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Photo: Ron Clausen, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.Explore the Pacific Northwest with this quiz on Washington State. Test your knowledge of its vibrant cities, rugged peaks, unique wildlife, and famous history!
Raindrop Rookie 0–4 · Cascades Cruiser 5–8 · Evergreen Expert 9–10
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Washington is widely known as the Evergreen State due to its abundant forests of firs, hemlocks, and cedars. Pioneer and historian C.T. Conover popularized the name in the late 19th century, and today it appears on license plates and the state quarter, even though lawmakers have long debated making it official.
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Washington grows about seventy percent of all apples grown in the United States. The state's dry, sunny eastern valleys, irrigated by mountain runoff, provide the perfect climate for orchards to thrive.
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Starbucks opened in 1971 just around the corner on Western Avenue and moved into Seattle's historic Pike Place Market five years later. Back then it only sold roasted coffee beans rather than brewed drinks. The Pike Place shop still keeps its rustic look and the original brown logo, and tourists queue up to visit it.
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William Boeing founded his company in Seattle in 1916, and its first factory was an old shipyard building on the Duwamish River known as the 'Red Barn'. The giant factory in nearby Everett, where the 747 jumbo jet was built for more than 50 years, only opened much later, in 1967.
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Jimi Hendrix was born in Seattle in 1942 and began playing guitar there as a teenager. Today, you can visit a bronze statue of him in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood, and he is buried in nearby Renton.
Photo: Original photographer unknown, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
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The iconic Space Needle was constructed as the centerpiece of the 1962 World's Fair, officially named the Century 21 Exposition. It was designed to reflect the fair's futuristic, space-age theme and offers panoramic views of the Cascades.
Photo: Jordon Kalilich, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
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Standing at over twelve thousand feet, Mount Adams is the second-tallest peak in Washington. Like Mount Rainier, it is an active stratovolcano in the Cascade Range, though it hasn't erupted for over a thousand years.
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Despite its odd spelling, the geoduck (pronounced 'gooey-duck') is a highly prized delicacy. It is the largest burrowing clam in the world, capable of living for over one hundred years in the sandy shores of the Pacific Northwest.
Photo: The Evergreen State College, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0.
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On May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted with a massive lateral blast that removed the top thirteen hundred feet of the mountain. It remains the most economically destructive volcanic event in United States history.
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While Seattle is the largest city and Tacoma is a major historic port, Olympia has been the capital since the territory was formed in 1853. The beautiful legislative building features one of the tallest masonry domes in the world.
Photo: OceanLoop, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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