Monuments and Memorials
This is the architectural name for the type of monument that honors our first President.
What is an obelisk?
You can glimpse the 45-carat Hope Diamond in this museum.
What is the National Museum of Natural History?
This bird has graced the Great Seal of the United States since 1782.
What is the bald eagle?
D.C. stands for this.
What is District of Columbia?
Don't get any ideas: they do not actually produce coins inside this D.C. building.
An image of the Lincoln Memorial appears on a coin that is 97.5% zinc and 2.5% this metal.
What is copper?
The cafeteria at this museum features traditional offerings from different tribes.
What is the National Museum of the American Indian?
What is pardon?
This underground transportation system will transport us around D.C.
What is the metro?
The President lives in this wing of the White House.
What is the East Wing?
Bring a pencil to make a rubbing of a name at this memorial, designed by college student Maya Lin.
What is the Vietnam Veterans Memorial?
Famous shoes worn by this actress are a star attraction at the National Museum of American History.
Who is Judy Garland?
This Portuguese water dog was known for being one of the First Family's pets during Barack Obama's presidency.
Who is Bo?
We may be lucky enough to witness the blossoming of the beautiful cherry blossom trees gracing the Tidal Basin, given to the United States as a gift by the Mayor of this city.
What is Tokyo?
Until 1935, the U.S. Supreme Court convened in this building.
What is the U.S. Capitol (Old Senate Chamber)?
A rotunda is the central feature of the monument memorializing this President.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Venture off the National Mall to visit the National Portrait Gallery, where you can view portraits of this man, the most photographed American of the Nineteenth Century.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
The Smithsonian Zoo recently returned its pair of Giant Pandas to China, but panda diplomacy lives on, as last week it was announced that another pair of pandas would travel to this west coast zoo.
What is the San Diego Zoo?
Passed in 1973, this law devolves certain congressional powers to govern the District of Columbia on the local government.
What is the District of Columbia Home Rule Act?
This man's wife planted the first cherry blossom sapling; not long after, he planted the seed that would grow into the modern Supreme Court building.
Who is William Howard Taft?
A memorial stands between "the eighteenth century father" and "the nineteenth century preserver of our nation," and it honors "those twentieth century Americans who took up the struggle during" this event.
What is World War II?
Visitors to the National Air and Space Museum can walk a scaled model of the solar system. At 2,000 feet, it is this scale. (Credit will be given to a team that gets within one order of magnitude.)
What is 1 to 10 billion?
At the Supreme Court, look out for depictions of this type of animal, which symbolizes the slow but steady pace of justice.
What is a turtle?
This man designed the original street layout for Washington D.C.
Who is (Pierre Charles) L'Enfant?
Shortly after assassinating President Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth shouted this State's motto from the stage of Ford's Theatre.
What is Virginia? (+100 if you know the motto.)