Colonial Boston
20th century
Famous People
Transportation
Miscellaneous
100

Who was the first Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony?

John Winthrop

100

What famous stadium was built in 1912?

Fenway Park

100

This author of "The Raven", and "The Fall of the House of Usher", was born in Boston in 1809?

Edgar Allan Poe

100

What was the Boston subway powered by?

Electricity

100

What was the first battle in the Revolutionary war?

Lexington and Concord

200

What was the first military conflict of the American Revolutionary War?

The Battles of Lexington and Concord.

200

What popular club at the time burnt down and killed 492 people?

Cocoanut Grove

200

Who was the first US president to be Born in Massachusetts?

John Adams

200

When was the Big dig start construction?

1991

200

Whose number, 34, was retired by the Boston Celtics in 2018?

Paul Pierce

300

Along with Samuel Adams, who founded the Sons of Liberty?

John Hancock

300

What art museum was robbed in 1990?

Isabella Stewart Gardner museum 

300

Who was governor of Boston during the Boston Police Strike, and would eventually go on to be the 30th president of the United States?

Calvin Coolidge

300

What does MBTA stand for? 

Massachusetts Bay transportation authority

300

What is the military fort that is located on castle island?

Fort independence 

400

In what year did the Boston Tea Party take place?

1773

400

What year did the great molasses flood happen?

1919

400

What famous Bostonian founded the Red cross?

Clara Barton 

400

Who was the Logan airport named after?

Edward Lawrence Logan 

400

What is the official Massachusetts state bird?

Black Capped Chickadee

500

Who was the Captain for the British during the Boston Massacre?

Captain Thomas Preston 

500
In the famous case of Sacco and Vanzetti, what was Vanzetti´s first name?

Bartolomeo

500

What american entrepreneur founded dunkin donuts?

William Rosenburg

500

What MBTA goes from Forrest hills to Oak grove?

Orange line

500

What Famous building has the nickname, ¨the cradle of Liberty?¨

Faneuil Hall

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