60+ Amazing Washington Trivia Questions and Answers
BY Ambreen Zahra
Washington is the 42nd state to join the Union. The name of the state was given after the first President of the U.S, George Washington. It is the only state in the U.S which name is given in the name of the President of the nation. Moreover, the state ranks 18th based on area and 13th with respect to the population among other states of the country. The capital of Washington is Olympia while the largest city is Seattle. Seattle is home to the first revolving restaurant and the biggest coffee chain, Starbucks.
Furthermore, the largest online store, Amazon.com, and the wealthiest man, Microsoft’s founder Bill Gates belong to the Washington state. Learn more information about the state in the given 60+ Washington trivia questions. Hence, continue reading and you will get amazed by knowing the facts about the state.
Washington Trivia Questions
1. What is the official name of Washington?
Answer: State of Washington
2. For whom the name of the state was given?
Answer: The first U.S President, George Washington
3. Which state is bordered to the south of Washington?
Answer: Oregon
4. What is the rank of the state based on joining the Union?
Answer: 42nd
5. When the state was admitted to the Union?
Answer: In 1889
6. Which city is the state capital of Washington?
Answer: Olympia
7. Which is the state’s largest city?
Answer: Seattle
8. What is the rank of the state based on the area?
Answer: 18th
9. What is the rank of the state based on population?
Answer: 13th
10. How much is the average population of the state?
Answer: 7.7 million
11. In which area most of the Washington residents live?
Answer: The Seattle Metropolitan (around 60 percent).
12. What is the total area of the state?
Answer: 184,827 square kilometers
13. What percent of the area is covered with water?
Answer: 6.6 percent
14. What is the state tree?
Answer: Western Hemlock
15. Which is the state flower?
Answer: Rhododendron
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16. What is the state food?
Answer: Apple
17. What is the state dance?
Answer: Square Dance
18. Which is the highest point in Washington?
Answer: Mount Rainier
19. How long is Mount Rainier?
Answer: 14,411 feet
20. How many national parks are there in Washington?
Answer: Three
21. Where was the first revolving restaurant built?
Answer: In Seattle
22. When the restaurant was built?
Answer: In 1961
23. Which biggest coffee chain was founded in Seattle?
Answer: Starbucks
24. What is the state gem of Washington?
Answer: Petrified Wood
25. How many world’s longest bridges are in Washington?
Answer: Four
26. What is the nickname of the state?
Answer: The Evergreen State
27. What is the nickname of Seattle?
Answer: The Emerald city
28. Which place in Washington had the most rain ever in a single day?
Answer: Mt. Mitchell
29. How many dams does Washington have?
Answer: Over 1000
30. What is Seattle’s lowest recorded temperature?
Answer: 0 degree Fahrenheit
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31. When this lowest temperature was recorded?
Answer: January 31, 1950
32. What is the highest temperature recorded in Washington?
Answer: 118 degree Fahrenheit
33. Where the temperature was recorded?
Answer: At Ice Harbor Dam
34. What percent of the state’s land area is covered with forest?
Answer: 52 percent
35. When the Mount St. Helens erupted?
Answer: On May 18, 1980
36. What is the rank of Washington in producing wine among other U.S states?
Answer: Second
37. What is Washington’s state song?
Answer: ‘Washington My Home’
38. When the state song was made?
Answer: In 1959
39. What is Washington’s state vegetable?
Answer: Sweet Onion
40. What is the primary language used in Washington?
Answer: English
41. Which language is mostly spoken, after English, in the state?
Answer: Spanish
42. Where is headquarter of Microsoft Corporation?
Answer: In Redmond
43. What was the first tax levied in Washington?
Answer: Property tax
44. Which tax the state does not levy?
Answer: Personal income tax, corporate income tax, and franchise tax
45. Which fruit is produced more in Washington than in any other state?
Answer: Apples
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46. Where is the oldest operating gas station in the United States?
Answer: In Zillah
47. Which is the state insect of Washington?
Answer: Green Darner Dragonfly
48. Where is the world’s first soft-serve ice cream machine located?
Answer: In Olympia Dairy Queen
49. Which is the smallest city to host a World’s Fair in 1974?
Answer: Spokane
50. What the residents of Washington are called?
Answer: Washingtonians
51. When was the first settlement in Washington?
Answer: In 1846
52. What does the settlement call?
Answer: Tumwater (previously known as New Market)
53. From which territory, was the Washington territory formed?
Answer: Oregon Territory
54. What are the most prominent industries of the state?
Answer: Agriculture, lumber, fishing, mining, and shipping
55. The largest online company, Amazon.com, is based in which state of the U.S.?
Answer: Washington
56. When the state rank first in the production of red raspberries?
Answer: In 2004
57. How many public airfields does Washington have?
Answer: 140
58. How many state airports are there in Washington?
Answer: 16
59. Which popular games were invented in Washington?
Answer: Pictionary, Pickle-ball, and Cranium
60. Which is the largest man-made Island in the U.S.?
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