Q 01/05

Which nickname do Upper Peninsula residents give Lower Peninsula folk, a joke about living below the Mackinac Bridge?

A) Trolls

B) Fudgies

C) Flatlanders

D) Mittens

Answer · why

A) Trolls

Trolls is the name, because Lower Peninsula residents live "under the bridge"; those north of it answer to Yoopers, from "UP-ers".

Q 02/05

In 1959 an Air Force captain was grounded for life after doing what at the Mackinac Bridge in a B-47 bomber?

A) Landing on its roadway

B) Buzzing a tower top

C) Flying beneath it

D) Dropping a dummy bomb

Answer · why

C) Flying beneath it

Flying beneath it earned Captain John Lappo a general court-martial: he took his Boeing Stratojet under a deck with only 155 feet of clearance at mid-...

Q 03/05

Counting its approaches, roughly how far does a traveler go from one end of the Mackinac Bridge to the other?

A) 1 mile

B) 5 miles

C) 15 miles

D) 50 miles

Answer · why

B) 5 miles

About 5 miles is the full crossing, 26,372 feet in all, though the main span between the two towers covers only 3,800 feet of it.

Q 04/05

What will Mackinac Bridge Authority staff do, for a small fee, for motorists too nervous to make the crossing?

A) Tow their vehicle across

B) Ferry them by boat

C) Guide them in a convoy

D) Drive their car across

Answer · why

D) Drive their car across

Drive their car across is the offer, around the clock, and more than a thousand people a year hand over the keys.

Q 05/05

On which holiday each year may walkers cross the Mackinac Bridge on foot, traditionally led by Michigan's governor?

A) Memorial Day

B) Independence Day

C) Veterans Day

D) Labor Day

Answer · why

D) Labor Day

Labor Day has hosted the walk since 1959, yet only 68 people joined the very first one, held at the bridge's dedication in June 1958.