Year | Event | Answer | % Correct |
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1928 | Auto company that opened the River Rouge plant, the world's largest factory | Ford | 94%
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1926 | Escape artist who died of a burst appendix after being punched in the gut | Harry Houdini | 91%
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1959 | Record company founded by Berry Gordy Jr. | Motown | 91%
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1894 | Breakfast cereal created by Will Kellogg for patients at the Battle Creek Sanitarium | Corn flakes | 85%
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1854 | Political party whose first convention was held in Jackson | Republican Party | 82%
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1945 | Cavity reducing substance which Grand Rapids became the first city to add to its drinking water | Fluoride | 71%
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1836 | Area of land awarded to Michigan as a consolation prize for losing the Toledo Strip to Ohio | Upper Peninsula | 56%
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1994 | Figure skater who was attacked at the U.S. national championships | Nancy Kerrigan | 53%
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1987 | Wrestler who body-slammed Andre the Giant at Wrestlemania III | Hulk Hogan | 47%
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1975 | Ship which sank in Lake Superior on the way to deliver iron ore to Detroit | Edmund Fitzgerald | 41%
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1763 | Ottawa leader who besieged Fort Detroit. (A division of Chrysler is named for him) | Pontiac | 41%
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1933 | Mexican communist who painted the "Detroit Industry" murals | Diego Rivera | 35%
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1701 | French explorer who founded Detroit. (A division of GM is named for him) | Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac | 32%
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1957 | Suspension bridge which opened and was, debatably, the longest in the world | Mackinac Bridge | 29%
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1668 | The oldest European settlement in Michigan, established at the southeastern end of Lake Superior | Sault Ste Marie | 12%
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1846 | What Michigan became the first state in the Union to abolish | Death penalty | 9%
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