Q 01/05

Which island in Lake Huron, home to over 100 lakes of its own, is the world's largest lake island?

A) Drummond

B) Manitoulin

C) Cockburn

D) St. Joseph

Answer · why

B) Manitoulin

Manitoulin Island is so big that its own Lake Manitou is the largest lake on any freshwater island, and one of its other lakes holds an island of its ...

Q 02/05

Mackinac Island in Lake Huron became America's second national park in 1875; which park was the first?

A) Yosemite

B) Sequoia

C) Yellowstone

D) Mount Rainier

Answer · why

C) Yellowstone

Yellowstone came first, and soldiers looked after both parks. Mackinac's lasted only twenty years before it was handed to Michigan as the state's firs...

Q 03/05

Mackinac Island banned what in 1898 after carriage drivers said the newcomers startled their horses?

A) Bicycles

B) Fireworks

C) Steam whistles

D) Motor vehicles

Answer · why

D) Motor vehicles

Motor vehicles are still barred, apart from emergency and service ones, so people get around on foot, by bicycle or by horse-drawn carriage.

Q 04/05

The world's largest underground mine of which mineral extends beneath Lake Huron from Goderich, Ontario?

A) Salt

B) Gold

C) Nickel

D) Potash

Answer · why

A) Salt

Salt was struck there in 1866 by a prospector who was drilling for oil. The mine now lies 530 metres deep and reaches about 7 square kilometres out un...

Q 05/05

Which singer was born in Bay City, the Michigan port just upriver from Lake Huron's Saginaw Bay?

A) Bob Seger

B) Madonna

C) Kid Rock

D) Diana Ross

Answer · why

B) Madonna

Madonna was born there in 1958 but raised in the Detroit suburbs, and she left Michigan for New York in 1978 to chase a career in dance.