The Eiffel Tower

All 13 questions

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1. On which Paris green space does the Eiffel Tower stand?

   • The Tuileries Garden
   • The Bois de Boulogne
   • The Luxembourg Garden
   • The Champ de Mars

2. Which engineer's company designed and built the tower?

   • Gustave Eiffel
   • Georges-Eugene Haussmann
   • Le Corbusier
   • Auguste Perret

3. For which event was the tower built?

   • The 1889 World's Fair
   • The 1900 Summer Olympics
   • The coronation of Napoleon III
   • The opening of the Paris Metro

4. What is the tower mainly built from?

   • Steel
   • Reinforced concrete
   • Cast aluminium
   • Wrought iron

5. Roughly how tall is the tower today, including its antennas?

   • About 450 metres
   • About 330 metres
   • About 250 metres
   • About 180 metres

6. How many levels of the tower are open to visitors?

   • Two
   • Three
   • Five
   • Four

7. Which building took the title of world's tallest structure from the Eiffel Tower?

   • The Empire State Building
   • The Woolworth Building
   • The Chrysler Building
   • Big Ben

8. Why is the tower repainted every several years?

   • To change its colour by decade
   • To reduce its weight
   • To protect the iron from rust
   • To keep birds from nesting

9. Which river flows past the foot of the tower?

   • The Rhone
   • The Seine
   • The Loire
   • The Marne

10. The tower was originally intended to be a permanent monument.

    • True
    • False

11. The tower can grow slightly taller in hot weather.

    • True
    • False

12. The tower was the entrance arch to the 1889 Exposition ___, the Paris World's Fair.

13. Many artists and writers signed a public protest against the tower, calling it a useless ___ before it was finished.