Wait...What? Say That Again...?

Speaker 1: [0:09] From Seattle's most awesome real estate team, welcome to the first ever, Wait What? Say That Again? A Seattle History and Geography Quiz Show. Hello, world. As always, I'm your host, Jason Saldariaga, one of several real estate agents that make up the awesome Nossum Group. But you may know me as someone who loves nothing more than getting lost in Wikipedia wormholes. And if you're my boyfriend, then you may just barely know me, since I spent all week working on these questions. But in my spare time, if this is any indication, I enjoy imitating my favorite podcast and making up these questions. In the hot seats today, we have the honey badger herself, Miss Jackson, if you nasty, the truly indomitable, Miss Charlotte Reynolds. Woo.

Speaker 2: [1:09] I, I guess that's me. Yeah. Charlotte, is that me?

Speaker 1: [1:17] In hot seat number twe- uh, number two, a queen of her own domain, you just so happen to be stuck in it, so great one first name was not enough, the wonderfully magnificent Sarah Kate Davis.

Speaker 3: [1:33] Hello. No one's ever gonna beat that.

Speaker 1: [1:38] And last, and possibly least- the Titan himself, the man who got his start in 1803 negotiating the French from 10 down to 4 cents per acre, and got what ultimately became parts of 15 states, the Louisiana Purchase And did it again 64 years later with Russia at half the cost per acre. What negotiating skills he has. The founder, co-founder, janitor, and sometimes bartender of the awesome Nossum group, Mr. Christian Nossum.

Speaker 4: [2:16] Always bartender.

Speaker 1: [2:18] Yeah, there you go. Welcome again to Wait, What? Say That Again? A quiz show yours truly spent way too much time devising. I tried to keep this simple. You three had only 6,148,561 Wikipedia articles to study, and a full 30 minutes to do so. Wait, you guys got 30 minutes to study?

Speaker 2: [2:47] I sure did not.

Speaker 5: [2:48] I did not either.

Speaker 2: [2:49] If I did, I didn't take it.

Speaker 5: [2:51] Yeah, I didn't either.

Speaker 1: [2:53] I lied about that. And everyone at home has Google at your fingertips. Play along and let us know how you did. Here are the rules. There are three rounds total, during each of which you'll all get two questions. Every right answer gets you one point, for a possible total of six points each. Math. Some questions may have multiple answers, and if I like you, I may give you partial credit. At the end of round three, the two of you who have the highest points will each get a single knockout question worth a possible 12 points total. Whoever ends up with the highest points wins a voicemail message of yours truly asking you a really bizarre real estate question at 3:00 AM in the morning. Wait, wh- I, I get those all the time already. What, did I already win? You shouldn't win them. Any questions, comments, concerns, or emotions?

Speaker 2: [3:56] I'm really scared.

Speaker 1: [3:57] I'm scared, too.

Speaker 2: [3:59] Yes. Let's do this.

Speaker 1: [4:01] Sorry, Charlotte, but you're up first. Oh,

Speaker 2: [4:04] great. Oh. Okay, cool. Get

Speaker 1: [4:06] it out of the way. Round one. Question one. For one point, the Salish Sea is used to denote the connected inland waterways throughout the Pacific Northwest, from Vancouver Island down to Olympia. There are three main bodies of water that are, that are included in it. Can you name two of them?

Speaker 2: [4:34] Google.

Speaker 1: [4:35] Yes.

Speaker 2: [4:36] Well, one of them is Puget Sound.

Speaker 1: [4:40] Yes.

Speaker 2: [4:42] And The Juan de Fuca Strait?

Speaker 1: [4:49] Yes.

Speaker 2: [4:51] Oh. Yay.

Speaker 1: [4:53] Good job. The third, yeah, the third is the Strait of Georgia. Mm. The name refers to the Coast Salish who are the ethnically and linguist- linguistically, um, related indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast. Question two, Seattle is named after Chief Seattle, who wa- he was a member of what tribe? Oof.

Speaker 2: [5:21] Oh, God. This one I don't know.

Speaker 1: [5:24] Think, uh, if that, this helps you, think like Harbor Island That might help you. I don't know. It, it, that kind of… They have, like, a center there

Speaker 2: [5:38] Mm. I don't… I have no idea.

Speaker 1: [5:39] Okay. Duwamish.

Speaker 2: [5:41] Oh, okay. Cool. Now that you said it, I'm like, "Well, obviously."

Speaker 1: [5:47] I would also take Suquamish. So the physical environment surrounding Seattle was once rich enough in resources to support one of the world's few sedentary hunter-gatherer societies. You got one right. Hm. All righty. Sarah Kate, you're up. Oof.

Speaker 2: [6:06] Oof. Que-

Speaker 1: [6:09] question one: Seattle was founded on September 25th, 1851, with the arrival of the Denny Party, led by Arthur Denny. They originally settled in Alki Point, but quickly built a rival town site near w- near what modern Seattle neighborhood?

Speaker 3: [6:33] Ooh. Okay, can you repeat the question?

Speaker 1: [6:37] Yeah. Uh, Seattle was originally founded at Alki Point. Once they settled there, they, they, o- created a s- a rival town site located in what modern near downtown Seattle neighborhood?

Speaker 3: [6:55] Near downtown. I, oh-

Speaker 1: [6:57] Think, think like the oldest neighborhood.

Speaker 3: [6:59] I, I wanna say… Oh, I have two guesses. So, if I don't get the first one right- … Speaker: can, can I get a second guess?

Speaker 1: [7:08] Maybe.

Speaker 3: [7:10] I wanna say, could it be Magnolia?

Speaker 1: [7:14] Nope.

Speaker 3: [7:15] Am I close?

Speaker 1: [7:16] No, not really.

Speaker 3: [7:19] I'm not really close?

Speaker 1: [7:22] Hmm.

Speaker 3: [7:23] Well, okay. You said near downtown.

Speaker 1: [7:26] Yeah. South of downtown.

Speaker 3: [7:28] South of downtown. Well, I mean, that could be so many. You know what? I'm gonna go ahead and say- I- West Seattle?

Speaker 1: [7:44] Pioneer Square.

Speaker 3: [7:45] I know, I know Alki's in West Seattle. I thought maybe another end- No … of West Seattle.

Speaker 1: [7:48] It's Pioneer Square. Good guesses though. Pioneer

Speaker 3: [7:50] Square.

Speaker 1: [7:50] Yes.

Speaker 3: [7:51] Oh, duh. I knew that.

Speaker 1: [7:52] Yeah, I know. We- Oh. Of course you do. That, this is gonna happen a lot, where it's like, of course. Yeah.

Speaker 3: [7:57] I feel like these are conundrums for my mind. Not gonna do those either.

Speaker 1: [8:05] So now I'm ki- I, I, I'm worried about the second question, because it's connected. Oh, God. But it's fine. Don't worry about it. Yesler Way in Pioneer Square is often considered the source of what colloquialism that is used to denote an impoverished urban area?

Speaker 3: [8:26] Repeat the question, please.

Speaker 1: [8:28] Yesler Way in Pioneer Square is often the source of what colloquialism that is used to denote an impoverished urban area? I'll give you a slight hint. This is not slight. Timber cut in nearby forests were greased, were greased and literally skidded down the sloped dirt road. Oh, skid

Speaker 3: [8:48] row.

Speaker 1: [8:48] Okay. Yay. Yay.

Speaker 3: [8:53] I'm trying really hard not to Google this too, so

Speaker 1: [8:56] Yeah.

Speaker 4: [8:56] That's funny.

Speaker 1: [8:57] Yeah, so they would cut timber up on the hillside, and then they would grease them and skid them down the Yesler Way, which led to the term, although there is dispute between historians on the true origination of the term. All righty. Christian. I'm scared. Number one, the Pig War, which occurred between the US and the UK in 1859, concerned a border dispute over what land in the Pacific Northwest? Hmm. If it's between the… What did you

Speaker 4: [9:32] say? The British?

Speaker 1: [9:34] The UK, yeah. The- The UK and the US. Exactly.

Speaker 4: [9:37] I would assume it would have to do with, like, Victoria, so I'm gonna go, like, the-

Speaker 1: [9:46] San Juan Islands Good guess. You won it. Whoop. Yep.

Speaker 4: [9:53] All right.

Speaker 1: [9:53] Also referred to as the Pig and Potato War, this is due to the one casualty, a pig, that was killed when an American farmer found it eating potatoes in his garden. The pig ended up being owned by an Irishman. British authorities threatened to arrest the American, which escalated the incident. Weird. Question two.

Speaker 4: [10:15] Okay.

Speaker 1: [10:16] In what decade, or exact year if you wanna show off- … did, did Seattle experience a great fire that destroyed 25 city blocks, including the entire business district? It was known as the Great Seattle Fire.

Speaker 4: [10:34] I believe I know this because we did go on the underground tour, and they talked about this. And it was also 100 years earlier than my favorite year, which is 1989, so I'm gonna go 1889.

Speaker 1: [10:47] Dang. Good job. You wanted to get s- uh, show off. You got the e- exact year. Yes.

Speaker 4: [10:53] I just don't know what a decade's called, so I had to go exact, you know? I'm not that smart.

Speaker 1: [10:58] And it's kind of a trick because it's like the 1880s, but it's almost closer to the 1890s. Yeah. Okay.

Speaker 4: [11:04] Yeah. Exactly. And I don't know why 1989 is my favorite year, but it is. That's my favorite year. I think it's 'cause- Because you like

Speaker 1: [11:09] Taylor Swift.

Speaker 4: [11:10] No. I think it's, uh, because that's the year I became a baseball fan, and that's also Ken Griffey Jr.'s rookie year.

Speaker 1: [11:18] I see. Good to know.

Speaker 4: [11:19] Which I'm sure was a follow-up question in the

Speaker 1: [11:21] final round. I was just gonna say, this is

Speaker 4: [11:22] not your quiz show, but okay.

Speaker 1: [11:25] Thanks for the trivia. Yeah, Seattle responded rather aggressively to the fire by implementing stricter building ordinances, and the city took control of the water supply. The resulting influx of inhabitants who arrived during the rebuilding quickly led to Seattle becoming the largest city in Washington. All righty, so that's the end of round one. We have Christian with two points. Charlotte and Sarah Kate each have one point each.

Speaker 4: [11:52] Wait, I thought the questions were worth two points each.

Speaker 1: [11:55] You, you're, you… No, no. Two points total per round.

Speaker 6: [11:59] Got it.

Speaker 1: [11:59] Yep. For a total of six points at the end of the three rounds. Ah. Yep. That

Speaker 6: [12:04] makes sense. Got it.

Speaker 1: [12:06] All righty. Charlotte.

Speaker 5: [12:08] Okay.

Speaker 1: [12:08] You're up. Question one for round two. Located within the rain shadow cast by the Olympic Mountains, this small town along the Dungeness River receives about 57% less precipitation each year than Seattle does. What's the name of the town? Can you re-

Speaker 2: [12:31] repeat the question?

Speaker 1: [12:32] Yep. Located within the rain shadow cast by the Olympic Mountains, this small town along the Dungeness River receives around 57% less precipitation each year than Seattle. What's the name of the town? On the nor- it, it's on the northeast part of the Olympic Peninsula. One syllable, although it's pronounced quite differently than- Yes the way it's spelled. Yes, exactly.

Speaker 2: [13:01] Oh, okay. It's Sequim.

Speaker 1: [13:03] Good job. Ah.

Speaker 4: [13:05] Good tip, Jason.

Speaker 2: [13:07] Yep. That helped a lot.

Speaker 1: [13:09] Yeah.

Speaker 2: [13:10] Thanks.

Speaker 1: [13:11] Yeah, this may come as a surprise, but Seattle is also in a rain shadow caused by the Olympic Mountains, though this is much less pronounced th- than what Sequim experiences. Seattle gets about 25% of the precipitation that the Hoh Rainforest receives, which is located on the western edge of the Olympics. Just so y'all know, Seattle receives around 35 inches of rain a year, while the Hoh Rainforest gets 135. Hmm. Yep.

Speaker 2: [13:38] Wow.

Speaker 1: [13:39] Question two. Our weather is impacted by El Niño- La Niña cycles, two opposite phases of the El Niño Southern Oscillation, otherwise known as ENSO for anyone who cares. Generally speaking, which one of these phases, El Niño or La Niña, leads to an increased likelihood of storms in the Pacific Northwest?

Speaker 2: [14:06] El Niño.

Speaker 1: [14:08] La Niña is the correct answer. Aha. I had a

Speaker 2: [14:10] 50/50 chance- Yep, you did … and I ruined it.

Speaker 1: [14:15] Yep. It also l- La Niña also leads to an increased chance of lowland snow. There is currently a greater than 50% chance that this fall and winter will be a La Niña phase. Ooh. So good for skiing. All righty. Sarah Kate, you're up.

Speaker 3: [14:32] Oh, gosh.

Speaker 1: [14:33] Question one. At 520 feet above sea level, the highest point in Seattle proper is located where? And it has the word high in it And you live near it

Speaker 3: [14:56] Um, is it high point?

Speaker 1: [14:58] It is. Yep. Yep. The highest- Seemed like

Speaker 3: [15:05] a

Speaker 4: [15:05] trick question

Speaker 1: [15:06] there. The highest point in King County is Mount Daniel on the boundary between Ki- King and Kittitas Counties. It's just under 8,000 feet. It's what you see when you're driving to Seattle on I-90. It's to your right near Snoqualmie Pass. Ooh. The 6… Yep, the 6.8 magnitude 2001 Nisqually earthquake is the most recent major earthquake to strike the Seattle area.

It struck at 5: [15:35] 54 AM on February 28th, 2001, and was centered near Olympia.

Question: [15:43] This earthquake occurred due to the subduction of two tectonic plates. Name one of them.

Speaker 3: [15:52] Oh, man, this is taking me back to, like, fourth grade. Oh, gosh. Yeah, I got no clue. Oh, gosh. Tectonic plates. Tectonic plates. Don't give me a clue. Give me just a second.

Speaker 5: [16:06] Okay. Google, Google, Google.

Speaker 3: [16:10] I'm seriously trying to remember. I think when I went over tectonic plates, I did not live in the state of Washington either, so this-

Speaker 1: [16:16] Ah.

Speaker 3: [16:17] Huh.

Speaker 1: [16:19] We already said one of them. It was on the first question, actually.

Speaker 3: [16:23] The Duwamish or- That, g-

Speaker 1: [16:27] g- ooh, that's actually a decent answer

Speaker 3: [16:28] Wasn't that the first question?

Speaker 1: [16:30] That was the second question, but the other one-

Speaker 3: [16:31] Oh,

Speaker 1: [16:32] the,

Speaker 3: [16:32] oh, that's, oh, Juan de Fuca. So, Juan de Fuca Plate.

Speaker 1: [16:36] Yes, the, yes.

Speaker 4: [16:38] Good job.

Speaker 1: [16:39] The Juan de Fuca Plate subducted under, and this is gonna make you feel, like, ridiculous, the North American Plate. Oh. So those are the two. Yeah,

Speaker 3: [16:46] that

Speaker 4: [16:47] does make me feel

Speaker 1: [16:48] ridiculous. Jeez. Yeah. Let me make sure I mark you as correct. Uh, it caused $1 to $4 billion in property damage, and one death is attributed to that earthquake, though it was due to an, a heart attack, so not a direct death. Um, this is interesting. The Juan de Fuca Plate sinks under the North American Plate and into the Earth's mantle at a rate of three and a half to four and a half centimeters a year.

Speaker 4: [17:13] Wow.

Speaker 1: [17:14] All righty. Christion. Question one. Mm-hmm. The Cascade Mountains, with its many tall and glaciated peaks, contains some of the most breathtaking scenery we have in the Pacific Northwest. Mount Rainier is the tallest of the range at four, 14,409 feet. What is the second tallest peak within the Cascade Range? It just so happens to be one of the southernmost as well.

Speaker 4: [17:44] Ooh. Um, is Mount Adams, uh, attached to the Cascade Mountain Range? 'Cause if so I'm gonna go with that.

Speaker 1: [17:58] Great quest- great guess. My boyfriend answered the same way. Hmm. That's incorrect. B- this, the Cascade Mountains begin in California.

Speaker 4: [18:08] Oh.

Speaker 1: [18:09] And it's Mount Shasta. Oh. Oh. Sitting t- yep, sitting just 230 feet lower in elevation than Mount Rainier, uh, Mount Shasta is actually the most voluminous volcano in the entire Cascades. Hmm.

Question two: [18:23] Puget Sound's topography with abundant but deep water encouraged the proliferation of floating bridges in the area.

Speaker 6: [18:34] Mm-hmm.

Speaker 1: [18:35] In fact, four of the lo- four of the five longest floating bridges in the world are in Washington State. Name three of them. Oh,

Speaker 4: [18:44] geez. Oh, geez. Uh- Well, we got the Evergreen Bridge, which is also known as, I believe 520 is the Evergreen.

Speaker 1: [18:55] Yeah, and I don't need proper names if you don't know them, but- All right … Evergreen Point is correct. Yep.

Speaker 4: [18:59] Yep. I don't know what the actual legal name or technical name of I-90 is. That's another one. You said three?

Speaker 1: [19:07] Three out of four, yeah.

Speaker 3: [19:08] Oh, I think I know one of them.

Speaker 4: [19:11] Oh, geez. Um-

Speaker 3: [19:13] Can you phone a friend?

Speaker 4: [19:17] So, let's see here. Where else do they have floating bridges? Uh, so we got the I-90, 520. Um, is there- There is, I'm thinking of going over to the, uh… What is it called? The, like, Hood Canal. Is there a Hood Canal one? 'Cause I remember-

Speaker 1: [19:45] That's

Speaker 4: [19:46] it.

Speaker 3: [19:46] Yep. There is.

Speaker 4: [19:47] Ah.

Speaker 1: [19:49] This is a slight trick question. You

Speaker 3: [19:50] didn't even

Speaker 1: [19:51] need to

Speaker 3: [19:51] phone a friend.

Speaker 1: [19:52] There's, there's actually two I-90 bridges.

Speaker 4: [19:56] Really?

Speaker 1: [19:56] Right? They're separated. Oh, I guess that's true. One's eastbound, one's westbound. Oh. Yeah. True. Yep. So the eastbound, uh, I-90 bridge, the Lacey V. Murrow Bridge, I wouldn't expect anyone to know that- No … actually sunk in 1990 and was rebuilt, while the Hood Canal Bridge broke apart during a windstorm in 1979 and had to be rebuilt. So we have a great… And then we have Galloping Gertie.

Speaker 4: [20:21] Mm-hmm.

Speaker 1: [20:21] So we have great bridge history here.

Speaker 4: [20:24] Yes.

Speaker 3: [20:25] Now the West Seattle Bridge is dying before it's supposed to, so- … add it to the list. Yep. At least it's not sinking, but-

Speaker 4: [20:32] Exactly … Speaker 3: into the water, I should say.

Speaker 1: [20:34] All righty, so that's the end of round two. We have Sarah Kate and Christian both with three points, and Charlotte one point short at two.

Speaker 4: [20:44] Oof. It's close.

Speaker 2: [20:45] I'm coming back right now, guys.

Speaker 1: [20:47] All right. Round three. Charlotte, originating in Yellowstone National Park, what river is the largest tributary of the Columbia River? And here's a little hint. I don't know if this helps you, but it flows along the southern, uh, uh, it flows along sl- southern Idaho before, before turning north to form the second deepest canyon in the US, which is Hells Canyon.

Speaker 3: [21:14] I wish you had asked me this question.

Speaker 2: [21:17] Okay, guys. Maybe, maybe I'm not coming back.

Speaker 3: [21:22] You got this, Charlotte. Um

Speaker 4: [21:28] Yeah, I got no clue. I would fail on this one, Charlotte. I'm sorry.

Speaker 2: [21:32] Yeah, I have no idea. This… Yeah, you- Can I guess?

Speaker 1: [21:37] You can

Speaker 4: [21:37] guess.

Speaker 2: [21:38] The Salmon River.

Speaker 4: [21:40] Close. The- I would say Snake.

Speaker 1: [21:42] It's the Snake River.

Speaker 4: [21:43] Ah.

Speaker 2: [21:44] Oh.

Speaker 4: [21:45] Maybe I did know. Yep. It's the only river I know that is connected to the Columbia

Speaker 1: [21:52] that's in Washington State, that I know of. That doesn't mean that's the only one, it's just the only one I can think of, so. Yeah, Hells Canyon is actually more than 2,000 feet deeper than the Grand Canyon. The deepest canyon in the US is Kings Canyon in, in, uh, Yosh- Yosemite. Huh. Um, question two: This town, located along Lake Washington, just south of Bellevue, just south of Bellevue, is actually the smallest municipality in the state by land area. What's the name of the town?

Speaker 2: [22:32] South of Bellevue. Is it Newcastle?

Speaker 1: [22:37] Good guess. You're, uh, you're gonna be like, "Oh my God, of course." Beaux Arts Village.

Speaker 2: [22:42] Oh, what? I know,

Speaker 1: [22:43] I know.

Speaker 2: [22:45] I didn't even know that was like its own municipality. Yeah.

Speaker 1: [22:50] What the heck? At just .1 square miles, Beaux Arts started as an artist colony in 1908. It has no town hall, and official city business meetings still take place in private homes.

Speaker 2: [23:03] Wow.

Speaker 1: [23:04] Yeah, Seattle is the largest municipality by land area, spanning roughly 84 square miles, which is still pretty small really by, um, a nationwide standard.

Speaker 5: [23:16] Okay,

Speaker 1: [23:17] Sarah Kate. Mm.

Question one: [23:18] according to Forbes, 10 people who reside in Washington State are among the 400 richest in America- Oof … in 2019.

Speaker 3: [23:30] Okay.

Speaker 1: [23:31] Three of them are in the top 10, including Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates.

Speaker 3: [23:39] Oh, I, what?

Speaker 1: [23:40] Come on. I gave you the… Yeah.

Speaker 3: [23:42] Come on. The two most famous. Come on.

Speaker 1: [23:44] Who is the third? And I'll give you an idea. Okay. He just so happens to be the second person ever to become a billionaire based on stock options received as an employee in a corporation in which he nev- neither founded nor was a relative of the founder.

Speaker 3: [24:02] Paul Allen?

Speaker 1: [24:04] He's dead.

Speaker 3: [24:05] Oh, I thought you d- you said he was alive?

Speaker 1: [24:08] Yeah. They, they currently reside- Oh … in Washington State. Currently reside, oh. But it, that's like a very close guess. Who, there's another person related-

Speaker 3: [24:16] Oh, oh, oh, Starbucks. Howard Schultz?

Speaker 1: [24:18] Good. That's actually a very good guess, too. Very good guess. Steve Ballmer.

Speaker 4: [24:23] Yeah, he owns a basketball team, and it's not the Sonics.

Speaker 1: [24:26] Yep.

Speaker 3: [24:26] Does, uh, does he own the Trail Blazers?

Speaker 1: [24:29] No. The Clippers.

Speaker 3: [24:30] Clippers. Oh.

Speaker 1: [24:31] Yep. At $51.7 billion, Steve Ballmer resides in Hunts Point. Since retiring as CEO of Microsoft in 2013, he has been busy buying the LA Clippers and running usafacts.org, among many other things.

Question number two: [24:48] standing 933 feet tall, Columbia Center is currently the tallest building in Seattle. In fact, when completed in 1985, it was the tallest building on the West Coast. Oof. What is the second tallest building in Seattle, currently nearing completion? Ooh.

Speaker 3: [25:12] Oh, gosh. Um, thinking about construction. Um, what's going on in Seattle right now? There's lots of construction.

Speaker 1: [25:26] It took the place of a mall.

Speaker 3: [25:30] Okay. Although most people- And it's, is

Speaker 1: [25:34] it downtown? It's downtown. Most people… And it slopes. It has like a, it's, from the skyline it's just like a straight-

Speaker 4: [25:40] Yeah … Speaker: building, but when you're close it slopes, um-

Speaker 3: [25:45] It's pretty cool

Speaker 4: [25:46] looking

Speaker 3: [25:46] Oh. Oh, is it Rainier Square?

Speaker 1: [25:48] Yep, that's it.

Speaker 3: [25:49] That, that really weird, looks like a- Rainier, yeah … it looks like a cone or something, or a, a vase.

Speaker 4: [25:53] Oh yeah, next to that one.

Speaker 1: [25:56] Well, it, well, I, I'll give you the point, but no, that's wrong. It's wrong. Yes, exactly. So that, what you're thinking of is Rainier Tower.

Speaker 4: [26:03] Yeah.

Speaker 1: [26:03] Oh. And then the second tallest is, that's currently almost complete, is Rainier Square Tower, and it's at, it's at, uh, 850 feet tall, 58 stories. It replaced the Rainier Square Shopping Center that closed in 2017. The tower is- RIP … mainly office… Yeah. The tower is mainly office space, but will include a PCC and Equinox, theoretically, along with 200 residential units on the top floors. Shar- or Christian. Mm. Your turn. Okay. Question one, sometimes nothing beats enjoying a sunset on a beach overlooking Puget Sound.

Speaker 4: [26:44] Mm-hmm.

Speaker 1: [26:44] Even if, especially if I'm company. Even better if you have a bonfire to keep you warm- Ooh … which you can legally light at two beaches in Seattle. What beaches are they?

Speaker 4: [26:57] Um, okay. I know that you can do it at Golden Gardens.

Speaker 1: [27:04] Correct.

Speaker 4: [27:05] And I believe you can also do it at Alki.

Speaker 1: [27:08] Correct.

Speaker 3: [27:09] Those are right. Ah.

Speaker 1: [27:12] Fire pits at both parks are currently closed, though, to discourage crowding due to COVID-19. Ugh. Question two. Mm-hmm. This city park, the largest in Seattle, contains almost 12 miles of walking trails and used to be home to an Army post. S- what's the name of the park?

Speaker 4: [27:34] Ooh. Okay, so Army post.

Speaker 1: [27:38] I know that, uh, Magnuson, I believe, was Navy, not Army.

Speaker 4: [27:44] Uh, what other ones were there? Then there is the one in Magnolia. That is- Discovery Park? Is that the one? 'Cause I don't think- That's it … that was Navy. Okay, good.

Speaker 1: [27:58] That's it. Woo. Yep. Fort Lawton was the second- Yeah … largest port of embarkation of soldiers and material to the Pacific Theater during World War II. It was officially closed on September 14th, 2011, and plans are currently underway to build low-income housing in its place. Okay. All righty. That is the end of the three round questions. Let's go over points. Coming in third, we have Charlotte with two points. Woo. Coming in second, we have Sarah Kate at four points. Woo. Mm-hmm. And then we have coming in at number one currently, Christian at five points.

Speaker 4: [28:49] Oof.

Speaker 1: [28:51] Sarah Kate can still win this.

Speaker 3: [28:53] Oh, my God. Okay.

Speaker 1: [28:57] All right. This leads us to our knockout round. For all

Speaker 4: [29:01] the 3:00 AM voicemails

Speaker 1: [29:04] that you can handle. Uh, Sarah Kate, Charlotte, since- or Sarah Kate and Christian, since you are the top two, you will each get a single question with at most 12 possible answers. Sounds weird. Believe me, it'll make sense. Okay. Each correct answer you provide is worth a point.

Speaker 4: [29:23] Ah. Ooh.

Speaker 1: [29:25] So there are 12 points up in the air here. Anything can happen. Ooh. Are you ready?

Speaker 3: [29:31] No. I feel like I'm gonna throw up.

Speaker 1: [29:34] Ah. All right. Sarah Kate, you're gonna go first. Oof. We now know what the Salish Sea includes, but to rehash, it is comprised of three

main bodies of water: [29:47] The Strait of Juan de Fuca between the Olympic Peninsula and Vancouver Island, the Strait of Georgia that runs from the San Juan Islands north into British Columbia, and Puget Sound we know so well. All right. 12 counties in Washington abut the Salish Sea. Name them.

Speaker 4: [30:13] Hmm. Oh,

Speaker 3: [30:16] geez

Speaker 4: [30:17] Good luck, Sarah Kate

Speaker 3: [30:19] Okay. Salish Sea counties. Jesus Christ. Um, uh, county, is this, is Grays Harbor, is that a county?

Speaker 1: [30:35] Uh, that does not abut the Salish

Speaker 3: [30:37] Sea. Okay. Um, hold on. I'm sweating. I'm sweating.

Speaker 1: [30:46] Well, you, you, you know where to start. Start with at home and move- … around the town. Yeah, no, exactly.

Speaker 4: [30:51] Yeah.

Speaker 3: [30:51] You guys, my brain's not thinking right, okay?

Speaker 1: [30:53] No, you're Googling Washington county maps. I Googled it

Speaker 3: [30:57] and I abandoned it because I panicked. It flustered me. Okay. Ooh. Ready?

Speaker 1: [31:08] Yes.

Speaker 3: [31:08] Pitpat

Speaker 1: [31:08] County? Go slowly. Yes.

Speaker 3: [31:11] King.

Speaker 1: [31:12] Yep.

Speaker 3: [31:13] Um, San Juan.

Speaker 1: [31:17] Yep.

Speaker 3: [31:18] We talked about that. Um, oh, um, what's the one down there? Uh, Jefferson? Is that- Yeah … that one? Um-

Speaker 4: [31:37] I didn't know that

Speaker 1: [31:38] one … Speaker 3: hold on, hold on, hold on. Uh, Jefferson. Something about a K- Kl- Clallam or- Nope … Speaker 3: Clallo- Okay. Um. Oh, Clallam. Yes.

Speaker 3: [31:53] Well, yeah, yeah, yeah. Something like that. Okay. Um, is there… No, I think that's east. Wait, Ki- Kititas or Kitatata?

Speaker 1: [32:03] Nope.

Speaker 3: [32:03] Kititas. Yeah, Kiti- It's east. Nope. Ki- Yep, I thought that was east. Okay. Um, Island County.

Speaker 1: [32:10] Oh, good. I thought you would

Speaker 3: [32:11] forget that one. 'Cause I think that's, I think that's where I said, isn't Grays Harbor in Island County? I think it is. I don't know. Um, I'm sweating. Um-

Speaker 1: [32:20] Think-

Speaker 3: [32:21] Pierce. Pierce County.

Speaker 1: [32:22] Yep. Yep. Exactly.

Speaker 3: [32:23] Um- I mean, I might… Okay, how many minutes do I get? Uh.

Speaker 1: [32:38] Minutes? How many hours do I get on this?

Speaker 3: [32:41] Um, okay. I'm gonna try one more Oh, wait. Wait, wait. Snohomish County is kind of west near the water.

Speaker 1: [32:53] Yeah, definitely.

Speaker 3: [32:54] Okay. At the top. Um-

Speaker 1: [32:58] Time is running out, or really my patience is. I mean,

Speaker 3: [33:01] I feel you, I feel you. Um- I think there's one that starts with an N but I can't remember the name, so we're good.

Speaker 1: [33:08] Okay. So you got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight out of 12 correct. Dang.

Speaker 3: [33:15] Oh my God.

Speaker 1: [33:17] So you got eight points. The ones you missed are Mason- Oh … Skagit, Thurston and Whatcom.

Speaker 3: [33:25] Oh my, Skagit and Whatcom are like the easiest ones.

Speaker 1: [33:28] Yep, you didn't go north enough. All right.

Speaker 4: [33:30] Good job though, Sarah.

Speaker 1: [33:31] Yeah, that was good. That was

Speaker 3: [33:32] impressive. Thanks. I sweat, I sweat a lot. And I almost passed out.

Speaker 1: [33:35] Y'all are like, "We're never doing one of these again."

Speaker 3: [33:38] No, I want, no, I wanna do another one because I, I feel like this is really helping me- … with my knowledge. And the next one maybe I won't sweat as much.

Speaker 1: [33:47] Yeah, there you go. All righty, Kirsten. Uh-huh. She just made eight points, so she's- Yeah, she's- … currently in the lead.

Speaker 4: [33:56] By quite a bit.

Speaker 1: [33:57] By seven Your, yeah, your knockout question is, and keep, read, understand this clearly. 12 companies founded in Washington State are on the Fortune 500 list. N- they were founded in Washington State. Name them. Mm.

Speaker 4: [34:19] Oh, founded. Uh, okay. I would start with Amazon.

Speaker 1: [34:27] Okay.

Speaker 4: [34:28] Uh, Microsoft.

Speaker 1: [34:30] Sure.

Speaker 4: [34:31] Boeing.

Speaker 1: [34:32] Yep.

Speaker 4: [34:35] Um- Thanks to the Mariners and all the money they spend on advertising, Paccar.

Speaker 1: [34:43] Yep.

Speaker 2: [34:44] Ooh.

Speaker 4: [34:45] I don't know anything about Paccar- … other than I believe they're, they have trains, but I know nothing about them. I just know they spend a lot of money, so. Um- Nordstrom?

Speaker 1: [35:04] Yep.

Speaker 4: [35:06] Wow. Uh, okay. Uh, I'm thinking of other big companies in the area. Um

Speaker 1: [35:18] Uh, what else is big?

Speaker 4: [35:22] Uh, Weyerhaeuser?

Speaker 1: [35:24] Yep.

Speaker 4: [35:25] Wow.

Speaker 1: [35:25] Okay. That's the smallest one on the list. Yeah, well. At 406th place.

Speaker 4: [35:34] Uh, other local companies. Does Alaska Airlines count? 'Cause I think they were founded in-

Speaker 3: [35:41] Alaska … Speaker 4: Alaska.

Speaker 1: [35:44] The, that counts. I think they were incorporated here.

Speaker 4: [35:48] Oh, okay. Oof. I know they started in Alaska. I'll, I'll have

Speaker 3: [35:51] to fact check.

Speaker 1: [35:53] I'm not sure then. But they're definitely on the list. What else?

Speaker 4: [35:56] Uh, what else is big? Oh, the T-shirt I'm wearing, Kirkland brand, so Costco. Correct. Hmm.

Speaker 1: [36:10] Three,

Speaker 4: [36:11] two- Do I need, do I need more still?

Speaker 1: [36:13] One. Oh, oh, I see how you're playing. Okay.

Speaker 4: [36:16] I don't

Speaker 1: [36:16] know. Just get enough to win. Okay.

Speaker 4: [36:19] That's all I

Speaker 1: [36:19] do. I see your strategy. Very smart strategy. Yep, you are correct. Amazon, Costco, Microsoft, Boeing, PACCAR, Nordstrom, Alaska Airlines, and Weyerhaeuser is what you guessed. You al- you forgot Starbucks.

Speaker 3: [36:33] Starbucks.

Speaker 4: [36:33] Oh, Starbucks, duh.

Speaker 3: [36:34] I was

Speaker 1: [36:35] hoping you would

Speaker 3: [36:36] say it.

Speaker 1: [36:36] Expedia. Yep,

Speaker 4: [36:37] yep.

Speaker 1: [36:37] Expedia.

Speaker 4: [36:38] Mm-hmm.

Speaker 1: [36:39] And then two that you might not know. Expeditors International Washington.

Speaker 3: [36:43] Oh, no, never heard

Speaker 1: [36:44] of that one. What is that? They're a diversify… Or no, they're a freight and logistics.

Speaker 3: [36:49] Mm. Okay. Oh.

Speaker 1: [36:51] And then Fortive, which is a diversified industrial technology conglomerate. They own a lot of different things. Never, never heard of it. They're based in

Speaker 4: [36:58] Everett.

Speaker 3: [37:00] I, I had another guess. Isn't T-Mobile from here?

Speaker 1: [37:03] Mm,

Speaker 3: [37:04] no. 'Cause we have T-

Speaker 4: [37:05] Not,

Speaker 3: [37:05] not founded here. They're not, no. That's- 'Cause we have T-Mobile Park, and I figured that's why they… Or, like, 'cause you know how it used to be Safeco. Also, a Safeco one.

Speaker 1: [37:11] Yeah, great question. But

Speaker 4: [37:14] Safeco was bought out.

Speaker 3: [37:15] Oh.

Speaker 1: [37:16] Yep. T-Mobile's not included in the Fortune 500 because it was consolidated by other companies. Oh. It was originally VoiceStream, and then it was bought by Deutsche Telekom- … in 2001.

Speaker 3: [37:25] I for- I forgot about VoiceStream. I used to have VoiceStream.

Speaker 1: [37:28] And then the other one that I expected y'all to mention is REI, but that's not in the- Oh … top 500 by revenue. It's, mm. It's in the top thousand. Okay.

Speaker 3: [37:37] Interesting.

Speaker 1: [37:38] So, if my math is correct, we have Sarah Kate, eight, nine, 10, at 12 points total. And we have Christian at 13. Oh,

Speaker 3: [37:51] my God.

Speaker 1: [37:52] Oh. Woo.

Speaker 4: [37:53] Just squeaking by.

Speaker 1: [37:55] Oy.

Speaker 3: [37:56] Ooh.

Speaker 1: [37:56] The first ever winner of Wait, What? Say That Again? Is Christian.

You win a 3: [38:03] 00 AM voicemail message from me, during which I will ask you a really bizarre but definitely urgent real estate question. Think of it like a wake-up call in that you will hate to get it, but you won it- so it will hopefully ring just a little swing, sweeter. Congratulations. Oh.

Speaker 4: [38:26] Woo-hoo. Thank you. Thank you, Jason. Yay. That was an amazing list of questions. You were an amazing host.

Speaker 1: [38:33] I'm not

Speaker 4: [38:33] done. You did fantastic. So far, so far you have done fantastic.

Speaker 1: [38:38] That's just part one of part three. No, I'm kidding. Oh.

Speaker 3: [38:43] I was like, "Dang, that's a long podcast."

Speaker 1: [38:45] Yeah. For our wonderful listening audience who played along, let us know how you did. We wanna know. Maybe you have a good question for a future quiz episode. Don't be shy, tell us. You can find us at awesomeandawesome.com. That's all I got for you. I had a lot of fun making this. I hope you had a lot of fun on the hot seats. The honey badger- I had a lot of fun

Speaker 2: [39:09] losing It was hot- Yeah … but it was great … the

Speaker 1: [39:10] queen of her own domain, and the titan himself.

Speaker 4: [39:15] Wow. That was awesome, Jason. I loved it. Well done, sir. Thank

Speaker 1: [39:17] you,

Speaker 3: [39:17] Jason.

Speaker 1: [39:18] Yeah, thank you. Thank you, thank you. Of course. Till next time, y'all. That was episode one of Wait What? Say That Again? Bye y'all.

Speaker 3: [39:31] Bye.

Speaker 1: [39:31] Bye

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