Washington State Trivia - Genius Level

The word "sasquatch" likely comes from the Southern Lushootseed languages, by adding the nominalizing affix s- to the root verb -kwec, which also appears in the word for "rabbit." How is -kwec best translated (as an infinitive)?

"They can stuff it in a missile case and let the Green Berets use it on the Viet Cong to end the war that way..."

This famous lagerstätte located in the Okanagan Highlands is a lacustrine deposit from the Ypresian stage of the lower Eocene, similar to Colorado's Green River Formation.

The Linnean (binomial) name of the most famous species of fish preserved at the above, related to modern cousins commonly sold at Pike Place Market.

1847 massacre in Walla Walla on suspicion of natives being poisoned by white settlers.

1983 massacre in Seattle at an illegal gambling club.

First known person to live in the area that is now Washington.

Fictitious denizen of the Olympic Peninsula created by "Lyle Zapato."

This fascinatingly scarred region of Eastern Washington was first documented in writing during Lewis and Clark's westward expedition...

...and in the 1920s was first suggested by geologist J. Harlan Bretz to be the result of this lake flooding.

Former director of the Fred Hutchinson Institute who received the Nobel Prize a day shy of three months after 9/11.

A place where you can scream that you hate Ronald Reagan, in either Moscow or the University of Washington Seattle campus.

Natural amphitheater whose name is a partial anagram of the nearest town.

Bill Gates' best known mathematical paper was written about this type of sorting algorithm.

Salish trickster-god who frequently plays the roles of both Pandora and Prometheus.

Baker : Fancher :: Collins : ?

Name shared by a glass-blower and a federal agent investigating the supernatural.

Horseshoe-shaped island.

Three years before Captain Cook, this Spaniard was the first known European to set foot in Washington.

Spain ceded some of its claims to the Pacific Northwest under the Treaty of Tordesillas to Britain following this series of three accords in the 1790s.

Preceding the underwater recovery of small fragments of a bolide in 2018 off the coast, only one meteorite had been observed to fall in Washington with a confirmed strewnfield. In what town did it fall?