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100

First served in 1866, this ginger soda got its start at a drug store on Woodward Avenue in Detroit

What is Vernors?

100

Declared a national park in 1970, it receives more than 1.6 million visitors per year.

What is Sleeping Bear Dunes?

100

Consumers Energy is headquartered in this city named for the President who signed Michigan into statehood.

What is Jackson?

100

The National Cherry Festival is the pride of this northern Michigan city.

What is Traverse City?

100

She was the Queen of Soul.

Who is Aretha Franklin?

200

Geraldine Doyle, who in 1942 took a job at a Michigan metal factory, helped to inspire the look and job of this iconic character.  

Who is Rosie the Riveter?

200

With an estimated value of more than $500 billion, about 80 million tons of this resource move through the Soo Locks every year

What is Iron Ore?

200

This Michigan industrial city bears the name of a river named for a "Fire Stone."

What is Flint?

200

Cedar Springs boasts one of Michigan's oldest festivals celebrating this drop-seater-toasty-warm under garment.

What is Red Flannel Underwear?

200

The last time the University of Michigan retired a football number was in 1994, in honor of this center who graduated in 1935.

Who is Gerald Ford?

300

These straits connect Lake Michigan and Lake Huron, technically making them one large continuous lake.

What are the Straits of Mackinac?

300

Spanning five miles and connecting two peninsulas, the Mackinac Bridge opened to traffic in this year.

What is 1957? (Nov. 1)

300

One of 30 International Dark Sky Parks is situated near this northern Michigan community.

What is Mackinaw City?

300

This thumb community's annual festival celebrates the cheeseburger.

What is Caseville?

300

Michigan's musical identity was defined by its Motown Sound, a record label founded by this man.

Who is Berry Gordy?

400

Near the tip of the pinkie is this artistic center where parents have sent talented children since 1928

What is Interlochen Center for the Arts?

400

Michigan has four official interstate highways, but this one actually begins and ends without ever leaving the state.

What is I-96?

400

This southern Michigan community is known as the Magic Capital of the World.

What is Colon?

400

Consumers Energy sponsors this overnight sporting event that spans from Grayling to Oscoda.

What is the AuSable River Canoe Marathon?

400

This famous author spent the first 22 summers of his life at his family's cottage on the shores of Walloon Lake near Petoskey.

Who is Ernest Hemingway?

500

After a century as a household name, its last model rolled off the assembly line in Lansing in 2004.

What is the Oldsmobile?

500

Part of the Huron Mountains in the Upper Peninsula, this point boasts Michigan's highest elevation. 

What is Mt. Arvon? (Elev. 1,979 ft.)

500

Baseball Hall of Famer and Detroit Tiger great Charlie Gehringer hails from this Michigan community.

What is Fowlerville?

500

This past weekend, the Treetoad Family Farm in Trufant held this groovy festival featuring grassroots music and arts.

What is Hippie Fest?

500

Tragically, this Grand Rapids man lost his life in an Apollo 1 training exercise along with Gus Grissom and Ed White.

Who is Roger Chaffee?