Statistics for History of Michigan

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Question	Answer	% Correct
What auto tycoon doubled his workers' wages to $5 a day in 1914?	Henry Ford	99%
What language was spoken in Detroit in the 1700s?	French	93%
What was the first model of car to sell a million units?	Model T	89%
What Detroit music label recorded the Supremes, Temptations, and Jackson 5?	{Motown} Records	82%
What city was found to have lead in its drinking water in 2015?	Flint	79%
What was the world's biggest corporation by revenue in 1960?	General Motors	78%
What political party was born in Jackson, Michigan in 1854?	Republican Party	73%
What two metals were mined in great quantities in the Upper Peninsula?	Iron	72%
What two metals were mined in great quantities in the Upper Peninsula?	Copper	70%
What did the Purple Gang smuggle into the U.S. from Canada during the 1920s?	Alcohol	69%
What part of the state did Michigan acquire after agreeing to cede the Toledo Strip to Ohio?	Upper Peninsula	68%
What breakfast food was pioneered by a quack doctor in Battle Creek, Michigan?	Breakfast Cereal	66%
What fictional giant worked as a lumberjack in northern Michigan?	Paul Bunyan	63%
What Teamsters union leader was last seen outside a Detroit-area restaurant in 1975?	Jimmy Hoffa	59%
The first one took place in 1902. Michigan defeated Stanford 49-0. What was it?	Rose Bowl	52%
What ship sank in Lake Superior with all hands lost in 1975? (Gordon Lightfoot wrote a song about it)	SS Edmund Fitzgerald	50%
What volunteer program did JFK announce at the University of Michigan in 1960?	Peace Corps	48%
What Detroit boxer was heavyweight champion of the world from 1937 to 1949?	Joe Louis	47%
What suspension bridge connected Michigan's two peninsulas in 1957?	Mackinac Bridge	47%
What slogan, coined by FDR, referred to the industrial might of cities like Detroit in WWII?	Arsenal of {Democracy}	25%