Massachusetts
This is the capital of Massachusetts.
What is Boston?
People from Cambridge are known by this term.
What are Cantabridgians?
This MBTA line runs through the center of Cambridge.
What is the Red Line?
This 1773 protest involved colonists dumping tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This body of water borders Boston to the east.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
This game was first played in Springfield in 1891.
What is basketball?
Harvard University, the first university in the United States, was founded in this year.
What is 1630?
This river forms the boundary between Cambridge and Boston.
What is the Charles River?
Originally called the Boston Patriots, the New England Patriots played their first season in this year.
What is 1960?
This Boston neighborhood is famous for Italian food and pastries.
What is the North End?
Of the original 13 states, Massachusetts held this position in order of statehood.
What is sixth?
Before becoming a biotech hub, Cambridge was known for companies like Necco and Fox Cross producing this.
What is candy?
This Cambridge neighborhood is home to City Hall.
What is Central Square?
Boston’s subway system, the first in the U.S., opened in this year.
What is 1898?
These two Green Line stops are closest to Boston Red Sox games.
What are Fenway and Kenmore?
This is where the first battles of the American Revolution were fought in 1775.
What are Lexington and Concord?
On this date, George Washington took command of Patriot forces on Cambridge Common.
What is July 3, 1775?
These two towns border Cambridge to the west.
What are Belmont and Watertown? (also accept Arlington)
This inventor demonstrated the first telephone in Boston in 1876.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
This 7-mile park system designed by Frederick Law Olmsted runs through Boston and Brookline.
What is the Emerald Necklace?
This is the year John Winthrop and the Puritans arrived in Salem.
What is 1630?
Anmoughcawgen, the original name of this area, used by the Massachusett people, translates to this.
What is “fishing weir” or “beaver dam”?
Because of its many intersection-based districts, Cambridge is nicknamed this.
What is “The City of Squares”?
This historic Boston marketplace, built in 1742, remains a popular site today.
What is Faneuil Hall?
This massive highway project moved Boston’s roads underground in the 1990s and 2000s.
What is the Big Dig?