Midwest

Question 1

What city is called the “Gateway to the West?”

Answer 1

St. Louis, Missouri

Question 2

The settlement of the west and Midwest began here

Answer 2

St. Louis, Missouri

Question 3

French traders first settled here

Answer 3

St. Louis, Missouri

Question 4

What city is near the Mississippi and Missouri rivers?

Answer 4

St. Louis, Missouri

Question 5

What city has an arch built in it to honor the pioneers who began their journeys west there?

Answer 5

St. Louis, Missouri

Question 6

What state is called “The Farm State?

Answer 6

Iowa

Question 7

This state is a flat piece of land with fertile soil to grow crops

Answer 7

Iowa

Question 8

Before trains existed, farmers would use the Mississippi and Missouri rivers to send their crops to market. What state lied between them?

Answer 8

Iowa

Question 9

This state produces huge crops of corn, soybeans, oats and hay that is mostly fed to livestock

Answer 9

Iowa

Question 10

What city is known as the place “where cattle still roam?”

Answer 10

Dodge City, Kansas

Question 11

This state produces more wheat than any other state

Answer 11

Kansas

Question 12

In the 1870s, cowboys would drive cattle here. It took weeks to months.

Answer 12

Dodge City, Kansas

Question 13

What city was called the “wickedest little city in America?”

Answer 13

Dodge City, Kansas

Question 14

What is the name of the national memorial where the faces of four American presidents are carved into the side of a mountain in South Dakota?

Answer 14

Mount Rushmore National Memorial

Question 15

Who are the four presidents in Mount Rushmore in South Dakota?

Answer 15

George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln

Question 16

What monument is still being carved into the Black Hills of South Dakota?

Answer 16

The Sioux Indian chief Crazy Horse monument

Question 17

The Black Hills are sacred to what people?

Answer 17

The Sioux and other Native Americans

Question 18

The Sioux Indians of South Dakota won a war against what General?

Answer 18

General George Custer who tried to attack them in the middle of the night

Question 19

Where are the Soo locks located?

Answer 19

Michigan

Question 20

What locks are the longest in the world?

Answer 20

Michigan’s Soo Locks

Question 21

What Locks lift ships from Lake Huron up 21 feet to Lake Superior?

Answer 21

Michigan’s Soo Locks

Question 22

Ships that come from the Atlantic Ocean are called what?

Answer 22

Salties

Question 23

What city is called America’s Motor City?

Answer 23

Detroit City, Michigan

Question 24

What year did Henry Ford build his first car?

Answer 24

1896

Question 25

People thought cars were toys for the rich. Why?

Answer 25

Because cars were very expensive

Question 26

Ford wanted to make cars that everyone could afford. How did he do that?

Answer 26

By starting an automobile factory in 1908 in Detroit, Michigan

Question 27

What did Henry Ford use to keep the costs of automobile production low?

Answer 27

Mass production but it still took a long time to assemble the parts into cars.

Question 28

Ford created what to make the assembly go faster?

Answer 28

The assembly line. Car production went from 12 hours per car to 1 hour and 33 minutes

Question 29

What city was called Motor City or Motown?

Answer 29

Detroit, Michigan

Question 30

What is the Midwest's Transportation hub?

Answer 30

Chicago, Illinois

Question 31

I am one of the world's busiest airports. About 200,000 people travel through me every day and about 50,000 work here. What am I?

Answer 31

Chicago's O'Hare International Airport

Question 32

What city is a center for moving goods and people on railroads, highways, airports, rivers and lakes?

Answer 32

Chicago, Illinois

Question 33

What stadium is the home of the Chicago Cubs?

Answer 33

Chicago's Wrigley Field

Question 34

Where did the fiorst professional baseball team play?

Answer 34

Cincinnati, Ohio

Question 35

What stadium is the second oldest baseball park in the United States?

Answer 35

Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois

Question 36

Babe Ruth pointed to the bleachers during Game 3 of the 1932 World Series in baseball and hit a home run there. Where did this happen?

Answer 36

Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois

Question 37

Where is the Mall of America?

Answer 37

Bloomington, Minnesota

Question 38

What is the largest shopping mall in the United States?

Answer 38

The Mall of America in Minnesota

Question 39

Why did they build the Mall of America as a covered mall?

Answer 39

Minnesota has very cold winters and hot summers so they covered the mall and walkways so that shopping could be pleasant no matter what the weather.

Question 40

This mall has more than 520 stores, 50 restaurants, 14 theaters and an amusement park.

Answer 40

The Mall of America in Minnesota