TRAVELTRIVIA
Test your Michigan Geography IQ
(© 2008 Randy Karr)

Beverly Bandt, Patricia Majeski, Fred Black and Deborah Black tied in the January Michigan Travel Trivia. Melvin Susalla came in a close second. Deborah Black won the drawing and is the winner. Travel Trivia winners will receive a free, one-year subscription to The Lakeshore Guardian or a Lakeshore Guardian T-shirt. January answers are below. Now, let’s see how you do with these Travel Trivia Questions. Answers are due February 15.

1. Which statement regarding The Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park is not accurate?
   1. The Butterflies Are Blooming is Meijer Gardens most popular exhibit as well as the largest temporary tropical butterfly display in the United States.
   2. Meijer Gardens’ Sculpture Park contains one of the finest modern and contemporary sculpture collections in the world.
   3. The American Horse is the only colossal horse sculpture in the Western Hemisphere.
   4. Inspired and guided by Leonardo da Vinci’s sketches, Nina Akamu, a renowned contemporary American sculptor, completed two 24-feet tall bronze horse sculptures. One is located in Meijer Gardens’ Sculpture Park, the other at the Detroit Institute of Arts.
   5. Meijer Garden has the nation’s most comprehensive carnivorous plant house and one of the largest and most interactive children's gardens in the country.
      
      
2. The last bank in Michigan to be located in a wooden building was also one of the few in the state that kept its doors open during the Great Depression. Today, the bank continues to prosper as a financial center, despite being located in a village with only 119 residents. Customers do not have to come in to do their banking. They can bank by mail, with the bank paying the postage both ways. Name this small village located in Montcalm County that, other than the bank, has only a general store, a post office and a tavern.
   
   
3. Built seven years before the RMS Titanic, this ship provided first class travel on the Great Lakes, between Buffalo, New York, and Duluth, Minnesota. In 1940, its wooden superstructure was redesigned, making it fireproof. Air conditioning, a movie theater and a dance floor were added. After nearly 30 years of providing service across Lake Michigan, the legendary steamer operated as a floating maritime museum at Chicago’s Navy Pier. Designated as a National Historic Landmark, it is now preserved as a museum, dedicated to the history of Great Lakes’ passenger ships. Name this celebrated passenger ship and ferry dubbed “The Queen of the Great Lakes.”
   
   
4. A legendary Michigan hamburger? You bet! GQ Magazine placed Krazy Jim’s Blimpy Burger on its list of “The 20 Hamburgers You Must Eat Before You Die." The Food Network broadcast a seven-minute Blimpy Burger special, praising its merits and a local newspaper’s Readers’ Choice Awards bestowed it a gold medal as “The Best Place In The City For Burger.” Unlike its frozen, fast food counterparts, Blimpy Burgers are made with fresh western chuck, shipped directly from Detroit’s Eastern Market. They can be ordered with as many 1/10th pound patties on the bun as desired - even a dozen. Krazy Jim’s, whose slogan for the last half-century has been “Cheaper than Food,” is located in a city that is home to several national chains, such as Domino's Pizza and Borders Books. Name this city located along the Huron River.
   
   
5. The Baird Carillon, which has 55 bells, some weighing as much as five tons each, is the world’s third largest carillon. It is located in which Michigan city?
   1. Grand Rapids
   2. Lansing
   3. Bloomfield Hills
   4. Grosse Pointe
   5. Ann Arbor.

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January Answers (1) E is False (2) Michael Moore (3) Port Huron Beach (4) Ambassador Bridge (5) b-Reed City