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Can you guess these facts about the U.S. state of Michigan?
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First submittedAugust 22, 2011
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Capital city
Lansing
Most populous city
Detroit
Second most populous city
Grand Rapids
City home to the University of Michigan
Ann Arbor
Michigan's most famous rapper
Eminem
The Lower Peninsula is said to be shaped like a ...
Mitten
Animal that symbolizes Michigan (although none actually live in the state)
Wolverine
Music label that recorded Stevie Wonder and the Supremes
Motown Records
Bridge that connects the Upper and Lower peninsulas
Mackinac Bridge
The only one of the Great Lakes that Michigan doesn't border
Lake Ontario
Michigan's only National Park, an island in Lake Superior
Isle Royale
Michigan auto companies known as the "Big Three"
General Motors
Ford
Chrysler
Most important Coney Island hot dog topping
Chili
A person from the U.P. is called a ...
Yooper
Michigan has 96 of these shoreline structures, more than any other state
Lighthouses
Heavyweight champion of the world from 1937–1949 known as the "Brown Bomber"
Joe Louis
Third most-spoken language in Michigan, after English and Spanish (hint: many speakers live in Dearborn)
Arabic
What type of beverage is Vernors? (be specific)
Ginger ale
IsleAuHaulte
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Level 89
Sep 12, 2018
Apparently there were 1,000,001 ways I should've tried "Yooper" / Yoopie.
SeekerSpock1
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Level 76
Sep 13, 2018
I'd replace that question about "the lake Michigan doesn't border" with something about the Flint Water Crisis.
GeographyGeek42
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Level 66
Dec 10, 2018
Everyone makes a big deal about the Flint Water Crisis. Of course it wasn't good, I'm not implying that at all, but a Reuters found through test that about 4000 cities have around double the amount of children lead poisoning from drinking water. Among these include parts of Rutland, Savannah and Brooklyn. You just never hear about these cases.
Quizmaster
+27
Level ∞
Sep 1, 2020
If anything, the story shows that most journalists are not capable of reporting on complex subjects. Here's what Michael Crichton had to say on the subject:

Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them.

In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.

vermiciousknid
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Level 88
Jan 12, 2024
I'm curious how much evidence there is for this "effect" being a widespread thing. A google search on the topic seems to mostly bring up blogs uncritically citing Crichton's speech to buttress their takes on "the media", as if it is some monolithic entity. Certainly, there is sloppy journalism out there, but there is a lot of quality reporting as well.

To be sure, it's important to think critically when consuming information, but I think that it's overstating the case to say that "most journalists" are incapable of reporting on complex subjects.

Quizmaster
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Level ∞
Jan 12, 2024
In my opinion, the effect is widespread. Have you ever read an article where you had inside knowledge of what was going on? If so, you will be be shocked at how many simple errors are made. The Gell-Mann effect is very real.

And yes, that's why it's incumbent on people who read journalism to think critically and not just assume that what they read has any relation to the truth.

vermiciousknid
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Level 88
Jan 12, 2024
I'm still not convinced. Care to provide some examples from your personal experience?
Quizmaster
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Level ∞
Jan 12, 2024
Sure. The very first time I encountered this was actually in high school! The local paper took pictures of some local kids (including me) playing football in the snow. Later one of the pictures appeared in the paper with a caption describing the action. But the caption didn't make sense at all. They just looked at the picture and guessed what was happening but all the details were wrong. I know it's a small thing, but I was shocked at the time.

Another example from my early years was a feel-good story about a teenage girl who made $1 million from a website showing MySpace backgrounds. I went to the girl's page. The girl was "keyword stuffing" the words "car insurance" into all the pages and tricking Yahoo into showing car insurance ads. The girl was basically scamming Yahoo, she wasn't an inspiration at all.

If you're not finding errors and fallacies every time you read the paper, you're not reading closely enough.

vermiciousknid
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Level 88
Jan 12, 2024
Thanks for the anecdotes. I try to avoid being overly credulous, but I'm not an expert in much and rarely have inside knowledge of news-worthy things, so perhaps that's my problem.
TMK613
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Level 57
Feb 23, 2021
yeah... because those cities have a higher population than Flint. smh.
wiifly
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Level 59
Feb 27, 2023
They do now
Quizmaster
+2
Level ∞
Jan 8, 2024
They always did. Brooklyn has a population of about 2.7 million.
FamousRob
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Level 85
Sep 15, 2018
Can you give more spellings for 'Yooper.' I knew the word having been there a few years ago but had trouble figuring out how to spell it. I honestly thought it was just 'Uper' or 'Youper'
mikeb
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Level 66
Dec 10, 2018
Ditto
Damangio
+2
Level 64
Jan 25, 2021
Yeah, I tried like 5 spellings and then gave up.
cornflakesfu
+10
Level 86
Oct 25, 2018
Maybe a stupid question, but isn't Coney Island in New York?
Quizmaster
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Level ∞
Oct 26, 2018
It is. Strangely, in parts of New York, you'll see a chili dog referred to as a Michigan sandwich. Does it make any sense? No, it does not.
jmellor13
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Level 67
Dec 10, 2018
Which parts of New York? I'm from there and I've never heard that term, but admittedly I have not been to every part of the state.
cobraaahhh
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Level 70
Dec 10, 2018
Really? I'm from Utica and I've never heard the phrase "Michigan Sandwich."
trebek
+12
Level 70
Dec 10, 2018
Kinda like steamed hams
Quizmaster
+19
Level ∞
Dec 10, 2018
More of an Albany thing
Quizmaster
+7
Level ∞
Dec 10, 2018
But seriously, it's a real thing
mf3
+2
Level 87
Sep 1, 2020
Kind of like how, in a New York steakhouse, you order a Kansas City cut, but in Kansas City, you order the same thing as a New York cut.
communisteggplant
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Level 73
Sep 1, 2020
I lived in the North Country of NY for a few years and would see Michigan dogs on roadside stands.
BobIsACoprophage
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Level 61
Jan 25, 2021
@cobraaahhh: Not in Utica, it's an Albany expression.
Bdubz
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Level 43
Jun 26, 2019
I was also wondering why that question was included
mschiesser
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Level 91
Sep 1, 2020
Yes, but look up the wikipedia article on Coney Island Hot Dog. Lots of Michigan in there.
punkybrewster
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Level 80
Sep 5, 2020
Coney Island restaurants in Michigan serve Greek food and chili dogs with onions and mustard. You can't throw a stick without hitting a Coney restaurant in Detroit and its suburbs. The most famous are Lafayette and American, which are next door to each other in downtown Detroit. They started as a single restaurant run by two brothers. The brothers fell out and one opened the place next door. Their chili styles are different, and people will comment on whether they prefer a Lafayette or American coney dog. I'm a Lafayette girl, myself.
Djilas
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Level 82
Sep 2, 2020
What's so famous about Dearborn? Some tv show taking place there?
joeythelemur
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Level 84
Sep 2, 2020
Nothing really, but there's a high concentration of Arab/Muslim immigrants. Hence the question.
perfectbalance
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Level 59
Jan 16, 2021
only reason I got that one was the TV show "Quantico" where one of the characters is an Arab from Dearborn. Not Detroit, Dearborn. I wonder why there are so many there?
blackholexsun
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Level 64
Jan 25, 2021
I only got it is because I remembered that Rashida Tlaib is from Michigan. More of a lucky guess, really.
JackintheBox
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Level 79
Jan 16, 2021
According to Wikipedia it has the largest Muslim population in the United States per capita.
morcaca
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Level 59
Jan 16, 2021
Dearborn has the Ford HQ as well
Jacktheguy
+2
Level 89
Jan 25, 2021
I knew a Muslim couple who moved to Dearborn.
SpencerGT
+5
Level 67
Feb 26, 2021
Story checks out.
AdamC0912
+6
Level 82
Sep 11, 2020
Medicine should also be an acceptable answer to Vernors. Michiganders know :)
ander217
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Level 75
Jan 26, 2021
My mom lived there a few years while growing up and when we visited relatives there she'd bring home the Vernors. She was so happy when she found it for sale in Missouri. (I preferred 7Up for tummy upsets.)
Gobe3034
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Level 19
Apr 21, 2022
Vernors and Saltines is basically the second pharmacy in Meijers.
NotNelson
+1
Level 56
Jun 16, 2023
The only real cure for stomach aches.
fromaj
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Level 70
Jan 25, 2021
Needs more UP questions.
Baxtergrad
+5
Level 52
Jan 25, 2021
"Where was Carl's destination?"
Eutychus
+6
Level 90
Jan 25, 2021
Based on population distribution, the question distribution is just right.
fromaj
+2
Level 70
Jan 25, 2021
So 2 questions entirely about it is enough?
FreeStater
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Level 66
Jan 10, 2024
It's mentioned in 10% of the questions, but only 3% of the population lives there—truly, that's more than enough.
TableFor1
+2
Level 64
Jan 25, 2021
As a 16 year old living in Michigan, its a pretty good quiz; I only missed two.
Widgaa
+2
Level 49
Feb 23, 2021
On what 90s TV show did characters drive a truck full of bottles to MI for the .10 deposit refund?
BrandonL04
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Level 45
Aug 28, 2021
Interesting fact: Hamtramck, Michigan was the first US city to become majority Muslim.
999uuu1
+1
Level 43
Jan 10, 2024
First with a Muslim majority city council as of 2015.
NEGeo
+1
Level 57
Jan 10, 2024
Stans Polish Restaurant in Hamtramck (iykyk)
vittoriao
+1
Level 65
Sep 14, 2021
Coney Island is in new York
3nchiladas
+4
Level 69
Oct 13, 2021
yes. What's your point?
BlackLab
+2
Level 65
Nov 19, 2021
"They might seem like different names for the same style of hot dog, but Coney Island dogs are smothered with a meat sauce that's not exactly chili—plus onions and yellow mustard. Chili dogs can be topped with meat and bean chili as well as cheese or cheese sauce." Meat Sauce is a weird answer, but chili is incorrect according to somebody's opinion on the web. :D
999uuu1
+1
Level 43
Jan 10, 2024
As someone who goes to Detroit pretty often, its usually called "Coney sauce"
BigLaing
+1
Level 66
Feb 15, 2022
"Diamond Chrysler" should be accepted.
mooselikestoparty
+1
Level 59
Jul 24, 2023
What is that?
EvanAviator
+1
Level 59
May 31, 2022
Wolverine one is way too vague and unknown, couldn't find anything about after when I looked it up
SMFlex
+2
Level 50
Nov 12, 2023
Michigan wolverines. It’s a college team.
Quizmaster
+2
Level ∞
Jan 8, 2024
Michigan is also known as the Wolverine State. This is not particularly obscure.
RuthlessCosmo
+2
Level 72
Jan 10, 2024
Lots more sports trivia you could have mined as well: Gordie Howe, Bobby Layne, Ty Cobb, Magic Johnson, the Bad Boys, the Fab Five, Hank Greenberg, the Hit Man and Sugar Ray. But no complaints--you got the Brown Bomber.

And then there's Henry and Gerald, George and Mitt, the Purple Gang, Kellogg and Post, Jimmy Hoffa, Walter Reuther, Aretha, Madonna, and Elmore Leonard.

TheKindCowboy
+1
Level 55
Jan 10, 2024
I could not remember what chili was called to save my life
JackintheBox
+1
Level 79
Jan 10, 2024
I tried 'Yupper' but not 'Yooper' 🤦‍♂️
JenZa
+1
Level 52
Jan 11, 2024
The Vernors question almost got me. Being from The Mitten and seeing that it stated to be specific, my first answer was pop (FYI: the term pop was coined from another Michigan beverage brand: Faygo)

Also, I may have misunderstood the question about the only National Park in Michigan, as there are more.

DJohnson7953
+1
Level 20
Mar 6, 2024
As a Michigander, an 11 is severely disappointing.
ch0senPotato
+1
Level 46
Mar 13, 2024
I just finished the US States badge on this quiz! I did the states in mostly backwards order. I have six badges left to go. I'm well chuffed with how my memory, which normally seems to be pretty bad, performs well on these quizzes.
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