Washington Facts
Who is Washington's current governor?
Who is Bob Ferguson
What is the capital of Washington State?
These Native people traditionally lived all over Chelan County.
Who are the Wenatchi?
What animal almost started a war in Washington?
What is a pig?
This NFL team plays at Lumen Field in Seattle.
What is the Seattle Seahawks?
This city, located in Eastern Washington, is known as the "Apple Capital of the World."
What is Wenatchee?
What is Washington's State bird?
What is the American Gold Finch?
This mountain is the tallest in Washington State.
What is Mt. Rainier (Tahoma, or Tacobet)?
This period of conflict in the 1960s and 1970s started over disputes over fishing rights between Native American tribes and non-Native fishers. (Many disputes are still ongoing)
What are the Fish Wars?
Washington played a key role in the 1890s as the the departure point for prospectors to this historical event.
What is the Klondike Gold Rush?
The Moose is mascot to what Washington Team?
What is the Seattle Mariners?
In Skamania County Washington it is illegal to hunt this creature.
What is Big Foot?
Washington's state insect is this helpful creature.
What is the Green Darner Dragonfly?
This archipelago (group of islands) lies in the middle of the Salish Sea.
What are the San Juan Islands?
These schools were used to try and assimilate children into White culture.
What are Native Boarding Schools?
By the 1820s who had claim on the Oregon Territory ( later called Washington, and Oregon State)?
What are Great Britain, and the United States?
This sport does not have a professional team in Washington: baseball, football, basketball, or hockey?
What is basketball?
What iconic Washington building was built during the 1962 World's Fair?
What is the Space Needle?
The geographic center of Washington State is near this small town.
What is Cashmere Washington?
This mountain range separates Western and Eastern Washington.
What are the Cascade Mountains?
This major river was important for salmon fishing to many tribes, including the Spokane and Yakama.
What is the Columbia River?
In the 1850s, Isaac Stevens signed multiple treaties with tribes while holding this political role.
What is territorial governor?
This running back, known for “Beast Mode,” helped the Seahawks win Super Bowl XLVIII.
Who is Marshawn Lynch?
In the 1990s Seattle became famous for the music genre "Grunge" name two artists from this genre.
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What is the exact date Washington became a state?
November, 11, 1889 (11/11/1889)
What is the Puget Sound?
Native groups in Washington are often divided into these two cultural regions.
What are Coastal and Plateau?
Washington was the ___ state to enter the Union.
What is the 42nd?
This junior hockey team represents Wenatchee in the WHL (Western Hockey League).
What is the Wenatchee Wild?
The deepest lake in Washington State, and the third deepest in the U.S., is this narrow, long body of water.
What is Lake Chelan?
This marine mammal which is closely related to dolphins can be seen in pods around Washington's coasts.
What is an orca, or killer whale?
This line serves as the international border between Washington and Canada. It runs most of the length of the United States.
What is the 49th Parallel?
This tragic event occurred before the Cayuse War, when a measles outbreak among Native people led to the deaths of several missionaries.
What is the Whitman Massacre?
This act of Congress allowed settlers to claim 160 acres in Washington Territory.
What is the Homestead Act?
This quarterback led the Seahawks to back-to-back Super Bowl appearances.
Who is Russel Wilson?
What is Twilight?
The only rainforest in the contiguous United States is located in this Washington park.
What is the Olympic National Park?
This massive ancient canyon was once the largest waterfall in the world.
What is Dry Falls?
The term “tribal sovereignty” means tribes have this kind of authority.
What is the right to govern themselves?
Washington was the first state on the West Coast to grant women the right to vote. What year did this occur? (Hint: 10 years before women gained the right country-wide).
What is 1910?
This former Seattle NBA team moved to Oklahoma City in 2008.
What are the Seattle SuperSonics?
The is the only town in the U.S. that you can access by crossing the Canadian border and then crossing back into the U.S. without going through Canadian customs again, is located on this Washington island.
What is Point Roberts?