Arts
This museum, founded in 1885, covers 658,000 square feet that includes more than 100 galleries, a 1,150-seat auditorium, a 380-seat lecture/recital hall, an art reference library, and a state-of-the-art conservation services laboratory.
What is the Detroit Institute of Arts?
The Upper Falls of this state park is one of the largest waterfalls east of the Mississippi with a length that is more than 200 feet across and a drop that reaches almost 50 feet.
What is Tahquamenon Falls State Park?
This first female governor of Michigan served from 2003-2010.
Who is Jennifer Granholm?
This Detroit Lions star scored 109 touchdowns in his Hall of Fame career.
Who is Barry Sanders?
Michigan is the top producer of this tart fruit in the nation.
What are cherries?
In 1959, Berry Gordy, Jr. founded Tamla Records and purchased the property on Detroit’s Grand Boulevard that would eventually become Motown's headquarters, known as this.
What is Hitsville U.S.A.?
This park encompasses a 35-mile stretch of Lake Michigan's eastern coastline, as well as North and South Manitou Islands. It was established primarily for its outstanding natural features, including forests, beaches, dune formations, and ancient glacial phenomena.
What is Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore?
Michigan became a state on January 26 in this year.
What is 1837?
This award has been given to the winner of the Michigan versus Michigan State rivalry game since 1953.
What is the Paul Bunyan Trophy?
The De Zwaan Windmill in Holland is not only an historic attraction; it’s a functioning machine that produces this good for the local community and beyond.
What is whole wheat flour?
ArtPrize is an annual international art competition and cultural event held in Grand Rapids. Funds are raised year round to cover the entire operating budget, which includes this amount that is awarded in prizes and distributed in grants to artists, curators, and educators.
What is $600,000?
Michigan's Adventure was originally founded as this park in 1956 and featured a petting zoo with deer, llamas, monkeys, chickens, and ducks.
What is Deer Park?
The first tri-color stoplight was created in this city in 1920. It was invented by traffic officer William Potts, who improved upon earlier models by adding a yellow "caution" light.
What is Detroit?
Led by superstar point guard Isaiah Thomas and physical center Bill Laimbeer, the 1980 - 1991 Detroit Pistons took on this alliterative moniker due to their rough-and-tumble play.
Who are The Bad Boys?
These organisms lived in warm shallow seas that covered Michigan some 350 million years ago. Their fossils are what we know today as Petoskey stones.
What are colonial coral?
The Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids has a 24-foot-high bronze equestrian statue that, while completed in the 1990s, was based on a design by this artist.
Who is Leonardo DaVinci?
Affectionately called the “Linchpin of the Great Lakes” by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, this remarkable feat of engineering and human ingenuity allows freighters to navigate between Lake Superior and the lower Great Lakes, the St. Lawrence Seaway, and international markets.
What are the Soo Locks?
Congress settled this land dispute between the Michigan Territory and the state of Ohio in 1836 when it granted Michigan more than 9,000 square miles of the Upper Peninsula.
What is the Toledo War?
The Michigan State men's basketball program has won two NCAA championships in its history - the first in 1979 and the second in this year.
What is 2000?
The Mackinac Bridge is the fifth longest suspension bridge in the world, totaling this many feet (of which 8,614 are suspended).
What is 26,372?
This Saugatuck resident wrote the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed Kushiel’s Legacy series of historical fantasy novels, The Sundering epic fantasy duology, postmodern fables Santa Olivia and Saints Astray, and the Agent of Hel contemporary fantasy series.
Who is Jacqueline Carey?
This theater opened its doors on September 21, 1928, and continues to be one of the most iconic theaters and music venues in the world. It was declared a National Historical Landmark in 1989 following a $12 million restoration project by the Ilitch family, who purchased it in 1987.
What is the Fox Theatre?
When French explorers first visited Michigan in the early seventeenth century, there were approximately 15,000 Native Americans living in the region that we call Michigan today. Of the several tribes that made the forests and river valleys here their home, three were most prominent: the Chippewa (Ojibway), who lived mainly in the Upper Peninsula and the eastern part of the Lower Peninsula; the Ottawa, who resided along the western part of the Lower Peninsula; and this group, who occupied part of southwestern Michigan after migrating from what is now eastern Wisconsin.
Who are the Potawatomi?
This artistic gymnast and DeWitt native was a member of the “Fierce Five” squad that won team gold at the 2012 Olympics.
Who is Jordyn Wieber?
On August 26, 1817, in Detroit, the governor of the Michigan Territory, Lewis Cass, and the Territory’s several judges enacted a bill to establish a University of Michigania, also called this (a word made up by Augustus Woodward, one of the judges, who said it meant “system of universal science”).
What is a "Catholepistemiad"?