Across
- 1. The Nutty Narrows Bridge in Longview. In 1963, this bridge was erected to provide above street crossing for _______.
- 2. Home town of the worlds largest egg
- 7. In the early 1930s Paul Tutmarc of Seattle, Washington, developed the first electric _____ guitar in its modern form.(This type of guitar normall only has 4 strings)
- 10. The Boeing Everett Factory is an airplane assembly __________ owned by Boeing. Located on the northeast corner of Paine Field, it is the largest _________ in the world by volume at 13,385,378 m3 (472,370,319 cu ft) and covers 399,480 m2 (98.3 acres).
- 12. Residents are called “_________” (emphasis on the third syllable, pronounced as tone). The four letter suffix means belonging to or relating to. It is a different form of the suffix that says this person is from Europe i.e. Euroean).
- 14. This tall mouintain in Northern Washington is considered the most likely mountain in the Cascade range to be the next to errupt.
- 17. Washington’s state insect is the Green Darner _______.(dra · guhn · flai)
- 20. Native Americans who once inhabited the area called it “The Black Bear Place”. Near the south end of Puget sound it is now known as _________.
- 22. The Tacoma ______ bridge was a short lived suspension bridge known as "galloping Gertie" for the 129 days it survived after opening before a dramatic collapse.
- 26. The tallest point in the Stat of Washington
- 27. ____ place market is Seattle's original farmers market and the center of locally sourced, artisan and specialty foods. Also known for "throwing fish"
- 29. This passenger airline was originally owned by the Boeing Airplane Company. (hint: made one : combined \ yu̇-ˈnī-təd )
- 30. The three letters that signify the type of object that was first photographed in the state of Washington
- 31. Seattle is the hometown of this very famous chain of coffe houses.
- 32. The bottom of this 50+ mile long lake, quite a ways from the ocean, is 400 feet below sea level. It is also the largest lake in the state.
- 33. This is the only state named after a president. What was that president's first name>
- 35. The state’s more than 50% land is covered in forests. And there is no surprise why it is nicknamed: the ______State.(Hint: not sometimes brown)
- 38. By the turn of the 20th century, Aberdeen had the distinction of being “the roughest town west of the Mississippi” because of excessive gambling, violence, extreme drug use and prostitution (the city remained off-limits to military personnel into the early 1980s).(Drive 50 miles nearly due west from Olympia, the city at the southern end of Pugot Sound.)
- 39. _______ has the world’s largest totem pole. It is 105 feet high and was carved from a single cedar by Indian sculptor brought from Alaska. You will find this city south of Seattle and its name is joined with Seattle to give the name of the major airport that services the area. Sea-Tac airport.
- 40. The ____ glacier is the longest of its kind in the 48 contiguous statges atg five miles long.
- 41. Before it became a state, the territory was called _____(named after the River which bisects the state north to south then turns and forms the border between Washington and Oregon). When it was granted statehood, the name was changed to Washington, supposedly so people wouldn’t confuse it with The District where the nations capital is located.
Down
- 1. This falls, perhaps the most famous in Washinton, plunges 100 feet further down than the Niagra falls.
- 3. This famous maker of commercial passenger jets has an airport that bears its' name in the city
- 4. The strange sounding city name in eastern washington sounds like it may have been named by a person who stutters. It is also the modern city closest to the Whitman mission where native americans massacred these missionaries who had been serving them for a number of years.
- 5. It’s Illegal to kill this creature (that many consider mythical) in Washington.
- 6. Washington state has more of these rivers of ice than the other 47 contiguous states combined.
- 8. Washington is home to four of the five, (_____ percent of the )longest floating bridges in the world: the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge and Homer M. Hadley Bridge over Lake Washington, and the Hood Canal Bridge connecting the Olympic and Kitsap Peninsulas.
- 9. The ______ fair, hosted by Seattle in 1962, was attended by your grandpa when he was in the 2nd grade.
- 11. The _____Petrified Forest, located just south of Interstate 90 on the Columbia River in central eastern Washington, is one of the largest petrified forests in the world.
- 13. Then number of volcano's in the state of Washington that are part of the Pacific Ring of Fire.
- 15. Washington state produces more of this type of fruit than any other state in the U.S.
- 16. The Governor Albert D. Rosellini Bridge at Evergreen Point is the longest _______ bridge in the world
- 18. Seattle. The actual name of the airport is now "King County International Airport ________ Field".
- 19. This town has the western most zip code in the 48 contiguous states.
- 21. This was supposed to be the name of the city that is now known as Arctic. Someone misread the application. This is one example of sloppy handwritting have very long term consequences.(er-t-aa)
- 23. Tacoma adopted its name after the nearby Mount _______, originally and locally called Takhoma or Tahoma. This tallest mountain in Washington dominates the skyline to the southeast
- 24. The percentage of non-religious people in Washington is the highest of any state, and it follows that _______ membership is among the lowest of all states
- 25. Southern terminus of the Alaska Marine Highway is this city in the state of Washington
- 26. Point _____ can only be accessed by land if you first go to another country (Canada). (hint look at the far NW corner of the state. that is inside puget sound
- 28. One species of crab found in the Pacific Ocean gets its name from the longest natural sand spit in the country: the ______ spit is 5.5-mile-long.
- 34. The ______ Peninsula is home to the only temperate rain forests in the continental United States.
- 36. The space _____ was built for the great event hosted by Seattle in 1962.
- 37. The Northwestern most point in the contiguous U.S. is Cape ______ on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula.