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

Elly Willis is the winner in March’s Michigan Travel Trivia. Fred Black and Deborah Black came in a close second. Congratulations to all. Travel Trivia winners will receive a free, one-year subscription to The Lakeshore Guardian or a Lakeshore Guardian T-shirt. March’s answers are below. Now, let’s see how you do with these Travel Trivia Questions. Answers are due April 15.

1. Which statements regarding The Henry Ford’s Quilting Genius 2, The Improvisational Quilts of Susana Hunter exhibit are accurate? Answers can be found in Sightseers.
   
   
   1. This improvisational quilting style, a design-as-you-go approach, was commonly used by poor people living in rural American South.
      
      
   2. Susana Hunter quilted with fabrics her life provided, including cloth scraps, worn out clothing, old bedspreads and cornmeal, flour, sugar and fertilizer sacks.
      
      
   3. The practice of plastering walls with newspaper and magazine pages significantly influenced the artistic design of quilts in the rural South.
      
      
   4. Susana filled this quilt with homemade batting made from her family’s cotton crop.
      
      
   5. Susana’s quilts, made to be used not for show, reflect her life in rural Wilcox County, Alabama.
      
      
2. To become a member of the “Hot Dog Hall of Fame” is simple. Eat 12 chili dogs, in one four-hour setting, and you will join the 5,000 other inductees whose names have been permanently inscribed on the Corner Bar’s Hot Dog Hall of Fame walls. Eat 20 or more and you’ll also get a t-shirt, a bumper sticker, plus all the hot dogs you just ate free. Set a new record and get $500 on the spot. Inspired by winning $500, Belinda Gould began three days of training at the Corner Bar. On the first Friday she ate 20 hot dogs, and on the next, 23. On the third Friday she downed 43 hot dogs and is now the reigning amateur title-holder. Lined up end-to-end, the 14 million hot dogs sold here since 1965 would stretch from Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, the birthplace of the hot dog to this west Michigan city famous for its row of classic restored diners.
   
   
3. By using a 75 mile-long waterway made up of 14 lakes and connecting rivers, Native American and fur traders could travel from Lake Huron to Little Traverse Bay, without having to paddle around the tip of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula. This waterway was also used to transport logs down to sawmills located along the way, during the lumbering era. With the arrival of the railroads, vacationers turned up and turned these lakes and rivers, which are connected like a chain, into a major tourist destination. Name this historic waterway.
   
   
4. Hemlock Cathedral preserves a stand of 300-year trees that survived the lumber boom of the turn of the century and the frequent fires that raged across this part of the Upper Peninsula. In the 1880s, the hemlock forest was a popular getaway spot for those who lived in a town on the other side of Little Bay de Noc. This town’s Native American name translates to “flat rock” and was used by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to describe how Hiawatha “crossed the Escampbe River” in The Song of Hiawatha. Name this town, which today is still an important shipping point for iron ore to Chicago and northern Indiana.
   
   
5. Which of the following is Michigan's second largest inland lake and Michigan’s longest inland lake.
   
   
   1. Houghton
   2. Long
   3. Michigamme Resevoir
   4. Torch

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March Answers (1) D is not accurate (2) Copper Country Trail Scenic Byway (3) A.E. Seaman Mineral Museum (4) Ann Arbor (5) False—It’s Michigan State