Metro Stations
Waterworks
Circles and Squares
A Bridge Too Far
Don't take it for Granite
200

Ballston, Rosslyn, L'Enfant Plaza, and Union Station are all walking distance to offices of this company.

What is Accenture Federal Services?

200

Paddle up the Potomac, and you'll be blocked by this waterfall.

What is Great Falls?

200

This circle is at the center of a historic neighborhood in northwest DC that shares its name.

What is Dupont Circle? 

200

A bridge which "unlocks" a passage to Georgetown, named for our anthem author.

What is Key Bridge?

200

On a penny, it's made of copper and zinc. On the National Mall, it's made of limestone and marble.

What is the Lincoln Memorial?

400

Ballston, Virginia Square, Clarendon, and Courthouse are a few of the Orange and Silver Line stations in this county.

What is Arlington County?

400

A river that flows through the southeast side of DC.

What is the Anacostia?

400

An oval-shaped green space just south of the White House.

What is the Ellipse?

400

A bridge which carries I-66 from Rosslyn to Foggy Bottom, named for a rough rider president and crossing his island.

What is Theodore Roosevelt Bridge?

400

An obelisk whose marble changes color partway up, due to a pause in construction during the Civil War.

What is the Washington Monument?

600

The station a tourist might use to visit museums.

What is Smithsonian? 

600

A body of water that sees plenty of Cherry Blossoms in the spring. 

What is the Tidal Basin? 

600

This square—named for a president's house—once contained Carnegie Library, which is now an Apple Store.

What is Mount Vernon Square?

600

A bridge which carries I-495 between Alexandria and National Harbor, named after our WWI president. 

What is the Woodrow Wilson Bridge?

600

A building made of Seneca red sandstone on the National Mall that resembles a castle.   

What is the Smithsonian Institution Building? (Smithsonian Castle)

800

The Red Line's Wheaton has the longest of these in the Western Hemisphere.

What is an escalator? 

800

A stream that flows through north DC, past the National Zoo.

What is Rock Creek?

800

A square east of the Capitol Building which sounds like a rock band.

What is Lincoln Park?

800

An arched bridge crossing the Anacostia named for an abolitionist orator, opening Spring 2022.

What is Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge?

800

A building made with gold-colored Kasota limestone curved to mimic the natural stone formations of the American west.  

What is the National Museum of the American Indian? (Native American Museum)

1000

The Silver Line's future terminus in Loudoun County.

What is Ashburn? 

1000

This humanmade waterway stretches from DC to Western Maryland along the north bank of the Potomac River.

What is the C&O Canal?

1000

This pedestrian plaza north of the White House was painted and renamed during protests in the summer of 2020.

What is Black Lives Matter Plaza?

1000

The longest bridge crossing Rock Creek, carrying Connecticut Avenue between Woodley Park and Kalorama. (Hint: its namesake was the president in between the two other presidents named in this category)

What is Taft Bridge?

1000

George Washington laid the Aquia sandstone cornerstone of this federal building in 1793.

What is the United States Capitol?