Firsts
This holiday was first celebrated in Plymouth in 1621.
What is Thanksgiving?
On top of the commercial building on Centre Street in Jamaica Plain sits at a weather vane with this kind of sea creature on it.
What is a whale?
This snack is named after a Boston suburb.
What is a fig newton?
Boston is named after a town in this country.
What is England?
There is a house in Rockport made entirely of this material.
What is newspaper?
Massachusetts first began issuing these kinds of licenses in June of 1903.
What is a driver's license?
The Boston University Bridge on Commonwealth Avenue in Boston is the only place in the world where this kind of watercraft can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.
What is a boat?
The official state dessert of Massachusetts.
What is a Boston cream pie?
This university was the first university established in North America. It was founded in 1636. Because of this university’s size, there is no universal mailing address that will work for every office at the university.
What is Harvard?
The 3rd Monday in this month is a legal holiday in Massachusetts called Patriot’s Day.
What is April?
This first kind of sports game was played in Springfield in 1891.
What is basketball?
The first American (tower that emits light) was built in Boston Harbor in 1716.
What is a lighthouse?
The Children’s Museum in Boston displays a giant milk bottle on the museum’s wharf. If it were real, it would hold this many gallons of milk.
What are 50,000 gallons?
The first U.S. Postal zip code in Massachusetts is 01001, in the same city where Six Flags New England is.
What is Agawam?
This kind of party reenactment takes place in Boston Harbor every December 16th.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This park became the first public park in America in 1634.
What is Boston Common?
Glaciers formed the islands of Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard during this kind of age.
What is the ice age?
The first Dunkin Donuts was built in this city.
What is Quincy?
You can drive this many feet below the world’s surface in Boston’s Ted Williams tunnel.
What is 90 feet?
These kinds of hours are against the law.
What are happy hours?
Boston built this first transportation system in the United States in 1897.
What is a subway system?
Boston is home to this first U.S. public body of water.
What is a beach?
Boston was home to this first U.S. candy factory. (what’s the candy)
What is a chocolate factory?
Beantown is really about:
What is baked beans?
This holiday was once banned between 1659-1681 due to Pilgrims believing it was a corrupt holiday.
What is Christmas?