Question

A group of missionaries were killed in this modern-day state after Marcus Whitman’s medical care caused a disproportionate number of deaths among Native Americans. That massacre sparked a conflict with Chief Five Crows known as the Cayuse War. A border dispute in this state was negotiated by James Douglas and Winfield Scott and finally resolved by the third-party mediation Kaiser Wilhelm I. That dispute, the (*) Pig War, was fought over (10[1]-5[1])this state’s claim to the San Juan Islands. This state’s (-5[1])early settlement of Fort Nisqually was located on Puget Sound and is now commemorated in a museum in Tacoma. The Pike Place market is, for 10 points, located in which state that contains Olympia and (10[1])Seattle? ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: Washington
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Julian BushlowCornell EarthColumbia Ly-α69-5
Chris ScheriRITRochester A6910
Karthik PrasadCornell FireCornell Wind79-5
Ethan MaddoxRochester BRochester C11410
Forrest WeintraubColumbia Ly-αCornell Earth11610
Elizabeth LarkinCornell WindCornell Fire11610

Summary

2023 ILLIAC (Cornell)2023-10-21Y4100%0%50%103.75
2023 ILLIAC (Mainsite)2023-10-21Y8100%38%25%78.13