Beantown Flicks
Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?
Wow, You Even Watch The Ads?
They Call Me Coach
New England Wordsmiths
100

Hey, Darlene...Leonardo DiCaprio, Jack Nicholson, & Matt Damon starred in this organized crime thriller set in South Boston:

('The Departed')

100

How many feet is 2.5 yards?

(7.5 feet)

100

Skittles encourage us to "Taste the __________."

(Rainbow)

100

This famous coach holds the record for most Super Bowl wins (6) as a head coach:  

(Bill Belichick)

100

A.K.A. Richard Bachman, this man is the pre-eminent modern popular fiction writer from Maine:  

(Stephen King)

200

At the end of this Boston-based film, Ben Affleck & Jeremy Renner's characters flee Charlestown after their Fenway Park heist:

('The Town')

200

What is the most abundant element in the universe?  

(Hydrogen)

200

"I don't wanna grow up, I'm a _____________ kid."

(Toys R Us)

200

Butch Harmon and Sean Foley are known for being among the best instructors in this sport:  

(Golf)

200

This person is an American writer of beach reads, often focused on mystery and romance, and set on Nantucket, where she resides:  

(Elin Hilderbrand)

300

The 2013 Boston Marathon bombing was the setting of this movie starring Mark Wahlberg as police sargeant, Tommy Saunders:

('Patriots Day')

300

Who is the author of the 1960 novel about social and racial inequality, 'To Kill A Mockingbird'?  

(Harper Lee)

300

"When it absolutely, positively has to be there ______", says Federal Express.

(Overnight)

300

The award for the best college basketball player of the year is named for this man who won 10 NCAA men's basketball championships (7 straight!).  He wrote a book with the same title as this category:  

(John Wooden)

300

The most famous work of this Salem, Massachusetts man is 'The Scarlet Letter'.  While in the Berkshires he wrote 'The House of the Seven Gables'.  Name him:  

(Nathaniel Hawthorne)

400

Matt Damon played an M.I.T. janitor with a genius-level I.Q. in this film that also starred Robin Williams:  

('Good Will Hunting')

400

Budapest is the capital of what European country?

(Hungary)

400

"The best part of wakin' up is _______________"

(Folgers in your cup)

400

Name the U.S. coach forever associated with the 'miracle' hockey game at the 1980 Winter Olympics:  

(Herb Brooks)

400

This short story writer, poet, and novelist, raised in New England, is most famous for writing 'Little Women':  

(Louisa May Alcott)

500

In this flick, filmed almost entirely in and around Boston, Kevin Bacon played a homicide detective, Sean Penn's character lost his daughter, & Tim Robbins' character was the last to see that girl alive:  

('Mystic River')

500

What is the term for:  'An exaggeration to show emphasis'?  

(Hyperbole)

500

American Airlines proudly sang that they were "Something ___________ in the air."

(special)

500

This baseball manager won World Series titles with the National League's Cincinnati Reds ('75) and the American League's Detroit Tigers ('84):

(Sparky Anderson)

500

'Paul Revere's Ride', 'The Song of Hiawatha', and 'Evangeline' are each original works from this Portland, Maine poet:  

(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

M
e
n
u