How well do you know Beverly?

Thanks to the organizers of the Beverly 400+ Trivia Night, we now have the ultimate test 

By Paul Leighton, The Beverly Beat 

By the authority invested in me by no one, I am hereby declaring the following the best compilation of trivia questions about Beverly EVER.

The questions were compiled by the volunteers who put on the Beverly 400+ Trivia In the Round Night, which was held last Friday at North Shore Music Theatre as part of the year-long celebration of Beverly’s 400th anniversary.

The event featured 21 teams and six rounds of questions. After six rounds the score was tied between The Panthizz (Mayor Mike Cahill, Tachou Dubuisson-Brown, Gina Dubuisson, Matt and Kelly Lauranzano, Tom Alexander) and City Council Team 1 (Julie Flowers, Danielle Spang, John Mullady), setting up a tiebreak question.

Flowers and Mullady came on stage for City Council Team 1 while Cahill and Alexander represented The Panthizz for the tiebreaker: “Long before they played to sold-out arenas across the world, the band Aerosmith played to a bunch of 17- and 18-year-olds in the Beverly High School auditorium. What was the year of that show?”

Flowers and Mullady guessed 1972. Cahill and Alexander guessed, correctly, 1973, giving The Panthizz the win. The team dedicated their first-place prize of $500 to local Beverly nonprofits.

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