Ohio
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100

The year Ohio was declared a State.

What is 1803?

100

In 1879, Detroit, Michigan became the first city to have these. 

What are phone numbers? Other cities were still being routed by name alone. 

100

The State nickname 

What is "The Empire State"?

100

the State nickname

What is "The Keystone State"?  It refers to the central stone in an arch which holds all of the other stones together. Pennsylvania was in the center of the original 13 colonies (6 above it and 6 below it), and was also central to much of the economic, social, and political development of the country. 

100

The Largest of the Great Lakes

What is Lake Superior?

200

The names of the 2 professional football teams in Ohio

What are the Bengals and the Browns?

200

Michigan has more shoreline than any other state other than this state. 

What is Alaska?

200

This newspaper was founded in 1803 by Alexander Hamilton and is the oldest running newspaper in the United States.

What is the “New York Post”?

200

This Pennsylvania city is considered the Chocolate Capital of the United States.

What is Hershey?

200

Lake Michigan's shore is home to the largest freshwater these in the world

What are sand dunes?

300

The number of Ohio and (both native and resident) sent to the White House

What is 7? Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, William H. Taft and Warren G. Harding.

300

Michigan touches how many of the Great Lakes

What is 4?

300

This was built across New York State in the 1820s and opened the Midwest to development and helped New York City become a worldwide trading center.

What was the Erie Canal?

300

Name the 2 most famous historical documents written or drawn up in Philadelphia

What are the Declaration of Independence which was signed in 1776 and the U.S. Constitution drawn up in 1787. 

300

The only Great Lake that is entirely within U.S. territory

What is Lake Michigan?

400

The official state rock song of Ohio

What is "Hang On, Sloopy" by the McCoys?

400

Stand anywhere in Michigan  and you are within how many miles of a Great Lake. 

What is within 85 miles?

400

Joseph Gayetty of New York City invented this in 1857.

What is toilet paper?

400

In 1775 in Philadelphia, Johann Behrent built the first one of these in America.

What is a piano?

400

The number of states the Great Lakes touch

What is 8?  Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin

500
Officially Ohio is the birthplace of Aviation because of these 2 airplane inventors and this astronaut who was the first man to walk on the moon.

Who are Wilbur and Orville Wright and Neil Armstrong?

500

People from the Upper Peninsula call the people in the Lower Peninsula this. 

What are trolls? because they live "under the bridge"

500

The names of the 5 boroughs of NYC

Bronx, Queens, Staten Island, Manhattan and Brooklyn

500

In 1909 the first of these was built in Pittsburgh

What is the first baseball stadium?

500

Each Lake name is derived from either Native American languages or what other language?

What is French?

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