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Which of these books by Massachusetts resident Herman Melville is based on the true and tragic tale of a Nantucket whaling ship, the Essex? The ship was whaling off the coast of South America in 1820 when it was rammed by a whale. Now considered an American classic, the book sold only 3,000 copies during Melville’s lifetime.

	Billy Budd
	Lord Jim
	Moby Dick
	Typee
	The Pequod

The Wm. S. Haynes Co of Boston, Massachusetts is the world’s oldest maker of this instrument. Founded in 1888, Haynes often makes instruments of silver, platinum and gold, which can cost up to $40,000. The company produces about 160 new instruments by hand each year.

	Trumpet
	Flute
	Saxophone
	Tuba

The following works are proud members of the collection of a Boston-area museum: Sunday on the Pot with George, Pablo Presley, Lucy in the Field with Flowers, and Peter the Kitty. To which museum do these classic works belong?

	Museum of Bad Art
	Museum of Fine Art
	Institute of Contemporary Art
	American Sanitary Plumbing Museum

George Bush is a descendant of two Mayflower passengers, John Howland and Francis Cooke. Which of these U.S. Presidents did not have a Mayflower ancestor?

	John Adams
	John Quincy Adams
	Ulysses S. Grant
	Franklin D. Roosevelt
	Richard Nixon

Prior to 1870, this fruit was little-known within the United States. Captain Lorenzo Dow Baker, a sea captain from Wellfleet, Massachusetts, chanced upon it while looking for cargo to fill his ship on the return trip after delivering mining equipment in Venezuela. The first load rotted en route, but Baker discovered that it could be picked while green and durable to ripen during the trip. The fruit was an immediate hit in Boston and throughout the US. Baker founded the Boston Fruit Company, which later became United Fruit.

	Bananas
	Peaches
	Coconuts
	Pineapples

Mason & Converse Company, of Winchendon began making these in 1873. Subsequently, the town of Winchendon took its nickname from the product. Whitney S. Reed founded a company to make them in Leominster, Massachusetts in 1875. Fred Lundahl began making steel versions in Salem, Massachusetts in 1910 and later founded the “Buddy L.” company to make them full-time.

	Toys
	Guns
	Shoes
	Trains

This sandwich shop started in 1967 as Ma Riva’s Sub Shop in Dedham, Massachusetts. The name was subsequently changed and a “D” added for “delicious”. Their 200 sandwich shops were acquired in 1997 by Papa Gino’s, which had started 40 years ago as an East Boston pizzeria named Piece O' Pizza.

	Dominoes
	Dunkin Donuts
	D’Angelo’s
	Diamonds

The Avedis Zildjian Company was established in Massachusetts when Zildjian, who was running a successful confectionery firm, inherited the Turkish family’s secret product formula in 1927. Rather than return to Turkey, he realized that the primary market for the product would be in the US. The company has annual sales of $30 million and is the preeminent supplier of this product.

	Cymbals
	Cigarette paper
	Turkish towels
	Sabers

This New England Journal is the oldest, continually published periodical of its kind in the world. It was launched in 1812 by John Collins Warren, a Boston physician and scholar. During the 20th century, the publication reached far beyond New England. In 1981 it ran the reports on a disease that became known as AIDS. During 2003, it published papers on SARS within days of the first cases of the disease. This publication is:

	The Smithsonian Report
	Boston News Journal
	New England Journal of Medicine
	Time Magazine

These Boston-made candies are the #1 selling Valentine's candy in the country with 8 billion sold between January 1 and February 14.

	Boston Fruit Flavored Slices
	Boston Candy Baked Beans
	Boston Gummi Lobsters
	NECCO Sweethearts

On September 1, 1897, Boston passengers rode this transportation for the first time in the US. The Massachusetts legislature had appropriated $5,000,000 for its construction two years earlier. Early in its construction, along the edge of the Old Common Burial Ground, workers unexpectedly unearthed the remains of over 900 unmarked graves. Later NYC and Philadelphia would follow Boston’s example with their own:

	Bus routes
	Subway system
	Foot tunnels
	Elevated highways

Three MIT graduates, Herbert Kalmus, Daniel Comstock, and W. Burton Wescott founded a company to make color motion picture cameras and film in 1912. To come up with the name of this now well-known company, they took the name of the MIT yearbook and changed the last letters. Today the company has expanded beyond traditional film technology and is taking a leadership role in digital cinema.

	Technicolor
	Cinecolor
	Cinerama
	Kodacolor

In September, 2006, one of Boston’s landmark department stores was completely absorbed into Macy’s. The original downtown Boston store will now be converted into smaller office and retail space. However, a name-sake of the store, which had invented the “automatic markdown” and where women routinely change clothes in the aisles, was spun out in 1988 and lives on. What is the name of this surviving store?

	Jordan Marsh
	Filene’s Basement
	Gimbels Gambles
	Bonwit Cellars

SACCO AND VANZETTI, a documentary film by Peter Miller and featuring the voices of John Turturro and Tony Shalhoub is being released in the Spring of 2007. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two Italian immigrant anarchists were executed in Boston in 1927 after a notoriously prejudiced trial. What was the crime the two were convicted of?

	Murder
	Sedition
	Robbery
	Immigration violations