History of Massachusetts

1) The infamous witch trials took place in what city in 1692?

2) What sport did James Naismith invent in Springfield in 1891?

3) Where did the Pilgrims land in 1620 to create a settlement?

4) What baseball team broke the 86 year curse to win the World Series in 2004?

5) What stadium, built in 1912, do the above play in?

6) The oldest university in the US, opened in 1636

7) Boston suburb where the above is located

8) What is the name of the mountain range in western Mass?

9) What Mass politician was the first to sign the Declaration of Independence?

10) What peninsula in SE Mass is a popular vacation spot?

11) What city was a vital textile industry in the 1800s-1900s?

12) What novel by Herman Melville was about a captain facing an enormous whale?

13) What SE Mass city was once an important whaling center?

14) What nearby city to the above was the site of the Lizzie Borden murders of 1892?

15) What patriot made his famous midnight ride into the countryside to warn of the British invasion?

16) Colonists dressed as natives dumped chests of tea into the harbor in protest of British tax in this event

17) The "shot heard around the world" was fired in this rural town outside Boston during the Revolution

18) What port did the ill fated Andrea Gail sail out of in October 1991?

19) Name of the book based on the above events

20) What island off of the southeast coast was once the "whaling capital of the world"?

21) What sport was invented in Holyoke in 1895 at the YMCA?

22) What Boston church did Robert Newman hang 2 lanterns to warn of the British invasion?

23) What president hailed from Braintree, MA?

24) What prestigious research intensive university is located in Cambridge, close to Harvard?

25) What NFL team plays in Foxborough?