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100

This is the name of Boston's mass transit pass, which comes from a 1949 mayoral candidate's campaign song about a traveler who couldn't pay the exit fare to get out of the T.

What is CharlieCard?

100

The oldest subway tunnel in North America is under this Boston street.

What is Tremont street?

100

This is the official charity of the Boston Red Sox.

What is the Jimmy Fund?

100

Wayfair was founded in this decade.

What are the 2000s?

(2000 = founding year,  2014 = IPO year)

100

Developed at MIT and at Boston Dynamics, Spot is a contact-free robot that can assist with basic patient care. Spot has this many legs. 

What is 4?

200
He is the current President of The Kraft Group.

Who is Jonathan Kraft?

200

In this Boston neighborhood, you come across the Ella J. Baker House, the Franklin Park Zoo, and the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.

What is Dorchester?

200

In 2003, Nike purchased this footwear company that was founded almost 100 years prior in Massachusetts.

What is Converse?

200

In the 2010s, this company was formed to work on modifying RNA. 

What is Moderna?

200

This American insurer, founded in 1912, is headquartered in Boston but has an NYC landmark in its logo.

What is Liberty Mutual?

300

Of the following, this person helped found General Electric Co. Thomas Edison, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, Mark Cuban

Who is Thomas Edison?

300

This town is home to the first Market Basket.

What is Lowell?

300

AMT is the stock ticker for this Boston-based Fortune 500 company that is both a real estate investment trust and owner-operator of wireless and broadcast communications infrastructure in several countries worldwide.

What is American Tower?

300

Staples opened its very first store in this decade.

What is the 1980s? 

(1986)

300

This NFL team was established in Boston in 1932, moved to its current location in 1937, and chose its current team name in 2022.

What are the Washington Commanders?

400

She is the current CEO of Fidelity Investments. 

Who is Abigail Johnson? 

400
Boston is in Suffolk County. These are the three counties that border Suffolk. 

What are Essex County (north), Norfolk County (south), and Middlesex County (west)? 

400

This is the name of the security company founded in 2006 by two Harvard Business School students who couldn't find a security company designed to help renters. The couple was interested in the field after multiple friends in Cambridge had experienced break-ins. By 2014, the company has raised more than $50 million in venture capital.

What is Simplisafe? 

400

T.J. Maxx launched in this decade. 

What are the 1970s?

(1976)

400

Based out of Boston, this multinational financial institution offers managed stock accounts for its clients. Its logo is a light shining on top of a pyramid, and its name is a word meaning faithfulness.

What is Fidelity investments?

500

Rockledge is the name of a Roxbury Heights estate once owned by this notable abolitionist and publisher of The Liberator.

Who is William Lloyd Garrison?

500

Former President George H.W. Bush was born in this Boston suburb in 1924.

What is Milton, MA?

500

This is the name of the 1948 donut and coffee restaurant in Quincy that became Dunkin’ Donuts. 

What is Open Kettle?

500

State Street Bank (formerly Union Bank) was founded in this decade.

What are the 1790s?

(1792)

500

This pharmaceutical company was founded in Boston in 1989 and maintains its headquarters in Boston. 

What is Vertex?