Moving to Boston Trivia Quiz

Answer: Storrow Drive

Storrow Drive is a main roadway in Boston from which trucks and commercial vehicles are excluded. Due to several low arched bridges crossing the roadway, the Esplanade, and the Charles River into Cambridge, even relatively small trucks will become lodged under the spans.

Answer: Cheers Beacon Hill

While there is a chain of bars known as Cheers - after the hit TV show, the original watering hole was the Bull and Finch Tavern on Beacon St. where you can, in fact, be seated in the back room. The name later changed to Cheers Beacon Hill. Triple-O's is in South Boston, and the Parker House is the HQ for politicians.

Answer: Step into a store for an umbrella

The lights at the top of the old Hancock building have displayed steady and/or flashing red or blue lights to predict the weather since 1950. The key to deciphering the weather is as follows: "Steady blue, clear view. Flashing blue, clouds due. Steady red, rain ahead. Flashing red, snow instead." During baseball season, the beacon will flash red if the Sox game has been called for rain.

The Massachusetts Lottery Commission draws winning Megabucks numbers on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Although Dunkin Donuts originated in nearby Braintree, it is Krispy Kreme Donuts that are sold hot from the oven when the red light is on in the window.

Answer: he is doomed to ride forever for lack of an exit fare

'Charlie on the MTA' was recorded in 1959 by the Kingston Trio. The ballad told of Charlie who boarded a subway car but couldn't get off because he didn't bring enough money for the "exit fare" that had been established to upgrade the service. Charles Sumner was an antebellum U.S. Senator from Massachusetts who suffered a humiliating caning on the floor of the Capitol. Charles Reed was a Civil War bugler from Boston. August Belmont was the builder of Boston's subway system.

He had no grandson name Charles.

Answer: Citgo

The landmark sign, featuring the Cities Service logo, was built in 1940. It was originally made from over 5 miles of glass tubes. The refurbished sign has thousands of light-emitting diodes.

Answer: sneaking into the BU girls' dorms after midnight

Here are lyrics from the first verse- "Frustrated women have to be in by twelve o'clock, but I'm wishin' and a-hopin, that just once those doors weren't locked."

Answer: taking a "Duck Boat" tour

Boston's Duck Tours take tourists through the historic downtown area and then around the Charles River Basin. Riders are expected to "quack" at passers by and traffic as they tour.

Answer: to buy liquor

In Massachusetts, liquor stores are called Package Stores. Ever since the repeal of Prohibition in 1933, it is illegal to carry alcoholic containers in public view.

Answer: Ho Chi Minh

Sister Corita Kent painted the tank in the early 1970s, during the Vietnam War. Many people noticed what appeared to be the image of Communist leader Ho Chi Minh in the modern design. Local officials were outraged, but the art remains unchanged to this day.

Answer: "Please don't take a tunnel!"

The trip should take you nowhere near Boston's tunnels, part of Boston's infamous 'Big Dig'. The Big Dig was the most expensive public works project in United States history, running 700% over budget ($14 billion) and resulting in at least one death from a collapsed tunnel in 2007. Named for Red Sox great Ted Williams, 'the Ted', will funnel you right into Logan Airport. 'The Tip' is named for former House Speaker Thomas P. 'Tip' O'Neil, and is the depressed 3.5 mile central artery that now runs beneath the city from South Station to North Station.

The Leonard Zakim Bridge is not a tunnel at all, but the connector to I93 north of Boston.