| Letter | Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | The crisp cash crop of the Columbia Valley | Apple | 91%
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| E | Headquarters of Boeing, home to world's largest building | Everett | 73%
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| M | Ash from this volcano reached Oklahoma | Mt. Saint Helens | 73%
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| N | Foo Fighter's Dave Grohl started in this (admittedly more popular) band | Nirvana | 73%
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| F | Gary Larson started this absurdist comic while at WSU | The Far Side | 73%
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| G | Washington's richest man | Bill Gates | 64%
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| I | Unlike many states, Washington's government does not collect these | Income taxes | 64%
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| J | Roughly 1 percent of Washingtonians claim ancestry from this country | Japan | 64%
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| W | A town so nice they named it twice | Walla Walla | 55%
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| K | Seattle's long-awaited hockey team | Kraken | 45%
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| O | The Puget Sound population of this cetacean is on the brink of extinction | Orca | 45%
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| R | The last Republican presidential candidate to win the state | Reagan | 45%
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| T | Frank Herbert, author of "Dune", was born in this town | Tacoma | 45%
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| L | Spokane has a festival devoted to this aromatic flowering tree | Lilac | 36%
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| S | Four dams on this river prevent salmon from reaching Idaho | Snake | 36%
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| U | Nearly one in five workers belong to one of these, among the highest in America | Unions | 36%
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| Y | One of the larger towns east of the Cascades | Yakima | 36%
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| C | Canyon-like landform, one is famous for its dam | Coullee | 27%
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| Z | This retail business, aimed at skaters and snowboarders, started in Seattle | Zumiez | 27%
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| P | This newly-designated Olympic sport began on Brainbridge Island | Pickle Ball | 18%
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| X | X is the Roman numeral for 10. What movie with 10 in the title takes place in Seattle? | 10 Things I Hate about You | 9%
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| D | A downer of a location named by Lewis and Clark at the oceanic midpoint of their 1804 journey | Cape Disappointment | 9%
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| Q | Taholah and Queets are towns on this coastal Indian reservation | Quinault | 9%
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| B | This widely televised conflict put globalism under scrutiny in 1999 | Battle of Seattle | 0%
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| H | A nuclear laboratory (and source of radioactive pollution) in central WA | Hanford | 0%
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| V | Best selling instrumental rock band ever, from Tacoma | The Ventures | 0%
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