And the top of the Sears Tower is still 80 feet higher than the new WTC. In New York City alone, the roof of Central Park Tower is 180 feet higher than the WTC, 111 57th Street is 60 feet higher, and 432 Park Avenue is 30 feet higher. WTC pulls the old cheating measure of putting up a skinny 400-foot pencil and counting it as height, where others are not allowed to do the same. You will never stand or sit higher than 1,368 feet in the new WTC.
I don't understand this weird brand loyalty Chicagoans have to "Sears Tower." Sears was not a war hero. He was a business owner. Now a new business owns the rights to the building's name. Who cares? It's called the Willis Tower. I usually say "Sears Tower" too, because that's what everyone else does, but it is certainly not wrong to call it the Willis Tower. I really don't understand why people make such a big deal of this.
I don't complain when I go to the top of the Pan Am building in New York. I do agree the answer should read "Willis Tower", no matter how many Chicagoans say, "What chu talkin' about? Willis?"
What does it say that most people believe that the US has more prisoners than college students? Even though they're wrong, it's an indictment in itself that so many people would guess that prisoners outnumber students in this in-many-ways great country.
P.S. Alaska & Hawaii grrr! Of course they border the Pacific!
According to source, there a 2.5 million black college students in the US in fall 2019. According to source, there were 2.09 million TOTAL incarcerated people in the US in 2019. So you're wrong. And according to source, and corroborated by other sources, approximately 40% of the prison population is black. So you're pretty far off. Maybe you should do research before you post misinformation online.
Interesting how the Star Spangled Banner question was surprisingly hard, I myself assumed bombs was not in it but I believe it's in that part towards the end that people forget the words to. As for the prisoners vs college students question, that one seemed like a trick question but right before taking this quiz I was looking at colleges and some of the populations are insanely high, and considering how many universities there are in the country I was thinking it has to outnumber prisoners
Texas is the last state that touches the Atlantic, and then it switches to the Pacific, with New Mexico, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Oregon, Alaska and Washington.
That's what I thought, until I remembered that Mexico existed.
Dang. The only one I missed was the tower one, I guessed Sears tower because I read that the Twin Towers were surpassed by Sears in height soon after they were built? And the new WTC is shorter than the Twin Towers were, so that was my reasoning. Huh.
To be fair the Willis Tower (formerly Sears Tower) does have a higher top floor: 1354 feet compared to the 1WTC's 1268, but the One World Trade Center has a higher architectural height and tip, even if the top 400 feet or so is mostly just a little spire
All of Guantanamo Bay is part of Cuba, the area that contains the naval base is under the jurisdiction of the United States based on a 1903 Lease Agreement. The United States has to pay annual fees to retain the lease agreement.
Otherwise fun.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_Tall_Buildings_and_Urban_Habitat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_the_United_States
P.S. Alaska & Hawaii grrr! Of course they border the Pacific!
That's what I thought, until I remembered that Mexico existed.