Hingham History
American History
Miscellaneous History
Historical Music
Historical Movies
Historical Books
"Historical" TV Shows
100

This 16th president of the United States had several famous ancestors, and has many descendants still living in and around Hingham

Who is Abraham Lincoln?

100

Name of the first ten amendments to the Constitution

What is the Bill of Rights?

100

Name for the period during the French Revolution when executions increased exponentially, led by Robespierre

What is the Reign of Terror?

100

Name of the band whose hit song "Viva la Vida" tells the story of Louis XVI and the French Revolution

What is Coldplay?

100

Saving Private Ryan is set during this war

What is World War II? 

100

The Fifth of March is set in the shadow of this revolutionary event

What is the Boston Massacre?

100

During an episode of this show, Andy Bernard leads office workers on a guided tour of the Gettysburg battlefield

What is The Office?

200

The same architect who designed Central Park in NYC also designed this "global" park in Hingham.

What is World's End?

200

This MA town is known as "America's Hometown"

What is Plymouth?

200

Number of American presidents who have been impeached

What is 3? 

200
A popular song from the Civil War is named after the "Body" of this radical abolitionist

Who is John Brown

200

Harry Styles stars in this movie about an impressive evacuation from Northern France

What is Dunkirk?

200

This Of Mice and Men author wrote several novels set during the Dustbowl in 1930s America

Who is John Steinbeck?

200

This Netflix show features a visually impaired main character during WWII on the Northern coast of France

What is All the Light We Cannot See?

300

Name of the general whose sword Benjamin Lincoln accepted to end the Revolutionary War

Who is Cornwallis?

300

This author's real name is Samuel Clements

Who is Mark Twain?

300

This apparel store is named after the countries where a certain fruit became popular during the age of American imperialism

What is Banana Republic?

300

The first name mentioned in Billy Joel's We Didn't Start the Fire is this US president

Who is Harry Truman?

300

The Pianist is set during WWII and the Holocaust in this country

What is Poland?

300

Things Fall apart tells the story of British Imperialism in this African nation. 

What is Nigeria? 

300

Derry Girls on Netflix is set in this nation during The Troubles

What is Northern Ireland?

400

Name originally given to Hingham in 1633

What is Bare Cove?

400

Name of the only American president elected to three terms in office

Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?

400

Name of the assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Who is Gavrilo Princip?
400

This song by the band ABBA tells the story of Napoleon's final defeat and features in Mamma Mia 2

What is Waterloo?

400

War Horse tells the story of Albert and his beloved equine during this war.

What is WWI? 

400

This event is chronicled in George Orwell's Animal Farm

What is the Russian Revolution?
400

This show on HBO Max tells the story of survivors and victims of a nuclear disaster in the USSR in the 1980s

What is Chernobyl?

500

Year in which Hingham was founded

What is 1635?

500

Year in which the first Thanksgiving was "celebrated"

What is 1621?

500

Occupation of Benito Mussolini before he became the leader of Italy

What is journalist? 

500

"Zombie" by this Irish band tells the story of the "Troubles" between the British and the Irish dating back to 1916

Who are The Cranberries?

500

The Imitation Game chronicles Alan Turing's efforts to crack this German code during WWII

What is the enigma code?

500

This WWI novel and recent Netflix hit tells the story of a German soldier just before the armistice, and was recently remade into a movie by Netflix

What is All Quiet on the Western Front?

500

This long-running PBS show set in Elwood City is loosely based on Hingham, MA, the author's home town

What is Arthur?