Husky History
Northeastern's founding year, when it started as the Evening Institute for Younger Men in the Huntington Avenue YMCA
What is 1898?
The neighborhood right next to Northeastern, named for the hill with a basilica on it
What is Mission Hill?
Opened in 1897 under Tremont Street, it was the first of these in America
What is a subway?
I have cobblestone roads, brick sidewalks, gas lamps, and the gold-domed State House. Which neighborhood am I?
What is Beacon Hill?
The 1770 shooting of colonists by British soldiers on King Street
What is the Boston Massacre?
The year the school took the name Northeastern University
What is 1922?
The giant CITGO sign looms over this square near Fenway Park
What is Kenmore Square?
Boston's official state dessert (hint: it's actually a cake)
I'm home to the USS Constitution, the Bunker Hill Monument, and the city's very first settlers. Which neighborhood am I?
What is Charlestown?
The oldest church in the city, notable for its role in Paul Revere's midnight ride
What is the Old North Church?
The baseball player who has a statue on Northeastern's campus
Who is Cy Young?
The Back Bay neighborhood was built almost entirely on this, rather than on natural ground
What is filled land (landfill)?
A sticky 1919 disaster that flooded the North End
What is the Great Molasses Flood?
I have a pond, an arboretum, and a famous brewery making Sam Adams. Which neighborhood am I?
What is Jamaica Plain?
This meeting hall and marketplace is nicknamed the 'Cradle of Liberty'
What is Faneuli Hall?
Cabot Center sits on the site of the Huntington Avenue Grounds, where this championship was first played in 1903
What is the World Series?
What Allston locals call the September 1 moving day when furniture piles up on curbs
What is Allston Christmas?
In 1846, the first public surgery using surgical anesthesia took place in this hospital
What is Massachusetts General Hospital?
I am the smallest officially recognized neighborhood of Boston, tucked between the South End, Back Bay, and Chinatown. Which neighborhood am I?
What is Bay Village?
William Lloyd Garrison published this abolitionist newspaper in Boston starting in 1831:
What is The Liberator?
Matthews Arena's original name
What is Boston Arena?
Built in 1806, the African Meeting House in this neighborhood is the oldest surviving Black church building in the US
What is Beacon Hill?
In the 1970s, glass windows kept falling out of this skyscraper, Boston's tallest
What is the John Hancock Tower (200 Clarendon)?
"I was the very last town to join Boston, back in 1912, and I sit at the city's southern edge. Which neighborhood am I?
What is Hyde Park?
In 2004, the Red Sox broke this supposed curse
What is the Curse of the Bambino?