TravelTrivia

Joann Gorkowski, Elly Willis, Beverly Bandt, and Pat Majeski tied in the May TravelTrivia. Fred Black, Beverly West, and Deborah Black were a close second. Beverly Bandt won the drawing and is the winner!  Congratulations to all!  TravelTrivia winners will receive a free, one-year subscription to The Lakeshore Guardian mailed to their home or a Lakeshore Guardian T-shirt.  May answers are below.  Now, let’s see how you do with these Travel Trivia Questions.  Answers due June 15.

1. Which of the following are true? (Answer in Sightseers)
   
   
   1. Times Square took its name from a well-known newspaper, The New York Times.
   2. Rockefeller money funded both Radio City Music Hall and Grand Central Station.
   3. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis spearheaded opposition to building a skyscraper over Grand Central Station, or to demolishing it.
   4. Radio City Music Hall is the largest indoor theater in the world.
      
      
2. Two things make this Michigan town unique - its location on the 45th parallel and its elk herd that roams a preserve right in town.  Nearby, a thousand other elk roam free, making it the largest herd in the United States, east of the Mississippi River.  Noted for its alpine motif, this town is located in a county where three of Michigan’s most famous trout streams have their headwaters and whose name means, “meeting place.”  Also a county seat, this town is the smallest in the United States with an active Roman Catholic Cathedral.  Name this northern Michigan city and county.
   
   
3. USA Today and the New York Times have ranked this Michigan theater, with a classic neon marquee, as one of America’s “top-10 drive-in movie theaters worth a detour.”  Moviegoers drive to this city, which is also famous for its historic opera house, to see first-run movies on one of the largest screen towers still in use today.  They come from miles around, Detroit, Lansing and Indiana, and wait to enter in lines that can be up to a half-mile long.  In the late 50s, there were 150 drive-in theaters in Michigan.  Today, only 11 remain.  Name this classic theater, which is located on what was once the main route from Detroit to Chicago, and the nearby city, which is located on a river named for its chilly water.
   
   
4. This world-renowned Michigan mathematician, a distant relative of Thomas Edison, helped usher in the digital age.  He is known as "the father of information theory.” His theory, despite having been formulated over a half-century ago, has contributed to the development of the Internet, CDs, mobile phones and DNA analysis.  To commemorate his pioneering work, six statues have been dedicated to him in the United States.  Two are in Michigan, including one in Shannon Park, which is located in his hometown, and one at the University of Michigan, his alma mater.  Name this famous Michigander who worked as a Western Union messenger before graduating from Gaylord High School in 1932.
   
   
5. Michigan's oldest remaining drive-in theatre, which opened in 1947, is located in a city that Wildman Mill, a local resident, named after the Lake Erie city in Ohio that his grandfather founded.  Name this City.
   
   
   1. Sandusky
   2. Flint
   3. Dearborn
   4. Hartford

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May Answers (1) All are true—1,2,3,4,5  (2) St. Julian and Paw Paw  (3) Maple Syrup  (4) White Pine (5) True