The winner of Deadline Detroit's Detroit Awareness Quiz is Rob Salowitz of Pinckney.
Salowitz, who wins a weekend for two at the Shanty Creek Resort in Bellaire, opened his email, answered two of the three questions, searched for the other answer and replied to Deadline Detroit in five minutes, six seconds.
"I knew questions 2 and 3," he said. "The first one I had no clue. I looked that one up."
The questions and answers are:
1. On June 23, Detroit will mark the 50th anniversary of the civil rights march on Woodward Avenue with more than 125,000 people that was led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1963. Who is generally regarded as the chief organizer of the march?
The Rev. C.L. Franklin, a well-known Detroit minister in the 1960s and the father of Aretha. His organization, the Detroit Council for Human Rights, was also acceptable.
2. Given metro Detroit’s mile-road system, in which Maple is 15 Mile and Fenkell is Five Mile, what street would be Zero Mile Road if it had a numerical designation?
Ford Road, M-153.
3) Where is the statue of George Washington in downtown Detroit?
On East Jefferson, near the entrance to the Detroit-Windsor Tnnel and Mariners Church.
Salowitz, 44, works as an IT manager at Compuware Corp.
Yes, Compuware.
Disclosure: Deadline Detroit rents an office in the Compuware Building, 10 floors above Salowitz's work space. DD co-founder Bill McGraw and Salowitz are passing acquaintances. But Salowitz has never visited Deadline Detroit's office and he had no prior knowledge of the quiz.
Salowitz was born in Detroit and grew up in Warren. He said he just happened to know the answer to the question about Ford Road -- many readers answered Michigan Avenue -- and he knew where George Washington's statue is because he walked past once time and stopped to read the plaque.
For Salowitz, finding the answer to the question about the organizer of the 1963 march was easy in this era of search engines, though readers who looked up each answer likely would have taken too long for a good finish.
"Nowadays there is no reason to get anything wrong," Salowitz said. "The power of Google."
