15 ‘Jeopardy’ Questions About Kalamazoo Only A Genius Can Get Right
Be sure to put your answer in the form of a question and see if you can give the correct responses to these questions Alex Trebeck has posed on 'Jeopardy about Kalamazoo.
To date, fifteen questions about Kalamazoo and surrounding areas in Southwest Michigan have been asked on "America's Favorite Quiz Show." How many do you wager you can get right? Scroll down for the answers.
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U.S. Cities
Had this Michigan city kept its earlier name, there might have been a song "I've Got a Gal in Bronson."
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Is That A Thing
No, It's a place, right before Kalkaska on the alphabetical list of Michigan counties.
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Transportation
In 1922 Russian-born American Morris Markin began making these cabs in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
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Take a Michigander at This
We don't know if this novelist was "So Big" at her Aug. 15, 1887 birth, but we do know it was in a zoo: Kalamazoo.
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A State of College-Ness
(Name the state where these colleges are located.)
Wayne State, Kalamazoo College, Madonna University (it's Franciscan Catholic, not Material Girl)
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The River of History
The name of this Michigan waterway that meets up with the Kalamazoo River refers to a fight that involved 4 guys.
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State of the Art Museum
(Name the state where these museums are located.)
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts
- 11
Go Jump in a Great Lake
Rivers draining into this great lake include the Muskegon, Kalamazoo, and St. Joseph in the East.
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Author's Birthplaces
Her father was a Hungarian immigrant and this "Show Boat" author was a gal from Kalamazoo.
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U.S. Universities
Western Michigan is in Kalamazoo; Nothern Michigan is in Marquette; this university is in Ypsilanti.