Movie Quotes
“On Wednesdays, we wear pink.” (2004)
What is Mean Girls?
“Star-crossed lovers” is a phrase immortalized by this play. It tells the tragic story of two young lovers from families that hate each other, making their relationship ultimately doomed.
What is Romeo and Juliet?
This 2.5-mile path through Boston visits 16 nationally historic sites, beginning on the Boston Common.
What is the Freedom Trail?
Earth's only natural satellite cycles through eight phases as it orbits around the planet.
What is the Moon?
Featuring a manual scoreboard that inspired the team's mascot, this famous 37-foot-2-inch-tall left-field wall at Fenway Park turns high fly balls that would be home runs in other parks into regular doubles or singles off the wall.
What is the “Green Monster”?
“We’re all in this together (together) Once we know that we are, we’re all stars” (2006)
What is High School Musical?
A 1993 young adult dystopian novel by Lois Lowry about a boy in a seemingly utopian society that erased pain, fear, and color through "Sameness", but learns the dark truth behind his community after he is chosen to be the new Receiver of Memory.
What is The Giver?
This historical event was an act of protest against British tax policies initiated by the Sons of Liberty; you can recreate their unique form of protest at a waterfront museum in our city!
What is the Boston Tea Party?
The smallest unit of life. It is the basic building block of all living things.
What is a cell?
Founded in 1960, this professional American football team based in Foxborough, Massachusetts, has won six Super Bowl titles and is tied with the Pittsburgh Steelers for the most in NFL history.
Who are the New England Patriots?
“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” (2004)
What is Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban? (Harry Potter 3rd movie is acceptable)
In a futuristic American society where books have been outlawed, the protagonist, Guy Montag, is a fireman whose job is to burn down houses in which books have been discovered.
What is Fahrenheit 451?
This famous General and veteran of the French and Indian War formally took command over the Continental Army after the Battle of Bunker Hill, as decided by the Continental Congress.
Who is George Washington?
Objects in this color reflect almost all visible light and all colors of the light spectrum because they do not absorb light waves.
What is white?
Having qualified for the FIFA World Cup only nine times, this country’s team has stolen the hearts of many Bostonians, as they made the City of Boston their home base and are now a twin city with Glasgow after the most recent World Cup tournament.
What is Scotland?
“Exercise gives you endorphins. Endorphins make you happy. Happy people just don’t shoot their husbands, they just don’t!” (2001)
What is Legally Blonde?
An allegorical novella reflecting on the 1917 Russian Revolution and the rise of the Soviet Union's Stalinist dictatorship. In the story, mistreated animals overthrow their human owner, but the intelligent pigs who lead the revolt eventually become corrupt tyrants.
What is Animal Farm?
This man acted as the legal defense for the British troops accused of carrying out the Boston Massacre in 1775 and acted as a Massachusetts Bay delegate to the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is John Adams?
The process in which plants, algae, and some bacteria use energy from sunlight to turn water and carbon dioxide into sugar and oxygen
What is photosynthesis?
Originally called "Mintonette," this Olympic sport was invented in Massachusetts by William G. Morgan, who was inspired by his teacher, James Naismith, the inventor of basketball. Designed as a less vigorous game for older YMCA members, the objective of the sport is to score points by landing the ball on the floor of the opposing team's side.
What is Volleyball?
“You Wasted $150,000 On An Education You Coulda Got For $1.50 In Late Fees At The Public Library.” (1997)
What is Good Will Hunting?
A tragedy that explores themes of jealousy, deception, and the complexities of love, as the titular character, a Moorish general in the Venetian army, is manipulated and betrayed by his envious ensign, Iago.
What is Othello?
Paul Revere’s midnight ride to warn American colonists that “the British are coming!” culminated in this battle in April 1775, where 8 colonists died but overall managed to thwart the British army’s plan to loot their military supplies.
What is the Battle of Lexington & Concord?
The force by which a planet or other body draws objects toward its center. This force keeps all of the planets in orbit around the Sun.
What is gravity?
Believe it or not, the current Red Sox team is not Boston’s original baseball team. Founded in1871 as the Boston Red Stockings, it is still the oldest continuously operating professional sports franchise in North America. However, the club's owners moved the team to Georgia in 1966.
Who are the Atlanta Braves?
“You can't even dream a whole dream, can you?” (2023)
What is The Holdovers?
This riveting nonfiction book about race, class, gender, crime, and punishment tells the true story of an agender teen who was set on fire by another teen while riding a bus in Oakland, California.
What is The 57 Bus?
This man, a mixed African and Native American whaler, sailor, and dockworker, is recognized as the first person to be killed in the Boston Massacre, and therefore the first person to die in the American Revolution.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
Commonly known as quicksilver, this is a heavy, silvery-white chemical element. It is famous for being the only metallic element that is liquid at standard room temperature and pressure.
What is mercury?
Nicknamed “Big Papi,” this is a Dominican-American former professional baseball designated hitter who played 20 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1997 to 2016, primarily for the Boston Red Sox.
Who is David Ortiz?
This room has always been the main reading room in the Central Library of the Boston Public Library and remains a favorite spot for reading and quiet study. It is named after an early benefactor and has been featured in many films, including Spotlight (2015).
What is Bates Hall?