Answers for Grades K-3:
1) False, the Pentagon is one of the largest office buildings in the world.
2)
The Pentagon was finished in 1943.
3)
Brigadier General
Brehon B. Sommervell asked that the Pentagon be built.
4) 29 acres are covered by the Pentagon building.
5)
The Pentagon has 284 bathrooms.
6)
The Pentagon was originally going to be built on land known as Arlington Farms.
7)
The Pentagon is five-sided.
8)
It takes seven minutes to walk between any two points of the building.
9)
The Pentagon has 4,200 clocks.
10) It cost approx. $83 million to build the Pentagon.
Answers for Grades 4-8:
1)
It cost $83 million to build the Pentagon.
2) The original purpose of the Pentagon was to provide a temporary solution to the War Department’s critical shortage of space.
3)
The parking spaces at the Pentagon take up 67 acres.
4) The Pentagon has 7,754 windows.
5) The idea for constructing a pentagonal-shaped building was conceived from the five roadways bordering the site.
6) The sand used to make the concrete for the Pentagon was
taken from the
7) The Pentagon was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1992.
8)
It was essential to renovate the Pentagon in order to meet current health,
fire, and life safety codes and provide reliable electrical, air conditioning,
and ventilating services.
9) Including the mezzanine and the basement, the Pentagon has 5 floors.
10) False, the Pentagon has three times the floor space of the
Answers for Highschool:
1) The Pentagon has both military and civilian employees.
2) The construction idea for the Pentagon was to build a single structure that housed all of its components, as opposed to constructing multiple temporary structures as was then the practice.
3)
The original site at Arlington Farms was discarded in favor of a new site down
river because President Franklin D. Roosevelt feared that the enormous building
would interfere with the view of
4) The architectural style of the Pentagon is Stripped Neo-Classical.
5) The
designers’ ingenuity not only created a building that reflected the
architectural style of the nation’s Capitol but also saved enough steel to
build one battleship.
6)
The Pentagon is a building, institution, and symbol.
7) Absent a major renovation, the building infrastructure would have become increasingly unreliable and would soon have been unable to effectively support the headquarters and nerve center of the national military establishment.
8)
The first occupants of the Pentagon moved in on
9) The gross area of the Pentagon is 6,636,360 sq. ft.
10) Phase one is a new Heating and Refrigeration Plant (H&RP) which has been constructed. the second phase of the Program involves the renovation of the Basement and Mezzanine, which started in September 1994 (one third of the Basement has been renovated with many areas now occupied.). The third through seventh phases of the program are the five wedges of the building, from the first floor to the fifth floor.