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1. What did Dan Fox do that the city of Pittsfield named a street after him?
A - He was the man who developed the use of PCBs in transformers.
B - He was the man who develped a replacement for PCBs in transformers
C - He shared in the inventing of LEXAN plastic.
D - He was in charge of the high voltage lab at GE
E - He was the CEO of Stop and Shop at the time the road was built.
F - He was the first General Manager of the Plastics Department in Pittsfield.

2. Which of the following people was born in Pittsfield?
A - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, author
B - Bobby Doer, baseball
C - Brian Piccolo, football
D - Wallace Berry, actor
E - Henry Cabot Lodge, statesman
F - Jack Welch, businessman

3. Which of the following cities is NOT a sister city of Pittsfield
A - Ballina, County Mayo, Ireland
B - Cava de' Tirreni, Italy
C - Cheongju, South Korea
D - Krakow, Poland
E - Malpaisillo, Nicaragua

4. Our Junior Prom After Prom party was held at the Curtis Inn in Lenox. For whom was the Inn named?
A - William D. Curtis, the proprietor
B - Curtis Publishing Company - owners
C - Curtis P. Blantyre, town council president
D - George Curtis Cranwell, industrialist who financed the inn.
E - Colonel Thomas P. Curtis, civil war hero from Lenox
F - Governor Maynard P. Curtis of Massachusetts

5. Park Square was not the original name of this area. It was:
A - Pittsfield Park
B - East Street Park
C - Wendell Park
D - Bank Park
E - Insurance Park
F - Allen Park

6. 'Holden & Stone' was the name after it was:
A - Robert Burbank and Sons
B - Simon Paris
C - Ladies' Department Store
D - G. W. Bailey & Company
E - H. W. Wendell & Company
F - Pittsfield Dry Goods

7. The section of Pittsfield known as 'Coltsville' is named for:
A - Samuel Colt, the inventor of the Colt revolver, who had a summer home in the area.
B - Hon. Thomas Colt, mill owner, whose mill was in the area
C - Henry Colt, an insurance executive, whose farm was in the area.
D - the horses that were found there by the first settlers
E - James D. Colt, an important man in Pittsfield in the early 1800s
F - Colonel Ulysses Colt, a revolutionary soldier, who fought at Bennington.

8. What was the first white family to settle in what was to become Pittsfield?
A - Soloman and Sarah Deming in 1752
B - Eliza and Elizabeth Oceola in 1738
C - George & Faith Pomeroy in 1761
D - Jacob & Catherine Wendell in 1737
E - Philip & Lucena Livingston in 1751
F - John & Patricia Stoddard in 1737

9. Who bought the land where Pittsfield now rests from the selectmen in Boston?
A - John Stoddard of Northampton
B - Phillip Livingston of Albany
C - Joseph Root of Westfield
D - Solomon Deming
E - Charles Goodrich
F - Jacob Wendell

10. Who was Lieutenant Colonel Charles W. Whittlesley?
A - An officer from Pittsfield in the Revolutionary War who was shot as a traitor.
B - A Pittsfield native who won the Medal of Honor
C - A Pittsfield native who was the first officer killed on D-Day.
D - A Pittsfield native who was the navigator on the 'Leona Gey' that dropped the first atomic bomb
E - A Pittsfield native who delivered the news of Kennedy's assassination to Lyndon Johnson
F - The first Pittsfield native to command the Corp at West Point

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