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Washington State Trivia

This week we celebrate the state of Washington, where I will be when you get this. I thought I would torture the people there with some trivia, which I’m happy to share with you this week.

In addition, I plan to add a new feature to my newsletters – a weekly logic puzzle. This week’s question appears after the trivia.

Smithsonian Air and Space Museum

Questions

  1. 1. What is the (unofficial) nickname for Washington?
  2. 2. What is the official state sport of Washington?
  3. 3. What is the official dance of Washington?
  4. 4. What are the five most populated cities in Washington, in order?
  5. 5. Washington has how many federally recognized Native tribes?
  6. 6. What are the Washington’s five volcanoes in the Cascade Range?
  7. 7. What is the name of the largest hydroelectric plant in the US?
  8. 8. In what year did Mount Saint Helens erupt?
  9. 9. What are the three national parks in Washington?
  10. 10. The largest building in the world (by volume) is in Washington. What is it?
  11. 11. Where is the original Starbucks?
  12. 12. Washington has the longest floating bridge. What is its name and which two cities does it connect?
  13. 13. Name two unique things about the Washington state flag.
  14. 14. Who was King County originally named after?
  15. 15. Who is King County named after now?
  16. 16. What is the nickname for Seattle?
 
Worden State Historic Park
For Worden State Historic Park. This is where the movie ‘An Officer and a Gentleman’ was filmed.

Answers

  1. 1. The Evergreen State
  2. 2. Pickleball
  3. 3. The square dance
  4. 4. Seattle, Spokane, Tacoma, Vancouver, Bellevue
  5. 5. 29
  6. 6. Mount Baker, Mount Rainier, Mount St Helens, Mount Adams, Glacier Peak
  7. 7. Grand Coulee Dam
  8. 8. 1980 (May 18)
  9. 9. Olympic National Park, Mount Rainier National Park, North Cascades National Park
  10. 10. Boeing plant in Everett
  11. 11. Pike Place Market
  12. 12. Evergreen point floating bridge -- Seattle and Bellevue
  13. 13. It’s green and depicts a real person.
  14. 14. William Rufus DeVane King
  15. 15. Martin Luther King Jr.
  16. 16. The Emerald City
 
Summit of Mount Olympus
Summit of Mount Olympus

Trivia Sources:

The Mandagies

RCW

List of municipalities in Washington

William R. King

Logic Puzzle

There are five gopher holes in a row. In one of them resides a gopher. Every day you may inspect a single hole for the gopher. If you choose incorrectly, that night the gopher will relocate to an adjacent hole from his current location in either direction. Your goal is to find the gopher with certainty in the fewest possible days. What should be your strategy?

For extra credit, what should be your strategy with n gopher holes?