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Free Architecture quiz: 88 trivia questions and answers — styles, landmarks & architects. Easy to hard, with explained answers. No sign-up.
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From the Eiffel Tower to the Sagrada Família, by way of the Colosseum, the Taj Mahal and Dubai's skyscrapers, this quiz explores the world's great monuments and architectural styles: Gothic, Baroque, Art Nouveau, Brutalism... Can you recognize the masterpieces built across the centuries?
This quiz currently has 88 questions, ranging from easy to hard, available in French, English and Spanish when the Spanish translation is available.
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Answer: Gustave Eiffel. The Eiffel Tower was designed by engineer Gustave Eiffel's company for the 1889 World's Fair.
Answer: Gothic style. Gothic style, which emerged in 12th-century France, is characterized by pointed arches, ribbed vaults, and flying buttresses.
Answer: The Pyramid of Khufu. The Great Pyramid of Khufu, completed around 2560 BC, is the largest of the Giza pyramids and the only Ancient Wonder still standing.
Answer: The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. Designed by Frank Gehry and opened in 1997, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is famous for its sculptural forms covered in titanium panels.
Answer: One World Trade Center. One World Trade Center, designed by SOM under David Childs, rises 541 meters and stands on the Ground Zero site.
Answer: Mont-Saint-Michel Abbey. Mont-Saint-Michel Abbey in Normandy rises from a rocky islet in a bay famed for its dramatic tides; its spire is crowned by a statue of the archangel Michael, and the site has been on the UNESCO list since 1979.
Answer: Ferdinand Cheval. It all started with a strange stone he tripped over. Mocked in his lifetime, his 'Ideal Palace' is now a listed historic monument admired by the Surrealists.
Answer: On robotic 'legs' that made it walk. The Lagena school, built in 1935, was set on 198 mobile supports that moved forward like footsteps: it 'walked' to its new spot in 18 days.
Answer: Because the ground was too soft on one side. The clay soil gave way as soon as the 2nd storey was built, in the 12th century. Work from 1990 to 2001 stabilised it and straightened it by about 40 cm… without making it upright, since the flaw is what made it famous.
Answer: Le Corbusier. Le Corbusier formulated the 'five points of a new architecture': pilotis, roof garden, free plan, free façade, and ribbon windows.
Answer: Brutalism. Brutalism, which emerged in the 1950s, takes its name from raw concrete ('béton brut' in French) and favors massive exposed-concrete forms.
Answer: Fazlur Rahman Khan. Fazlur Rahman Khan designed the tube structural system, which distributes loads around a building's perimeter and made it possible to build much lighter, ultra-tall towers.
Answer: The Pantheon. The Pantheon in Rome, rebuilt under Emperor Hadrian in the 2nd century, retains the largest unreinforced concrete dome ever built.
Answer: Opus caementicium (Roman concrete). Roman concrete, made with lime and volcanic ash (pozzolana), was remarkably strong, making possible works such as the Pantheon's dome, still standing two thousand years later.
Answer: The Crystal Palace. The Crystal Palace, a prefabricated cast-iron and glass structure designed by Joseph Paxton, was first erected in Hyde Park in 1851, then rebuilt at Sydenham, where a fire destroyed it in 1936.
Answer: Tour First. The former Axa tower, renovated and heightened in 2011, is more than 20 metres taller than the Tour Montparnasse. The 330-metre Eiffel Tower is a monument, not a skyscraper.
Answer: About 125 years. Setting concrete gives off a lot of heat. So it was poured in columns of blocks, crossed by more than 900 km of pipes carrying chilled water.
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