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1. b
2. a
3. c. Co-owners Pam Santorelli and Leila Moore, both former Louis Boston associates, opened the South Boston boutique in 2006.
4. a
5. b. It takes 38 gallons of Fence Green paint to cover the wall, a day's work for two people.
6. c. The dreaded women's communal dressing rooms weren't introduced to the store until 1990, in response to two complaints filed with the state's Commission Against Discrimination (men did have dressing rooms). Before then, women often changed inside the store; the real pros wore a leotard or bodystocking.
7. d.
8. d. Owners Jonathan O'Toole, Wendy Friedman, and Adam Larson were working at the now defunct Rykodisc in Salem in the late '90s.
9. c. Artist Corita Kent's rainbow-hued paint job sparked a controversy in 1971 when some believed they saw Ho Chi Minh's goatee and nose in the blue swoosh. Kent, a noted antiwar activist, denied the likeness.
10. c
11. b. Legend has it that the Hull Street house - four stories tall and just over 10 feet wide - was built by a soldier to block the view of his brother. Kind of puts that barking dog next door into perspective.
12. c. Pearl, the owners' late one-eyed Boxer, was a stray from Puerto Rico whom Sickle and Gregg spoiled with homemade, freshly baked dog treats - and thus the idea for Polka Dog Bakery was born.
13. d. South End home goods store Lekker is named for a Danish term that can translate variously as "tasty," "sexy," "tempting," "attractive," or "delicious."
14. a. Landscape designer George V. Meacham won first prize in a contest held to determine the design of the future Public Garden site, then 24 acres of marshland.
15. a. Now the home to the League of Women for Community Service, this 1858 brownstone, located at 558 Massachusetts Ave., once regularly housed fugitive slaves.
16. c. Anne Sexton wrote the line in the poem "Speaking Bitterness."
17. b
18. b. North Shore natives and twin sisters Heather and KerryAlice Collins create handmade sterling silver pieces inspired by finds in nature.
19. b. Noted architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable delivered her positive take on Government Center in The New York Times in 1972.
20. d
21. b. The museum's seal, designed by Gardner and Boston artist and designer Sarah Wyman Whitman, features a phoenix, the bird of immortality, above the words "C'est mon plaisir" ("It's my pleasure").
22. a. Founded by Jay Calderin, Boston Fashion Week debuted in 1995. On Feb. 23 of that same year, the Dow closed at 4,003.33, the first time it had closed above 4,000.
23. c
24. c. As of this writing, Brimfield features 21 different show venues. Monahan owns three salons, two clothing boutiques, and one spa here for a total of six ventures; and Second Time Around boasts three different outlets in Boston proper.
25. a. Hager, the creative director of Hager Design Inc., based in Framingham, worked as a designer with Puma, Clarks, and Reebok before founding his own label, Heyday, in 2006.
26. c
27. b. Sidonie Pierce and Ciel Wendel have known each other since they were 5 years old. They both graduated Cambridge Rindge and Latin School in 1997.
28. d 