Washington State Trivia - Genius Level - Statistics

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A place where you can scream that you hate Ronald Reagan, in either Moscow or the University of Washington Seattle campus. Red Square
80%
Natural amphitheater whose name is a partial anagram of the nearest town. The Gorge in George
80%
Horseshoe-shaped island. Orcas Island
40%
Bill Gates' best known mathematical paper was written about this type of sorting algorithm. Pancake sort
40%
Name shared by a glass-blower and a federal agent investigating the supernatural. Dale
20%
First known person to live in the area that is now Washington. Kennewick Man
20%
1983 massacre in Seattle at an illegal gambling club. Wah Mee Massacre
20%
Three years before Captain Cook, this Spaniard was the first known European to set foot in Washington. Bruno de Heceta y Dudagoitia
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This fascinatingly scarred region of Eastern Washington was first documented in writing during Lewis and Clark's westward expedition... Channeled Scablands
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Baker : Fancher :: Collins : ? Denny
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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. Eosalmo driftwoodensis
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...and in the 1920s was first suggested by geologist J. Harlan Bretz to be the result of this lake flooding. Glacial Lake Missoula
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Former director of the Fred Hutchinson Institute who received the Nobel Prize a day shy of three months after 9/11. Leland H. Hartwell
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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. Nootka Sound Conventions
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Fictitious denizen of the Olympic Peninsula created by "Lyle Zapato." Pacific Northwest tree octopus
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Salish trickster-god who frequently plays the roles of both Pandora and Prometheus. Raven
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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. Stonerose
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"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..." The Aroma of Tacoma
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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)? To be wild
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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? Washougal
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1847 massacre in Walla Walla on suspicion of natives being poisoned by white settlers. Whitman Massacre
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