Things that Happened in Michigan - Statistics

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Year	Event	Answer	% Correct
1926	Escape artist who died of a burst appendix after being punched in the gut	Harry Houdini	90%
1928	Auto company that opened the River Rouge plant, the world's largest factory	Ford	84%
1854	Political party whose first convention was held in Jackson	Republican Party	81%
1959	Record company founded by Berry Gordy Jr.	Motown	79%
1894	Breakfast cereal created by Will Kellogg for patients at the Battle Creek Sanitarium	Corn flakes	76%
1945	Cavity reducing substance which Grand Rapids became the first city to add to its drinking water	Fluoride	71%
1994	Figure skater who was attacked at the U.S. national championships	Nancy Kerrigan	59%
1836	Area of land awarded to Michigan as a consolation prize for losing the Toledo Strip to Ohio	Upper Peninsula	55%
1987	Wrestler who body-slammed Andre the Giant at Wrestlemania III	Hulk Hogan	50%
1975	Ship which sank in Lake Superior on the way to deliver iron ore to Detroit	Edmund Fitzgerald	41%
1933	Mexican communist who painted the "Detroit Industry" murals	Diego Rivera	33%
1957	Suspension bridge which opened and was, debatably, the longest in the world	Mackinac Bridge	31%
1763	Ottawa leader who besieged Fort Detroit. (A division of Chrysler is named for him)	Pontiac	31%
1701	French explorer who founded Detroit. (A division of GM is named for him)	Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac	28%
1668	The oldest European settlement in Michigan, established at the southeastern end of Lake Superior	Sault Ste Marie	17%
1846	What Michigan became the first state in the Union to abolish	Death penalty	14%

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