Worksheetsla construction de la tour Eiffel
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Why does the video's narrator say that she figures Gustave Eiffel won the competition for getting to design this structure for the World's Fair?
He was brilliant.
He was a family member of someone on the committee that chose the winning designer.
He bribed someone on the committee to choose his design.
He was a very popular designer/engineer of that era.
How many of the feet of the 'tour Eiffel' border the Seine river?
1
2
3
4
Why did the builders of the tour Eiffel have to build all four legs upward a little at a time?
That's false. They had limited supplies and could only work on one at a time.
They had difficulty concentrating on one leg and so they built a little here and then a little there.
The weight needed to be evenly distributed as the height increased or the tower would have leaned.
They were afraid that someone would file a lawsuit.
How many pre-made parts had to be assembled once the four legs were established?
1800
18,000
18 million
1.8 million
How many rivets hold together all the parts of the tower?
25 million
250 million
25,000
2.5 million
On what date was the Eiffel Tower finished?
le 31 mars 1887
le 31 mars 1888
le 31 mars 1889
le 31 mars 1890
Who was the first person to go up the steps to the very top of the Eiffel Tower?
Gustave Eiffel
France's president
the Pope
the head of the World's Fair marketing committee
How many stairs were (are) there to get to the very top of the Eiffel Tower?
1500
1800
1810
1710
How many visitors visited the Eiffel Tower in its first year alone?
1 million
2 million
3 million
1.5 million
The Tour Eiffel was the world's tallest structure for how many years after it was built?
25
40
50
55
