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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%
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| Natural amphitheater whose name is a partial anagram of the nearest town. | The Gorge in George | 80%
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| Horseshoe-shaped island. | Orcas Island | 40%
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| Bill Gates' best known mathematical paper was written about this type of sorting algorithm. | Pancake sort | 40%
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| Name shared by a glass-blower and a federal agent investigating the supernatural. | Dale | 20%
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| First known person to live in the area that is now Washington. | Kennewick Man | 20%
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| 1983 massacre in Seattle at an illegal gambling club. | Wah Mee Massacre | 20%
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| Three years before Captain Cook, this Spaniard was the first known European to set foot in Washington. | Bruno de Heceta y Dudagoitia | 0%
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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 | 0%
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| Baker : Fancher :: Collins : ? | Denny | 0%
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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 | 0%
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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 | 0%
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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 | 0%
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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 | 0%
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| Fictitious denizen of the Olympic Peninsula created by "Lyle Zapato." | Pacific Northwest tree octopus | 0%
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| Salish trickster-god who frequently plays the roles of both Pandora and Prometheus. | Raven | 0%
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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 | 0%
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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 | 0%
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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 | 0%
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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 | 0%
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| 1847 massacre in Walla Walla on suspicion of natives being poisoned by white settlers. | Whitman Massacre | 0%
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