Boston Sports
These two professional teams call TD Garden home.
Who are the Boston Bruins and the Boston Celtics.
An English ship that transported a group of English families, known today as the Pilgrims, from England to the New World in 1620.
What is the Mayflower.
Famed director of the 1960 movie "Psycho."
Who is Alfred Hitchcock.
Call letters for Channel 4 in Boston.
A gameboard for this game is typically on the reverse side of a chess/checkers board.
What is Backgammon.
"Bobby Blank, Back Door, Goal." His goal was the game winner for the 1970 Stanley Cup Champion Bruins.
Who is Bobby Orr.
The blank was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. The English are famous for consuming what was thrown overboard.
What is The Boston Tea Party.
Humphrey Bogart played this character in Casablanca alongside Ingrid Bergman's character Ilsa Lund.
Who is Rick Blaine.
He passed away yesterday, the former U.S. Secretary of State.
Who is Colin Powell.
This game is played with tiles that you try to match by flipping them over.
What is Memory.
He owns the record for most championships in any of the four major American Professional Sports leagues (NBA, NFL, NHL, MLB) with 11.
Who is Bill Russell.
An American military officer who served during the Revolutionary War. He fought with distinction for the American Continental Army, rising to the rank of major general, before defecting to the British side of the conflict in 1780.
Who is Benedict Arnold.
He played the Wizard of Oz in 1939
Who is Frank Morgan.
A Deobandi Islamic fundamentalist political movement and military organization in Afghanistan.
What is Taliban.
Doing this regularly, which increases your heart rate, boosts brain health.
What is exercise.
Ray Bourque won a Stanley Cup with the Colorado Avalanche in this year.
What is 2001.
The oldest college in the United States, founded in 1636.
What is Harvard University.
Marlon Brando was born in this U.S. state, a state that is both in the Midwest and the Great Plains.
What is Nebraska.
They just won the WNBA Championship on October 17th. They hail from Chicago.
Who are the Chicago Sky.
An "R" word used in the Recovery vernacular, but not the word Recovery. It is a noun defined as "the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness." Often times staying positive through a hard time can increase feelings of this.
What is resilience.
She retired on the first week of September 2021 after nearly four decades covering sports for The Boston Globe, Sports Illustrated and ESPN.
Who is Jackie MacMullan.
Republican Governor of Massachusetts from 2001 to 2003, the first female Governor of the Commonwealth. She followed Paul Cellucci.
Governor Jane Swift.
He composed music for the movie "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial."
Who is John Williams.
The three makers of the most commonly administered COVID vaccines in the U.S.
What are Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson.
This, the brain's ability to modify, change, and adapt both structure and function throughout life and in response to experience. Some ways to increase this are through getting enough quality sleep, moving, continually finding ways to learn new things in new ways, and even reading a novel.
What is Neuroplasticity.