Q 01/05

Which world religious leader was the first visitor when the Holocaust Memorial Museum opened to the public in 1993?

A) Mother Teresa

B) Archbishop Desmond Tutu

C) The Dalai Lama

D) Billy Graham

Answer · why

C) The Dalai Lama

The Dalai Lama, the exiled leader of Tibetan Buddhism, walked in on April 26, 1993, four days after the dedication ceremony.

Q 02/05

Since 1993, Holocaust Memorial Museum visitors have been handed what that tells one real person's story?

A) An identification card

B) A handwritten family letter

C) A numbered wristband

D) A replica ration book

Answer · why

A) An identification card

An identification card profiling a real victim or survivor of the Holocaust has gone to visitors at the elevators to the main exhibition. The same pro...

Q 03/05

The Holocaust Memorial Museum's street address honors which diplomat who shielded thousands of Jews in Budapest in 1944?

A) Oskar Schindler

B) Raoul Wallenberg

C) Chiune Sugihara

D) Aristides de Sousa Mendes

Answer · why

B) Raoul Wallenberg

Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish envoy, issued protective passports in Budapest, and the stretch of 15th Street beside the museum was renamed Raoul Wallenb...

Q 04/05

The Holocaust Memorial Museum stands on federal land, but who supplied the nearly $190 million to build and fill it?

A) The US Treasury

B) The German government

C) The United Nations

D) Private donors

Answer · why

D) Private donors

Private donors paid for the building, the artifacts and the exhibitions, while the federal government contributed the 1.9-acre site beside the Washing...

Q 05/05

Which survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner was founding chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum?

A) Elie Wiesel

B) Simon Wiesenthal

C) Primo Levi

D) Viktor Frankl

Answer · why

A) Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel chaired the presidential commission that proposed the museum in 1979, then led its council until 1986, the year he won the Nobel.