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MICHIGAN TRAVEL TRIVIA QUIZ
This is our 5th quiz and it contains 100 questions, broken down into 10 different segments around the state. All of these answers can be found at our library. Take the quiz, then check your tourism rating. If you scored 49 or less correct, you're new here; 50-60, you're a beginning tourist; 70-80, you've been around, and 90-100, you're an expert tourist. You can access the answers from the bottom of the quiz. Good Luck!

SOUTHWESTERN MICHIGAN (Kalamazoo-Benton Harbor/St. Joseph-Niles and surrounding area)

  1. Fruit belt capital
  2. Site of aviation history museum
  3. Southern wine-making center
  4. Blueberry Festival is here
  5. Nicknamed Four Flags City
  6. Location of oldest state courthouse
  7. Where Cherry Pit Spit takes place
  8. Site of annual Magic Get-together
  9. One of our most popular state parks
  10. Learn about energy production here

WESTERN MICHIGAN (Grand Rapids-Muskegon-Holland and surrounding area)

  1. Michigan's only president is from here
  2. One of state's most heavily fished rivers
  3. Nation's baby food capital
  4. Nicknamed Lumber Queen City
  5. Location of largest musical fountain
  6. Center of Dutch country
  7. Site of Great Lakes' only hand-powered chain ferry
  8. Graveyard of ships is off this city
  9. Asparagus growing is feted here
  10. Location of state's largest natural gas field

WESTERN MICHIGAN (Ludington-Manistee-Cadillac-Clare and surrounding area)

  1. Named after Detroit's founder
  2. Michigan's largest inland lake
  3. "Gateway to the North"
  4. Catch "Troutarama" here
  5. Where Father Marquette died
  6. Its downtown is a historic site
  7. Gwen Frostic Prints is here
  8. Site of one of two area mushroom fests
  9. Named for ninth president
  10. Missaukee County lumber town turned resort center

NORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN (Traverse City-Petoskey-Mackinaw City and surrounding area)

  1. Nicknamed the "cherry capital"
  2. The 45th Parallel crosses its tip
  3. Modern sport trolling was pioneered here
  4. Site of "fishtown" stores, boutiques
  5. Great Lakes salmon were first planted in this stream
  6. Sleeping Bear Dunes visitor center is near here
  7. Its "gaslight district" is noted for shopping
  8. A state-designated scenic highway
  9. This tourist city is the Mackinac Bridge's southern anchor
  10. Home of the world's largest crucifix

NORTHEASTERN MICHIGAN (Alpena-Au Gres-Gaylord-Grayling and surrounding area)

  1. Billed as state's perch capital
  2. Named after Chippewa chief
  3. Lumberman's Mounument town and salmon port
  4. Fish for salmon from shore here
  5. Site of state underwater park, Besser Museum
  6. See limestone mined from Quarry View here
  7. Walk down 220 wooden steps to the coolness of sparkling cold water
  8. The Alpen City
  9. Home of the Au Sable longboat
  10. Where smiling water tower stands

EASTERN MICHIGAN (Saginaw-Genesee Valleys and surrounding area)

  1. General Motor's birthplace
  2. Nicknamed "chemical city"
  3. Site of 1800s museum town
  4. Showboat docks here in summer
  5. Once called world's lumber capital
  6. Former notorious Bay County lumber town
  7. Favorite Thumb-area vacation spots
  8. Germans settled this famous town
  9. Frank Murphy's museum/home is here
  10. Home of auto hall of fame

SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN (Detroit-Southeast Michigan and surrounding area)

  1. He helped found the University of Michigan
  2. "Frost-bitten convention" was held here in 1836
  3. County with most lakes of any in Lower Michigan
  4. It's one of the world's tallest hotels
  5. The exhibit "Streets of Old Detroit" is here
  6. It is one of the largest zoos in the country
  7. Civil War-era soldiers once trained here
  8. The region's largest amusement park
  9. One of 13 Metroparks is located here
  10. Its auto industry sprang from carriage building

SOUTHERN MICHIGAN (Lansing-Battle Creek-Marshall-Jackson and surrounding area)

  1. Home of Impression 5 Museum
  2. Beaumont Tower is here
  3. Nicknamed Cereal City
  4. Once in running as state capital
  5. Melon festival site
  6. Location of Walker Tavern
  7. Two famous songs penned here
  8. Where Republican Party was born
  9. Former Underground Railroad station
  10. Site of first railroad west of Hudson River

UPPER PENINSULA-WEST (Marquette-Copper Harbor-Ironwood-Escanaba and surrounding area)

  1. Lake Superior iron port
  2. Iron ore was discovered here
  3. National Ski Hall of Fame site
  4. Cornish steam pump is here
  5. Location of Indian "spirit stone"
  6. Lake Michigan's only iron ore port
  7. Town named for "snowshoe priest"
  8. World's deepest copper shafts, largest steam hoist, are in these twin cities
  9. Site of Fort Wilkins State Park
  10. Park with Midwest's highest mountains

UPPER PENINSULA-EAST (St. Ignace-Munising and surrounding area)

  1. Michigan's oldest town
  2. State's most famous falls
  3. Once the U.P's toughest town, now site of a wildlife refuge
  4. Sandstone rocks carved by wind and waves
  5. This ghost town is now a state park
  6. State's oldest active cemetery is here
  7. Site of Father Marquette's grave
  8. East of this site is where Lake Michigan's northernmost point is
  9. Bridge spanning a deep gorge
  10. Chippewa Native American Reservation is located here

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