ILLINOIS
What is the capital of Illinois?
Springfield
After his solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean, he became the first to be put on the cover of Time as the Man of the Year in 1927.
Charles Lindbergh
Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz wore these shoes.
Ruby Slippers
This special automobile travels nationwide to advertise a specific brand of hot dogs.
Oscar Mayer’s “Wienermobile”
It’s probably not hard to figure out that she was the first African American female billionaire.
Oprah Winfrey
Although its official nickname is “The Prairie State,” Illinois license plates display this unofficial state nickname, which honors the state’s most famous political figure.
"The Land of Lincoln"
When he was named Person of the 20th Century in 1999, Time called him the “genius among geniuses who discovered, merely by thinking about it, that the universe was not what it seemed.”
Albert Einstein
This lost shoe enabled the prince to find his future wife, Cinderella.
Glass Slipper
James Dewar of the Continental Baking Company in Illinois invented these crème-filled golden cakes in 1930.
Twinkies
In 1926, Gertrude Ederle became world famous when she was the first woman to swim across this challenging waterway.
The English Channel. (Gertrude Ederle was an American. A British man, Captain Matthew Webb, had achieved the feat 51 years earlier.)
The northeast corner of Illinois, including Chicago, borders this Great Lake
Lake Michigan
He is the only person to have received the title three times – first as president-elect in 1932, and later as the incumbent president in both 1934 and 1941.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Frequently worn by young girls, these shoes have a strap across the instep with a single buckle.
Mary Janes
This US company has been around since 1869, but Andy Warhol made its main product an American icon with a series of paintings in 1962.
Campbell’s Soup
This fighter for women’s rights was the first woman (other than the Statue of Liberty) depicted on an American coin.
Susan B. Anthony, who was honored with a one dollar coin in 1979
Can you name the basketball player, considered by many to be the greatest player of all time, who was instrumental in making the Chicago Bulls nearly unbeatable from 1984 to 1993, and again from 1995 to 1998
Michael Jordan
In 2010, after Facebook passed half a billion users, its 26-year-old Harvard drop out founder was named Time’s Person of the Year.
Mark Zuckerberg
Known for her collection of more than 3,000 shoes, she was the First Lady of the Philippines from 1965 to 1988.
Imelda Marcos
Sushi may be Japanese in origin, but the California Roll, made with avocado, cucumber, and this seafood, was invented by sushi chefs in Los Angeles in the 1970s.
Crab
She certainly got her R*E*S*P*E*C*T when she became the first female inductee into the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame.
Aretha Franklin
In the 1920s, booking agents believed that if a new show was successful in this Illinois city, a main midwestern stop for vaudeville acts, it would be successful anywhere.
Peoria (A famous catchphrase of the time was “Will it play in Peoria?”)
In 1999, this 35-year-old founder of Amazon, one of the most successful companies in the dot-com boom, was named Person of the Year.
Jeff Bezos
This kicky footwear, popular with disco-going women in the 1960s and 1970s, had a low heel and was either calf- or knee high.
Go-Go Boots
The only real difference between grits (made with white cornmeal) and this yellow cornmeal dish is the latter’s fancier Italian name.
Polenta
Katharine Graham was the first female to lead a Fortune 500 company and the first female publisher of a major US newspaper. What is the name of both the company and the newspaper?
The Washington Post