Q 01/05

Cape Cod forms the southern boundary of which body of water that stretches northeast to Nova Scotia?

A) Long Island Sound

B) Georges Bank

C) Bay of Fundy

D) Gulf of Maine

Answer · why

D) Gulf of Maine

Cape Cod Bay and Massachusetts Bay are both part of it. Buzzards Bay lies to the Cape's southwest.

Q 02/05

Which English explorer coined the name Cape Cod in 1602?

A) Bartholomew Gosnold

B) John Smith

C) Henry Hudson

D) Walter Raleigh

Answer · why

A) Bartholomew Gosnold

It is the ninth-oldest English place-name in the United States. Originally it applied only to the very tip, where Provincetown now sits.

Q 03/05

Cape Cod is legally coextensive with which Massachusetts county?

A) Plymouth

B) Barnstable

C) Bristol

D) Dukes

Answer · why

B) Barnstable

The county has 15 towns and a population of about 229,000, nearly a third of whom are 65 or older, the oldest average age in New England.

Q 04/05

How many towns make up Cape Cod?

A) 21

B) 18

C) 15

D) 24

Answer · why

C) 15

They run from Bourne and Sandwich at the canal to Provincetown at the tip. Barnstable is the only one with a city form of government.

Q 05/05

Which body of water lies between the peninsula and the Massachusetts mainland?

A) Buzzards Bay

B) Cape Cod Bay

C) Nantucket Sound

D) Vineyard Sound

Answer · why

B) Cape Cod Bay

It is bounded on the north by a line from Provincetown to Marshfield. Nantucket Sound lies to the south, where beach water can reach 70 degrees.