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100
Michigan is surrounded by four of the five Great Lakes. This is the only Great Lake that does not border Michigan.
Lake Ontario
100
We often refer to the material that pencils write with as "pencil lead", when in fact lead is not the name of that material. What is?
Graphite. It is a natural, stable form of carbon featuring a layered crystalline structure, and shares the same atomic elements of diamonds and coal. It is widely used in pencils, lithium-ion batteries, steelmaking, and dry lubricants.
100
This director created Jaws, E.T., and Jurassic Park.
Steven Spielberg
100
Coffee beans aren't actually beans. They're the seeds of a fruit called a coffee ______.
Cherry
100
This board game, based on real routes in North America, was originally released in 2004.
Ticket to Ride.
The game now has additional variations featuring other countries, cities, decades, and even a video game version available on Nintendo Switch and Steam.
200
What is the longest river entirely within Michigan?
The Grand River
200
The study of living things is known as this branch of science.
Biology
200
This memorable roar was actually created from a mix of sounds from dogs, penguins, tigers, alligators, and elephants.
T Rex (from Jurassic Park)
200
The words "coffee" and "cafe" ultimately trace back to this language family.
Arabic.
qahwah, meaning a type of wine or a dark brew
200
This is the best selling VIDEO game of all time, selling hundreds of millions of copies worldwide.
Minecraft.
Since its initial release, there have been crossovers with Dragon Ball Z, Super Mario, Sonic the Hedgehog, Spongebob Squarepants, Stranger Things, Fallout, and more! In 2025, a movie was released featuring big names like Jason Momoa, Jack Black, and Jennifer Coolidge!
300
Michigan's name comes from the Ojibwe word "Mishigamaa" meaning "large _____"
water or lake
300
This novel by Harper Lee is commonly assigned in high school English classes and features Atticus Finch.
To Kill a Mockingbird
300
What decade did popcorn become a movie theater staple?
1930s. During the Great Depression, popcorn was inexpensive, profitable, and one of the few treats many families could still afford.
300
Coffee was not originally consumed as a brewed liquid. Instead, early African tribes consumed coffee this way instead.
chewed - they mixed the coffee cherry with animal fat to create an energy snack.
300
The creator of this game was actually designing a demonstration of electrical circuits. The original prototype was a Western-themed game called Death Valley.
Operation.
The original Operation board game was invented in 1964 by John Spinello. Milton Bradley redesigned it into the medical game and published it in 1965.
400
Michigan has more lighthouses than any other state due to its extensive Great Lakes shoreline. How many lighthouses does Michigan have? (+/- 5 lighthouses)
129 lighthouses
400
In mathematics, this theorem states that a² + b² = c².
400
This film became the first movie to earn over $1 billion at the global box office.
Titanic
400
The world's largest cup of coffee held more than _____ gallons. (+/- 500 gallons)
7,000 gallons.
The largest cup of coffee contains 26,939 liters (5,926 UK gal; 7,117 US gal), achieved by Tonic World Center S.A. de C.V. in Guanajuato, Mexico, on December 10, 2022.
400
This game was invented by a British musician in 1943 during World War II air raids in England.
Clue.
Originally named Murder! and included 10 suspects and 11 rooms, later trimmed down to the iconic 6 suspects, 9 rooms, and 60weapons.
500
Traverse City and its surrounding five-county region typically produce around 40-50% of the total domestic U.S. tart cherry crop. In 2025, the region produced just under ___ million pounds, a third of the region's typical average yield, heavily impacted by poor spring weather, frost, and disease. (+/- 5 million pounds)
34 million pounds
500
Before the invention of synthetic rubber in the 18th century, people often used this food to erase pencil marks.
Bread. The soft, sticky crumbs would lift the material without smudging or ruining the paper.
500
Disney's first feature-length animated movie.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarf's. Many critics called it "Disney's Folly" because they thought audiences wouldn't sit through a full-length cartoon.
500
The fruit that coffee comes from normally contains two "beans", but occasionally only one "bean" develops. When that happens, the bean is called a ________.
Peaberry - because they lack a partner to press against, they end up rounded like an oval or a pea, missing the flat side that is normally present on coffee beans.
500
There are more possible deck arrangements of the standard 52-card deck than atoms on Earth. The number of approximate possible arrangements can be represented by the number 8 followed by this many zeros. (+/- 2 zeros)
Ex: 8 million (8,000,000) would be 6 zeros
67 zeros. This number would look like:
800,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000