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Economy
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Miscellaneous
100
What is the capital of Indiana?
What is Indianapolis.
100
What do you call a huge mass of ice?
What is a glacier.
100
What is the name of the Canal that joins Lake Superior and Lake Huron?
What is the Soo Canal.
100
What do you call the large monument located in the Black Hills of South Dakota, which includes presidents Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt & Lincoln?
What is Mount Rushmore.
100
What do you call one of the biggest auto racing events that takes place in Indianapolis, Indiana?
What is the Indy 500.
200
What is the capital of Nebraska?
What is Lincoln.
200
The Midwest region of the United States has more _______ than any other region.
What is lakes.
200
What do you call the part of a canal in which the level of water can be changed by letting water in or out, like an elevator for ships?
What is locks.
200
What do you call the monument also located in the Black Hills of South Dakota, which will be the biggest monument in the world when finished?
What is the Crazy Horse Memorial.
200
A ___________ is a statue or building set up to honor a person or event.
What is a monument.
300
Jefferson City is the capital of which Midwest state?
What is Missouri.
300
The Missouri River and the Ohio River are both _________ of the Mississippi River.
What is tributaries.
300
What do you call the area of the Midwest that mass produces goods, such as automobiles.
What is The Manufacturing Belt.
300
What do you call fabric or cloth?
What is textiles.
300
Which of the following is not a "belt" in the Midwest? Dairy Belt, Wheat Belt, Cotton Belt or Corn Belt?
What is the Cotton Belt.
400
Topeka is the capital of which Midwest state?
What is Kansas.
400
Many of the lakes in this region are the result of _________.
What is melting glaciers.
400
In the Wheat Belt, the extra wheat not used by the United States is _________________ to other countries.
What is exported.
400
What do you call the homes of the first Midwest settelers, made of the top layer of prairie dirt that is held together by grass and wildflower roots?
What are soddies or a house of sod.
400
What is the name of the sculptor responsible for carving Mount Rushmore?
Who is Gutzon Borglum.
500
Which state and capital is located west of Lake Michigan?
What is Madison, Wisconsin.
500
Name the 4 Great Lakes that are part of the Midwest Region.
What are Lake Superior, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan and Lake Ontario.
500
Name 2 goods used to make steel that are shipped across the Great Lakes of the Midwest.
What are coal and iron ore.
500
What is the name of the tiny town on the flat prairie of Kansas, which has an Emancipation Celebration and where hundreds of freed African-Americans left the south and journeyed to.
What is Nicodemus.
500
What is the name of the Native American city in what is now Illinois, which is the largest prehistoric Native American community north of Mexico, which once included over 100 mounds, used for important buildings, temples and homes for leaders?
What is the Cahokia Mounds.
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