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After this event, 54 thousand more vehicles than usual drove south through tolls in New Hampshire.
What is the solar eclipse?
This punctuation mark, which introduces a list of things following an independent clause, shares its name with a body part.
What is a colon?
This school shares its mascot with our local NFL franchise.
What is Concord-Carlisle?
So eager are its citizens for warmer temperatures that Iceland celebrates the first day of this season on the first Thursday after April 18th.
What is summer?
This Celtics players has more Instagram followers than any of his teammates do.
Who is Jayson Tatum?
This event, held annually on Patriots' Day, began in 1897 with just 15 participants. (This year, there will be about 30 thousand.)
What is the Boston Marathon?
The controversial comma before a coordinating conjunction and the last item in a list is also known as what kind of comma?
What is an Oxford or serial comma?
Until we became the Revolution, this school—the DCL's largest—was the only one with a mascot that didn't end in a plural 's'.
What is the Boston Latin Wolfpack?
To recognize the first celebration of this holiday, on April 22, 1970, Richard and Pat Nixon planted a tree on the South Lawn of the White House.
What is Earth Day?
Caitlin Clark played college basketball for Iowa; the WNBA team of this nearby state is set to select her first in next week's draft.
What is Indiana?
This rock band, formed in Boston in 1970, announced the dates for its farewell tour, Peace Out, which had been postponed while its lead singer, age 76, recovered from vocal injury.
What is Aerosmith?
What are quotation marks?
There are two high schools in this town, though only one is in the DCL; the other one's mascot is the Tigers, so it makes some sense that the one we play is the Lions.
What is Newton?
Among the twelve months, this is April's historical rank in its popularity as a name for humans.
The last four winners of the men's division and the last three winners of the women's division of the Boston Marathon have all hailed from this country.
What is Kenya?
Last month, a container ship knocked out the Frances Scott Key Bridge in this state, temporarily closing one of the nation's largest ports.
What is Maryland?
An interrobang combines these two punctuation marks to emphasize excitement, disbelief, or confusion.
What are a question mark and an exclamation point?
Two schools in the DCL have this mascot, which they also share with an NBA team.
What is the Warriors?
This children's author, born on April 12, 1916, was responsible for such notable characters as Ramona and Beezus Quimby, and Ralph S. Mouse, who famously rode a motorcycle. (She died just three years ago, at age 104.)
Who is Beverly Cleary?
The last eight winners of the men's wheelchair division and the last eleven winners of the women's wheelchair division of the Boston Marathon have all hailed from either the United States or this nation known for its knives.
What is Switzerland?
The Supreme Court of this state upheld a ban on nearly all abortions this week, basing its ruling on a law from 1864—before it was even granted statehood.
What is Arizona?
Emily Dickinson used as many as 48 of these in a single poem; editors initially deleted most of them from her published work before restoring them in the 1950s.
What is a dash or em-dash?
This school, the furthest north in the DCL, edited the name of its mascot in 2021, because the original version was named for a Confederate soldier, who was the hero of a popular TV show in the 1950s.
What is Westford Academy?
This current US Secretary of State, who has visited 82 countries during his tenure, was born on April 16, 1962.
Who is Antony Blinken?
2021 was the last time a private university won the men's or women's college basketball tournament; name either victorious school.
What is Baylor (men's) and Stanford (women's)?