Lancaster County PA
This traditional religious group founded in Switzerland in 1693 by Jakob Ammann draws many tourists to Lancaster.
Who are the Amish?
This color is also the name of New Haven's town square.
What is the Green?
Located mostly across the river in Cambridge, this institution was founded in 1636 by Congregationalist ministers.
What is Harvard University?
Elyria is part of the metro area of this 2nd-largest city in Ohio.
What is Cleveland?
Two dots known in German as an umlaut should be placed over this letter of "Gottingen."
What is the O?
The Susquehanna River forms Lancaster County's western border and flows south into this bay in Maryland.
What is the Chesapeake Bay?
This narrow body of water that connects to the Atlantic Ocean separates New Haven in CT from Long Island in NY.
What is the Long Island Sound?
Native Americans called this river that flows between Boston and Cambridge the Quinobequin, which means "meandering."
What is the Charles River?
This academic institution near Elyria was founded in 1833 by a Presbyterian minister and a missionary.
What is Oberlin College?
Gottingen lies in this German state, near the state's southern border.
What is Lower Saxony (or Niedersachsen)?
A Lancaster spoken dialect called Pennsylvania Dutch isn't related to Dutch but, rather, this European language.
What is German (Deutsch)?
New Haven's Knights of Columbus successfully lobbied the U.S. to create Columbus Day in honor of Americans (like many in New Haven) whose ancestors came from this country.
What is Italy?
This "global" newspaper published in Boston has the largest circulation of any New England paper.
What is the Boston Globe?
Elyria is located in this Ohio county.
What is Lorain County?
This academic institution in Gottingen was founded in 1734 by the King of England, George II.
What is the University of Gottingen?
These two surveyors set the county's southern border when they drew a "line" that bears their names, which also became the division between anti-slavery and pro-slavery states.
Who are Mason and Dixon?
New Haven got its nickname from this tree that used to be very common there -- but most of them died of a "Dutch" disease.
What is the elm?
South Boston is famous for having many people whose ancestors came from this country -- and hosts a parade every March to prove it.
What is Ireland?
Elyria sits at the fork of this river, which has two waterfalls in the city and eventually flows into Lake Erie.
What is the Black River?
Max Planck, for whom Gottingen's Institute for the Study of Religious & Ethnic Diversity is named, was this type of scientist.
What is a physicist?
In the 1400s, the Lancaster and York branches of England's royal family fought a war named for this flower; Lancaster's was red and York's was white.
What is the rose (or the War of the Roses)?
Lux et Veritas, the Latin motto given to Yale University by the ministers who founded the school, means this in English.
What is Light and Truth?
This professional sports team broke the "Curse of the Bambino" in 2004 by winning its sport's championship for the first time in 86 years.
Who are the Boston Red Sox?
Elyria was named in part for Illyria, the ancient Greeks' name for a region far from Ohio that is centered around this sea that begins with "A."
What is the Adriatic Sea?
Erfurt is the capital of this eastern German state that lies 20 kilometers south of Gottingen.
What is Thuringia or Thuringen?