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Michigan Questions:

1. What is the capital of Michigan?

 


2. Who is the Govenor of Michigan?

 

3. Who are the Senators from Michigan?

 

4. When did Michigan become a state?

 


5. What is the state motto of Michigan?

 


6. What is the state flower of Michigan?

 


7. What is the state bird of Michigan?

 


8. What is the state nickname?

 


9. How many counties are in Michigan?



10. What is the largest city in Michigan?

 


11. What famous comedienne from Saturday Night Live was from Detroit?

 


12. What Mork from Ork comedian is from Michigan?

 


13. What famous industrialists developed the conveyor belt assembly line?

 


14. What famous around the world aviator was from Detroit?

 


15. What European country was the first to explore Michigan?

 


16. What body of water divides the lower peninsula from the upper peninsula?

 


17. Which is the largest university in Michigan?

 


18. What is the shape of the lower peninsula?

 


19. What city is famous for breakfast foods and cereal?

 


20. Who was a pioneer of the labor movement and president of United Auto Workers?

 

21. What is the second largest city in the state?

 


22. Where is the Gerald Ford Museum located?

 


23. What is the name of the Detroit baseball team?

 


24. What is the name of Detroit's new baseball park?

 


25. What city is the center of the automobile industry?

 

26. What is the name of Detroit's football team?

 


27. What bridge is over 5 miles long and links Michigan's lower and upper peninsulas?

 


28. What is the capital of Michigan until 1847?



29. As of 1988, what is the official fish of Michigan?

 


30. Who was the founder of Detroit?

 


31. What is the name of Detroit's hockey team?

 


32. What former fur trading post became the birthplace of General Motors?

 


33. What is the name of Detroit's basketball team?

 


34. What is the nickname given to residents of the Upper Peninsula?

 


35. What was the population of Michigan in the 2000 Census?

 


36. What city hosts the annual tulip festival?

 


37. What city is known as the baby food capital?

 


38. What city has Christmas 364 days a year?

 


39. What is the name of the bridge connecting Port Huron to Sarnia, Ontario?



40. What city holds the annual cherry festival?

 


41. What city is the birthplace of the Motown Record label?

 


42. What city is home to Greenfield Village?

 


43. What city is home to Gibson guitar?

 


44. What city had the first automobile traffic tunnel?

 


45. The first freeway was the Davison. What city is it in?

 


46. Where is the only state highway that does not allow automobile traffic located?

 


47. Yankee shortstop, Derek Jeter, was born in what city?

 


48. What Canadian city is south of Detroit?

 


49. What is the state stone of Michigan?

 


50. What city is the gravel capital of Michigan?

 


51. What city was the first to fluoridate it's water?

 


52. Which of the Great Lakes is the only one that does not touch Michigan?

 


53. Michigan is the only state made up of two?

 


54. How many miles of shoreline does Michigan have?

 


55. What city is home to the world's largest cement plant?

 


56. What soft drink was created in Detroit and became the first soda pop made in the U.S.?

 


57. What city is home to , II Gavallo by Leonardo Da Vinci, the largest questrian bronze sculpture in the Western Hemisphere?

 

58. What city boasts the world's largest limestone quarry?

 


59. What city is the world's largest manufacturer of magic supplies?

 

 





Midland
Detroit
Lansing
Kalamazoo

Dennis Archer
Jennifer Granholm
George Romney
Coleman Young

Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow
Dennis Archer and Coleman Young
Maura Corrigan and Candice Miller


1812
1850
1837
1800

"In God We Trust"
"If You Seek a Pleasant Peninsula, Look Around You"
"Charity Begins at Home"
"The Land of Lincoln"

Dogwood
Magnolia
Tulip
Apple Blossom


Robin
Lark
Blue Jay
Hummingbird

The Beavers
The Wolverines
The Buckeyes
The Gophers

83
95
62
76

Lansing
Grand Rapids
Kalamazoo
Detroit


Gilda Radner
Jane Curtin
Lily Tomlin
Goldie Hawn



Jerry Sienfield
Robin Williams
Arsenio Hall
Dennis Miller


Edsel Ford
Henry Ford
Lee Iococca
Walter Reuther



Amelia Erhart
The Red Baron
Charles Lindbergh
Chuck Yeager


England
Germany
Portugal
France


Lake Superior
Straits of Mackinac
Erie Canal
Detroit River



Michigan State
University of Michigan
Eastern Michigan
Wayne State


Rabbit
Mitten
Skull
Fist


Kalamazoo
Jackson
Battle Creek
Midland


Henry Ford
Walter Reuther
Lee Iacocca
John Lodge


Kalamazoo
Traverse City
Flint
Grand Rapids



Jackson
Dearborn
Grand Rapids
Lansing


Indians
Twins
Tigers
Lions


Jacobs Field
Wrigley Field
Three Rivers Stadium
Comerica Park


Lansing
Detroit
kalamazoo
Midland


Vikings
Lions
Steelers
Chargers


Mackinac Bridge
George Washington Bridge
London Bridge
Golden Gate Bridge


Ann Arbor
Detroit
Flint
Midland


Walleye
Yellow Pike
Muskie
Brook Trout

Joliet
Cadillac
Brule
DeSoto


Lumberjacks
Maple Leafs
Red Wings
Canadians


Kalamazoo
Flint
Midland
Saginaw



Cavaliers
Celtics
Magic
Pistons


Yuppies
Yoopers
Pennies
Macs


5,674,875
9,938,444
7,845,994
6,834,073


Flint
Holland
Midland
Battle Creek


Troy
Sterling Heights
Fremont
Dearborn


Traverse City
Saginaw
Pontiac
Frankenmuth


Ambassador Bridge
Windsor Bridge
Blue Water Bridge
Mackinac Bridge


Petosky
Traverse City
Bay City
Benton Harbor


Flint
Detroit
Auburn Hills
Holland


Kalamazoo
Grand Rapids
Big Rapids
Dearborn


Battle Creek
Jackson
Kalamazoo
Ann Arbor


Mackinac
Traverse City
Detroit
Benton Harbor


Flint
Pontiac
Detroit
Jackson


Holland
Mackinac
Bay City
Midland



Battle Creek
Traverse City
Lansing
Kalamazoo


Toronto
Windsor
Montreal
Alberta


Limestone
Marble
Petosky Stone
Slate


Tecumseh
Walled Lake
Novi
Oxford


Traverse City
Bay City
Saginaw
Grand Rapids



Lake Erie
Lake Huron
Lake Ontario
Lake Superior



peninsulas
islands
straits
mesas


5,100
7,489
6,534
3,288


Alpena
Saginaw
Bay City
Traverse City


Frosty Root Beer
Coca-Cola
Vernors Ginger Ale
Dr. Pepper


Alpena
Rogers City
Saginaw
Grand Rapids



Traverse City
Rogers City
Bay City
Lansing



Grand Rapids
Colon
Benton Harbor
Midland

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Last Revised: January 18, 2009