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Washington D.C. Trivia Quiz
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1. Once you've checked the Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument off your list of sites to see in D.C., head to West Potomac Park where you'll the national memorial for which other notable president and Founding Father?

2. A memorial in Washington, D.C.'s West Potomac Park, just south of the National Mall's Reflecting Pool, has a series of statues dedicated to what military conflict, an Asian war that took place from 1950 to 1953?

3. What is the three-letter airport code for the international airport serving Washington D.C.? This airport's official title is Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and it is actually located in the neighboring state of Virginia.

4. Which DC Metro stop has not only the longest escalator in the DC Metro system but the longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere?

5. When Amazon selected northern Virginia as 1 of 2 locations for East Coast headquarters, the tech titan used what two-word phrase to describe the area? Journalists and citizens considered it a 'neighborhood rebranding' from the area formerly known as Crystal City.

6. Before it was placed in its current home atop the Washington Monument, the pointed aluminum top of the famous obelisk had a 'pop-up' two-day display at what famous NYC luxury jewelry store?

7. Tea Leoni stars as Elizabeth McCord, a former CIA analyst called to head up a Cabinet department in what political drama series that aired on CBS from 2014 to 2019?

8. The Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. is home to a Museum and former residence and garden of Robert Woods Bliss, the Dumbarton ______ Museum. Fill in the one word blank, the plural of a tree that bears acorns as a fruit.

9. What TV series, starring Emily Deschanel as a forensic anthropologist, is set in Washington, D.C.?

10. Although it typically requires binoculars to spot, what famous movie villain has a sculpture on the National Cathedral? Technically, it's a limestone grotesque and part of the building's rain control system.

11. On the fateful night in which Abraham Lincoln was shot in Ford's Theatre, he was seeing a play about an American's embarrassing interactions with his aristocratic British family members. What was the name of this play?

12. Although it continued to lack voting representation in Congress, the 23rd amendment to the US Constitution was ratified in 1961 and granted how many Electoral College votes to the District of Columbia?

13. Washington, D.C. is located on what river, which flows from its namesake Highlands to the Chesapeake Bay?

14. What US state capital is closest in distance to Washington, DC?

15. In a 1952 speech, Richard Nixon denied using political contributions for personal expenses, but famously said he'd keep what cocker spaniel given as a gift?

16. In October 1884 in Washington, U.S. President Chester Arthur hosted an international conference to discuss the choice of 'a ______ to be employed as a common zero of longitude and standard of time reckoning throughout the world'. What word fills in the blank?

17. The design for the US Capitol was chosen as part of a contest created by George Washington and Thomas Jefferson with a winning prize of $500. Somewhat surprisingly, the winning design was not made by an American but by a native of what modern country?

18. Washington is well-known as having alphabet-inspired street names, starting with A St. What is the first letter of the alphabet without a street name in DC?

19. Rapper Olubowale Victor Akintimehin was born in 1984 in Washington D.C. after his Nigerian parents came to the United States via Austria. His biggest hits include 'Lotus Flower Bomb,' 'Bad,' and 'On Chill.' By what four-letter name is this musician known?

20. Arlington County was previously, confusingly, named what prior to a 1920 renaming? The county name was shared with its neighboring city although they were distinct jurisdictions.

21. 41-year-old John Allen Muhammad and 17-year-old Lee Boyd Malvo traveled in a blue 1990 Chevrolet Caprice and killed 17 people over a period of ten months in the early 2000s. Their most infamous string of killings were a series of sniper attacks occurring near the metropolitan area of what large city?

22. What is the alliterative H-name of the former Kennedy residence just outside Washington D.C. in McLean, Virginia? The home, purchased by John F. Kennedy in 1955 was then sold to his brother Robert Kennedy in 1956 and finally sold out of the family in 2009.

23. What tree is celebrated in a national festival in the spring each year in Washington, D.C.?

24. Kiefer Sutherland played a HUD secretary-turned-sudden president on what DC-set political thriller named for a State of the Union failsafe?

25. Who was the first president to live in The White House?

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