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 this state’s claim to the San Juan Islands. This state’s 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 Seattle? ■END■
ANSWER: Washington
<GD, American History>
= Average correct buzz position
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Julian Bushlow | Cornell Earth | Columbia Ly-α | 69 | -5 |
Chris Scheri | RIT | Rochester A | 69 | 10 |
Karthik Prasad | Cornell Fire | Cornell Wind | 79 | -5 |
Ethan Maddox | Rochester B | Rochester C | 114 | 10 |
Forrest Weintraub | Columbia Ly-α | Cornell Earth | 116 | 10 |
Elizabeth Larkin | Cornell Wind | Cornell Fire | 116 | 10 |
Summary
2023 ILLIAC (Cornell) | 2023-10-21 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 103.75 |
2023 ILLIAC (Mainsite) | 2023-10-21 | Y | 8 | 100% | 38% | 25% | 78.13 |