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This longest continuously-operating hotel in America opened its doors in Boston in 1855. Ho Chi Minh was once a busboy here and Malcolm X was a waiter. John Wilkes Booth stayed here for a week before he shot Lincoln. A style of rolls is named after this hotel.

	Boston Hilton
	Parker House
	Cinnamon Inn
	Hyatt Boston

This world-famous chef lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts for 42 years. Her home kitchen was outfitted as a TV set for her popular WGBH show, The French Chef. When she moved she donated her kitchen to the Smithsonian Institution, where it is now on display.

	Julia Child
	Dorothy Parker
	Fannie Farmer
	Auguste Gusteau

When Erastus Bigelow invented the automatic loom for making these products in 1839, he not only reshaped this industry; he changed the way Americans furnished their houses. The Bigelow Company operated in Clinton, Massachusetts from 1849 until 1933, producing this product much more cheaply than was possible with the use of hand looms and making them available to the middle class. Its products could be found in the White House, the U.S. Senate and House, the Massachusetts State House, New York City's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, and St. Patrick's Cathedral. Today, the company is a division of Mohawk Industries. Erastus Bigelow's first machine is part of the Smithsonian Institution's permanent collection. What product did his loom make?

	Socks
	Draperies
	Carpet
	Flowers

This well-known Muslim leader was born in 1925 with the last name of Little. He lived in Boston during several periods of his life and served prison time in Charlestown. He changed his name to this in 1953 and was assassinated by Talmadge Hayer, a Black Muslim, in Manhattan in 1965.

	Martin Luther King
	Al Sharpton
	Malcolm X
	Louis Farrakhan

This Cambridge school was originally called Harvard Annex when it was founded in 1879. Its name was changed in 1894, but was fully absorbed by Harvard University in 1999.

	Radcliffe College
	Wellesley College
	Smith College
	Holyoke College

In the 1870s, two men from the Boston area opened a coffee store and produced the first commercially-available ground coffee in sealed cans. Name their brand of coffee which was the most popular on the east coast for over a century.

	Chase and Sanborn
	Hills Brothers
	Eight O’Clock Coffee
	Starbucks

This publishing company was founded in Boston in 1837. Early books included Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, Emily Dickinson's poetry, and Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. Their most successful books have been the Twilight series. They are now part of the Hachette Book Group.

	Random House
	Little, Brown and Company
	HarperCollins
	Macmillan

What is the meaning of “westa wista” in the Boston vernacular?

	A flower that grows only in the temperate climate of greater Boston
	The terra incognita beyond the city of Worcester, Massachusetts.
	A new computer operating system
	Early American Indians predating the Wampanoag in the Boston area

This famous Russian-born science fiction writer taught at Boston University’s medical school for 22 years. He coined the word “robotics” in his I, Robot series of short stories. All told, he wrote or edited 500 books, including the Foundation series, Galactic Empire series, Nightfall, and the Intelligent Man’s Guide to Science.

	Isaac Asimov
	Arthur C. Clarke
	Robert Heinlein
	Will Smith

May 22, 1856 has been described as one of the most dramatic and deeply ominous moments in the US Senate's entire history. As a result of the unprecedented action taken by Preston Brooks, a congressman from South Carolina, Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner was unable to return to his position for 3 ½ years. Leading up to the incident, Sumner had delivered a scathing and fiery speech against slavery. He accused South Carolina Senator Andrew Butler (Brooks’ uncle) of having "a mistress . . . who, though ugly to others, is always lovely to him; though polluted in the sight of the world, is chaste in his sight. I mean the harlot, Slavery." Three days later Brooks came to face Charles Sumner on floor of the US Senate and did what?

	Challenged him to a duel
	Beat him viciously with a cane
	Impeached him
	Insulted his mother

These two friends grew up two blocks from each other in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Not surprisingly, both were active members of their high school drama clubs. One, the son of an actor, was appearing in commercials before he was 10. The other was a straight A student who attended Harvard, but left for Hollywood just 12 credits shy of graduating. Their early professional acting careers got off to a good start, then wallowed through much of the 90s. But in 1997, with the release of Good Will Hunting, both were catapulted into lasting stardom.

	Matt Damon and Ben Affleck
	Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jesse Ventura
	Brad Pitt and George Clooney
	Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro

Trimountaine was the original name given by European settlers to the peninsula that would later be incorporated as the city of Boston. The name derives from the three peaks formerly located there. In a shortened form, the name lives on as a street that snakes through Boston. What is the name of this street?

	Tremont Street
	Mountain Avenue
	Fontaine Street
	Beacon Street