Famous World Monuments Quiz: Monumental Trivia 2022

The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, was dedicated on May 30, 2022, to honor the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln (born in 1809 and assassinated in 1865). A segregated audience of 50,000 was present during the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial on Decoration Day (now known as Memorial Day) weekend. President Warren G. Harding addressed the crowd, as did other dignitaries.

What is the Lincoln Memorial Centennial Exhibition?

An art exhibit featuring over 50 multimedia works and artifacts inspired by the iconic seated Lincoln sculpture opened on May 7, 2022, at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge. The exhibit runs in Stockbridge until Sept. 5 before moving to the Concord Museum from Sept. 22 until Feb. 26, 2023. Lincoln Memorial sculptor Daniel Chester French’s studio, Chesterwood, is located in the same Massachusetts town.

The Stonewall National Monument in New York City’s Greenwich Village became the first US national monument dedicated to LGBTQ history in 2016. It’s across the street from the Stonewall Inn, where a rebellion against a police raid on June 28, 1969, helped spark the LGBTQ rights movement. The first rainbow flag to fly daily on federal land was dedicated at the Stonewall National Monument on June 1, 2022. June 24 marked the groundbreaking for the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center, expected to open in summer 2024.

Mt. Rushmore was initially built as a tourist attraction. Former President Trump thinks it’s a good idea to add his face to this historical tourist trap.

The Big Ben clock tower in London has been officially known as the Elizabeth Tower since 2012, when it was renamed in honor of the queen’s diamond jubilee. A 5-year silencing of the Big Ben bells for renovation, which started in August 2017, finally ended in summer 2022, according to a New York Times July 3 report.

Princess Diana’s memorial statue was unveiled on Thursday, July 1, 2021, in Kensington Palace, the official London residence of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince William, and his wife, Kate Middleton.

How old would Princess Diana be in 2021?

The memorial, designed by British sculptor and coin designer Ian Rank-Broadley, has been commissioned to mark what would have been Princess Diana’s 60th birthday.

The Eiffel Tower now measures 330 meters, after growing 6 meters (19.69 ft) on March 15, 2022, when a new DAB+ (digital audio) radio antenna was attached to the top of the Paris monument by helicopter.

On Sept. 12, 2021, a team of 95 rope technicians began wrapping Paris’s Arc de Triomphe in 25,000 sq. meters of material, concluding a 60-year project for the artist Christo.

Who was Christo?

The Bulgarian-born Christo Vladimirov Javacheff and his French wife Jeanne-Claude worked together under the name Christo. In 1995 they famously wrapped the Reichstag in Berlin for two weeks, drawing five million spectators. Ten years earlier, they oversaw the wrapping of the Pont Neuf in Paris. Christo died in May 2020, while his wife died in 2009.

Why was Paris’s Arc de Triomphe wrapped in 2021?

The late Christo couple left detailed drawings and instructions for the Arc de Triomphe to be wrapped in recyclable polypropylene fabric in silvery blue and red rope. The idea was revived in 2017 to coincide with a Christo exhibition displayed in multiple Paris galleries starting Sept. 2021. “L’Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped” was be on view for 16 days from Saturday, Sept. 18 to Sunday, Oct. 3, 2021.

The Eiffel Tower was given the nickname The Iron Lady in 1925 and is still called this today.

Eiffel Tower Fact

Paris’ Eiffel Tower was ordered shut in October 2020 as France battled its second virus surge of the coronavirus pandemic. The monument reopened Friday, July 16, 2021, for the first time in nearly nine months.

Le Parisien newspaper reported Sunday, Aug. 22, 2021, that singer, dancer, actress, civil rights activist, and perhaps most notable, French Resistance agent, Josephine Baker, will be reburied at the Pantheon monument Paris. Baker is the first Black woman to get France’s highest honor. French President Emmanuel Macron decided on a Nov. 30, 2021, ceremony at the Paris monument, which houses the remains of scientist Marie Curie, the French philosopher Voltaire, writer Victor Hugo, and other French greats.

Edvard Eriksen’s famous The Little Mermaid bronze statue has been displayed on a rock by the waterside in Copenhagen, Denmark’s capital, since 1913, representing the story of Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen.

The Little Mermaid Odd New York Times Report

The Eriksen estate has initiated legal proceedings demanding that a somewhat similar sculpture, displayed since 2016 in the village of Asaa, in the north of Denmark, be torn down. According to a New York Times Aug. 17, 2021 report, the Eriksen estate also seeks 37,000 Danish crowns($6,000) in compensation. While the Asaa mermaid is plumper and her facial features coarser, her posture is identical to Eriksen’s mermaid.

The Flavian Amphitheatre (Amphitheatrum Flavium) is better known as the Roman Colosseum.

LEGO Fact

Now you can own your personal Lego replica of the ancient building. The company started selling its 9,036-piece Roman Colosseum, the largest set ever, on Nov. 27, 2020.