Bing Homepage Quiz Answers (7/7/2022): 7 July 2022
1: Named for an 18th-century Spanish Basque explorer, where is Heceta Head and its stately lighthouse?
A California
B Chile
C Oregon
The namesake of Don Bruno de Heceta, who made note of it while on a secret 18th-century voyage, Heceta Head is located about 1,000 feet above the Pacific Ocean on Oregon’s central coast. The lighthouse first went into service in 1894.
The correct answer is Oregon.
2: What was the world’s first known lighthouse?
A Tower of Hercules
B Lighthouse of Genoa
C Pharos of Alexandria
The Pharos of Alexandria, also called the Lighthouse of Alexandria, is believed to have been the world’s first lighthouse, built in ancient Egypt sometime between 280-247 BCE. Parts of the structure survived until at least 1480. The Tower of Hercules lighthouse in Spain, built by the Romans in the 1st century, is the world’s oldest surviving lighthouse.
The correct answer is Pharos of Alexandria.
3: Which of these originally functioned partly as a lighthouse?
A Eiffel Tower
B Statue of Liberty
C Tower of London
Its torch was meant to symbolize liberty enlightening the world, but because of the statue’s location in New York Harbor, the designers thought it could double as a lighthouse for the many vessels arriving in the city. The torch was illuminated upon the statue’s dedication on October 28, 1886, but it produced just a faint gleam, barely visible from Manhattan.
The US Lighthouse Board soon took control of the statue and promised to increase the light’s intensity, but in 1901, President Theodore Roosevelt declared it useless as a lighthouse and transferred the statue to the War Department.
The correct answer is Statue of Liberty.