Bankruptcy
The University District
Pike Place Market
Safeco Field
Question 2 TOM REESE / THE SEATTLE TIMESAmong Seattle Center's attractions is Paul Allen's $100 million EMP whose initials stand for:
Emergency Medical Pavilion
Excuse My Paranoia
Environmental Movement Portal
Experience Music Project
The Fremont Summer Solstice Parade is known for its naked:
Ambition
Cyclists
Jugglers
Security guards
Now, let's toughen it up a bit:
Which of these cities get more inches of rain a year than Seattle?
Miami
New York
Washington, D.C.
All of the above
None of the above
Question 5 KEN LAMBERT / THE SEATTLE TIMESThe 1962-vintage Space Needle remains the city's signature landmark, evident in this adjacent photo taken from:
Kerry Park on Queen Anne Hill
Volunteer Park on Capitol Hill
Alki Beach in West Seattle
Life Magazine
The restaurant atop the Space Needle, built for the 1962 World's Fair, is known for its:
View of the Pacific Ocean
Outside dining area
Dining room that rotates about once an hour
Prices that rotate once a day
In 1859, Great Britain and the United States nearly went to war when an American farmer shot a pig:
Out of a cannon
In the San Juan Islands
With a Trident missile
Owned by a British general
Question 8 BENJAMIN BENSCHNEIDER / THE SEATTLE TIMESThe venerable Pike Place Market, which turns 100 next year, is one of Seattle's favorite tourist destinations because of the wide variety of shops and colorful names. Which of these is not a store in the Market?
Chicken Valley
Dog Alley
Pike Place Horse Meats
Holy Cow Records
Over the years, it has been called the tallest office building outside of New York City, west of Chicago and even west of Ohio. This heralded Seattle skyscraper is:
The Seattle Tower
The Smith Tower
A figment of the Chamber of Commerce's imagination
Scheduled to be converted into condos
Question 10 JIMI LOTT / THE SEATTLE TIMESAccording to the title of this Fremont sculpture, these people are waiting for:
Godot
The Monorail
The Interurban
The Mariners to win a pennant
100 is the:
Highest temperature officially recorded for Seattle
Average age of drivers in Ballard
Distance, in feet, from home plate to first base at Safeco Field
Number of people who climb Mount Rainier each day in summer
Question 12
MARK HARRISON / THE SEATTLE TIMESThese people on a beach near Gig Harbor are looking for:
A shortcut to China
A giant clam
Kelp to be used in herbal medicine
Olympia oysters
Hansa, which has attracted tourists and locals alike for five years, is:
An elephant
An International District restaurant
Paul Allen's rock band
Hanford's Association of Nuclear Scientific Achievement
A spot near the University Bridge marks the site of the first:
UW Administration Building
U.S. Olympic rowing victory
Wireless Internet "hot spot"
Red Robin burger joint
By the end of 2008, the Port of Seattle hopes to reduce flight delays at Sea-Tac by:
Replacing human air-traffic controllers with computers
Transferring at least two airlines to Boeing Field
Reducing the amount of luggage a passenger can carry
Adding a third runway
The University of Washington is the reigning NCAA champion in:
Rowing
Women's volleyball
Oyster shucking
Debate
The measurement "930 feet" applies to the:
Height of the Space Needle
Deepest point in Puget Sound
Ichiro's longest home run
Amount of monorail track $1 billion can build
"Jesus Christ Made Seattle Under Protest" is a handy way to remember:
Why it rains so much
Downtown street names
The Mariners' pitching rotation
The battle cry of WTO demonstrators
Which of the following is a Washington State ferry?
Edmund Fitzgerald
Sealth
Dosewallips
Snoqualmie
Which of the following is a Washington State ferry route?
Port Townsend-Kingston
Port Angeles-Humptulips
Point Defiance-Tahlequah
Seattle-Edmonds
Question 21 DUSTIN SNIPES / THE SEATTLE TIMESThis distinctive diamond-shaped pattern of steel lattice work is a signature feature of:
Seattle's downtown library
Seismic supports for the Alaskan Way Viaduct
The new Sonics arena
Bellevue's Lincoln Center
Question 22The Isamu Noguchi sculpture "Black Sun" is an inviting place for this youngster to sit at:
The Seattle Center
Volunteer Park
Gas Works Park
The Les Schwab tire store on Aurora
The boom-and-bust state economy is booming again. Last year, Washington replaced Indiana as the:
Apple Capital of the World
Home to the greatest number of start-up companies
State with the most million-dollar homes
Nation's 14th most-populous state
Question 24
PEDRO PEREZ / THE SEATTLE TIMESSeattle has been the home to a lot of great musicians over the years — Jimi, Quincy, Ray, Kurt, Eddie, Ernestine, The Tuba Guy. But the best-selling of them all is a long-haired guy from Franklin High named Kenny G who has sold 48 million copies of his own recordings in the U.S. What does the G stand for?
Gershwin
Garfield
Gorelick
Gore-Tex
Boeing is flying high again due to the popularity of its new fuel-efficient 787. The company, founded in Seattle in 1916, revolutionized the travel industry in 1954 by:
Building the first plane that could arrive on time Question 26 MIKE SIEGEL / THE SEATTLE TIMES
Building the first plane that could go coast-to-coast without stopping
Building the first plane that could take off and land without a pilot
Building the first successful commercial jet plane
The floating bridges across Lake Washington and Hood Canal were built instead of traditional suspension bridges:
To cut costs
Because of the depth of the water
Because of the temperature of the water
As an experiment by University of Washington engineering students to see if concrete could float
Question 27 COURTESY BILL KOSSEN COLLECTION A 12-year-old Bill Gates, bottom row, far right poses with his confirmation class at University Congregational Church in Seattle, April 7, 1968.When he was 12 years old, Bill Gates won a free dinner at the Space Needle from his minister at Seattle's University Congregational Church for:
Installing new windows at the church
Fixing the church's typewriters so the keys wouldn't freeze
Reciting from memory the Sermon on the Mount
Buying the Space Needle and donating it to the church
Before it became better known in recent years as Belltown (named for Seattle pioneer William Bell), the now-thriving and trendy neighborhood just north of downtown Seattle went by this name:
NoDo
Denny Triangle
Denny Regrade
Denny's Grand Slam Neighborhood
Seafair, the Seattle area's summertime celebration for more than a half century, features a race on Green Lake in which strange-looking craft are held afloat by:
University of Washington freshmen
Milk cartons
Balloons
The lake's signature layer of green algae
Over the years, Seattle has been named the most livable, most bicyclable and most recyclable city in the nation, among other honors. This spring, it topped a list by having the highest percentage of:
High-school dropouts
College graduates
People wired with coffee
People tired of such lists
This vintage video captures one of most historic moments in Seattle sports. It shows:
The first time someone went over 100 mph in a boat
The first time someone went over 200 mph in a boat
The first time someone went overboard in a boat
The first time something tragic happened during the big race held every summer on Lake Washington
Many people who live in the Seattle area have a good sense of humor. That's not surprising when the weather can be such a joke. But this local man's hearty laugh is considered legendary and once inspired the headline: "The laugh heard 'round the world". It belongs to:
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates
Mariners manager Mike Hargrove
Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos
KING-TV meteorologist Jeff Renner
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