Motor City
Which Hall of Fame hockey player is memorialized on the new bridge linking Detroit and Windsor, Ontario (Canada)
Who is Gordie Howe
He created MoTown Records in Detroit, a powerhouse of soul music and one of the most successful black-owned businesses in the American History. Operating from "Hitsville USA", the label produced over 110 top-ten hits between 1961 - 1971 featuring iconic artists like The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, The Four Tops, Martha & The Vandellas, Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin and the Temptations.
Who is Berry Gordy?
What herb can taste like soap to some yet have a delicious flavor to others, due to the specific genetic variation receptor gene known s OR6A2, which makes them highly receptive to aldehyde chemicals.
What is cilantro?
Known as the Athens of the South, because of the high concentrstions of higher education institutions, Nashville earned this nickname and built a full scale replica of this temple in Centennial park for the 1897 Tennessee Centential Exposition.
What is the Parthenon?
Alfred E Neuman wasn't invented by this magazine. His face, with it's missing tooth and goofy grrin had been circulating on postcards and advertisements since the 1890's. Editor Harvey Kurtzman stumbled on him and made him the magazines official mascot in 1956.
What is MAD magazine?
Greenfield Village, dedicated in 1929, is a 200-acre outdoor living history museum & park, featuring nearly 100 relocated historic buildings, like the homes of Thomas Edison, The Wright brothers, Noah Webster etc. The historic "village" was the brainchild of this automotive executive.
Who is Henry Ford?
Historians speculate that Detroit produced so many musical stars because of the easy access to this musical instrument manufactured in Detroit by the Grinnel Brothers Music House. These instruments were affordable and could be transported locally, not requiring the costly freight that would be required to other cities and states.
What are pianos or organs?
Originally knowns as the Yang Tao (Macaque peach) this fruit has been grown in China since the 12thC, however, after New Zealander Mary Isabel Fraser, returned home with seeds and planted them in her homeland, the fruit was later rebranded and is now more strongly associated with New Zealand
What is a Kiwi Fruit?
Nashvilles famous spicy delicacy, also known as "Revenge Fueled dinner" was created in the 1930s by a scorned housewife who added extra spices to her cheating husband's dinner., Her revenge backfired when he loved it so much and he opened up a restaurant featuring this dish. Some restaurants demand that diners sign a liability waiver before they receive their meal.
What is hot Chicken?
Iconic Artists, Norman Rockwell painted 322 covers for this magazine over a 47-year span. His work was so popular that people used to maintain betting pools in Midwestern communities guessing what the next cover would feature.
What is the Saturday Evening Post?
Woodward Avenue also known as Highway M1 connected downtown Detroit to Pontiac and residential suburbs in between. This was the first road int he country to receive this new engineering technique in 1909.
What is paving?
This "Girl Act" is largely cited as the most successful Mo-Town group in the 1960s with 12 hit #1 singles on the billboard chart during the decade.
Who is Diana Ross and the Surpremes?
The natural bloom on a chicken egg that is left on the egg when it is laid by the hen. If the bloom is left undisturbed, the eggs do not require this
What is refrigeration?
Founded in 1925 as a radio barn dance, it has been dubbed the Mother Church of country music broadcasting over 4,500 consecutive Saturday night shows and launching the careers of countless country stars.
What is the Grand Ole Opry
Muhamed Ali and Michael Jordan hold the record for the most covers of this famous publication, launched by Henry Luce ion 1954. Ali appeared on 32 covers andd Jordan took the spotlight 30 times.
What is Sports Illustrated?
He was notably commissioned to create murals by Nelson Rockefeller and later Edsel Ford. The Rockefeller Building murals were destroyed following criticism of the communist subject matter, however, the Detroit ones were preserved, despite their communist depiction of workers. These murals, commissioned by Edsel Ford, are the Masterpiece knowns as the Detroit Industries on the walls of the Detroit Institute of Art
Who is Diego Rivera?
This family group signed with MoTown records in March 1969 after being discovered by Bobby Taylor and championed by Diana Ross. Under Berry Gordy, the acheived unprecedented success with hits like, "I'll be there, ABC, The Love you Save becoming the only group to have their first four singles reach number 1.
The Jackson 5
What basic kitchen staple was made obsolete in 1911, when Proctor & Gamble introduced Crisco to US homemakers?
What is lard?
A legendary Opry member launched her carer at the age of 13 in 1959 receiving 3 encores. she successfully made the cross over to Hollywood, appearing in a number of classic comedy films. More recently she is associated with her efforts to promote education in her native Tennessee.
Who is Dolly Parton?
This magazine featured possibly the most famous photographed published by a magazine of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square on August 14th, 1945
What is Life Magazine?
During WWII, Detroit made up just 2% of the US population but producved 10% of the nation's wartime materials. No US city contrinuted more to the Allied powers during WWII than Detroit. The city was nicknamed this by FDR during a fireside chat radio broadcast.
What is the Arsenal of Democracy?
Known as the Prince of Motown, He was pivotal, shapingsoul music evolving from a Motown hitmaker in the 1960s to a socially conscious auteriu in the 1970s. Joining Motown as a drummer and singer, he produced hits like How sweet it is, I hesrd it through the Grapevine and the 1971 masterpiece, What's going on. He forced the label to grant artists creative control of their own material. His estate was later sued, preemptively by Robin Thicke.
Who was Marvin Gaye
Marjorie Merriweather Post, a business woman and philanthropist built the General Foods empire and became the wealthiest woman in the country. She created this iconic estate in 1927, now frequently in the news.
What is Mar-A- Lago?
By 1960, this trailblazing country music icon, known as the "Coal Miner's Daughter rose from poverty to score 24 #1hits and became the CMA entertainer of the year. Married at age 15 she was the mother of 4 by age 22.
Who is Loretta Lynn?
This weekly magazine was foundedd as a humor magazine when launched in 1925 by Harold Ross and his wife, Jane Grant. It's original mission was to be a humorous magazine for sophisticated, urban readers. Over time is has evolved but humor and satire remain at its core today, celebrating over 100
+ years of consistent publication.
What is the New Yorker?