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NYC tour guide license test：It’s no Facebook quiz 紐約市導遊證照考試：這可不是臉書機智問答

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http://iservice.ltn.com.tw/Service/english/english.php?engno=862366&day=2015-03-13

How well do you know New York City? It’s not just talking Grand Central and the Brooklyn Bridge. Do you know where Jackie O lived and how to reach the Bronx Zoo by subway? Do you know the difference between Peter Minuit and Peter Stuyvesant?

你對紐約市有多熟？所謂的熟可不只是知道大中央車站與布魯克林橋。你知道美國前第一夫人賈桂琳．歐納西斯以前住在哪嗎？你知道怎麼搭地鐵去布朗克斯動物園嗎？你知道彼得．米紐伊特（譯註：向美洲原住民買下曼哈頓島的北美荷蘭殖民地新尼德蘭的總督）與彼得．史蒂文森（譯註：新尼德蘭殖民地末代總督）的差別嗎？

This is no Facebook quiz. These questions are from the ultimate test of New York knowledge：the city’s test to license sightseeing guides.

這可不是什麼臉書的機智問答。這些問題來自紐約知識之終極測驗：紐約市的觀光導遊證照測驗。

AP travel editor Beth J. Harpaz took the test cold, on a lark, with no advance prep. As a native New Yorker who’s written about tourism for more than a decade, she figured it would be a breeze. She also volunteer with an organization called Big Apple Greeter, taking visitors on informal walks through her favorite neighborhoods.

美聯社旅遊編輯貝絲．Ｊ．哈帕茲一時興起，在沒準備的情況下參加此一測驗。身為土生土長的紐約人，又撰寫旅遊報導超過10年，她覺得這考試對她而言根本是輕而易舉。遑論她還是帶領觀光客走訪穿梭於她最喜歡的街坊的「大蘋果接待員」組織的義工。

But the tour guide test is no walk in Central Park _ not to mention Prospect Park（and if you don’t know where that is, you’d never pass）.

但這個導遊測驗可不是帶人去中央公園走一遭—更不用提去願景公園了（如果你不知道願景公園在哪，你絕對考不過）。