Bing Homepage Quiz Answers (6/15/2022): 15 June 2022
1: What is the biggest museum on New York’s ‘Museum Mile’?
A Metropolitan Museum of Art
B American Museum of Natural History
C Museum of Modern Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, informally known as the Met, is one of the most famous art museums in the world as well as one of the largest. Its vast collection includes classical antiquities, sculptures by almost all the European masters, and pieces from every part of the world spanning millennia. It even displays a reconstructed Egyptian temple.
The Met anchors Museum Mile, a 22-block stretch of Fifth Avenue on Manhattan’s Upper East Side that is home to eight museums. Today, all of them will open their doors for free and participate in the Museum Mile Festival, a celebration of art with extended hours and special events.
The correct answer is Metropolitan Museum of Art.
2: The Met is famous for hosting what annual event that brings out the stars?
A The Met Gala
B The Tony Awards
C New York Fashion Week
The Met Gala is regarded as one of the most important nights in fashion. Held the first Monday of May, the gala is a fundraiser for the Costume Institute, a wing of the museum devoted to seven centuries of fashion. Vogue magazine organizes the gala. Attendance is by invitation only, and those invitations are highly sought after. Celebrities from the entertainment industry, sports, fashion, politics, and business extend themselves to come up with an outfit worthy of being worn to the Met Gala. Check out the fashion on the red carpet.
The correct answer is The Met Gala.
3: What Manhattan museum was designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright?
A Guggenheim
B Whitney
C Frick
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is the landmark work of the great American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The cylindrical structure is wider at the top than at its bottom. Inside, a winding ramp takes visitors through its galleries.
The museum, known for its impressionist and modern art, was founded in 1939 as the Museum of Non-Objective Painting. It was renamed for its founder in 1952, three years after his death. In 1959, the museum moved from a rented space into its Wright-designed home at 89th Street, a few blocks north of the Met.
The correct answer is Guggenheim.