Question

A group of missionaries were killed in this modern-day state after Marcus Whitman’s medical care caused a disproportionate (-5[1])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 (15[1])and finally resolved by the third-party mediation Kaiser Wilhelm (15[1])I. (15[1])That dispute, the (*) Pig War, was fought (-5[1])over this state’s (10[1])claim (10[1])to the San Juan Islands. This state’s (10[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 Seattle? (10[1])■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Washington
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Henry CafaroChicago BMichigan A17-5
Jacob SimmonsSIUE AOhio State C5115
Joshua GarnerOhio State AChicago A6015
Prahalad RaoOhio State BWUSTL6115
Davis JohnsonPurdue CPurdue B68-5
Ben TytellChicago DMichigan B7110
Quynh PhungPurdue AChicago C7210
Terry GriggsSIUE BMissouri7910
Matt SchiavonePurdue BPurdue C11510
Subhamitra Banerjee RoychoudhuryMichigan AChicago B11610

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2023 ILLIAC (Mainsite)2023-10-21Y8100%38%25%78.13