Q. What is the only state named after a U.S president?
A. Washington.
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Q. What 2 places in Washington have earned the name Graveyard of the Pacific?
A. The mouth of the Strait of Juan de Fuca and the Columbia River.
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Q. What is nearly the twice the size of Rhode Island and has about seven thousand residents?
A. The Yakima Indian Reservation.
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Q. Apple Tree Cove on the Kitsap Peninsula was given its name because of what mistake?
A. The flowering dogwoods were thought to be apple trees.
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Q. What historic site is now buried under lake Roosevelt?
A. Kettle Falls.
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Q. How many acres of national forest are in Washington?
A. Nine Million.
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Q. What do Mounts Olympus and Dryad have in common besides their Greek names?
A. Both are located in the Olympic Peninsula.
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Q. What is the area of Washington state?
A. 68,129 square miles, making it the 20th largest state.
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Q. What cities is the Washington’s self-proclaimed capital of the Northwest?
A. Redmond
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Q. What city is the Beef capital?
A. Ellensburg.
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Q. What city has the highest number if Ph.D’s?
A. Richland
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Q. Where was the first European settlement in Washington?
A. Fort Nunez Gaona at Neah Bay (1792)
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Q. What Washington City has the world’s record for snowfall in a single season?
A. Paradise (93.5 feet)
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Q. What is the deepest gorge in North America?
A. Hell’s canyon (over 5,000 feet deep) in Asotin County.
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Q. What has it surface 1,100 feet above sea level and its bottom 400 feet below sea level?
A. Lake Chelan.
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Q. What county in Washington has the largest area and the fewest people per mile in the state?
A. Okanogan.
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Q. What county is both the smallest and the totally unreachable by roads?
A. San Juan.
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Q. In what 2 crops does Yakima lead the country?
A. Mint and apples.
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Q. What 3 cities make up the Tri-Cities?
A. Kennewick, Pasco, Richland.
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Q. What city boasts the second largest skywalk system in the United States?
A. Spokane.
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Q. Where is the world’s largest single hop field?
A. Top pen ish (1,836 acres)
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