Massachusetts - State Trivia

State capital and largest city

State Nickname

Hook-shaped peninsula that juts into the Atlantic and receives millions of tourists yearly

Island just south of this peninsula, filming location of Jaws

First English settlement

Pilgrims who settled there were part of this Protestant religious group

Largest city in central MA, not the English sauce

Appalachian subrange in western MA

Baseball field that hosts the Red Sox

River that Springfield touches

Mill city on the Merrimack River often called the cradle of the Industrial Revolution

Suburb city named for a horseman who alerted rural colonists of a redcoat attack

Name one of the two battles that sparked the American Revolution

Ivy League university

Movie written by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck that takes place near MIT

35th US president, known for the Cuban Missile Crisis and personal scandals

Founding father and scientist from MA, but associated with Pennsylvania

Revolutionary with large signature whom the tallest building is named after

You can't see him

1773 event in which the Sons of Liberty dumped tea into the ocean to protest the East India Company for not paying taxes

Town where 5 women were accused of witchcraft and hanged

Largest lake, manmade

Massachusetts has around 70k people from this small African island country

Sticky substance that flooded the capital in 1919

State motto ("By the sword we seek peace, but peace only under liberty")