Quiz | Snohomish County 101

How much do you know about Snohomish County? Is it larger in square miles than New Jersey? Does it have the world's biggest building? Where is The Wayside Chapel? And who was Tseultd?

Today, we're publishing a 50-question multiple-choice quiz designed to test your knowledge of the county.

Maybe you know enough to teach Snohomish County 101. Or maybe you need to get out more.

No, you won't lose your official Snohomish County Residency Permit if you don't do so well.

Yes, you might win some prizes if you do well.

For some questions, there are more than one correct answer, and all of those correct answers must be noted. For example, if two of the four possibilities are correct, you must mark both.

We'll publish the answers and announce the grand-prize winner in next week's edition of The Times of Snohomish County.

Geography

1. The county is larger in square miles than which of the following states:

A: Delaware

B: Massachusetts

C: New Jersey

D: Rhode Island

2. What is the highest point in Snohomish County?

A: Mount Pilchuck

B: Glacier Peak

C: Mount Rainier

D: Mount Index

3. Which river is not in the county?

A: Skykomish

B: Stillaguamish

C: Snoqualmie

D: Skagit

4: What road takes you past the Big Four Ice Caves?

A: Icicle Creek Road

B: Mountain Loop Highway

C: Interstate 5

D: None of them

5. What is the principal source of drinking water for Snohomish County?

A: Spada Lake

B: Lake Stevens

C: Snohomish River

D: The snowpack on Glacier Peak

6. What is the largest lake, in acres, in Snohomish County?

A: Lake Stevens

B: Lake Goodwin

C: Spada Lake

D: Lake Washington

7. What's the name of the man-made island off the Everett waterfront?

A: Jetty Island B: Hat Island C: Whidbey Island D: Mercer Island

8. Which of these is not a state park in the county?

A: Mount Pilchuck State Park

B: Wenberg State Park

C: Edmonds Underwater State Park

D: Wallace Falls State Park

9. Why was Jetty Island created?

A: To stop submarines from going up the Snohomish River.

B: To make the Everett harbor safer for ships.

C: As an experimental farm for saltwater strawberries.

D: As a dumping ground for unused ore from the Monte Cristo mines.

10. What's the best way to travel between Monroe and Granite Falls?

A: Menzel Lake Road/Lake Roesiger Road/Woods Creek Road

B: Highway 92/Highway 9/High-

way 2

C: Highway 92/Highway 530/Highway 9/North Cascades Highway/Highway 153/Highway 97/High-

way 2

D: Take the bus

Politics

11. How did the late Sen. Henry Jackson get his nickname "Scoop"?

A: Digging ditches

B: Hawking newspapers

C: Working at Baskin-Robbins

D: His sister thought he resembled a comic strip character by that name

12. Which of these people has not been Snohomish County executive:

A: Aaron Reardon

B: Willis Tucker

C: Earl Torgeson

D: Bob Drewel

13. Which Snohomish County politician has come closest to becoming U.S. president?

A: Jack Westland

B: Jack Metcalf

C: Mon Wallgren

D: Henry Jackson

Sports

14. Which athlete from the county is in the baseball Hall of Fame?

A: Earl Torgeson

B: Gary Cea

C: Earl Averill

D: Chris Chandler

15. What was the name of Everett's minor-league baseball team before it became the AquaSox?

A: Milltowners

B: Giants

C: Seagulls

D: Bruins

16. Which of these athletes who played high-school ball in the county were named to the 1925 All-America college football team along with Red Grange and Ernie Nevers?

A: Curt Marsh

B: Chris Chandler

C: George Wilson

D: Steve Thompson

17. Which former University of Washington basketball coach graduated from Lake Stevens High School?

A: Clarence "Hec" Edmundson

B: Marv Harshman

C: Bob Bender

D: Andy Russo

18. Which high-school football team won the national championship?

A: Snohomish, 1976

B. Everett, 1920

C: Everett, 1983

D: Cascade, 1991

Military

19. What is the name of LST (Landing Ship Tank) 1126, a Navy ship launched in 1945 and used in World War II, Korea and Vietnam?

A: USS Snohomish County

B: USS Henry Jackson

C: USS Abraham Lincoln

D: USS Norm Dicks

20. Name the largest ship that calls the county home.

A: USS Enterprise

B: USS Abraham Lincoln

C: USS Carl Vinson

D: USS Boeing 747

21. In what year did Naval Station Everett become operational?

A: 1994

B: 1996

C: 1988

D: None of them

Cities

22. Which city hosts an annual Strawberry Festival?

A: Maltby

B: Marysville

C: Machias

D: All of them

23. What is the county's youngest incorporated city?

A: Mill Creek

B: Tulalip

C: Paine Field

D: Woodway

24. Why did Monroe have to change its name from Park Place?

A: The owners of the game Monopoly sued the city.

B: The Postal Service wasn't accepting two-word names then.

C: Because Snohomish was going to call itself Boardwalk.

D: Officials realized the city had no parks.

25. Who was Everett named after?

A: Everett Colby

B: Colby Everett

C: C. Everett Koop

D: It's a contraction of Ever — Ette

26. What city calls itself the "Antiques Capital of the Northwest"?

A: Everett

B: Arlington

C: Snohomish

D: Edmonds

27. Where was the first county seat?

A: Mukilteo

B: Everett

C: Snohomish

D: Monte Cristo

28. What's the second most populous city in the county?

A: Marysville

B: Lynnwood

C: Edmonds

D: Everett

29. What city has the highest per-capita income?

A: Mukilteo

B: Woodway

C: Edmonds

D: Stanwood

30. What city has the highest population density (most people per square mile)?

A: Lynnwood

B: Mountlake Terrace

C: Bothell

D: Everett

31. What's the oldest incorporated city in the county?

A: Edmonds

B: Everett

C: Snohomish

D: Mill Creek

People

32. Which of these federally recognized tribes calls the county home?

A: Tulalips

B. Stillaguamish

C: Skokomish

D: Sauk-Suiattle

33. Who was Mrs. M.T.B. Hanna?

A: Founder of the Edmonds Review newspaper.

B: Model for Rosie the Riveter posters during World War II.

C: Founder of Henna Cosmetics.

D: First child born in Mountlake Terrace (her initials stand for Mountlake Terrace Born).

34. What is painter Kenneth Callahan's connection to the county?

A: He was born in Granite Falls.

B: He discovered Granite Falls.

C: He had a studio near Granite Falls.

D: His parents homesteaded near Granite Falls.

35. What is painter Chuck Close's connection to the county?

A: He was born in Monroe.

B: He graduated from Archbishop Murphy High School.

C: He graduated from Everett High School.

D: His work is exclusively landscapes painted in the county.

36. Who is Paine Field named for?

A: The late pro golfer Payne Stewart.

B. Revolutionary Thomas Paine.

C: Actress Sally Field.

D: World War I veteran Topliff Olin Paine.

37. How did the city of Sultan get its name?

A: Its founder was a fan of the Ottoman Dynasty.

B: It's an acronym for "Stand Upstream and Let The Antelope eat Nachos."

C: It's named after Native chief Tseultd.

D: Its origin has been lost to history.

The county

38. What's the population of the county, as of April 2007, according to the state's estimate?

A: 686,300

B: 832,000

C: 447,500

D: 1,061,000

39. In what year was Snohomish County created?

A: 1889

B: 1861

C: 1929

D: 1776

40. Before it became a county, Snohomish County was part of what county?

A: King

B: Freedom

C: Island

D: Monte Cristo

41: What's the county's most popular tourist attraction?

A: The Boeing Tour Center

B: Downtown Snohomish

C: Imagine Children's Museum

D: Mountain Loop Highway

42. What's the most-visited county park?

A: McCollum Pioneer Park

B: Gissberg Twin Lakes

C: Centennial Trail

D: Kayak Point Park

Miscellaneous

43. What is the official name of the little white church next to Highway 2 between Monroe and Sultan?

A: You're Driving Highway 2; Better Stop and Pray Chapel

B: The Mini Chapel

C: Prayers Come in All Sizes Chapel

D: The Wayside Chapel

44: In what year was the pioneer cabin on display at the Evergreen State Fairgrounds in Monroe built?

A: 1994

B: 1887

C: 1909

D: None of them

45. What's the name of the sewage-treatment plant King County is building in Snohomish County?

A: Brightsewer

B: Sweetsmell

C: Brightwater

D: Bright Point

46. By what measure is Everett's Boeing plant the world's largest building?

A: Has the largest parking garage

B: Volume

C: Width

D: Length

47. Why is the traffic on Interstate 5 through Everett always so congested?

A: It just is; deal with it.

B: King County residents moving here.

C: Construction, construction and more construction.

D: Since people can no longer "cruise Colby" in downtown Everett, they slow down and "cruise I-5."

48. What is the oldest theater in Snohomish County still in use?

A: Everett Theatre

B: Puget Park Drive-In

C: Olympic Theatre

D: Galaxy 12.

49. What was the name of the rock festival held near Sultan in August 1968?

A: Snohomish County Rocks for Peace

B: Sky River Rock Festival and Lighter Than Air Fair

C: Farm-Aid

D: Tye-Died and Full of Love for the World

50. How do you think you did on this quiz?

A: Great; I qualified for residency.

B: So-so; I need to get out more.

C: Not so good; where am I?

D: It's time to move to King County.