Cities
Strange Attractions
Universities
State Nicknames
Michigan
100
These two midwest cities have all four major sports (Major League Baseball, National Football League, National Basketball League, National Hockey League) within the city limits.
What is Chicago and Detroit?
100
A colossal statue of this Sioux chief was begun officially on a South Dakota mountain in 1948; it's still not done.
What is Crazy Horse?
100
Established in 1881, The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania was the world's first collegiate school of this.
What is business?
100
This nickname for Wisconsin folks, also a Big Ten college mascot, goes back to lead miners who lived in holes in the ground or hillsides.
What are badgers?
100
This Great Lake is the only to not share a border with the Mitten State
Lake Ontario
200
Churchill called this largest city on the Ohio River the most beautiful of the inland cities of the Union.
What is Cincinnati?
200
This drug store, which started off as a place to get free ice water in 1931, is now a popular, roadside shopping complex. Here, take a picture with a life-sized jackalope in the backyard or shop for cowboy boots.
What is Wall Drug?
200
This school was originally named Cathelepistemian and located in Detroit. The name was changed in 1821 and the university moved to Ann Arbor in 1841. Today’s alumni are grateful they don’t have to shout, “Go Cathelepistemian,” at football games.
What is the University of Michigan?
200
This state's nickname" Hoosier" came into general usage in the 1830's. It's one of the oldest and most popular of state nicknames. "Hoosier" identifies the state's rustic individualism, and residents embrace the nickname with pride.
What is Indiana?
200
This cereal company first produced corn flakes as a health food associated with a wellness program at the Battle Creek Sanitarium. Still producing Corn Flakes and variety or other cereals today as well as other foods, it’s the second largest snack food company in the world.
What is Kellogg?
300
The "Top 10 News Topics of 2014" included unrest in this Missouri suburb.
What is Ferguson?
300
This bizarre attraction in Mitchell, South Dakota, is a magnificent building covered in creative murals made out of corn to resemble various themes.
What is the Corn Palace?
300
What types of establishments exist today thanks to the Morrill Act, established in 1862 by Vermont Congressman Justin Smith Morrill?
What are state colleges?
300
This state's nickname from the colonial era, comes from the history of pine tree harvesting to make tar, pitch, and turpentine used in shipbuilding. This was messy work, and workers inevitably found the sticky substance on their feet.
What is North Carolina?
300
Henry ford, chief engineer at Edison Illuminating Company of Detroit labored over a gasoline engine that eventually became what iconic automobile?
What is the Model T?
400
This now popular chain of convenience stores, first opened in Dallas, where it's headquarters remains today.
What is seven-eleven?
400
The public is only allowed to use buggies, bikes, and saddle horses on this Michigan resort island.
What is Mackinac Island?
400
This school's mascot's history goes back to a donation of a stuffed circus elephant by P.T. Barnum For 86 years, students would pop pennies into his trunk or pull on his tail for good luck on an exam or sports game. A fire in 1975 destroyed the stuffed elephant so all that remains of him is his tail and his ashes saved in a peanut butter jar.
What is Tuft's?
400
Historians say that this state's nickname "Old-Line" came from George Washington himself, in reference to their troops in the Revolutionary war.
What is Maryland?
400
This beverage was created in Detroit shortly after the Civil War. It’s still manufactured today and considered by many to be a cure-all for upset stomach.
What is Vernors?
500
If you're visiting the White House—the first White House of the Confederacy, that is—you're in this city.
What is Montgomery, AL?
500
This hillside visionary environment was created by local resident Leonard Knight in the California Desert area near the nomad destination, Slab City. It's topped with a cross and a message saying "God is Love."
What is Salvation Mountain?
500
This school in Ohio was the first college to grant degrees to women in 1841. It was also the first college to grant a bachelor’s degree to an African-American woman in 1862.
What is Oberlin College?
500
In 1889, people poured into this state to stake their claims to nearly 2 million acres opened for settlement by the U.S. government. Those who entered the region before the land run’s designated starting time, at noon on April 22, 1889, were dubbed “sooners.”
What is Oklahoma?
500
Michigan acquired the U.P. after a dispute with Ohio, and instead lost a 468 square mile strip of land, now this city, residing along their borders?
What is Toledo?