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1. Fiorello LaGuardia was born on the Lower East Side of NYC. LaGuardia's statue still stands on LaGuardia Place (once South Fifth Avenue) across Houston from West Broadway. Let's drive the bums out of town was his motto on his attack on gangsters like Lucky Luciano. What state did LaGuardia (the Little Flower) grow up in ?
7. An 1878 statue is the third statue to stand on the cupola of City Hall, the first two were made of wood and rotted away. What is this statue named ?
8. A statue of Hans Christian Andersen was created for Central Park from funds from schoolchildren. From May through September at 11 AM on Saturdays, free fairy tales are read by this statue located west of the Conservatory Water. What book is the statue of Hans Christian Andersen reading ?
11. William Pitt, the first Earl of Chatham was an Englishman who supported the colonists of New York, and was well liked by the American patriots. English sculptor Joseph Wilton's 1766 marble statue of Pitt was beheaded by the British (who also amputated the statues right arm) during St. Andrews Day celebration (November 30, 1777). The marble statue of William Pitt in a Roman toga and holding the Magna Carta was placed on Wall street (until 1788 when Wall street was paved). What NYC Square was first named after William Pitt, but was rededicated as Kimlau Square ?
12. Over 1,200 monuments are located in the five boroughs of NYC. The Mother Goose statue is in Central Park on the east side of Rumsey Playfield. My favorite NYC statue is Alice in Wonderland, which is located just north of the Conservatory Water in Central Park. This bronze statue was created by Jose de Creeft on 1959. A line of poetry (Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe) is chiseled in the granite circle that surrounds the Lewis Carroll sculpture. What poem is it from ?
14. Close to the Confusious statue in Chinatown is a statue of a man who tried to eradicate opium in China. In June 3, 1839 his resistance to drugs started a 23 day battle in Humen, China, which started the Opium Wars with Britain. In those 23 days he supervised the destruction over 2 and a half million pounds of opium. What is his whole name ?
19. The golden statue just above the skating rink in Rockefeller Center is called Leaping Looie after its model Leonardo Nole. What is this statue really named ?
20. Union Square is known for its 1856 equestrian statue of George Washington, but it also has a statue of Abraham Lincoln in its northern side. Before 1930 when the subway caused the parks redesign, the Lincoln statue was in the southwest corner. What statue is on Lincolns site today ?
21. The Iditerod Trail in Alaska took dogsleds about a month for the one way trip to the Nome gold fields. Gold was discovered in 1900 and most of the gold was gone by 1925. On Janurary 20, 1925 an outbreak of diphtheria hit Nome. The 674-mile trip was made in 127 1/2 hours by 18 mushers along the icy trail. The last dog on the rescue mission has a statue in Central Park that was created in 1926. What is this Huskies name ?
22. The Native Americans on the statue created by Solon Borglum, on St. Marks Church were called Aspiration and Inspiration. Solon Borglum's brother Gutzon carved the heads on what famous mountain ?
23. Samuel F.B. Morse invented the single wire telegraph. This Professors bronze statue is still in Central Park. What American institution did Morse believe was divinely sanctioned and should be seen as a social condition similar to a parent, or employer, and even a ruler ?
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2. Christopher Columbus sailed the Carribean but never made it to Columbus Circle at 59th and the Central Park West. When Columbus died of reactive arthritis he still thought that his exploration had been along the east coast of what Continent ?
3. An 1869 bronze statue (with a granite pedestal) of a Native American on the prowl with a hunting dog is in Central Park outside the Sheep Meadow by the Mall. What was the name of the first work by an American sculptor (John Quincy Adams Ward ) to be placed in Central Park ?
4. The statue of Horace Greeley is on the east side of City Hall Park. He is buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn. In 1841 Horace founded what New York newspaper ?
5. Hudson Valley steamboat captain Albert De Groot (1813–1884) commissioned a statue in Printing House Square as a gift to the City. German-born sculptor Ernst Plassman (1823-1877) created the bronze statue in 1872, which still stands at Park Row and Spruce street. Who was this statue of ?
6. Not many NYC statues are really for the birds, until George Blackall Simonds created his bronze statue in 1875. His bird themed statue is standing on a rock just south of the 72nd Street transverse cutoff road (Terrace Road), and east of the park's West Drive. Central Park is the home to peregrine falcons and red-tailed hawks. What is the name of this statue ?
9. In Battery Park a statue of a Swedish inventor named John Ericson is holding a model of USS Monitor in his hand. Even though John hated the US Navy, Cornelius Scranton Bushnell convinced him to built an iron-clad armored battle ship called the Monitor. In approximately 100 days during 1861, John designed and built the warship from plans to launch. What tarnished Ericsson’s reputation was an accident during a 1844 gun demonstration which killed the U.S secretary of State and the U.S secretary of the what ?
10. Abraham De Peyster was NYC's Mayor from 1692-1695. His three story mansion was built in 1690 on 178-180 Pearl street, between Cedar and Pine street. This NYC born city official and merchants statue stood in Hanover Square and is heading to City Hall Park. What NYC Park was Abraham De Peyster's statue first placed ?
13. On July 9, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was read in City Hall Park) then called the Commons) for George Washington and his troops. The painting in City Hall (then on Wall street) of King George III was afterwards torn down and stomped apon. The inspired crowd then tore down the gold-plated 4,000 pound lead statue of King George III in Bowling Green (which in 1773 became so unpopular that a fence was built around it for protection against vandalism). Fragments of this statue were turned into what ?
15. Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia renamed the New York Public Library lions from Leo Astor and Leo Lenox, to Patience and Fortitude, to urge citizens to possess these qualities to make it thru the Great Depression. The NYC Public Library was dedicated on May 23, 1911. The pink Tennessee marble lions were modelled by Edward Clark Potter and carved by the Piccirilli Brothers. These marble statues were also called Lady Astor and Lord Lenox even though they were both what kind of lions ?
16. Purity or Virtue was the short lived 50 foot statue for The Defeat of Slander (and Tammany) constructed in 1909 Times Square (between 45th and 46th), to restore confidence in the city. The Statue of Liberty is the biggest statue in NYC (305 feet tall), but on the top of the Municipal Building is NYC's second largest statue. What is German sculptors Adolph A. Weinman's Municipal Building statue called ?
17. The Statue of Liberty is 22 stories high. 250,000 pounds of steel was used to build Liberty, that is 113,400 kilograms to our metric friends. Liberty Island was called Minnissais by the Mohegan Indians, Love island in 1668. The 7 oceans of the World are represented by the seven spikes in the crown (or the Seven Continents). The 25 windows in the crown of the Statue of Liberty represent the Earth's 25 natural what ?
18. Samuel Cox (1824—1889) got a statue in the SW corner of Tompkins Square Park for tring to increase salaries and improve workers working conditions. He is buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y. What workers was he fighting for ?
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