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History of Massachusetts
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| First submitted | May 26, 2017 |
| Last updated | January 28, 2018 |
| Times taken | 3,926 |
| Rating | 3.97 |
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cpgatbyu
+7
level 76
May 26, 2017
Roughing it, with his mother doing his laundry.
samiamco
+3
level 71
Oct 6, 2018
No kidding! I love the dawning surprise on tourists' faces when they realize that Walden Pond is a comfortable less-than-two-mile stroll from what is now, and what was also at the time, downtown Concord. His book makes it sound like he was in the remote tundra of Tibet or something.
someone2018
+1
level 72
Oct 27, 2018
When he went to Mt. Katahdin in Maine, that was and still is remote. It wasn't even ascended until the 1800s. Walden was indeed a puddle across town.
db27
+1
level 80
May 26, 2017
The Harvard question is appearing in the answers, but not in the original list of questions.
angrobper14
+1
level 75
May 26, 2017
This is the second quiz in less than a week in which this stuff happens (the other was the Stalin quiz). QM, can you check why this is happening?
Quizmaster
+2
level ∞
May 26, 2017
Fixed. I guess I'll have to fire our quality assurance engineer.
sillie
+1
level 82
May 26, 2017
I was wondering why the % was so low. Got it cause I was just typing in stuff..
stevediverse
+1
level 84
May 26, 2017
I got 20/21 with 1:30 left to blindly guess the 21st answer. Never occurred to me to try 'Harvard' :)
Gamer1162
+1
level 62
May 29, 2017
After I got Kerry and Romney, I started guessing candidates like Mondale (forgot he was from Minnesota) and Jill Stein. Finally got Dukakis after a full 30 seconds
kalbahamut
+1
level 77
Jan 22, 2018
Dukakis was the first one I got. Was John Kennedy not a major party nominee for president?
Walacama
+1
level 72
Jan 22, 2018
Question is since 1980. I was going to try Ted Kennedy, but he didn't win the nomination.
Bernard62601
+2
level 71
Jun 19, 2017
Make a History of Connecticut one
mahble
+1
level 66
Oct 14, 2017
I am disappointed at getting only 13 on a quiz about my state. I should have gotten Lowell and Thoreau... Oh, and definitely Kennedy.
craigsnyder
+1
level 44
Jan 22, 2018
Got them all (as a lifelong resident of MA I should have)! Great quiz! MA is the best state in the country
pastorjamesriddle
+1
level 65
Jan 22, 2018
He was not technically a Massachusetts politician but G.H.W. Bush was born in Mass and W was born in CT.
cornflakesfu
+2
level 79
Jan 22, 2018
"Who spent two yearS roughing it"
ander217
+4
level 76
Jan 22, 2018
Just to add a bit of trivia, Johnny Appleseed's real name was John Chapman. (I learned that in Girl Scouts in the 1960s.)
markthoma
+1
level 65
Jan 22, 2018
2:18, from Arizona. So much history has run through New England. Pretty neat to have so much history in such a small state.
MassLumpBlockClod
+1
level 67
Jan 24, 2018
Technically Babe Ruth was sold, not traded.
FlabberBapper
+1
level 58
Jan 27, 2018
I think getting 18/21 is pretty good considering I live in California and I have never been to Massachusetts.
BiggieSmalls
+1
level 66
Jan 27, 2018
Why must you add acceptable answers that make it so difficult to answer the next question? Example...I was typing in Kennedy and reading the next answer at the same time. Unbeknownst to me, it accepted the answer after just typing Kenned. This left me with an empty box with the letter y already inserted. If you aren't paying attention, which most don't since this is timed, you end up trying correct answers but you never get credit for them because it's now horribly mis-spelled. In my case, it was yMarathon. I knew Marathon was right and it took me some time to figure out that I had the extra y in there because if it doesn't accept the answer, I backspace it out quickly so I can try different answer. Luckily, I tried it again (after skipping it) and it worked.
Quizmaster
+1
level ∞
Jan 28, 2018
This has been fixed, thank you.
joeythelemur
+1
level 80
Apr 10, 2019
"If you aren't paying attention, which most don't since this is timed...." I think your assertion is false. I would guess that most people who take a lot of quizzes here aren't typically racing for time and actually pay attention to what they type and if the answers are filling in as they type.
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