Great Lakes & Geography
This largest of the Great Lakes by surface area borders Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Canada
What is Lake Superior
Known as a Midwestern comfort food staple, this baked casserole dish is often call "hotdish" in Minnesota.
What is Tater Tot Casserole (hotdish).
What is Detroit
This Kansas town became legendary in the Wild West for its rowdy cowboys, cattle drives, and lawmen like Wyatt Earp.
What is Dodge City
This violent, rotating column of air is common across Midwestern flatlands during spring and summer.
What is a tornado
Most of the landscape in the Midwestern plains was shaped by these massive ice sheets thousands of years ago.
What are glaciers
Famous in Chicago, this signature style of pizza features a buttery, deep dish crust loaded with cheese and chunky tomato sauce.
What is Chicago-style deep dish pizza
This visionary architect designed the iconic, grain-silo-inspired Johnson Wax Headquarters in Racine, Wisconsin, featuring unique mushroom shaped columns.
Who is Frank Lloyd Wright
This state capital of Illinois was the longtime home and political launchpad for Abraham Lincoln.
What is Springfield
This bright red bird serves as the official state bird for three different Midwestern states: What is the bird called and what are two of the three states?
What is the northern cardinal and Illinois and Indiana (Ohio)
This deep river forms the western border of Illinois and flows into the Golf of Mexico.
What is the Mississippi River
What is ketchup
In 1947, a group of scientists at this iconic agricultural cooperative in Illinois discovered how to mass-produce penicillin, saving millions of lives.
What is the Northern Regional Research Laboratory (USDA Agricultural Research Service)
This historic 19th-century waterway connects the Great Lakes directly to the Atlantic Ocean via the St. Lawrence Seaway.
What is the Erie Canal
Winters in the upper Midwest frequently bring these blinding, severe snowstorms driven by high winds.
What is a blizzard
Located in South Dakota, this striking national park features colorful eroded rock formations and fossil beds.
What is Badlands National Park
Invented in Detroit, this square pizza style is baked in a blue steel plan and features crispy, caramelized cheese edges.
What is Detroit-style pizza
Known historically as "America's Breadbasket," the region is a top global producer of corn and this grain.
What is wheat (soybeans)
This explorer and geographer mapped much of the upper Great Lakes and famously helped name several regional landmarks.
Who is Henry Schoolcraft (Father Marquette/Louis Joliet)
These massive mammals once roamed the tallgrass prairies of the Midwest, by the millions.
What is a buffalo (bison)
This port city in Minnesota is the furthest-inland freshwater port on the Great Lakes system.
What is Duluth
Originating from Ohio, these peanut butter and chocolate confections are named after a native tree nut.
What are buckeyes
This Ohio-based company, founded by two brothers-in-law in 1837, grew from a humble candle and soap business into the world's largest consumer goods corporation.
Who is Proctor & Gamble (Accept P&G)
The infamous 1930's bank-robbing duo John Dillinger and "Baby Face" Nelson ran wild across this specific region.
What is the Midwest
When excessive nutrient run-off pollutes shallow lakes during hot summers, it triggers these unpleasant green blooms.
What are harmful algal blooms (blue-green algae)