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State Quiz - Massachusetts

Can you guess these facts about the U.S. state of Massachusetts?
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First submittedJuly 8, 2015
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State capital
Boston
Oldest university
Harvard
Peninsula that is shaped like a hook
Cape Cod
Religious group that founded Massachusetts
Puritans
Ship that landed on Plymouth Rock
Mayflower
Pond where Thoreau spent two years in a cabin
Walden Pond
Stadium whose left field fence is called "The Green Monster"
Fenway Park
City which held witch trials in 1692–1693
Salem
Captain Ahab's island, it is often mentioned in limericks
Nantucket
Island where the Obamas have a home
Martha's Vineyard
Family name of John, Robert, Ted, and Rose
Kennedy
State nickname
The Bay State
Mountain range in the west of the state (part of the Appalachians, starts with B)
Berkshires
What Massachusetts legalized in 2004, becoming the first state to do so
Same-sex marriage
City famous for textile mills in the 1800s
Lowell
Candlepin and duckpin are varieties of ...
Bowling
The Manhattan version has tomatoes. The New England version does not.
Clam chowder
Fill in the quote: "My boy's ______ smaht"
Wicked
Fruit that grows in a bog
Cranberries
Holiday first celebrated in 1621
Thanksgiving
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49 Comments
buck1017
+30
Level 78
Jul 23, 2015
You misspelled chowdah
communisteggplant
+16
Level 74
Oct 28, 2015
And Hahvahd
WolfCam
+15
Level 67
Jul 19, 2018
What about Mahtha's Vineyahd?
ander217
+9
Level 73
Nov 19, 2015
Missed four. Should have gotten three of them, but had to look up "my boy's ___ smaht". Saw that movie years ago but had no idea about the quote.
ander217
+27
Level 73
Mar 30, 2020
Missed it and had to look it up to see what it meant. Now I'm embarrassed to see I posted the same comment in 2015. Obviously I'm not what it says.
Tragic
+5
Level 70
Nov 19, 2015
Too much Fallout 4 had me questioning a few answers...
CultOfBambi
+6
Level 57
Jan 25, 2017
Me too - Children of Atom instead of Puritans! :o)
PrinceEric
+3
Level 56
Nov 20, 2015
I had never heard the "My boy's _____ smaht" one. I tried "friggin."
jmellor13
+5
Level 68
Sep 7, 2019
It's from Good Will Hunting, but more generally, people from Boston love to use "wicked" as an adverb. You don't really hear that anywhere outside Boston and the surrounding areas.
Tramp
+5
Level 79
Mar 30, 2020
It's common in parts of the UK, and so is the disdain for the letter R in a few places (mainly Liverpool and Cardiff).
Walacama
+6
Level 83
Jan 31, 2021
It's all over Mass. and parts of New England. It just sounds better with the accent, or maybe it doesn't.
ing
+4
Level 73
Feb 3, 2021
Certainly also in Maine, where the song "Wicked Good" was released by the group LL Cool Bean.
acnhtex
+1
Level 66
May 17, 2022
wicked is definitely an all of Massachusetts thing
JoeCrouchMMA
+4
Level 59
Nov 20, 2015
Salem witch trials were not Oregon?
ponnuki
+18
Level 57
Nov 23, 2015
The Salem witch trials were in 1692-1693. Oregon would not be settled by Europeans for another century or so.
IsleAuHaulte
+6
Level 92
Jul 4, 2018
His comment up here, your head way down here.
BlackLab
+3
Level 66
Nov 20, 2015
Please make the comma bigger.

I don't know any limericks about Captain Ahab.

"Captain Ahab's island, oft-mentioned in limericks"

J/K. My prescription ran out :D

PoetsCorner
+17
Level 87
Feb 19, 2017
There once was a man from Nantucket

Who kept all his cash in a bucket.

But his daughter named Nan

Ran away with a man.

And as for the bucket?

Nantucket.

IsleAuHaulte
+8
Level 92
Jul 4, 2018
There are two other two-word phrases that rhyme with the end of Nantucket in 99.99% of those limericks.
PoetsCorner
+4
Level 87
Dec 23, 2021
Of course, but I'm trying to be a good boy.
RuthlessCosmo
+1
Level 79
Jun 6, 2026
My mother's second-favorite joke was a Rodney Dangerfield joke about getting a second opinion from his doctor. Naturally she chose one of the few Rodney Dangerfield jokes you could tell your mother.
RuthlessCosmo
+1
Level 79
Jun 6, 2026
And I don't think she ever recited any limericks, much less one with Nantucket in it.
MickeyMcNutt
+2
Level 22
Dec 27, 2015
Great quiz! Here's the link to the RI trivia quiz! http://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/166027/rhode-island-trivia-quiz
EytanMelech
+2
Level 66
Mar 28, 2020
Accept vinyard for vineyard?
Quizmaster
+2
Level ∞
Mar 28, 2020
Okay
shape816
+12
Level 68
Mar 30, 2020
I can imagine that would be somewhat difficult for non-Massholes. Which, btw would be a good addition. Official denonym: Bay Stater, non-official denonym: see above 😂
Keltonet
+2
Level 64
Mar 30, 2020
Some fun New England trivia- https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/161535/new-england-trivia
mahble
+5
Level 79
Jan 16, 2021
Fun fact: Massachusetts has the oldest constitution in the world, dating from 1780 - 9 years before the US Constitution was ratified.
martay
+5
Level 69
Jan 30, 2021
You're right, that was super fun. I'm having a bunch of people over later to show them this comment. It's gonna be epic!
mahble
+4
Level 79
Jan 30, 2021
Haha thanks! But for real, this is only one reason why Massachusetts is objectively the best state in the Union
Walacama
+3
Level 83
Jan 31, 2021
You mean, wicked epic, right?
Neptune777
+7
Level 71
Jan 29, 2021
typed puritan, only for the answer to be puritans.
EvanAviator
+4
Level 62
Jan 30, 2021
remind me to never go to manhattan again
nojik
+2
Level 67
Jan 30, 2021
extremely difficult
XYU
+2
Level 62
Jan 30, 2021
A below-average performance by me there. Enjoying the US state quizzes though.
cranbeckh
+6
Level 69
Jan 30, 2021
Cheers for candlepin bowling! Much more fun than ten pin, and harder.
Walacama
+3
Level 83
Jan 31, 2021
Candlepin is so much fun. It's becoming hard to find though, which is too bad. Duckpin too.
Greatgull
+1
Level 45
Mar 28, 2024
I went duckpin bowling on the cape.
RuthlessCosmo
+1
Level 79
Jun 6, 2026
I worked at a duckpin lane many years ago. One day I decided to go to the rival ten pin lane (which was eating our lunch--they had leagues that played at 4 in the morning while we closed at 11). It was a true Alice in Wonderland experience, in which everything was familiar but the wrong size.
RuthlessCosmo
+1
Level 79
Jun 6, 2026
Or playing with an oversized deck of cards. Its remarkable how small changes can make you feel as if you were high.
GrammarBeane1
+4
Level 83
Jan 31, 2021
could you accept puritan for puritans? Usually the s isn't required on jetpunk quizzes
TableFor1
+2
Level 65
Jan 31, 2021
Should homosexuality be accepted for same-sex marriage?
stylus
+7
Level 79
Jul 28, 2021
they're definitely not the same thing
amongthejumpers
+3
Level 50
May 12, 2021
Personally offended as a born-n'-raised that 'The Cape' wasn't accepted lol
SpartanLlama
+1
Level 79
May 9, 2023
Haha I was just watching that movie the other day
kapvsta
+1
Level 49
Jun 6, 2026
Fall River should also be accepted for "City famous for textile mills in the 1800s." Lowell dominated in the early 1800s, but by the end of the century Fall River was the largest textile producing city in the US.
eccentrichat
+1
Level 55
Jun 6, 2026
Thanksgiving was first celebrated in 1863. There's Pilgrim mythology attached to it, but they didn't establish the holiday.
Jacktheguy
+1
Level 94
Jun 6, 2026
1863 is when Thanksgiving as we know it today became a federal holiday, and it was heavily inspired by the pilgrim feast from 1621.

From Wikipedia:

"The modern national celebration dates to 1863; prior to this, it was a regional holiday, whose origins lie in the 17th and 18th century days of thanksgiving of Calvinist New England. The evolution of the holiday was not linear (various New England communities had independently developed their own similar traditions that slowly turned into a singular annual Thanksgiving Day); the first known civil day of thanksgiving in the New England tradition was declared at Plymouth Colony in 1623, two years after the famous 1621 harvest celebration popularized as the 'first Thanksgiving' bearing a substantial, if a coincidental, similarity to what Thanksgiving Day would eventually become."

QuizDude1234
+1
Level 16
Jun 9, 2026
Who missed the Boston one?
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