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On Thanksgiving Eve 1971, this unidentified hijacker extorted $200,000 in ransom from a Northwest Orient flight over Portland, then parachuted into the night sky somewhere over southwest Washington.
who is... D.B. Cooper
1869 was the year this mystic healer of the Russian royal family and this Indian independence leader were both born.
Who are... Rasputin and Mahatma Gandhi
Prestige and Preconceptions
what is... Pride and Prejudice
In the hit 2000s animated tv show, Bob is the name of this iconic fruit.
What is... a tomato?
what is... 8:30 AM
This UW student abducted two women from Lake Sammamish State Park on a single July afternoon in 1974. He eventually confessed to 36 murders across seven states before his 1989 execution in Florida.
Born less than a year apart, this European composers' Third symphony was originally dedicated to this famous general.
Who are... Beethoven and Napoleon Bonaparte
The Aged Angler and the Abyss
what is... the Old Man and the Sea
Formally introduced in 2008, Bob is generic mascot for this type of LEGO brick.
what is... a minifigure?
$13,406 is what yearly cost?
what is... in-state (WA) tuition at UW.
This self-taught pilot from Camano Island, Washington evaded law enforcement across North America for two years, stealing small planes, boats, and cars
who is... the Barefoot Bandit (Colton Harris-Moore)
Both born in 1564, one gave us Hamlet and one gave us the heliocentric solar system.
Who are... Shakespeare and Galileo
Orient of the Oasis
what is... East of Eden
Bob Ross, the famous PBS painter, famously rocked this iconic hairstyle.
What is... an afro?
This is the lowest possible "class code" at UW
i.e. HSTRY 494
what is... 100
Headquartered in Seattle and once the nation's largest, this institution's collapse in September 2008 remains the largest bank failure in American history at $307 billion in assets.
what is... Washington Mutual (WaMu)
The woman who imagined the first artificial human and the one of the first women in computer science were born 18 years apart and lived in the same part of London.
Who are... Mary Shelley and Ada Lovelace
A Myth of Multiple Municipalities
A plumb-bob exploits this force to establish a perfectly true vertical line.
What is... gravity?
This is the current president of the University of Washington
Most of the victims of this murderer were found along the same King County river that bears his nickname.
who is... Gary Ridgway (the Green River Killer)
This woman who founded the modern philosophy of sanitation and this philosopher who most famously declared the death of God both lived to witness the dawn of the 20th century.
Who are... Florence Nightingale and Friedrich Nietzsche
Sanguine Summit
what is... Blood Meridian
DAILY DOUBLE
"Bobbing" is the act of shaving down this part of a revolver so it is less likely to catch on clothing when drawn quickly.
what is... the hammer?
According to UW's website, UW offers over this number of RSO's every year.
what is... over 1100?