Natural Landmarks
Famous Midwest Cities
History
Famous Midwesterners
State Symbols
100
This vast freshwater lake is the largest by surface area in the world and borders Minnesota and Michigan.
What is Lake Superior?
100
This city is known as the "Windy City" and is the third-largest city in the United States.
What is Chicago, Illinois?
100
The 1803 purchase of this vast land doubled the size of the U.S. and included much of today’s Midwest.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
100
This U.S. president was born in a log cabin in Kentucky but grew up in Indiana and Illinois.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
The state bird of Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio is this red songbird.
What is the Cardinal?
200
This Midwestern state is home to the largest known cave system in the world.
(Will take the cave system name or the state!)
What is Kentucky or Mammoth Cave National Park?
200
This city in Michigan is famous for being the home of the American auto industry.
What is Detroit?
200
This trail, used by pioneers moving west, began in Missouri.
What is the Oregon Trail?
200
This Hall of Fame basketball player from Ohio is often called “King James.”
Who is LeBron James?
200
This flower, often found on prairies, is the state flower of Kansas.
What is the sunflower?
300
Cuyahoga Valley National Park is located within this state.
What is Ohio?
300
Known for its jazz and barbecue, this Missouri city is split between two states.
What is Kansas City?
300
While the Wright Brothers created the first working airplane in North Carolina, they were born in this midwestern state.
What is Ohio?
300
Born in Missouri, this author wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
Who is Mark Twain?
300
The American bison is the state mammal of this plains state.
What is Nebraska?
400
This river forms part of the borders of Iowa, Nebraska, and Missouri, and is the longest river in North America.
What is the Missouri River?
(Approx. 2,639 miles long)
400
This city in Nebraska is the largest in the state and once hosted the College World Series.
What is Omaha?
400
This 1896 Supreme Court case from Louisiana had strong legal and social effects on Midwestern segregation laws.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
400
This famous talk show host and media mogul grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
400
Michigan is nicknamed “The Great Lakes State” because it touches this many Great Lakes.
What is four?
500
This river begins at Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota before flowing approximately 2,350 miles to the Gulf of Mexico.
What is the Mississippi River?
500
This Midwestern city is home to the Mall of America and is often paired with its “twin.”
What is Minneapolis, Minnesota?
500
This Illinois town was the final home of Abraham Lincoln and is the site of his presidential museum and tomb.
What is Springfield?
500
This first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic was born in Kansas.
Who is Amelia Earhart?
500
Minnesota, the "Land of 10,000 lakes" has this waterfowl as its state bird.
What is a loon?