New England Fun Facts Trivia Quiz

Answer: The small notch in the southern border of Massachusetts

Massachusetts gained the area, which dips into the otherwise uniform Massachusetts-Connecticut border, in 1804 to compensate for earlier survey errors, and for losing several towns to Connecticut in the 1600s and 1700s.

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Answer: The nearest access to it was on private property

The actual highpoint is owned by Brown University but the surrounding property leading to it was owned by Henry Richardson. When highpointing, reaching the highest points in different states and countries, became popular many hikers started to visit Richardson's property often. Richardson closed access to the highpoint and refused to let anyone use his property to get to it. The property was sold to Jeff and Debbie Mosley in 2005, and they have allowed hikers to go through a trail they helped create to get to Jerimoth Hill. In 2011, the state of Rhode Island became the owners of the trail leading to Jerimoth Hill. The actual highpoint is only 812 feet, 46th highest highpoint in the United States. The actual highpoint is located about 500 feet away from the nearest road, Rhode Island Route 101, and it is only an increase of elevation of ten feet from the road.

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Answer: Up to 44 times

Yes, 44 times: 35 times in the egg, four in the water column, one when it reaches the bottom, and four more times that season, totaling 44 molts before the lobster has reached one year of age! Fifth- and sixth-year lobsters molt only once or twice a year.

(Source: Commercial Fisheries News - July 2002)

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Answer: Kennebunkport

After the Revolutionary War, Arundel's neighboring town of Wells split into an eastern and a western part, and the eastern part changed its name to Kennebunk after the bordering Kennebunk River, which was a major shipbuilding site. Not to be outdone, Arundel then changed its name to "Kennebunkport". Kennebunkport became a major seaside resort around the turn of the 20th century.

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Answer: Connecticut

Foxwoods Resort and Casino in Ledyard, Connecticut, which has been managed by the Mashantucket Pequot tribe, was originally built in 1986 as a bingo hall. In 1992, it added its original casino, which was expanded several times, and it then added an MGM Grand casino complex in 2008.

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Answer: Four

Four of the eight Ivy League Schools are in New England. Harvard is in Massachusetts, Yale is in Connecticut, Dartmouth is in New Hampshire, and Brown is in Rhode Island. Only Maine and Vermont are left out. The other four are in New Jersey (Princeton), New York (Columbia and Cornell), and Pennsylvania (Penn).

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Answer: St. Albans

In October 1864, a group of around twenty Confederate raiders crossed the Vermont border from Canada and robbed the three banks in St. Albans, while holding the townspeople at gunpoint. St. Albans was known for being a peaceful town on Lake Champlain, located about 15 miles from the border. The raiders then failed in their attempt to burn the town, and were arrested by Canadian forces shortly after recrossing the border.

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Answer: Brattleboro, Vermont

During this period he also built a home in Dummerston, Vermont, about three miles north of Brattleboro. A number of his other works were also written in Vermont.

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Answer: Rhode Island

Rhode Island specifically rejected Prohibition. There is conflicting evidence on whether Connecticut did or did not ratify the 18th Amendment.

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Answer: New Hampshire

Alan Shepard Jr is from East Derry, New Hampshire. He was on the Mercury flight that entered space in 1961. He was in charge of the Apollo 14 mission and walked on the moon in 1971.

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