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1. Carl Sandburg called it, among other things, the 'City of the Big Shoulders'.Which city is meant?
2. Henry Thoreau said that he had "travelled" a lot here, in what then was a relatively small city of Massachusetts. He may have met such people as Hawthorne, Emerson, L.M.Alcott. Which of these places is meant?
3. How would you complete this short 'poem' on Boston and the Bostonians: "I come from the City of Boston, The home of the Bean and the Cod, Where Lowells speak only to Cabots, and Cabots only to ____"
4. Which American city has been called the "Athens of Dixie"?
5. What in the U.S.A. has four eyes and cannot see, according to a popular riddle. The ______________?
6. Of this supertown Harry Mencken said it was actually "Nineteen suburbs in search of a metropolis". One of the attractions is "Mann's Chinese Theatre". Which town did he mean?
7. Which U.S. City was described as
a." Noisyville-on-the-Subway"
b. a place with no greenery (by Nikita Kruschev when on a visit here in October 1960)
c. "a city where everyone mutinies but no one deserts"?
8. In 1751 Benjamin Franklin expressed the fear that this (future) state of the American Federation would become a "Colony of Aliens" as - in his opinion- it was being invaded by "Palatine Boors" who - he feared - would "shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them"?
9. In which U.S.A. State have the locals been said to "fertilize their potatoes with cornmeal and to irrigate them with milk"?
10. Which state has been said to occupy - at least in the eyes of some of its inhabitants, and also in some maps they supply to their visitors - "all of the North American continent, except a fraction set aside for the U.S. of A, Canada and Mexico"?
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