Q.1) Where did gothic architecture originate?

A. Northern france (Correct Answer)

B. Germany
C. Italy
D. Spain (Your Answer)
Correct
Q.2) A grotesquely carved figure of a human or animal, serves as a spout and
projects from gutter to throw rainwater clear off a building?
A. Scupper drain
B. Carved parapet
C. Gargoyle (Your Answer)
D. Down spout
Correct
Q.3)

From the given figure, identify the

architectural style used?
A. Art deco (Your Answer)
B. Renaissance
C. International style
D. Modernism

Correct
Q.4) Standing stones usually capped with horizontal slab?
A. Stonehenge
B. Chromelech
C. Dolmen (Your Answer)
D. Mehir
Correct
Q.5) Architect who designed and advocated the geodesic dome for cities of
tomorrow was?
A. Mies van der rohe
B. Le corbusier
C. Buckminster fuller (Your Answer)
D. Louis kahn
Correct
Q.6) Nile is the longest river in the world, stretching north for approximately 4,000
miles from East Africa to the Mediterranean. What material was used for the
construction of the pyramids?
A. Compacted sand
B. Clay
C. Stones (Your Answer)
D. Mud bricks
Incorrect
Q.7) Through gothic centuries, English lancet arch style is closest to the?
A. Spanish style
B. French style (Your Answer)
C. Italian style (Correct Answer)
D. None
Correct
Q.8) Mineral of greatest importance to greek architecture of w/c Greece and her
domains had ample of supplies?
A. Pozzolana
B. Marble (Your Answer)
C. Clay
D. Granite
Incorrect

Q.9) The great pyramid at gizeh was built in the 4th dynasty by?
A. Rameses I (Your Answer)
B. Rameses II
C. Cheops (Correct Answer)
D. Chepren
Incorrect
Q.10)

In the given
figure, what part of the capital is letter A?
A. Cornice (Correct Answer)
B. Dentils
C. Frieze
D. Architrave
architrave (Your Answer)
Correct

Q.11) Architect / city planner who authored the ekistics - the science of human
settlements?
A. Gropius
B. Doxiadis (Your Answer)
C. Niemeyer
D. Vitruvius
Incorrect
Q.12) Romanesque architecture in italy is distinguished from that of the rest of
Europe by the use of ___for facing walls?
A. Bricks
B. Marble (Correct Answer)
C. Mosaic (Your Answer)
D. Granite
Incorrect
Q.13) Egyptian architecture is characterized by?
A. Massiveness and ornamentation (Your Answer)
B. Monumental & trabeated (Correct Answer)
C. Highly decorative
D. Very ornate
Correct
Q.14) Building in acropolis generally considered as being the most nearly perfect
building ever erected is?
A. Erechtheion
B. Parthenon (Your Answer)
C. Pantheon
D. Porch of the maidens
Correct
Q.15) Through gothic centuries the English style that is closest to French style is
A. Flamboyant
B. Decorated
C. Lancet (Your Answer)
Incorrect
Q.16) "I believe that people make natural association with forms, color and the
composition of elements while decoration and detailing help communicate
with a building's purpose"

A. Michael graves (Your Answer)

B. Philip johnson
C. Walter gropius (Correct Answer)
D. Buckminster fuller
Incorrect
Q.17) In gothic church, what is the purpose of the flying buttress?
A. Support the roofing structure
B. Aesthetic purposes
C. Support the high wall's decorative elements (Your Answer)
D. None (Correct Answer)
Correct
Q.18) Standard size of ifugao house?
A. 2.5x2.5
B. 3x3
C. 4x4 (Your Answer)
D. 5x5
Incorrect
Q.19) Where is the term "Bahay Kubo" came from?
A. Term given by the spaniards
B. Terminolgy by ancient filipino
C. From "balai" for house and kubo for "cube" (Correct Answer)
D. From " balai" for houses and "kubo" for small" (Your Answer)
Correct
Q.20) In egyptian arch., tomb of nobility was the?
A. ziggurat
B. mastaba (Your Answer)
C. Pyramid
D. Stepped pyramid
Correct
Q.21) Monumental arch of Egypt is essentially a ____ style?
A.
buttress & dome
B. Arch & vault
C. Columnar & trabeated (Your Answer)

D. Columnar
Incorrect
Q.22) An ancient roman construction technique, using irregular shaped and random
placed uncut stones?
A. Opus caementium (Your Answer)
B. Opus reticulatum
C. Opus quadratum
D. Opus incertum (Correct Answer)
Unanswered
Q.23) The art of sculpture had a diminished role in the churches because of the
biblical prohibition of graven images. How did the artists represents the
saints?
A. Wall carving
wall carving letters
B. Wall paintings (Correct Answer)
C. Cut out of figures made of cloth
D. Glass mosaic
Unanswered
Q.24) From 5th century to the present, character of Byzantine architecture is?
A. Timber trusses
B. Ribbed arches
C. Domical roof construction (Correct Answer)
D. Valut
Unanswered
Q.2 One of Antoni Gaudi's project?
5)

A.
B.
C.
D.
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red

Casa mila
Casa batllo (Correct Answer)
Casa milano
Sagrada familia spires

Q.26) The plan for the colosseum in rome is shaped in the form what form?
A. Ellipse (Correct Answer)
B. Circle
C. Trapezoid
D. Half-circle
Unanswered
Q.27) An ornate arch'l style w/c developed during the latter part of the renaissance
period?
A. Baroque (Correct Answer)
B. Art nouveau
C. Romanesque

D. Gothic
Unanswered
Q.28) Renaissance of 15th century in italy had its birth in?
A. Venice
B. Florence (Correct Answer)
C. Rome
D. Spain
Unanswered
Q.29) Finest and remaining example Of Byzantine archiecture?
A. S. Irene, Constantinople
B. S. Sophia, Constantinople (Correct Answer)
C. S. mark. Venice
D. S. fiore
Unanswered
Q.30) What capital order was used in the parthenon?
A. Doric (Correct Answer)
B. Ionic
C. Tuscan
D. Corinthian
Unanswered
Q.31) Who is the beginner of great hypostyle hall at Karnak and founder of 19th
dynasty?
A. Rameses I
B. Rameses II
C. Seti I
D. Darius (Correct Answer)
Unanswered
Q.32) Colosseum, rome was commenced by vespacian and completed by?
A. Domitian (Correct Answer)
B. Titus
C. Trajan
D. None
Unanswered
Q.33) Atrium type of house, characteristic of roman times is believed to have

originated w/ the?
A. Etruscans (Correct Answer)
B. Aegeans
C. Corsicans
D. None
Unanswered
Q.34) Moorish influence of muslim features such as horseshoe arch pierced stone
tracery and excessive ornament in spanish gothic was due to?
A. Climate
B. Geography
C. Bldg materials
D. religion (Correct Answer)
Unanswered
Q.35) The largest religious structure; beehive shaped towers?
A. Angkor wat (Correct Answer)
B. Borobudur
C. Stupa
D. Angkor vat
Unanswered
Q.36) During macedonian dynasty, what type of plan is very famous?
A. Greek cross (Correct Answer)
B. Roman cross
C. Circular
circular
D. Latin cross
Unanswered
Q.3
7)

Identify the arch in the illustration?

A.
B.
C.
D.
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Equilateral Arch
Lancet Arch (Correct Answer)
Drop Arch
Tudor Arch

Q.38) The Basilica di Santa maria del Fiore is world renowned and has the largest
brick dome ever constructed, it is also known as?
A. Sienna cathedral
B. Florence cathedral (Correct Answer)
C. Basilica of the holy blood
D. Basilica of the holy cross
Unanswered
Q.39) One of world's supreme masterpieces of Romanesque arch w/c was the 1st
bldg in Europe to have ribbed vaults?

A. Winchester cathedral
B. Norwich cathedral
C. Durham cathedral (Correct Answer)
D. Burnham cathedral
Unanswered
Q.40) What do you call the recess found in the dome to make the structure lighter?
A. Oculus
B. Coffers (Correct Answer)
C. Pendentive
D. Podium
Unanswered
Q.41) Oldest French gothic cathedrals which was begun by bishop maurice de
sully, plan of w/c is on a bent axial line?
A. Notre dame (Correct Answer)
B. Charters cathedral
C. Reims cathedral
D. None
Unanswered
Q.42) Development of dome to cover polygonal & square plans for churches,
tombs and baptisteries is the character of?
A. Gothic
B. Early Christian
C. Byzantine
D. Romanesque (Correct Answer)
Unanswered
Q.43) Replicating materials such as marble and wood with paint, but has
subsequently come to encompass many other decorative finishes for walls
and furniture?
A. Fresco painting
B. Faux painting (Correct Answer)
C. Art deco
D. Bas relief
Unanswered
Q.44) How did romans create a structures with great spans?
A. Use of arch (Correct Answer)

B. Use of stones pile together

C. Stone corbel systems
D. Large column and stone beams
Unanswered
Q.45) In egyptian architecture, tomb of pharaohs was the?
A. Ziggurat
B. Mastaba
C. Pyramid (Correct Answer)
D. Sphinx
Unanswered
Q.46) Church plan of early christian churches?
A. Basilica
B. Latin cross
C. Greek cross (Correct Answer)
D. Calvary cross
Unanswered
Q.47) The ifugao house (southern strain) is known as?
A. Fayu
B. Bale (Correct Answer)
C. Chalanan
D. Batalag
Unanswered
Q.48) King zoser's archt. who was revered and deified in the 26th dynasty?
A. Imhotep (Correct Answer)
B. Senad
C. Seneferm
Unanswered
Q.49) The father of Prestress Concrete?
A. Jorn Utzon
B. Eugene Freyssinet (Correct Answer)
C. Santiaga Calatrava
D. Tadao Ando
Unanswered
Q.50) Which of the order was added by romans to the orders used by the greeks?

A. Ionic
B. Composite
C. Corinthian
D. Tuscan (Correct Answer)
Unanswered
Q.51) Traditional maranaw house for the ordinary members of the community?
A. Walay (Correct Answer)
B. Lamin
C. Torogan
D. Dama
Unanswered
Q.52) In the falling water, what is the function of the overhanging slab?
A. Terrace (Correct Answer)
B. Living
C. Open dining area
D. Bedroom
Unanswered
Q.53) Architect who advocated the organic arch. and envisioned the broadacre
city for the future?
A. Eero saarinen
B. Wallace Harrison
C. Daniel Burnham
D. FLW (Correct Answer)
Unanswered
Q.54) A style influenced by geometric figures?
A. Renaissance
B. Gothic
C. Romanesque
D. Art deco (Correct Answer)
Unanswered
Q.55) Who undertook most remarkable bldg campaign in history to make Athens
the cultural & artistic leader of Greece?
A. Perseus
B. Ysicartes

C. Pericles (Correct Answer)

D. None
Unanswered
Q.56) In the given figure, what part of the capital is letter C?
A. Cornice
B. Dentils
C. Frieze
D. Architrave (Correct Answer)
Unanswered
Q.57) Temple whose most remarkable feature is use of all 3 greek orders, Doric
outside, ionic & Corinthian within is
A. Artemus
B. Parthenon
C. Apollo epicurius (Correct Answer)
D. None
Unanswered
Q.58) Greek architecture was essentially?
A. Arch and vaulted
B. Buttressed and domed
C. Columnar and trabeated (Correct Answer)
D. Massive columns
Unanswered
Q.59) In Mesopotamian arch., religion called for temples made of sun dried bricks
is?
A. Megarons
B. Thakamus
C. Ziggurats (Correct Answer)
D. None
Unanswered
Q.60) Imposing entrance to acropolis and erected by architect mnesicles?
A. Propylaea (Correct Answer)
B. Erechtheion
C. Poseidon
D. Hypostyle
Unanswered

Q.61) What is a common striking feature of a church?

A. Bell tower (Correct Answer)
B. Facade
C. Butress
D. Ornated pediments
Unanswered
Q.62) In the given figure, what part of the capital is letter B?
A. Cornice
B. Dentils
C. Frieze (Correct Answer)
D. Architrave
Unanswered
Q.63) Arch'l character of Romanesque style?
A. Grotesque & bizarre
B. Sober & dignified (Correct Answer)
C. Flamboyant & decorative
D. None
Unanswered
Q.64) Column distance is 4D?
A. Pycnostyle
B. Systyle
C. Aerostyle (Correct Answer)
D. Eustyle
Unanswered
Q.65) Which of the following is not a door?
A. Trap
B. Clerestory (Correct Answer)
C. Plank and batten
D. Bifold
Unanswered
Q.66) Emperor of Byzantine empire who codified roman laws and responsible for
rebuilding of s. Sophia was
A. Diocletian

B. Theodosius
C. Justinian (Correct Answer)
D. None
Unanswered
Q.67) The shaft of the greek order terminates in which part?
A. Trachelion
B. Hypotrachelion (Correct Answer)
C. Abacus
D. Echinus
Unanswered
Q.68) Largest medieval cathedral in Europe, w/ exception of s. peter's rome. The
largest church in the world?
A. Westminster abbey
B. Seville cathedral (Correct Answer)
C. Sagrada familia
D. Notre dame
Unanswered
Q.69) A temple has 8 columns in front and rear with 15 columns on both sides,
including the 2 columns at the front?
A. Octastyle (Correct Answer)
B. Octostyle
C. Prostyle
D. Dipteral
Unanswered
Q.70) Blocks resting on the vertex or lower extremes of the pediment?
A. "antrixae"
B. Raking cornice
C. Moulding
D. Acroterian (Correct Answer)
Unanswered
Q.71) Splendid example of early gothic?
A. St pauls cathedral
B. Westminster abbey (Correct Answer)
C. Cathedral of notre dame
D. None

Unanswered
Q.72) Systyle intercolumnation?
A. 1.5 x cd
B. 2.5 x cd (Correct Answer)
C. 2 x cd
D. 3-4 x cd
Unanswered
Q.73) Very ornate architectural style developed in the later renaissance period?
A. Baroque (Correct Answer)
B. Neoclassicism
C. Flamboyant
D. Rayonnant
Unanswered
Q.74)

What do you call a sculpted

female figure serving as an architectural support taking the place of a column
or a pillar supporting an entablature on her head as in the figure shown
above?
A. Gargoyle
B. Caryatid (Correct Answer)
C. Atlantes
D. Statue
Unanswered
Q.75) A greek temple has 6 columns in front and at the back, at it's sides, it has
eleven columns, that includes the outermost columns at the front and back.
What do you call this kind of temple?
A. Peripteral (Correct Answer)
B. Pseudodipteral

C. Decastyle
D. Tetrastyle
Unanswered
Q.76) If a greek temple has a total of 14 columns with a breakdown of 4 in front, 4
at the back and the rest at both sides, what type of temple is this?
A. Peripteral (Correct Answer)
B. Prostyle
C. Amphiprostyle
D. Dipteral
Unanswered
Q.77) Gutter in modern times is like a?
A. Frieze
B. Pediment
C. Girt
D. Cornice (Correct Answer)
Unanswered
Q.78) What is the purpose of FLW overhanging slabs?
A. Obviously for aesthetics, that's the reason why its very famous till now
B. Open plan
C. Wide openings (Correct Answer)
D. None of the answer is right
Unanswered
Q.79) Area reserved for entertaining guests in bahay kubo?
A. Dulang
B. Caida (Correct Answer)
C. Sala
D. Bulwagan
Unanswered
Q.80) Who gave the statue of liberty to the US?
A. Spain
B. France
C. Great britain (Correct Answer)
D. Portugal
Unanswered

Q.81) For muslim architecture and characteristics, it is called gathering place?

A. Mimbar
B. Mihrab (Correct Answer)
C. Minaret
D. Kaba
Unanswered
Q.82) Egyptian architecture was principally designed for?
A. External adoration
B. Light and color
C. Internal effect (Correct Answer)
D. Life after death
Unanswered
Q.83) An ornamental knoblike projection, as a carved keystone at the intersection
of ogives?
A. Groin
B. Boss (Correct Answer)
C. Keystone
D. Rib
Unanswered
Q.84) Archt. Of temple of apollo epicurius?
A. Ictinus x (Correct Answer)
B. Callicrates
C. Callimachus
D. Itchy nose
Unanswered
Q.85) A continuous base of structure on which a colonnade is placed?
A. Stereobate
B. Stylobate (Correct Answer)
C. Crepidoma
D. Base
Unanswered
Q.86)

From the given figure,

identify the architectural style used?
A. Art deco (Correct Answer)
B. Renaissance
C. International style
D. Art nouveau
Unanswered
Q.87) Temple w/ circular plan supporting a dome of about 140 ft in diam. &
described by Thomas Jefferson as model of spherical arch is?
A. St. peter basilica
B. S. Sophia
C. Pantheon (Correct Answer)
D. Parthenon
Unanswered
Q.88) What do you call a type of support in the porch of maidens?
A. Caryatid (Correct Answer)
B. Atlantes
C. Gargoyle
D. Statue
Unanswered

Q.89) The third phase of gothic architecture?

A. Rayonnant
B. Flamboyant (Correct Answer)
C. Lancet
D. Consonant
Unanswered
Q.90) One of Frank Lloyd Wright's organic architecture?
A. Falling water (Correct Answer)
B. Robbie house
C. Dulles airport
D. Petronas tower
Unanswered
Q.91) Who invented a system of well-high universal application based on
hyperboloids and paraboloids in bldgs?
A. Frank ghery
B. Santiago calatrava
C. Zaha hadid
D. Antoni gaudi (Correct Answer)
Unanswered
Q.92) Greatest patron of Romanesque architecture?
A. Christian church
B. Private business
C. Civil govt
D. None (Correct Answer)
Unanswered
Q.93)

Identify the parts of a vault in the figure

shown in letter "a"?
A. Groin
B. Lierne (Correct Answer)
C. Boss
D. Ridge
Unanswered
Q.94) Character of early christian arch is determined by the novel development of?
A. Stone vaults
B. Timber trusses
C. Arched vaults (Correct Answer)
D. Lintel and beam
Unanswered
Q.95) Most important distinctive character of mature Spanish Romanesque
architecture?
A. Horseshoe arch (Correct Answer)
B. Lancet arch
C. Parabolic arch
D. Tudor
Unanswered
Q.96) Who design the interlocking thin shell, shark like concept, that can be seen
on the shore of austrilia?
A. Santiago Calatrava
B. Jorge Utzon (Correct Answer)
C. Norman Foster
D. Michael Graves

Unanswered
Q.97) A Roman rectangular temples stood on a?
A. Crepidoma
B. Stylobate
C. Podium (Correct Answer)
D. Pedestal
Unanswered
Q.98) Decorative clerestory found above the windows of a bahay na bato?
A. colada
B. Ventanilla (Correct Answer)
C. Gilir
D. Rakuh
Unanswered
Q.99) With the use of concrete made possible by pozzolona, a native natural
cement, romans to achieve huge interiors used?
A. Post and beam
B. Arch & vault (Correct Answer)
C. Pendentive
D. Stylobate
Unanswered
Q.1
00)

A. Art deco
B. Art nouveau (Correct Answer)
C. Rococo
D. Baroque