Geography
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Michigan Facts
Movies 1980-1990, or 2010-2020
100

What lake borders MN-WI and MI-WI?

Lake Superior

100

Movement in the early 20th century sought to ban the production and sale of alcoholic beverages in the United States.

Prohibition

100

 This tennis tournament, held in England, is the oldest and most prestigious in the world.

What is Wimbledon?

100

This Detroit neighborhood is home to the largest Arab-American population in the United States.

Dearborn

100

In this 1984 supernatural comedy, a trio of eccentric parapsychologists start a ghost-catching business in New York City.

Ghostbusters

200

What is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea?

Sicily

200

This 19th-century expedition, commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson, explored the newly acquired Louisiana Territory and sought a route to the Pacific Ocean.

Lewis and Clark

200

This tennis player from Switzerland holds the record for most men’s singles Wimbledon titles, with eight championships.

Roger Federer

200

Cereal company, founded in Battle Creek, Michigan.

Kellog's

200

This 2017 horror film, written and directed by Jordan Peele, follows a Black man who uncovers chilling secrets when visiting his white girlfriend’s family.

Get Out

300

This landlocked country in Africa is completely surrounded by South Africa.

Lesotho

300

This 1896 Supreme Court case upheld racial segregation laws for public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal."

What is Plessy v. Ferguson?

300

This country has won the most FIFA World Cup titles in men's soccer.

Brazil

300

This Michigan-born boxer was heavyweight champion of the world from 1937 to 1949.

Joe Louis

300

This 1989 film stars Robin Williams as an unorthodox English teacher who inspires his students at a conservative boys’ prep school.

Dead Poets Society

400

This mountain range separates Europe from Asia.

What are the Ural Mountains?

400

What land deal doubled the size of the U.S.?

Louisiana Purchase

400

This country is the only nation to have won both the men’s and women’s FIFA World Cup tournaments.

Italy

400

This Native American tribe, whose name means “People of the Place of the Fire,” gave Michigan’s capital its name.

Ottawa

400

This 1986 coming-of-age film, directed by Rob Reiner and based on a Stephen King novella.

Stand By Me
500

This country is the only one in South America whose official language is English.

Guyana

500

The first woman to run for President of the United States

Victoria Woodhull

500

Atlanta hosted the Summer Olympics where Muhammad Ali famously lit the Olympic cauldron in what year?

1996

500

This Michigan ghost town, located on the Keweenaw Peninsula and once a booming copper mining community, was the site of the 1913 Italian Hall Disaster, where dozens of striking miners’ families died during a Christmas party stampede.

Calumet

500

This 2019 South Korean film, directed by Bong Joon-ho, made history by becoming the first non-English language film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Parasite