| Important People | Important Places | Important Native American Places/People | Random | DiRienzo Trivia (must do LAST) |
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Who is Peter Prudden?
This person founded Milford and led settlers
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What is Charles Island?
Charles Deal tried to grow tobacco on the island, but it would not grow. The island is named after him.
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Who are the Paugusett Indians?
People who lived in what is now Milford.
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What is 1639?
Milford was settled during this year.
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What is purple?
Mrs. DiRienzo's Favorite color.
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Who is Thomas Tibbals?
This person led a group of scouts from New Haven to look for a new place to live.
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What is the Common House?
The first building in Milford, where all the settlers first lived while they built their own houses.
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What is sachem?
The name of the chief of an Indian tribe.
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Who is Simon Lake?
The Milford man who built the first ever keel submarine.
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Who are Penny and Amelia?
The name's of the DiRienzo dogs?
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Who is Jasper Gunn?
This person was a doctor who became Milford's first teacher.
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What is Liberty Rock
The big rock on which look-out men stood to watch for the enemy coming up the Housatonic River during the Revolutionary War.
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Who is Ansantawae?
The sachem of the Paugusett Indians.
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Who are William Goffe and Edward Whalley?
The name of the two High Court judges who signed a death warrant to have King Charles put to death.
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What is purple?
Brianna's favorite color.
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Who is Robert Treat?
One of the three men who became governors of the state of Connecticut. His last name can be sweet.
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What is the Wepawaug River?
Milford is near this river.
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What is what was given to Ansantawae during the Twig and Turf Ceremony in order to buy the land that is now Milford?
1 kettle, 12 hatchets, 6 coats, 12 hoes, 24 knives, 12 small mirrors, and 10 blankets.
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Who is Mary Merwin?
The woman known as Milford's Paul Revere who warned everyone that the enemy soldiers were coming.
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What is Amity High School?
The school Brianna goes to.
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Who is Jonathan Law and Charles Hobby Pond?
The other two men who became governors of the state of Connecticut.
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What is Parsons Complex?
A popular place in Milford where people are said to have been buried under. (Not a cemetery)
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What is a piece of turf, or earth-dirt and grass, with a twig sticking out of it?
The item that Ansantawae gave to the settlers as a part of the Twig and Turf Ceremony to prove the land belonged to the settlers.
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What is the Seven Pillars of the Church?
Seven men, led by Peter Prudden, who ran the church and the town government.
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What is Jonathan Law?
The high school Mrs. DiRienzo went to.
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