GATEWAYS And LANDMARKS

1. Where can you find the Pyramid of Cheops?

Mexico

Rome

Egypt

Greece

2. Series of fortifications made of stone, brick, tamped earth, wood, and other materials, generally built along an east-to-west line across the historical northern borders of China in part to protect the Chinese Empire. requently billed as the only man-made object visible from space, generally isn't, at least to the unaided eye in low Earth orbit.

Great wall of china

Roman arch

Borobudur

Ziggurat

3. One of the most recognizable Roman inventions as "water transportation system"?

Aqueducts

Cistern

Concrete roads

Roman arch

4. A traditional Japanese gate most commonly found at the entrance of or within a Shinto shrine, where it symbolically marks the transition from the profane to the sacred?

Torii

Torana

Pailou

Gopuram

5. A freestanding bell tower, of the cathedral of the Italian city of Pisa,

Torre delle Milizie

Leaning tower of pisa

Pasquareccia bell

Assunta bell

6. A mythical creature with, as a minimum, the body of a lion and the head of a human or a cat?

Great sphinx of giza

Gargoyles

Caryatid

Merlion

7. A grotesquely carved figure of a human or animal. serves as a spout & projects from gutter to throw rainwater clear off a building?

Scupper

Gargoyle

Down spout

Frieze

8. An iron lattice tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris?

Eiffel tower

Tori de paris

Lattice tower

Gustave Tower

9. What is the structure in the Acropolis which contains a female figure that serves as a column?

Caryatid

Atlantes

Venus

Gargoyles

10. A tall, four-sided, narrow tapering monument which ends in a pyramid-like shape at the top, and is said to resemble a petrified ray of the sun-disk?

Obelisk

Dolmen

Tower

Spire

11. It is a large glass and metal pyramid, surrounded by three smaller pyramids, in the main courtyard of a Palace. This would serves as the main entrance to the Museum design by I. M. Pei.

Pyramid glass

Louvre Pyramid

The pyramid

None

12. The colonial Filipino house after bahay bubo?

Bahay na bato

Balai

Torana

Nipa house

13. Tallest man-made structure in the world, at 829.8 m

Burj Khalifa

Burj Al Arab

Makkah Royal Clock Tower Hotel

Taipei 101

14. Japanese and Chinese architecture, similarities?

Pagoda

Temple

Gong

To fu

15. A megalith structure ever known located in the English county of Wiltshire. Some medieval writers called it "giant's dance".

Stonehenge

Cromlech

Dolmen

16. What is the style of the Chrysler Building in New York?

Rococo

Art deco

Modern Baroque

Neo-classicism

17. The largest Hindu temple complex in the world?

Shwedagon Pagoda

Angkor wat

Ziggurat

Borobudur

18. A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians having a form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding storeys.

Mastaba

Pyramid

Ziggurat

Aztec Pyramid

19. What is a Japanese gateway with 2 vertical posts and 2 horizontal bars?

Torii

Torana

Pai lou

Stupa

20. Stupa or temples cut in rock formation is a contribution of hat style of arch?

Islamic

Chinese

Filipino

Indian

21. Identify the fancy gateway shown above?

Torii

Torana

Paifang

Gopuram

22. Influence of Indian Stupa to Japanese and Buddhists and Chinese?

Temple

Bent Roof

Pagoda

Decorated Eaves

23. An Indian structure that inspired the Chinese and Japanese in building the Pagoda?

Stupa

Torana

Pai lou

Pointed arch

24. What type of material is used for the dome of Taj mahal?

Granite

Marble

Limestone

Bronze

25. A type of gateway seen in the Hindu and Buddhist architecture of the Indian subcontinent?

Torii

Torana

Pailou

Gopuram

26. What is the shape of the Taj Mahal central dome?

Bulbous dome

Parabolic dome

Corbel dome

Oval dome

27. A monumental, freestanding gateway on the approach to a shinto shrine consisting of two pillars connected at the top by a horizontal crosspiece and lintel above it. Usually curving upward.

Torii

Pagoda

Pai lou

Gou

28. A 9th-century Mahayana Buddhist Temple in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia. The monument consists of six square platforms topped by three circular platforms, and is decorated with relief panels and Buddha statues.

Shwedagon pagoda

Angkor aat

Ziggurat

Borobudur

29. Type of tomb in Egypt, which is the burial for the noble and eminent?

Pyramid

Ziggurat

Mastaba

Cenotaph

30. What is the architectural style of the Sydney Opera House?

Modern expressionist design

Deconstructivism

International style

Nude architecture

31. From the points of view shown above for the Sydney Opera House by Jorn Utzon, what is the most appropriate spatial organization applied?

Repetition

Additive

Rhytm

Transformation

32. What is the effect of the glass pyramid by I.M. pei place in the old architecture?

Contrast

Juxtaposition

Blend

None

33. How many number of glass planes of the "louvre pyramid" before it was claimed to be 672 panes?

888

666

999

603

34. Large upright standing stone?

Stonehenge

Cromlech

Dolmen

Menhir

35. What is the name of that structure ( in the photo) located in the centre of a greater Muslim Shrine, known as the Haram Ash Sharif, which muslims commemorates Muhammad's miraculous Night Journey into "heaven". NOTE: SLIDE THE BAR BELOW TO SEE THE ENTIRE PHOTO.

The "rock"

Temple of heaven

Dome of the rock

The golden mosque

36. What is the bubble cladding pillow for the Beijing National Aquatic Centre, so called "water cube" ?

0.2 mm thk polymer foam

ETFE

Hydraulic-acid glass

Structural bubble glass

37. Identify the gateway above?

Pai lou

Torana

Torii

Gopuram

38. What primary shape is used for the Taj mahal?

Pointed arch

Tudor arch

Lancet arch

Roman arch

39. A traditional Chinese architectural gateway?

Torii

Torana

Paifang

None

40. What is the Sydney Opera House "shell" made of?

Pre-cast concrete panel shell

Space frame truss with white metal cladding

Fixed fabric membrane

Pre-fabricated “light” load-bearing concrete shell

41. In this Mahayana Buddhist Temple, a main dome, located at the center of the top platform, is surrounded by Buddha statues seated inside a perforated stupa. How many Buddha statues are there?

45

60

72

504

42. A monumental tower, usually ornate, at the entrance of any temple, especially in Southern India. This forms a prominent feature of Koils, Hindu temples of the Dravidian style.They are topped by the kalasam, a bulbous stone finial. They function as gateways through the walls that surround the temple complex.

Torii

Torana

Pailou

Gopuram

43. Which of the following influenced classical architecture?

Style

Religion

Order

Culture

44. An architecture built as a gateway for entering a sacred place in Korea?

Hongsalmun

Bo nyung

Sinui ireu meun

Hashimnikka

45. What is the color of the building's exterior cladding?

White granite

Pink granite

White membrane

Yellow metal cladding

46. Taj Mahal is regarded by many as the finest of what type of architecture?

Indo-Saracenic Revival

Islamic architecture

Neo-Classical Architecture

Mughal architecture

47. What architectural style is the "Gateway of India"? It is built during the British Raj in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), India. Located on the waterfront in the Apollo Bunder area in South Mumbai?

Indo-Saracenic Revival

Islamic architecture

Neo-Classical Architecture

Mughal architecture

48. The opera house in Beijing, colloquially described as "The Giant Egg". A titanium accented glass dome that is completely surrounded by a man-made lake. looks like an egg foat in the water.

NCPA

Bird's nest

The water cube

Titanium egg

49. What is the actual shape of the Beijing National Aquatics Center, known as the water cube?

Cuboid

Cube

Hexahedron

Rectangle

50. Why does leandro Locsin decide to raised the whole structure on the podium of the Cultural Centre ?

Intended to promote an elitist view of art and culture

In response to the high sea levels on the reclaimed land

To emphasize the floating effect of the massive block

Contrast of the horizontal line that the ramp creates curve

Gateways and Landmarks

1. Where can you find the Pyramid of Cheops?

2.

What first name or nickname would you like us to use?

3. One of the most recognizable Roman inventions as "water transportation system"?

4. A traditional Japanese gate most commonly found at the entrance of or within a Shinto shrine, where it symbolically marks the transition from the profane to the sacred?

5. A freestanding bell tower, of the cathedral of the Italian city of Pisa,

6. A mythical creature with, as a minimum, the body of a lion and the head of a human or a cat?

7. A grotesquely carved figure of a human or animal. serves as a spout & projects from gutter to throw rainwater clear off a building?

8. An iron lattice tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris?

9. What is the structure in the Acropolis which contains a female figure that serves as a column?

10. A tall, four-sided, narrow tapering monument which ends in a pyramid-like shape at the top, and is said to resemble a petrified ray of the sun-disk?

11. It is a large glass and metal pyramid, surrounded by three smaller pyramids, in the main courtyard of a Palace. This would serves as the main entrance to the Museum design by I. M. Pei.

12. The colonial Filipino house after bahay bubo?

13. Tallest man-made structure in the world, at 829.8 m

14. Japanese and Chinese architecture, similarities?

15. A megalith structure ever known located in the English county of Wiltshire. Some medieval writers called it "giant's dance".

16. What is the style of the Chrysler Building in New York?

17. The largest Hindu temple complex in the world?

18. A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians having a form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding storeys.

19. What is a Japanese gateway with 2 vertical posts and 2 horizontal bars?

20. Stupa or temples cut in rock formation is a contribution of hat style of arch?

21. Identify the fancy gateway shown above?

22. Influence of Indian Stupa to Japanese and Buddhists and Chinese?

23. An Indian structure that inspired the Chinese and Japanese in building the Pagoda?

24. What type of material is used for the dome of Taj mahal?

25. A type of gateway seen in the Hindu and Buddhist architecture of the Indian subcontinent?

26. What is the shape of the Taj Mahal central dome?

27. A monumental, freestanding gateway on the approach to a shinto shrine consisting of two pillars connected at the top by a horizontal crosspiece and lintel above it. Usually curving upward.

28. A 9th-century Mahayana Buddhist Temple in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia. The monument consists of six square platforms topped by three circular platforms, and is decorated with relief panels and Buddha statues.

29. Type of tomb in Egypt, which is the burial for the noble and eminent?

30. What is the architectural style of the Sydney Opera House?

31. From the points of view shown above for the Sydney Opera House by Jorn Utzon, what is the most appropriate spatial organization applied?

32. What is the effect of the glass pyramid by I.M. pei place in the old architecture?

33. How many number of glass planes of the "louvre pyramid" before it was claimed to be 672 panes?

34. Large upright standing stone?

35. What is the name of that structure ( in the photo) located in the centre of a greater Muslim Shrine, known as the Haram Ash Sharif, which muslims commemorates Muhammad's miraculous Night Journey into "heaven". NOTE: SLIDE THE BAR BELOW TO SEE THE ENTIRE PHOTO.

36. What is the bubble cladding pillow for the Beijing National Aquatic Centre, so called "water cube" ?

37. Identify the gateway above?

38. What primary shape is used for the Taj mahal?

39. A traditional Chinese architectural gateway?

40. What is the Sydney Opera House "shell" made of?

41. In this Mahayana Buddhist Temple, a main dome, located at the center of the top platform, is surrounded by Buddha statues seated inside a perforated stupa. How many Buddha statues are there?

43. Which of the following influenced classical architecture?

44. An architecture built as a gateway for entering a sacred place in Korea?

45. What is the color of the building's exterior cladding?

46. Taj Mahal is regarded by many as the finest of what type of architecture?

47. What architectural style is the "Gateway of India"? It is built during the British Raj in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), India. Located on the waterfront in the Apollo Bunder area in South Mumbai?

48. The opera house in Beijing, colloquially described as "The Giant Egg". A titanium accented glass dome that is completely surrounded by a man-made lake. looks like an egg foat in the water.

49. What is the actual shape of the Beijing National Aquatics Center, known as the water cube?

50. Why does leandro Locsin decide to raised the whole structure on the podium of the Cultural Centre ?