Massachusetts Facts
Each year the legendary Boston Symphony Orchestra moves to its "summer home" at what venue in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts?
Tanglewood
Which musical group won the Grammy for best new artist in 90 only to have it stripped?
Milli Vanilli
How many unions make up the AFL-CIO?
60
Which film features a young boy called Ralphie Parker who is constantly told he will ‘shoot his eye out’?
A Christmas Story
Many a French meal ends with a dry red wine served with this blue-veined treat, the “cheese of kings and popes.”
Roquefort
Henry David Thoreau wrote about life in the woods in Massachusetts in what iconic 1854 work of nonfiction literature?
Walden.
Burger Beard, also known as Painty the Pirate, sings the theme song to what long-running and frequently meme-able animated TV series?
SpongeBob SquarePants
When did the National Education Association start?
1857 (1866 included women)
What country has won the most World Cups?
Brazil
How fitting that she starred in “Twelfth Night” in 2009—she has the same name as Shakespeare’s wife.
Anne Hathaway
Not to be outdone by second cousin and second U.S. President John, what was the name of the founding father who was a delegate to the Continental Congress and 4th governor of Massachusetts?
Sam Adams
What 2000s medical TV show was set in New Jersey and included frequent allusions to the titular protagonist's similarities to Sherlock Holmes?
House
What prompted the 1912 Lawrence Textile Strike?
2 hour-pay cut (shortening of work week)
Earl Lloyd was the first African-American to play which sport professionally?
Basketball
In 2014, 2015 & 2019 Novak Djokovic defeated this Swiss player in the Wimbledon final.
Roger Federer
The chocolate chip cookie was invented in 1938 by Ruth Wakefield, the proprietor of what Massachusetts inn, which gave its name to the Nestle brand and cookbook that popularized them and what town was it located in?
The Toll House Inn, Whitman
Babyland General Hospital was the "birthplace" of what line of collectible dolls that was a huge hit in the 1980s and included an individual birth certificate for each doll?
Cabbage Patch Kids
Which Act, passed in 1890, banned monopolies and protected buyers from unfair business practices?
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
What substance is Han Solo frozen in during "The Empire Strikes Back"?
Carbonite
What birds eye is larger than its brain?
Ostrich
In response to a question about pay equity during a 2012 presidential debate, Mitt Romney stated that when filling his cabinet as governor of Massachusetts, women's political group MassGAP sent him nearly 200 résumés of female candidates, which Romney clumsily described with what four-word phrase?
Binders full of women
Jaleel White wore famously huge glasses playing Steve Urkel on what long-running sitcom of the 1990s?
Family Matters
What is the name of the first federal law, passed in 1916, that regulated hours for workers?
United States Adamson Act
What are the only two mammals that are the only ones known to lay eggs?
The anteater and the duck-billed platypus
What did Aldous Huxley, C.S. Lewis, and John F. Kennedy have in common?
They all died November 22nd, 1963