Hingham History
This 16th president of the United States had several famous ancestors, and has many descendants still living in and around Hingham
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Name of the first ten amendments to the Constitution
What is the Bill of Rights?
Name for the period during the French Revolution when executions increased exponentially, led by Robespierre
What is the Reign of Terror?
Name of the band whose hit song "Viva la Vida" tells the story of Louis XVI and the French Revolution
What is Coldplay?
Saving Private Ryan is set during this war
What is World War II?
The Fifth of March is set in the shadow of this revolutionary event
What is the Boston Massacre?
During an episode of this show, Andy Bernard leads office workers on a guided tour of the Gettysburg battlefield
What is The Office?
The same architect who designed Central Park in NYC also designed this "global" park in Hingham.
What is World's End?
This MA town is known as "America's Hometown"
What is Plymouth?
Number of American presidents who have been impeached
What is 3?
Who is John Brown
Harry Styles stars in this movie about an impressive evacuation from Northern France
What is Dunkirk?
This Of Mice and Men author wrote several novels set during the Dustbowl in 1930s America
Who is John Steinbeck?
This Netflix show features a visually impaired main character during WWII on the Northern coast of France
What is All the Light We Cannot See?
Name of the general whose sword Benjamin Lincoln accepted to end the Revolutionary War
Who is Cornwallis?
This author's real name is Samuel Clements
Who is Mark Twain?
This apparel store is named after the countries where a certain fruit became popular during the age of American imperialism
What is Banana Republic?
The first name mentioned in Billy Joel's We Didn't Start the Fire is this US president
Who is Harry Truman?
The Pianist is set during WWII and the Holocaust in this country
What is Poland?
Things Fall apart tells the story of British Imperialism in this African nation.
What is Nigeria?
Derry Girls on Netflix is set in this nation during The Troubles
What is Northern Ireland?
Name originally given to Hingham in 1633
What is Bare Cove?
Name of the only American president elected to three terms in office
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Name of the assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
This song by the band ABBA tells the story of Napoleon's final defeat and features in Mamma Mia 2
What is Waterloo?
War Horse tells the story of Albert and his beloved equine during this war.
What is WWI?
This event is chronicled in George Orwell's Animal Farm
This show on HBO Max tells the story of survivors and victims of a nuclear disaster in the USSR in the 1980s
What is Chernobyl?
Year in which Hingham was founded
What is 1635?
Year in which the first Thanksgiving was "celebrated"
What is 1621?
Occupation of Benito Mussolini before he became the leader of Italy
What is journalist?
"Zombie" by this Irish band tells the story of the "Troubles" between the British and the Irish dating back to 1916
Who are The Cranberries?
The Imitation Game chronicles Alan Turing's efforts to crack this German code during WWII
What is the enigma code?
This WWI novel and recent Netflix hit tells the story of a German soldier just before the armistice, and was recently remade into a movie by Netflix
What is All Quiet on the Western Front?
This long-running PBS show set in Elwood City is loosely based on Hingham, MA, the author's home town
What is Arthur?