Page 16 THE REVERE ADVOCATE - Friday, March 22, 2019 1. What fictional boat did Captain Bligh command? Greater Boston League reforms with four NEC teams By Steve Freker T wo years ago history was made when it was announced that the venerable 60-year-old Greater Boston League (GBL) was ceasing operations and the four remaining teams – Everett, Malden, Medford and Somerville – were joining the Northeastern Conference (NEC) on a four-year pilot basis. The addition of the four GBL teams to the NEC made it the largest league in the state, with two eight-team divisions, 16 teams in all. Recently that history changed when the votes of just five NEC high school principals led to the breakup and ending of that shortlived merger. Five schools voted through their principals to end the relationship, one short of a required two-thirds majority, as the numbers were 7-5 in favor of keeping the “GBL teams” in the NEC. A second vote, by an 11-1 margin, just this past Friday, was made by the NEC to let the “GBL Four” out of their agreement effective at the end of this school year in June, instead of in 2021. In another twist, Revere High will also leave the NEC and join the GBL Four to form, for now, a five-team GBL moving forward this fall. The only added tenet is that Revere will stay a member of the NEC in football only for the 2019 and 2020 seasons. Voting against the GBL teams, essentially ending the relationship, were Beverly, Danvers, Lynn English, Marblehead and Winthrop. The four GBL teams were not allowed a vote, so these five schools ended a 16-team league. Some of the reasons that unofficially came out of the meetings were “travel time” and “competitiveness of GBL teams.” However, the school with, by far, the longest distance to the GBL schools, Gloucester, voted to keep the GBL teams in the NEC. Gloucester’s Athletic Director, Bryan Lafata, was quoted in the Gloucester Times newspaper stating that distance between Gloucester and the GBL teams was not a negative factor, nor were competitive issues of any concern. “I feel bad for those schools because I felt they met the requirements they asked for them,” Swampscott Athletic Director Kelly Farley said of Everett, Malden, Medford and Somerville in a recent newspaper article, saying, “They met our expectations.” “We looked at a lot of things,” Lynn English Athletic Director Dick Newton said. Lynn English voted to end the GBL teams’ existence in the NEC. “We looked at the integrity of the league. The way the league was set up, we’d only play the traditional NEC teams every four years. We didn’t want it that way. We wanted to play traditional NEC teams, not traditional GBL teams. We’re not the GBL, we’re the NEC. We want to play NEC teams. That was a key factor in our school voting no. We like playing 100-year-old, traditional rivalry games.” Lynn English Principal Thomas Strangie had twice voted “no” in previous attempts by the GBL to come into the NEC. These new reasons cited by the Lynn English representatives did not exist at that time. Medford High School Athletic Director Bobby Maloney said that as soon as the NEC made it clear the relationship would not continue, the GBL teams wanted a quick exit. “No one wants to play where they are not wanted,” Maloney said, noting that if the NEC had not voted itself to “release” the GBL teams, they would have independently petitioned the MIAA for the same move anyway. Sources say that the newly reformed GBL is actively pursuing other schools to increase the size of the league. “We’d like to have three more schools join us for an eight-team league,” Maloney said. Schools mentioned by sources include Cambridge, a former GBL school now four years into the Dual County League; Chelsea, a former GBL team which last played in that league in 1989 and is now in the Commonwealth Athletic Conference (CAC); and Saugus, a charter member of the NEC. 2. What team was the National Hockey League’s first U.S. franchise? 3. On March 22, 1832, what author of “The Sorrows of Young Werther,” which is thought to be the world’s first best seller, died? (Hint: Johann Wolfgang von ?) 4. Who was the first comedienne invited by Johnny Carson to sit on his couch? 5. What English writer about taboo topics also wrote, “Blossom by blossom the spring begins”? 6. On March 23, 1875, the H.M.S. Challenger discovered what deepest known ocean area? 7. The blue agave plant is the source of what alcoholic beverage? 8. What two words with “fish” are not fishes? 9. What does the word mackinaw (or mackinac), meaning a heavy cloth or coat, derive from? 10. On March 25, 2019, International Waffle Day is celebrated, which originated where in Scandinavia to coincide with the Feast of the Annunciation and the start of spring? 11. What spring plant has furry catkins? 12. What cereal has the mascots Snap, Crackle and Pop? 13. What does the Richter Scale measure? 14. What new technology do many maple syrup producers use? 15. On March 26, 1885, the Eastman DryPlate & Film Company manufactured what improvement on glass plates? 16. What vegetable is a symbol of Wales? 17. On March 28, 1797, New Hampshire’s Nathaniel Briggs received a U.S. patent for a “Box Mangler” having rocks and wooden rollers; what was it used for? 18. What Concord, Mass., author wrote, “An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day”? 19. What do Gilbert M. “Broncho Billy” Anderson, William S. Hart and Tom Mix have in common? 20. In 1968 what Scotsman sang “The Lullaby of Spring”? Answers below, please no cheating! 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