| Name a Massachusetts city or town that... | # | Answer | % Correct |
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| has a population over 100,000, other than Boston | 8 | Brockton | Cambridge | Lowell | Lynn | New Bedford | Quincy | Springfield | Worcester | 100%
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| ends in "-port" | 3 | Newburyport | Rockport | Westport | 92%
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| starts with "West"(1 word) | 8 | Westborough | Westfield | Westford | Westhampton | Westminster | Weston | Westport | Westwood | 92%
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| ends in "-ham", pronounced "ham" | 10 | Ashburnham | Bellingham | Eastham | Framingham | Oakham | Petersham | Tyringham | Waltham | Wareham | Wilbraham | 88%
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| ends in "-mouth" | 5 | Dartmouth | Falmouth | Plymouth | Weymouth | Yarmouth | 88%
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| starts with "New" (2 words) | 5 | New Ashford | New Bedford | New Braintree | New Marlborough | New Salem | 88%
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| ends in "-boro" or "-borough" | 12 | Attleboro | Boxborough | Foxborough | Lanesborough | Marlborough | Middleborough | New Marlborough | North Attleborough | Northborough | Southborough | Tyngsborough | Westborough | 84%
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| ends in "-bridge" | 7 | Cambridge | Northbridge | Southbridge | Stockbridge | Sturbridge | Uxbridge | West Stockbridge | 84%
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| starts with "New" (1 word) | 3 | Newbury | Newburyport | Newton | 84%
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| starts with "North" (2 words) | 5 | North Adams | North Andover | North Attleborough | North Brookfield | North Reading | 84%
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| ends in "-pee" | 2 | Chicopee | Mashpee | 80%
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| starts with "East"(1 word) | 3 | Eastham | Easthampton | Easton | 80%
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| shares a name with a well-known college or university not located in Massachusetts | 6 | Auburn | Cambridge | Dartmouth | Georgetown | Oxford | Princeton | 76%
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| starts with "North"(1 word) | 4 | Northampton | Northborough | Northbridge | Northfield | 76%
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| starts with "South"(1 word) | 4 | Southampton | Southborough | Southbridge | Southwick | 76%
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| Donald Trump received less than 10% of the vote in 2020 | 5 | Amherst | Aquinnah | Cambridge | Pelham | Provincetown | 72%
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| ends in "-ham", pronounced "um" | 9 | Chatham | Dedham | Hingham | Needham | Pelham | Raynham | Stoneham | Wenham | Wrentham | 72%
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| shares a name with a US President but wasn't named for him | 4 | Adams | Clinton | Lincoln | North Adams | 68%
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| was named for a US President | 3 | Monroe | Mount Washington | Washington | 68%
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| is majority minority (non-Hispanic white population < 50%) | 12 | Boston | Brockton | Chelsea | Everett | Holyoke | Lawrence | Lowell | Lynn | Malden | Randolph | Revere | Springfield | 64%
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| starts with "East"(2 words) | 3 | East Bridgewater | East Brookfield | East Longmeadow | 60%
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| has 2 words but doesn't start with "New", "North", "South", "East", or "West" | 4 | Fall River | Great Barrington | Oak Bluffs | Mount Washington | 60%
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| starts with "West"(2 words) | 7 | West Boylston | West Bridgewater | West Bridgewater | West Newbury | West Springfield | West Stockbridge | West Tisbury | 60%
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| contains "ham" but doesn't end in it | 6 | Easthampton | Hamilton | Hampden | Northampton | Southampton | Westhampton | 56%
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| has a name of Eastern Algonquian origin | 15 | Acushnet | Agawam | Aquinnah | Chicopee | Cohasset | Mashpee | Mattapoisett | Merrimac | Nahant | Nantucket | Natick | Saugus | Scituate | Seekonk | Swampscott | 52%
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| has a population under 500 | 11 | Alford | Gosnold | Hawley | Middlefield | Monroe | Mount Washington | New Ashford | Rowe | Tolland | Tyringham | Washington | 52%
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| Ralph Nader received more votes than George W. Bush in 2000 | 7 | Amherst | Aquinnah | Cambridge | Leverett | Northampton | Shutesbury | Wendell | 44%
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| contains the name of another Massachusetts town (one-word towns only) | 14 | Andover | Boxford | Chesterfield | Easthampton | Hamilton | Leverett | Lynnfield | Manchester | Newburyport | Rochester | Wareham | Wellfleet | Williamstown | Winchester | 44%
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| was named for a place not in the US or British Isles | 13 | Berlin | Canton | Goshen | Leyden | Lunenburg | Middleborough | Monterey | Orange | Orleans | Peru | Rehoboth | Savoy | Sharon | 44%
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| starts with "South"(2 words) | 1 | South Hadley | 44%
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