10-Question Quiz: Landmarks

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1:00that we're having a little bake off between the 1960s themed, peace, love, and Brian Larer, tie-dye T-shirt, or the 1930s themed WNYC vintage van T-shirt. Today's theme is New York area landmarks. Our lines are full, but as people finish up, you can try to get in at 212-433-WNYC for today's 10 question quiz. We'll start with Brian and Battery Park City. Hi, Brian, ready to play? Hi, thank you. OK, this summer, question one, we celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, celebrating the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That line was one of the inspirations for the French sculptor who proposed giving the U.S. a Statue of Liberty in 1865. Declaration of Independence was one of the inspirations for the Statue of Liberty gift.

2:00What was the other major inspiration in 1865? And I've got to give you a need it. I think it would be open. Just simply that I said the proposal was first made in the year 1865. Think about that time. And what might have inspired a Statue of Liberty right then? The Civil War. Yes, the abolition of slavery as symbolized by the broken shackle and the chains at the Statue's feet once it got made. Question two. For one of the shirts, what two city parks host a grand army plaza at their entrance? And I'll have a clue for you for this one too if you need it. But two big city parks each have a grand army plaza at one of the entrances. Do you know which two? Ah, Union Square perhaps?

3:02Not Union Square. I'll give you a hint. And you'd probably think of these as the two most prominent parks in the city. And central and prospect. Yeah, that is right. And they each have grand army plazas, covered, voe or vox, and Frederick Law Olmsted who designed both parks, designed both entrances. They were both named primarily to honor Union soldiers from the Civil War. So Brian now comes your moment of choosing. Would you like the 1960s, Peace Love and Brindler, Tied Ditheme T-shirt or the 1930s W.I.I.C. Vintage Van T-shirt? I think the Brindler piece. And anecdotally, it was Gustav Iple who designed the interior structure of the Statue of Liberty. The interior, oh, thank you very much. Adding a name to that question. Brian, hang on.

4:03We'll take your dress off the air and send you that shirt. Let's go next to Jakob in Brooklyn. Hi, Jakob ready to play? Oh, it would help if I clicked on his line. Jakob, my error, do we have you now? Ah, yeah. Hi. Okay, question three. The author Washington Irving is buried in a cemetery bearing the name of this village in Westchester that he made famous with a short story that he called the legend about the place. It also explains why the village is a big tourism draw around Halloween. Do you know the name of the village? Now, I'll give you a hint if you need one. The hint is I said he wrote a legend about this place. Does that jog your memory of anything,

5:03the legend of somewhere? No, unfortunately not. Okay, sorry, thank you very much. Thank you very much. Try again. It's the legend of Sleepy Hollow. So the town of Sleepy Hollow, incorporated as North Tarry Town originally, but they changed it in 1996 to reflect its Dutch routes and that particular literary claim to fame. All right, let's go next two. Oh, look, we have a caller from Sleepy Hollow. Nora, if that had come up, would you have known it? If you had come up to answer that question, would you have known it? Yes, I moved here just after Halloween. And also, you know, there has been a cabod street. And I mean, you can't escape, but the ambulance is a firetack. All have a picture of a cabod fleeing the head of the enforcement, I mean, if everywhere. Yeah, very proud of it.

6:03But by the luck of the draw, you get a Long Island landmark question. Oh, no. The question for the Water Tower Jones Beach State Park, also referred to as the pencil or the needle, is not just a landmark. It's a functioning bit of engineering that supplies the park with fresh water. Who was the force behind the creation of Jones Beach State Park? And I'll give you a hint if you need it. I think I can do it without the hint. I think it's Robert Moses. It was the power broker, Robert Moses. And the role he had for a while, as Long Island State Park's commissioner, he had sand dredged to raise the park and then beach grass planted to keep the sand from blowing away. And they say the Water Tower is modeled after the bell tower of St. Mark's Cathedral in Venice, something I did not know when. I went swimming in the Water at Jones Beach. All right, question five for one of the shirts.

7:05Speaking of Robert Moses, he's also behind the famous Unisphere sculpture in Queens that big stainless steel globe in Flushing Meadows, Corona Park. Do you know the occasion for the construction of the Unisphere? I think it was the World Fair that my mother took me to when I was six, me and my brother and sister. I think it was the 64 World Fair. That would be absolutely right. 1964, 65 World Fair, according to the New York City Parks Department website, the Unisphere celebrated both the dawn of the space age and the fair's broader theme of peace through understanding. So with that as a prompt, do you want the Peace Love and Brian Letter T-shirt? 1960s themed, or the 1930s themed vintage van t-shirt? Well, no offense to present company, but I've been craving the vintage van t-shirts since they announced it.

8:05And I did donate really described, but I don't donate enough to have gotten it that way. So I'm still to have wanted. Well, I'm glad you got it this way. Dora Hangout will take your milling address off the air. Well, let's go next to Danielle in a story. Hi, Danielle, ready to play? Hi, yeah, I'm ready to play. Okay, question six on New York City Landmark, New York area landmarks. The women's rights pioneer's monument in Central Park, featuring Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, was dedicated in 2020, almost doubling the number of individual real women honored with statues in city parks. Those three almost doubled the number. Here's the question. Can you name any one, just one, of the four women who had statues in the city before 2020? Wow. Do you have a hint for this one?

9:06Hmm, let's see. Hint could be, hint could be one famous first lady, not Hillary Clinton. Rose about Eleanor Roosevelt is right. So I'll give you that. That's at Riverside Park and 72nd Street. Also Gertrude Stein has a statue in Brian Park. Harriet Tubman, 123rd Street and St. Nicholas Avenue. And and Joan of Arc. There's a Joan of Arc statue. All right, so for one of the search, shirts, question seven, 1520 Sedric Avenue in Morris Heights, the Bronx is a significant cultural landmark in the history of both the Bronx and the city as a whole and really the whole world in a certain respect. Do you know what happened there at 1520 Sedric Avenue

10:07on a late summer night in 1973? I actually don't think I do. It was a first in music history. I'll give you that as a hint. You want to take a shot? I might have to phone a friend. Yeah, time for that. All right, Danielle, sorry. Well, it was what is known as the debut of hip hop, right? And many of you know, although it's roots go back farther, it's become accepted that DJ Kool Herk, DJ to Back to School Party in the Rec Room of 1520 Sedric. On August 11th, 1973 and debuted hip hop using two turntables to prolong the instrumental breaks of the music. I think it was that two turntables hookup. That was sort of the invention that got that labeled

11:11that innovation. All right, let's go next to Robin up in Tuxedo, New York. Hi, Robin, you're on WNYC, ready to play? I am. Question eight. We have some famous lighthouses in the area, the little red lighthouse along the Hudson under the George Washington Bridge had a famous children's book written about it. But which one is the oldest operating lighthouse in the whole United States? This one's multiple choice. The Montauk Point lighthouse, the Sandy Hook lighthouse or the Fire Island lighthouse. One of those three is the oldest in the country. That's a tricky question. So I'm just gonna totally guess because I don't know. So Sandy Hook. Sandy Hook happens to be right operating in Jersey since 1764 and funny enough it's now a mile and a half from the water due to shifts in the shoreline.

12:13And it was designated a national historic landmark in 1964. All right, question nine for one of the shirts. A great place to meet is that the information booth in Grand Central Terminal with the big clock perched on top. How many faces does the clock have? How many faces? How many I have to remember to turn them all forward on Saturday night? How many faces, yeah. How many clock faces? Okay. Again, this is a guess. Yes. Yes. Four is right. Is it really? Oh my god. Wow. Wow. Because one on each side? Because that's the answer. Yeah, I was trying to think. Yeah, I almost guessed five, but go with the person thing. Not a pentagon. It's called an opal clock because it's made with opal glass, but at some point it was reported that the clock faces were made of actual opal, which actually is not true.

13:20That would have made the clock worth tens of millions of dollars. But of course, it's invaluable to everyone trying to meet up with friends and the terminals. So which of those vintage T-shirts would you like? So I just upped my sustaining member amount so that I could get the piece 11 Brian Larrer still. Let's go with the 1930s one. Awesome. You'll wind up with both shirts today. Hang on. We'll take your mailing address off the air and we'll do, and we've got one question left. So Susan and Westchester, you get the luxury of only needing to answer one in a row right and you'll be able to get your choice of shirts. Hi, Susan. Ready to play? Yes, Brian. Thank you. I'm ready. All right. This one may be hard. Conference House is a local landmark that got its name from a conference held there in 1776 to try and negotiate an end to the Revolutionary War. Needless to say, that failed.

14:22Participants included John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and Admiral Howe. The question is, in what borough is Conference House located? This is a guess. I knew all the questions before, but I'm going to say Manhattan. Sorry. The answer is Staten Island. Conference House is near the southernmost tip right across the water from Perth and Boy down there and now owned by the New York Parks Department. I think we did wind up with the hardest question as question 10, but thanks for giving it a shot. Glad we gave away some shirts. Listen to this. Thanks for playing. Today's 10 Question Quiz. More Brian Lair Show to come. Since WNYC's first broadcast in 1924, we've been dedicated to creating the kind of content we know the world needs. Since then, New York Public Radio's rigorous journalism has gone on to win a Peabody Award and a Dupont Columbia Award, among others. In addition to this award-winning reporting, your sponsorship also supports inspiring storytelling

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