Washington #StateChallenge Meet-up and Trivia Quiz Study Guide

What do you know about the state of Washington? It rains a lot there!. What else do you know?

…and the GUEST HOST for the state of Washington?? @SilvyC !!!

In an effort to make sure that all attendees have a chance to become the KING/QUEEN of the featured state, we have decided to give all former Trivia Kings and Queens a deficit of “-200” points for each time they have previously won 1st place.

  1. This should give those who haven’t won before a better chance
  2. Provide some additional challenge to those who have won before

Here are our previous winners and their current deficits.

Meeting
Details

Date: Saturday, February 20, 2021
URL: The meet-up URLs will only be provided from the #Statechallellenge Google Group.

RSVP Link

Time:

  • NEW DELHI, India - 10:30p
  • Pakistan Standard Time - 10:00p
  • KYIV, Ukraine - 7:00p
  • LAGOS, Nigeria - 6:00p
  • BERLIN, Germany - 6:00p
  • LONDON, United Kingdom, England - 5:00p
  • BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - 2:00p
  • NEW YORK, United States, New York - 12:00p
  • SAN FRANCISCO, United States, California - 9:00a
  • SYDNEY, Australia - 4:00a Sun

Study
Guide

The currently posted articles

  1. The Evergreen State, Washington #StateChallenge @jayasimha78
  2. Pike Place and some facts…, Seattle, Washington #StateChallenge @jayasimha78
  3. Snoqualmie Falls, Washington #StateChallenge @jayasimha78
  4. Skagit Valley Tulip Festival, Washington #StateChallenge @jayasimha78

Articles will be added here as they are posted through Friday before the meet-up. There are a lot of good questions hidden in these posts! Time to study up!

===>>> Tell us about YOUR article!!! Provide a link in the comments below

Some
Fun
Facts

Unique fun places to visit and check out!

  1. SWEET STUFF - Despite New York coining the nickname “The Big Apple”, Washington is the state which produces the most apples out of all 50! They also produce the most pears, red raspberries, sweet cherries, and spearmint oil.
    • You can get this fresh produce from any boring grocery market but why would you when there’s plenty of fresh fruit stands and markets to choose from? Depending on where you visit in Washington will determine the food market you should look for.
  2. CAMOUFLAGED TOWN - During the period of World War II, there was a secret bomber-making factory south of Seattle, Washington. To hide the factory, Boeing camouflaged it by entirely covering it with a fake neighborhood created by a Hollywood set designer!
    • The fake neighborhood included fake houses, trees, and artificial sidewalks. The intention was to hide the presence of an airplane production facility down below from other potential bombers.
  3. WASHINGTON RAIN - It’s no surprise Washington gets their fair share of rain. Though it isn’t the rainiest state in America, it does get an average of 38.15 inches of rainfall a year.
    • But, Mt. Mitchell takes the trophy for the most rain a place in Washington ever got in a single day in 1986 with 14.26 inches!
  4. RUN FREE - Wild horses are beautiful animals often found on the West side of the United States. Though they are depicted running freely in deserts or farm-like areas, they are most often found in Indian Reservations.
    • If you’re looking for wild horses in Washington, you’ll find up to 12,000 of them roaming the Yakima Indian Reservation.
  5. A BIKE AND A TREE - Trees are stubborn, beautiful plants that always find a way to continue growing – until we cut them down, anyway. An example of such great stubbornness is found off Vashon Highway on Vashon Island in Washington state. Here is where you’ll find a bike that is completely grown into a tree.
    • Such a unique and strange occurrence is bound to have a legend associated with it. The story goes a young boy chained his bike to the tree before he had to leave for the war in 1914.
    • In the boy’s absence, the tree continued to grow, enveloping the bike as it did so. The bike now sits over seven feet off the ground!
  6. RING OF FIRE - There are plenty of states across America that are home to volcanoes – active or otherwise – Washington included. The Ring of Fire refers to 10 volcanoes that line the state.
    • Out of those 10, 5 of them are major volcanoes that a part of the Cascade Range: Mount Baker, Mount Rainer, Glacier Peak, Mount Adams, and Mount St. Helens. Mt. Rainer is also the highest place in Washington, reaching 14,410 feet above sea level!
  7. GLACIERS - Earth has seen at least 5 significant ice ages since its birth. If you don’t know what an ice age is, it’s a period of time when global temperatures turn cold with recurring glacial features expanding across the Earth’s surface.
    • The most commonly known glaciation period is known as the “Ice Age” which peaked about 18,000 years ago. Some scientists believe we are currently in another ice age due to the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets staying intact despite warmer temperatures.
    • With that being said, Washington is the most glaciated state in America with more than 3,000 glaciers.
  8. BALD EAGLES - What better place for the highest concentration for both our national bird and national animal than the only state named after a president? Travel to the San Juan Islands in Washington to find over 125 nesting pairs of bald eagles.
    • Here, you’ll find the most amount of bald eagles out of anywhere else in the United States. While some of them are migratory, others live permanently due to the abundance of fresh food readily available.
  9. OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON - Although Washington state has many well-known cities throughout the state, Seattle is perhaps the most well-known of them all, it isn’t our state capital. Instead, it’s Olympia, Washington. Native Americans who once inhabited the area called it “The Black Bear Place”.
  10. GREAT LENGTHS - You may not think of Washington as a beachy state due to its rainy weather and cold winters. However, it beats California and Florida for having the longest continuous beach in the United States in Long Beach Peninsula
  11. THE PIG WAR - America has gone to war with quite a few countries and even itself once over the last few hundred years. One of the countries we kept peace with over the years was Canada, though that almost didn’t happen.
    • There was a confrontation between the British Empire and the United States over country boundaries. It was then that we almost went to war over a pig. The confrontation was over the San Juan Islands; the dispute began when a pig who was eating trespassing and eating potato crops was shot. Thus began The Pig War.
  12. THE STATE FOSSIL - Every state has a state bird, state flag, state tree… you get the idea. Washington has a state fossil which is the Columbian Mammoth.
    • The best part about this state fact? A group of fourth-graders from Windsor Elementary worked with the state Legislator to make it happen!

What?

ALL Local Guides around the world are welcome to participate in the #StateChallenge!!

Everyone is invited to participate, whether they have visited the state themselves, or are daydreaming about what the featured have to offer.

If you write an article, make sure to link to it in the comments of this post AND put #StateChallenge in the title!

  • Submit your article by NOON Pacific Standard Time the day before the meet-up.
  • 500 words or less is best
  • Link your article in the comments so we can add it to the #StudyGuide

More details of the challenge are here.

Meet-up Format

To join the trivia game online during the meet-up, you will go to https://game.playfactile.com/join and then enter the pin number provided at meet-up time.

Previous winner RULES

Who

From Where

Featured State

Deficit

@JordanSB

North Carolina

Maine - New York - Texas

-600

@Erna_LaBeau

Michigan

Montana - North Carolina

-400

@PeteMHW

United Kingdom

4th of July - Massachusetts - Washington DC - Guam - South Dakota

-1000

@AdrianLunsong

Malaysia

Indiana

-200

@jayasimha78

California

Arizona - California - Georgia - New York - Alaska - Texas (Bingo) - Alabama

-1200

@KashifMisidia

Pakistan

Florida - Missouri - Texas (Bingo)

-400

@SilvyC

Argentina

Michigan - Connecticut - US Virgin Islands - Halloween - Illinois - Christmas (Bingo)

-1000

@Melissa_Langlois

Canada

Vermont

-200

@TusharSuradkar

India

Kansas (Bingo)

__*Previous week Trivia Game*__

**The South Dakota winner was @PeteMHW **!!!

Congratulations Peter! It was a very tight race!

This post is part of the #StateChallenge organized by @Kwiksatik and @Denise_Barlock. If you want to find out more, check out this post. You can also find other submissions by searching the #StateChallenge hashtag

What is our #StateChallenge meet-up schedule for the next couple of months?



State



Meet-up date

Washington - Guest Host - @SilvyC Feb 20, 2021
Arkansas - Guest Host - @lakeoftea Feb 27, 2021
Punjab, Pakistani - @KashifMisidia #WorldChallenge Mar 6, 2021
Tennessee - Guest Host - @SP31 Mar 13, 2021
Mississippi - Guest Host - @JaneBurunina Mar 20, 2021
Maharashtra, India - Guest Host - @RosyKohli #WorldChallenge Mar 27, 2021
Oregon - Guest Host - @anuspice Apr 3, 2021
Maryland - Guest Host - @AdrianLunsong (Moved from Mar 6 - new date is being validated) Apr 10, 2021
Colorado - Guest Host - @LeyleyS Apr 17, 2021
Indonesia - Guest Host - @Erna_LaBeau #WorldChallenge Apr 24, 2021

Want to be a #StateChallenge guest host? Or know someone who should be? Let us know!

********************************************** REMINDER

ALL meet-up URLs will ONLY be provided from the #Statechallellenge Google Group. If you want to attend a #StateChallenge meet-up, you MUST join https://groups.google.com/g/local-guide-statechallenge where the meet-up URLs will be posted. To be approved as a member of the group, you MUST provide either your Connect ID, Connect Profile URL, or Google Maps Profile URL to validate that you are a Local Guide. Thank you :slightly_smiling_face:

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@Denise_Barlock

Thanks for the update. We all enjoy the #state challenge. It’s fun playing way we learn so much. Thank you. & all those who take part.

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Thanks for the update @Denise_Barlock .

I participated in the State challenge for the first time and it was really great experience for me.

Thanks to @KashifMisidia for inviting me.

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