol...

Q 03/05

The internal metal framework of the Statue of Liberty was designed by which renowned engineer?

A) Gustave Eiffel

B) John Roebling

C) Isambard Kingdom Brunel

D) Eugène Viollet-le-Duc

Answer · why

A) Gustave Eiffel

Gustave Eiffel took over after the original engineer died in 1879, replacing a planned masonry pier with an iron truss tower flexible enough to let th...

Q 04/05

What covered the statue's face until its 1886 unveiling?

A) A French flag

B) An American flag

C) A velvet curtain

D) A wooden screen

Answer · why

A) A French flag

A French flag veiled the face; Bartholdi, who was to release it on a signal, let it fall too early, and guns, whistles and cheers broke out while the ...

Q 05/05

In 1984, UNESCO gave the Statue of Liberty which status, calling it a 'masterpiece of the human spirit'?

A) Biosphere Reserve

B) World Heritage Site

C) Memory of the World

D) Intangible Heritage

Answer · why

B) World Heritage Site

World Heritage Site status came in 1984, the year the statue closed for two years of repairs; UNESCO praised the way a sculptor and an engineer had jo...