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MUSEUMS & MONUMENTS
100
These two states donated land for the city of Washington.
What are Virginia and Maryland?
100
These are the two major airports for the city of Washington.
What are Reagan National Airport and Dulles International Airport?
100
The origin of the name Washington, District of Columbia was to honor these two historical figures.
Who are George Washington and Christopher Columbus?
100
Though you won’t find many department stores, this outdoor area is a two-mile swath of land bound by the U.S. Capitol and Washington Monument.
What is The National Mall?
100
This monument is the tallest in Washington, DC.
What is the Washington Monument?
200
These are the two major rivers in the Washington, DC area.
What are the Potomac and the Anacostia?
200
DC’s residents refer to the light-rail system with this common name.
What is "the Metro"?
200
Before it became the nation’s capital, the city of Washington was founded 40 years later than this neighborhood within the city, only to incorporate it as part of Washington in 1791.
What is Georgetown?
200
This festival attracts more than one million visitors to the city of Washington each year.
What is the National Cherry Blossom Festival?
200
This is the museum devoted to flight and space exploration.
What is the Air and Space Museum?
300
This is the term used to describe people who live in Washington, DC.
What are Washingtonians?
300
The names of D.C. streets running north to south are organized in this manner.
What is numerically?
300
Though George Washington was the first President of the United States, this man was the first to live in the White House
Who is John Adams?
300
Washington D.C.’s baseball team plays at this stadium.
What is Nationals Park?
300
This famous speech is inscribed on the wall of the Lincoln Memorial.
What is The Gettysburg Address?
400
This is the largest industry in our nation’s capital.
What is the federal government?
400
The streets of Washington, DC that run diagonally are all named after these.
What are The United States?
400
This latin phrase is the official motto of Washington, DC.
What is “Justia Omnibus”?
400
This quadrant of DC holds the majority of tourist attractions.
What is Northwest?
400
This is the number of paintings by Leonardo da Vinci that are housed at the National Art Gallery.
What is one?
500
This is the approximate population in Washington, DC.
What is 500,000?
500
Washington, D.C. ranks third among the worst traffic-ridden cities in the U.S., behind these two cities.
What are Los Angeles and San Francisco?
500
This French-born American patriot designed the city of Washington, D.C.
Who is Charles L’Enfant?
500
Every evening at 6PM visitors can take in a free performance at the Millennium Stage of this popular arts theater.
What is The Kennedy Center?
500
This is the total number of Smithsonian Museums in Washington, including the National Zoo.
What is nineteen?
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