Brainteasers and States

States

100

• Chicago is home to the first skyscraper (the Home Insurance Building, 1885) and pioneered modern architecture
• Abraham Lincoln began his political career here; Springfield contains his home, law office, and tomb

Illinois

200

• Birthplace of Martin Luther King Jr. in Atlanta, now home to his memorial and the King Center
• The world's largest producer of peanuts and pecans; also where Coca-Cola was invented in 1886

Georgia

300

• Known as the "Heart of Dixie" and birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement; Montgomery was where Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat in 1955
• Home to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, where the Saturn V rocket was developed

Alabama

400

• Geographic center of the contiguous 48 states 
• Often called the "Wheat State," producing enough wheat annually to bake 36 billion loaves of bread

Kansas

500

• The only state consisting of two separate peninsulas; you can see four of the five Great Lakes from its shores
• Detroit is the birthplace of the American automobile industry; Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler were all founded here

Michigan

Homophones

100

Bargain price on boat canvas

Sale/Sail

200

Offensive ducks and geese

Foul/Fowl

300

Lay eyes on the Caribbean or Mediterranean

See/Sea

400

A rough or crude route or pathway

Coarse/Course

500

An underage gold excavator

Minor/Miner

Groups

100

a murder

of crows

200

an unkindness

of ravens

300

a waddle

of penguins

400

a flamboyance

of flamingos

500

a convocation

of eagles