Husky History
Know Your Neighborhood
Boston Firsts and Oddities
Which neighborhood am I?
Beantown History
100

Northeastern's founding year, when it started as the Evening Institute for Younger Men in the Huntington Avenue YMCA

What is 1898?

100

The neighborhood right next to Northeastern, named for the hill with a basilica on it

What is Mission Hill?

100

Opened in 1897 under Tremont Street, it was the first of these in America

What is a subway?

100

I have cobblestone roads, brick sidewalks, gas lamps, and the gold-domed State House. Which neighborhood am I?

What is Beacon Hill?

100

The 1770 shooting of colonists by British soldiers on King Street

What is the Boston Massacre?

200

The year the school took the name Northeastern University

What is 1922?

200

The giant CITGO sign looms over this square near Fenway Park

What is Kenmore Square?

200

Boston's official state dessert (hint: it's actually a cake)

What is Boston Cream pie?
200

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?

200

The oldest church in the city, notable for its role in Paul Revere's midnight ride

What is the Old North Church?

300

The baseball player who has a statue on Northeastern's campus

Who is Cy Young?

300

The Back Bay neighborhood was built almost entirely on this, rather than on natural ground

What is filled land (landfill)?

300

A sticky 1919 disaster that flooded the North End

What is the Great Molasses Flood?

300

I have a pond, an arboretum, and a famous brewery making Sam Adams. Which neighborhood am I?

What is Jamaica Plain?

300

This meeting hall and marketplace is nicknamed the 'Cradle of Liberty'

What is Faneuli Hall?

400

Cabot Center sits on the site of the Huntington Avenue Grounds, where this championship was first played in 1903

What is the World Series?

400

What Allston locals call the September 1 moving day when furniture piles up on curbs

What is Allston Christmas?

400

In 1846, the first public surgery using surgical anesthesia took place in this hospital

What is Massachusetts General Hospital?

400

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?

400

William Lloyd Garrison published this abolitionist newspaper in Boston starting in 1831:

What is The Liberator?

500

Matthews Arena's original name

What is Boston Arena?

500

Built in 1806, the African Meeting House in this neighborhood is the oldest surviving Black church building in the US

What is Beacon Hill?

500

In the 1970s, glass windows kept falling out of this skyscraper, Boston's tallest

What is the John Hancock Tower (200 Clarendon)?

500

"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?

500

In 2004, the Red Sox broke this supposed curse

What is the Curse of the Bambino?

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