Question: Who was Massachusetts first governor?
Answer: John Winthrop

Question: How many french and Indian wars did Boston participate in?
Answer: four

Question: Who led the signing of the Cambridge Agreement?
Answer: John Winthrop

Question: Boston became one of the wealthiest international ports after what war?
Answer: the American Revolution

Question: What long held tradition helped make Boston a wealthy port?
Answer: seafaring tradition

Question: Boston was the location of many important events of what war?
Answer: the American Revolution

Question: What act was put in place during the Napoleonic wars and the war of 1812?
Answer: The Embargo Act of 1807

Question: What act cut down on Boston's harbor activity?
Answer: The Embargo Act of 1807

Question: What became an important part of the city's economy during the Napoleonic Wars and the war of 1812?
Answer: manufacturing

Question: In what century was manufacturing more important to Boston than trade?
Answer: 19th century

Question: When did Boston stop being known for it's garment production and leather goods?
Answer: the early 20th century

Question: What was the name given to old Boston families?
Answer: Boston Brahmins

Question: Who came to be known as the nation's social elites?
Answer: Boston Brahmins

Question: Boston was admired for what kind of life?
Answer: literary life

Question: Boston improved culturally because of its generous what?
Answer: artistic patronage

Question: Boston was overtaken by Salem, Massachusetts in what type of trade? 
Answer: slave trade

Question: What movement did Boston become the center of after it stopped slave trade?
Answer: the abolitionist movement

Question: What law involving slaves did the city react strongly to?
Answer: the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850

Question: What President attempted to make an example out of Boston due to it's view on the Anthony Burns Fugitive Slave Case?
Answer: Franklin Pierce

Question: What was the City of Boston's name before it was the City of Boston?
Answer: the Town of Boston

Question: What year was the name changes to the City of Boston?
Answer: 1822

Question: Boston was chartered as what in 1822?
Answer: a city

Question: What was the population of Boston in 1822?
Answer: about 46,226

Question: How many square miles was the city in 1822?
Answer: 4.7 square miles

Question: How did Boston's population change in the 1820's?
Answer: Boston's population grew rapidly

Question: The first Europen immigrants arrival changed what in Boston?
Answer: the city's ethnic composition

Question: What was the estimated population of Irish people living in Boston in 1850?
Answer: about 35,000

Question: What religion did Irish and Italian immigrants bring with them to Boston?
Answer: Roman Catholicism

Question: What is Bostons largest religious group today?
Answer: Catholics

Question: What was used to fill a mill pond that became the Haymarket Square?
Answer: the crown of Beacon Hill

Question: What sits on Beacon Hill today?
Answer: State House

Question: What famous disaster happened in Boston in 1872?
Answer: The Great Boston Fire of 1872

Question: What was the rubble from the Great Boston Fire used for?
Answer: as landfill along the downtown waterfront

Question: During what century did businesses move out of Boston to find cheaper labor?
Answer: 20th century

Question: Projects to renew the city were put into place by what?
Answer: the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA)

Question: How did the people of Boston react to the demolition of the West End?
Answer: with vociferous public opposition.

Question: What year did the first community health center in the US open?
Answer: 1965

Question: Where was Colombia Point Health Center located?
Answer: the Dorchester neighborhood

Question: In 1990, the Colombia Point Health Center was renamed what?
Answer: Geiger-Gibson Community Health Center

Question: The New York Times bought what famous Boston newspaper?
Answer: The Boston Globe

Question: Who bought FleetBoston Financial?
Answer: Bank of America

Question: What year did Bank of America buy FleetBoston Fonancial?
Answer: 2004

Question: Two Boston department stores merged to form what Cincinnati based department store?
Answer: Macy's

Question: What department stores merged to form Macy's?
Answer: Jordan Marsh and Filene's

Question: On what date did bombs go off at the Boston marathon?
Answer: April 15, 2013

Question: At what point of the Marathon were the bombs exploded?
Answer: near the finish line

Question: How many fatalities were there at the marathon?
Answer: three

Question: About how many people were injured in the explosion?
Answer: 264

Question: What is the total area of Boston?
Answer: 89.6 square miles

Question: How many square miles of land is Boston?
Answer: 48.4 square miles

Question: How many square miles of water is Boston?
Answer: 41.2 square miles

Question: How many feet above sea level is the City of Boston?
Answer: 19 ft

Question: Boston is the only state capital in the contiguous US to have what type of coastline?
Answer: oceanic coastline

Question: What is the name of the region that surrounds Boston?
Answer: Greater Boston

Question: What river seperates Boston from Charlestown?
Answer: The Charles River

Question: What direction from Boston is Boston Harbor?
Answer: To the east

Question: Calf Island and Green Island are considered part of what National Recreation Area?
Answer: Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area

Question: What s Boston sometimes called?
Answer: city of neighborhoods

Question: How many neighborhoods are in Boston?
Answer: 23 neighborhoods

Question: What division of the City Government designated the 23 neighborhoods?
Answer: Office of Neighborhood Services

Question: How much of Inner Bostons land area did not exist when the city was founded?
Answer: More than two-thirds

Question: The modern land area was created by the gradual filling in of surrounding what?
Answer: tidal areas

Question: Tremont Street is named after what original hill in Boston?
Answer: Trimountain

Question: A train full of gravel came from Needham to fill what?
Answer: the Back Bay

Question: The Boston Public Library is located in what part of Boston?
Answer: the Back Bay

Question: Most of the city lies in which USDA plant hardiness zone?
Answer: 6b

Question: What minimizes the influence of the Atlantic ocean on Bostons weather?
Answer: Prevailing wind patterns

Question: What is the hottest month in Boston?
Answer: July

Question: What is the coldest month in Boston?
Answer: January

Question: On what coast is Boston located?
Answer: the North Atlantic

Question: What type of weather systems in Boston can produce much snow and rain?
Answer: Nor'easter

Question: What is the average rainfall in the City of Boston per year?
Answer: 43.8 inches

Question: What is the average snowfall per year in the City of Boston?
Answer: 43.8 inches

Question: When does most snowfall occur?
Answer: December through March

Question: During what seasons is fog common in Boston?
Answer: spring and early summer

Question: When can tropical storms and hurricanes threaten Boston?
Answer: late summer and early autumn

Question: Sea breezes occur during what season?
Answer: late spring

Question: What months do thunderstorms occur in Boston?
Answer: May to September

Question: What is the average hours of sunshine per year in Boston?
Answer: 2,600

Question: About what was the population of Boston in 2010?
Answer: 617,594

Question: How many housing units were there in Boston in 2010?
Answer: 272,481

Question: How many people are in Boston during work hours?
Answer: 1.2 million

Question: What can the population of Boston rech during special events?
Answer: 2 million

Question: What is the density of Boston's population?
Answer: 12,200 persons/sq mile

Question: What percentage of the City of Bostons population is 19 and under?
Answer: 21.9%