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Shaw
DC History
DC Housing
DC Culture
DC Landmarks
100
This restaurant has been open since 1958 and stayed open during the 1968 riots and has been visited by President Obama
What is Ben's Chili Bowl?
100
The engineer and designer of the plan of Washington, D.C.
Who is Pierre Charles L'Enfant?
100
These are the qualifications for applying for low-income (section 8) housing DC (name three of four)
What is welfare, public assistance, single-status, and children?
100
This genre of funk music was created in Washington, D.C.
What is go-go music?
100
This famous political house has 132 rooms, 35 bathrooms, and six levels
What is the White House?
200
This was the first hospital in the US to offer medical treatment to former enslaved people.
What is Howard University Hospital?
200
This prestigious institution was established in 1846 for the increase and diffusion of knowledge.
What is the Smithsonian Institution?
200
These DC neighborhoods have the highest rent for a one bedroom apartment
What is Shaw or Logan Circle?
200
DC's very own sweet and tangy sauce
What is mumbo sauce?
200
This national park held the Million Man March in 1995.
What is the National Mall?
300
This Shaw recreation center is named after a U.S. president.
What is Kennedy Recreation Center?
300
This city encouraged Virginia to take back its land from Washington, D.C. in 1846
What is Alexandria?
300
Residents of these neighborhoods have been displaced in the past fifteen years and in present day (Name as many as you can
What is Columbia Heights, Mount Pleasant, Adams Morgan, Shaw, U Street, Georgetown, Chinatown, Congress Heights, Brookland, Barry Farms, Navy Yard, Trinidad, Petworth, Woodland, H Street
300
This is the only exception for DC students to have bus access to and from school
Who are special needs students?
300
This park has two different names and features a large cascading waterfall and weekly drum circles
What is Meridian Hill/Malcolm X Park?
400
Born in Washington, DC, this musician is honored by a statute outside of the Howard Theatre
Who is Duke Ellington?
400
This annual presidential event has over 20,000 visitors
What is the Easter Egg Roll?
400
Making The Just City's purpose is to explore the harmful effects of this trend on people's well-being in Shaw
What is displacement/gentrification?
400
These musicians have DC parks named after them (must name both)
Who are Chuck Brown and Marvin Gaye?
400
This is the oldest cultural institution in the country and is the largest and oldest of its kind
What is the Library of Congress?
500
Shaw-Howard Metro station opened in this year.
What is 1991?
500
This DC neighborhood is where President Obama and his family recently moved into.
What is Kalorama Heights?
500
26,000 extremely low-income DC residents spend half of their income on _____.
What is monthly rent?
500
DC spent over $7 billion on this alone in 2015.
What is tourism?
500
This museum took over 100 years to successfully complete after it was initially proposed.
What is the National Museum of African American History and Culture?