Massachusetts History
This group, seeking religious freedom, founded the Plymouth Colony in 1620.
Who are the Pilgrims?
This iconic Boston Red Sox player was known as "The Splendid Splinter."
Who is Ted Williams?
This iconic Saturday morning cartoon series, featuring a group of teen detectives and a talking dog, premiered its first season in 1970.
What is Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!?
This neatly crimped food can regularly be found in Nana's suitcase when she visits Texas.
What are Knishes?
This letter of the alphabet is both routinely neglected and added in random places in the Waldman household.
What is "R"?
This compact, signed aboard the Mayflower, established a framework for self-governance in Plymouth Colony.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This curse was said to have plagued the Red Sox after they traded Babe Ruth to the Yankees in 1919.
What is the Curse of the Bambino?
In addition to Nana & Papa's wedding, this member of the family was also born in 1970.
Who is Ari/Abba/Harry?
An unfortunate post appeared on Facebook regarding Cousin Aaron's "slaughtering" of the Thanksgiving turkey, thanks to Nana's nightly dose of this medication.
What is ambien?
Don't ever eat this food in front of Papa, or there's a good chance it will be stolen from you.
What is Mac n Cheese?
The "Shot Heard 'Round the World" was fired in this Massachusetts town.
What is Lexington?
The New England Patriots won their first Super Bowl in this year, defeating the St. Louis Rams.
What is 2002?
The inaugural celebration of this now-global event promoting environmental protection took place on April 22, 1970.
What is Earth Day?
This is what the shirts said on Papa's 80th birthday cruise.
What is "Ahoy Matey, Dave is 80"?
This state, known as the "Land of Enchantment," was home to the Waldmans in the late 1970s.
What is New Mexico?
Massachusetts Bay Colony was established under a charter granted by this English king.
Who is King Charles I?
This Red Sox slugger hit a walk-off homer in Game 4 of the 2004 ALCS, sparking the team’s historic comeback against the Yankees.
Who is David Ortiz?
In 1970, this U.S. lunar mission famously declared, "Houston, we've had a problem."
What is Apollo 13?
Nana and the girls smoked cigarettes and played this game regularly back in Nashua.
What is Mahjong?
Never having a pair of these before, Grandpa Max removed them at his granddaughter's Bat Mitzvah and placed them next to his dinner plate before eating.
What are his dentures?
This Massachusetts-born abolitionist published the anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
Before Tom Brady, this quarterback led the Patriots to their first Super Bowl appearance in 1986.
Who is Steve Grogan?
This famous rock band, who wrote Nana & Papa's wedding song, coincidentally broke up in 1970.
Who are the Beatles?
Sue and Dave took their teenage daughters on a trip to this city, where Sue videotaped a man with an icicle hanging off of his nose.
What is the Catskills?
This couple took their first airline flight to follow the Waldmans when they briefly relocated in the late 1970s.
Who are Grandpa Max and Grandma Minnie?