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The history of the Eiffel Tower - Exam
Contributed by: Robertson
  • 1. When was the Eiffel Tower completed?
A) 1889
B) 1900
C) 1920
D) 1850
  • 2. Who designed the Eiffel Tower?
A) Gustave Eiffel
B) Philippe Starck
C) Pierre Charles L'Enfant
D) Leonardo da Vinci
  • 3. Which material was primarily used to build the Eiffel Tower?
A) Steel
B) Concrete
C) Iron
D) Wood
  • 4. How long did it take to construct the Eiffel Tower?
A) 10 years
B) 2 years, 2 months, and 5 days
C) 5 years
D) 3 years
  • 5. Which famous writer described the Eiffel Tower as a 'truly tragic street lamp'?
A) Victor Hugo
B) Guy de Maupassant
C) Gustave Flaubert
D) Émile Zola
  • 6. How many floors does the Eiffel Tower have?
A) 3
B) 2
C) 4
D) 5
  • 7. How many visitors does the Eiffel Tower attract annually?
A) Around 7 million
B) 2 million
C) 15 million
D) 1 million
  • 8. In which city is the Eiffel Tower located?
A) London
B) Paris
C) Berlin
D) Rome
  • 9. What is the nickname of the Eiffel Tower in French?
A) Steel Magnolia
B) La Dame de Fer
C) Grand Tower
D) Luminous Lady
  • 10. What was the height of the Eiffel Tower when it surpassed the Washington Monument?
A) Tallest human-made structure in the world at that time
B) 150 metres (492 ft)
C) 300 metres (984 ft)
D) 200 metres (656 ft)
  • 11. In what year was the Eiffel Tower designated a monument historique?
A) 1889
B) 1964
C) 1957
D) 1991
  • 12. How many steps are there from ground level to the first level of the Eiffel Tower?
A) Over 300 steps
B) 200 steps
C) 600 steps
D) 150 steps
  • 13. What was the original purpose of Gustave Eiffel's private apartment in the tower?
A) For military strategy meetings
B) To entertain guests like Thomas Edison
C) For housing construction workers
D) As a public museum exhibit
  • 14. What was one of the controversial financial aspects related to the Eiffel Tower's construction?
A) Financing involved predatory loans from Haiti
B) Donations from European monarchs
C) Funding solely through ticket sales
D) Complete self-financing by Gustave Eiffel
  • 15. When was the Eiffel Tower named part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site?
A) 1957
B) 1964
C) 1889
D) 1991
  • 16. Who led the 'Committee of Three Hundred' that protested against the construction of the Eiffel Tower?
A) William-Adolphe Bouguereau
B) Charles Garnier
C) Édouard Lockroy
D) Gustave Eiffel
  • 17. Which publication published the 'Artists against the Eiffel Tower' petition on February 14, 1887?
A) L'Équipe
B) Libération
C) La Croix
D) Le Temps
  • 18. Who was the Minister of Works and Commissioner for the Exposition that received the protest petition?
A) Adolphe Alphand
B) Gustave Eiffel
C) Charles Garnier
D) Édouard Lockroy
  • 19. By what year had the Eiffel Tower become a symbol of Paris and France?
A) 1923
B) 1918
C) 1899
D) 1905
  • 20. Who wrote a nationalist poem in the shape of the Eiffel Tower during World War I?
A) Édouard Lockroy
B) Guy de Maupassant
C) Charles Garnier
D) Guillaume Apollinaire
  • 21. What is the Eiffel Tower widely considered today?
A) A temporary exhibit
B) A failed engineering project
C) A remarkable piece of structural art
D) An outdated structure
  • 22. When did work on the foundations of the Eiffel Tower start?
A) 1 April 1886
B) 30 June 1889
C) 15 March 1888
D) 28 January 1887
  • 23. How thick were the concrete slabs used for the west and north legs?
A) 6 m (20 ft)
B) 8 m (26 ft)
C) 3 m (10 ft)
D) 4.5 m (15 ft)
  • 24. How many general drawings were produced for the Eiffel Tower construction?
A) 3,629
B) 18,038
C) 1,700
D) 500
  • 25. How many different parts were needed for the Eiffel Tower construction?
A) 1,700
B) 20,000
C) 18,038
D) 3,629
  • 26. What type of crane was installed in each leg during construction?
A) A large stationary crane
B) A small 'creeper' crane
C) No cranes were used
D) An overhead gantry crane
  • 27. What was one of the sensational headlines about the Eiffel Tower during its construction?
A) 'A New Era in Architecture!'
B) 'Eiffel's Triumph!'
C) 'The Marvel of Paris!'
D) 'Eiffel Suicide!'
  • 28. How many people died during the construction of the Eiffel Tower?
A) Ten
B) One
C) None
D) Fifty
  • 29. How many visitors made the climb to the top of the Eiffel Tower before the lifts entered service?
A) Nearly 30,000
B) 15,000
C) 1,896,987
D) Over 50,000
  • 30. What was the prize amount for the first person to fly from St. Cloud to the Eiffel Tower and back in less than half an hour?
A) 200,000 francs
B) 75,000 francs
C) 100,000 francs
D) 50,000 francs
  • 31. Who discovered what are known today as cosmic rays at the Eiffel Tower?
A) Gustave Ferrié
B) Alberto Santos-Dumont
C) Franz Reichelt
D) Father Theodor Wulf
  • 32. What did a German flag replace at the top of the Eiffel Tower during World War I?
A) No flag was replaced
B) An American Stars and Stripes
C) The original French Tricolour
D) A British Union Jack
  • 33. Who performed one of his first bungee jumps from the Eiffel Tower in 1987?
A) Robert Moriarty
B) Franz Reichelt
C) A. J. Hackett
D) Thierry Devaux
  • 34. What was the fate of Victor Lustig's attempt to sell the Eiffel Tower for scrap metal?
A) It was a con, as he 'sold' it twice
B) He received payment but never delivered the tower
C) He successfully sold it once
D) The tower was dismantled and relocated
  • 35. What was installed at the top of the Eiffel Tower in 1957?
A) A glass floor
B) The present radio aerial
C) An electrically driven Otis lift
D) Illuminated signs for Citroën
  • 36. Who unveiled a bust of Gustave Eiffel at the base of the north leg in 1929?
A) Antoine Bourdelle
B) Charles de Gaulle
C) Jean Drapeau
D) Henri Deutsch de la Meurthe
  • 37. What happened to the decorative arcade around the first level of the Eiffel Tower in 1938?
A) It was replaced with illuminated signs
B) It was painted with new colors
C) It was removed
D) It was converted into a café
  • 38. What happened to the Eiffel Tower's title as the world's tallest structure in 1930?
A) It lost the title when the Chrysler Building was completed
B) It regained the title after renovations
C) It became the second tallest structure
D) It shared the title with another building
  • 39. What was the role of the Eiffel Tower's lifts in 1899?
A) They were dismantled for Expo 67
B) They were used to transport construction materials
C) They were replaced by Fives-Lille lifts with a compensating mechanism
D) They were converted into staircases
  • 40. What was the primary concern for Eiffel when designing the Tower?
A) Aesthetic appeal
B) Wind resistance
C) Structural height
D) Material cost
  • 41. What shape does the Eiffel Tower have?
A) Basically exponential
B) Rectangular
C) Cylindrical
D) Triangular
  • 42. What mathematical hypothesis was devised in 2004 regarding the Eiffel Tower's design?
A) A linear algebraic formula for structural integrity
B) A non-linear integral equation based on counteracting wind pressure
C) An algorithm for optimizing material usage
D) A geometric proof of aesthetic symmetry
  • 43. Which column's lift to the second floor restaurant is publicly accessible?
A) The east column
B) The west column
C) The south column
D) The north column
  • 44. What was the Flemish restaurant converted into after the exposition closed?
A) A 250-seat theatre
B) A Russian restaurant
C) An Anglo-American Bar
D) Another French restaurant
  • 45. Which chef managed Le Jules Verne from 2007 to 2017?
A) Gustave Eiffel
B) Alain Ducasse
C) Frédéric Anton
D) Jules Verne
  • 46. Who manages Le Jules Verne as of May 2019?
A) Alain Ducasse
B) Frédéric Anton
C) Gustave Eiffel
D) Jules Verne
  • 47. What is the name origin of Le Jules Verne restaurant?
A) A French chef named Jules
B) A type of French cuisine
C) An architectural feature
D) The famous science-fiction writer Jules Verne
  • 48. What is currently on the third floor of the Eiffel Tower?
A) Gustave Eiffel's apartment
B) A restaurant
C) A champagne bar
D) Laboratories
  • 49. How many French scientists' names were engraved on the Eiffel Tower by Gustave Eiffel?
A) 100
B) 72
C) 50
D) 85
  • 50. When were the engravings of scientists' names restored on the Eiffel Tower?
A) 2000
B) 1905
C) 1923
D) 1986–87
  • 51. Which company was contracted to fit lifts in the east and west legs of the Eiffel Tower?
A) Otis Brothers & Company
B) Eiffel's own company
C) Roux, Combaluzier & Lepape
D) A European branch of a foreign company
  • 52. Which company's rope mechanism can be seen as visitors exit the lift?
A) The west tower
B) The south tower
C) The east tower
D) The north tower
  • 53. Which company eventually received the contract to install lifts to the second level?
A) A French company
B) Otis Brothers & Company
C) Eiffel's own company
D) Roux, Combaluzier & Lepape
  • 54. How many passengers could each compartment of the car designed by Otis hold?
A) 65
B) 50
C) 25
D) 10
  • 55. How many passengers could each 10-ton car hold between the second and third levels?
A) 25
B) 65
C) 100
D) 50
  • 56. In what year was the Eiffel Tower painted yellow-brown?
A) 2010
B) 1889
C) 1968
D) 2001
  • 57. What was the material used for painting until 2001, which was later stopped due to environmental concerns?
A) Oil-based paint
B) Bronze paint
C) Acrylic paint
D) Lead paint
  • 58. When did analogue television signals from the Eiffel Tower cease?
A) 8 March 2011
B) 15 July 2015
C) 31 December 1999
D) 1 January 2000
  • 59. Which Paris Métro station is nearest to the Eiffel Tower?
A) Champ de Mars-Tour Eiffel
B) Pont d'Iéna
C) Quai Branly
D) Bir-Hakeim
  • 60. In what year did the Eiffel Tower's image and tower itself enter the public domain?
A) 1993
B) 1989
C) 1975
D) 2002
  • 61. What is the duration of artistic copyright for Pierre Bideau's 1989 lighting display?
A) Until 2025
B) Until 2043
C) Until 2091
D) Until 2030
  • 62. In which year was Tokyo Tower, inspired by the Eiffel Tower, built?
A) 1993
B) 1958
C) 1975
D) 1894
  • 63. Which amusement park in Cincinnati, Ohio, has a 1:3 scale model of the Eiffel Tower?
A) Six Flags
B) Disneyland
C) Universal Studios
D) Kings Island
  • 64. Which city has a replica of the Eiffel Tower that was donated by the local French community?
A) Prague, Czech Republic
B) Tokyo, Japan
C) Durango, Mexico
D) Richmond, Virginia
  • 65. What is the height of Tokyo Tower?
A) 300 meters
B) 400 meters
C) 350 meters
D) 333.4 meters
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