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Exploring Boston: A Knowledge Quiz

Test your knowledge about Boston's geography, history, and demographics with this engaging quiz. Challenge yourself with questions ranging from population statistics to historical landmarks!

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1 Which of the following subdivisions is Boston in?

2 The population density of Boston: How many people are there per square mile?

3 [133] Boston's only public university is the ________, located on Columbia Point in Dorchester and Roxbury Community College and Bunker Hill Community College are the city's two public community colleges.

4 Federally, Boston is part of Massachusetts's 8th and 9th congressional districts,[130] represented respectively by ________, elected in 1998, and Stephen Lynch, elected in 2001; both are Democrats.

5 What is the total population of Boston?

6 [25] During this era, descendants of old Boston families were regarded as the nation's social and cultural elites; they were later dubbed the ________.

7 What does the following picture show?  The Prudential Tower lit up for the 2007 World Series. The Red Sox won 4–0.   View of Boston from Dorchester Heights, 1841   View of Boston from the Prudential Tower Skywalk Observatory, looking east-northeast towards the Atlantic Ocean. The John Hancock Tower is in the center, Boston Common is at the upper left, and the Financial District is beyond the Common and Hancock. The major road to the right is the Massachusetts Turnpike (I-90), which connects to I-93 through the South Bay Interchange at the upper right. At the top right is Logan International Airport, which is across inner Boston Harbor.   The John F. Kennedy Library, located on the Columbia Point peninsula, 2007

8 What does the following picture show?  Boston Common seen from the Prudential Skywalk Observatory, an observation deck on the 50th floor of the Prudential Tower[61]   Haymarket Square, 1909   Longwood Medical and Academic Area

9 What timezone is Boston in during daylight savings?

10 How many feet above sea level is Boston?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • in 1850, the Harvard Musical Association, a charitable organization in Boston, raised over $100,000 for the construction of the Boston Music Hall (pictured) in under 60 days.
  • between 1917 and 1928, Boston's Park Drive had to be redesigned to accommodate an increase in ownership of automobiles in the neighborhood.
  • a marker dedicated in 2009 at Roxbury Heritage State Park in Boston was the first monument added to the Henry Knox Trail since 1927.
  • the Boston Park Board was given permission to review building designs for new structures along the Fenway to prevent unattractive buildings from depreciating property values.
  • the Neo-Renaissance architectural style encompasses such dissimilar structures as the Opera Garnier and Hôtel de Ville in Paris, the National Theatre in Prague, the Reichstag in Berlin, Mentmore Towers near London, Vladimir Palace in Saint Petersburg, and the Public Library in Boston.
  • while in Boston in 1768, sailors and marines from HMS Romney tried to confiscate a merchant vessel belonging to John Hancock.
  • the painting El Jaleo by John Singer Sargent is installed in a room constructed especially for it at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.
  • Thomas Gold Appleton, the brother-in-law of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow known as "the Boston wit", is reported to have said as he was dying, "It will be a new experience".
  • Shanty Hogan, a catcher with the New York Giants, joined with teammate Andy Cohen to form a vaudeville duo billed as "Cohen and Hogan", except in Boston, where they performed as "Hogan and Cohen".
  • Franklin W. Smith helped establish the YMCA in Boston, the first chapter of the organization in the United States.
  • Paducah, Kentucky's Lloyd Tilghman Memorial honors a Marylander, and was built by an English immigrant from Boston.
  • Boston's Southwest Corridor Park was built along the vacant path of a canceled highway.
  • Freedom House, founded in 1949, raised money to support Operation Exodus, a voluntary desegregation and busing project in Boston before court-ordered desegregation.
  • Henry Taylor Parker, a critic nicknamed "Hard-to-Please", was "Boston's oracle on theatre and music" for 29 years.
  • Joseph T. Buckingham, a leading Boston journalist of the 1830s, was an indentured farm laborer as a boy.
  • John C. Cremony was a Boston newspaperman and United States Army Major who wrote the first dictionary of the Apache language and an account of their culture in 1869.
  • Boston newspaper publisher John Mein shot a grenadier in a scuffle.
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