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Opening in 1912, this is the oldest Major League Baseball stadium still in use.
What is Fenway Park?
This is the most popular day to grill in the United States.
What is July 4th?
This 1978 movie directed by Randal Kleiser is based on a musical of the same name. It tells the story of a girl and boy who meet during the summer and then find they are at the same high school.
What is Grease?
In which George Orwell novel does the protagonist read a supposed revolutionary book called "The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism," attributed to Emmanuel Goldstein?
What is 1984?
This is where the new photo wall of residents and staff, “Faces of Brown House,” is located.
What is by the mailboxes?
This restaurant selling doughnuts and coffee was opened in Quincy, Massachusetts, in May of 1950.
What is Dunkin Donuts?
The most popular grilling fuel in the United States.
What is Propane?
This 1972 movie directed by Francis Ford Coppola based on a novel written by Mario Puzo is set in the years 1945 to 1955, and tells the story of an American-Italian family.
What is The Godfather?
"The Clue of the Candle Wax," "The Death in the Drain Pipe," and "The Affair of the Second Goldfish" were all imaginary novels attributed to Ariadne Oliver, a fictional crime novelist from the mind of which mystery writer?
Who is Agatha Christie?
This is the name of the fish who accompanies Genoa at the front desk.
Who is Rudy?
This is the location of the first public beach in the United States.
What is Revere Beach?
This is the name for the seasoned liquid used to soak meats prior to cooking.
What is a marinade?
This 1974 movie directed by Mel Brooks is set in the Old West in 1874 and is about the re-routing of a new railway line to run straight through an existing town, and of the unconventional sheriff appointed by the Governor.
What is Blazing Saddles?
This fantasy novel by Matt Haig is about a woman who finds a mystical library between life and death, where every book represents a life she could have lived.
What is The Midnight Library?
You can find this class occurring in the MPR every Monday and Friday at 11am.
What is Tai Chi?
This New England seafood delicacy was once so plentiful and undesirable that they were commonly used as fertilizer and fish bait by Native Americans and colonists alike.
What is lobster?
According to the USDA, this is the minimum internal temperature for safely cooked Beef, Pork, Veal & Lamb
What is 145o?
This film starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford cleaned the floor at the '73 Oscars with 7 awards including the big three - Best Actor, Best Director and Best Film.
What is The Sting?
At the beginning of this 1987 novel by Stephen King, novelist Paul Sheldon gets in a car accident on his way to deliver the manuscript for the final installment of his series where he kills off his heroine so that he can be free to pursue other areas of writing.
What is Misery?
This is the code for the new back gate.
What is 534?
This is where the fried clam was first invented. For a bonus point, name who invented it.
What is Woodman's of Essex in Essex, MA?
Bonus: Who is Lawerence "Chubby" Woodman?
This is where the first hamburger is believed to have been served.
What is St. Louis, Missouri?
his 1979 movie directed by Francis Ford Coppola is based in part on the novel "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad. It is set "in country" during the Vietnam War and tells the story of a Special Operations Officer sent to assassinate a renegade Special Forces Colonel who is living in Cambodia.
What is Apocalypse Now?
This novel by Nina George follows a "literary apothecary" running a book barge on the Seine, who prescribes books to heal customers' emotional ailments but cannot mend his own broken heart.
What is The Little Paris Bookshop?
Our maintenance mechanic, John Bjorklund, joined the Brown Family House team in 2022 yet he worked at this other 2Life campus for eight years before coming here.
What is Golda Meir House?