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Exploring Detroit: A Quiz on the Motor City

This quiz tests your knowledge of Detroit, covering its history, geography, significant events, and cultural impact.

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1 [18] Strategically located along the ________ waterway, Detroit emerged as a transportation hub.

2 [43] The Midtown and the ________ area are centered around Wayne State University and Henry Ford Hospital.

3 Who played Volker - Edzards Bruder in the telemovie Detroit?

4 What role did Diana Maier play in the telemovie Detroit?

5 The ________, the subsequent Late-2000s recession, and the increasingly unwieldy burden of employee retirement and healthcare costs have all been implicated.

6 Large numbers of migrants from the South, especially ________, arrived in Detroit after 1900 as factory production increased rapidly.

7 Which of the following places is northeast of Detroit?

8 Which of the following is southwest of Detroit?

9 GM plans to issue an ________ (IPO) of stock in 2010.

10 ________ in the region is provided by bus services.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the smoking room of the D&C steamer City of Detroit III (pictured) was put on display at a museum on Belle Isle in Detroit, Michigan, after the ship was dismantled.
  • the Eastside Historic Cemetery District (pictured) in Detroit, Michigan, contains the graves of 29 Detroit mayors, at least 6 governors, 11 senators, and a dozen cabinet members.
  • the Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue is the only functioning synagogue building in the city of Detroit, Michigan.
  • the first two movie theatres in Detroit opened in 1906 in the Monroe Avenue Commercial Buildings (pictured) historic district, and by 1914 six of the 13 buildings housed movie theatres.
  • the Romanesque St. Charles Borromeo Church (pictured) in Detroit, Michigan, serves a parish that was established to minister to Belgian immigrants to the city.
  • the equestrian statue of Tadeusz Kościuszko (pictured), Polish American hero of independence, which was erected around 1920 at the Wawel Castle in Kraków, Poland, has a duplicate in Detroit, Michigan.
  • ribbon farms established near Detroit were only 150 feet (46 m) wide, but up to 3 miles (4.8 km) long.
  • The Village of Rochester Hills is the first retail lifestyle center in the Detroit area of the United States.
  • Congregation Shaarey Zedek constructed five new synagogue buildings in fewer than 100 years as it followed its congregants toward the Detroit suburbs.
  • since the 1920s, the Whittier Hotel in Detroit, Michigan, has hosted Horace Dodge, Eleanor Roosevelt, Mae West, Frank Sinatra, and The Beatles.
  • Confederate spy Thomas Hines (pictured, left) had to escape Detroit by ferryboat due to being confused with assassin John Wilkes Booth (pictured, right).
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