What is Seattle?
A: Seattle is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States.
It is the seat of what county in the state of
Washington?
A: King County.
What was its 2020 population?
A: 737,015.
It is the largest city in both the state of Washington
and what?
A: The Pacific Northwest region of North America.
What is the Seattle metropolitan area's population?
A: It is 4.02 million, making it the 15th-largest in the United States.
What was its growth rate between 2010 and 2020?
A: 21.1%.
Seattle is situated on an isthmus between Puget
Sound
(an inlet of the Pacific Ocean) and what?
A: Lake Washington.
It is the northernmost major city in the United
States, located about 100 miles (160 km) south of what?
A: The Canadian border.
A major gateway for trade with East Asia, Seattle is
the fourth-largest port in North America in terms of what?
A: Container handling as of 2021.
The Seattle area was inhabited by Native Americans for
at least 4,000 years before the first what arrived?
A: Permanent European settlers.
What was Seattle's first major industry?
A: Logging.
By the late 19th century, the city had become a
commercial and shipbuilding center as a gateway to what?
A: Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush.
Growth after World War II was partially due to what
local company?
A; Boeing, which established Seattle as a center for aircraft manufacturing.
Internet retailer Amazon was founded in Seattle in what
year?
A: 1994.
The stream of new software, biotechnology, and Internet
companies led to an economic revival, which increased the city's population
by how much between 1990 and 2000?
A: Almost 50,000.
Between 1918 and 1951, how many jazz nightclubs existed
along Jackson Street?
A: Nearly two dozen.
Seattle is also the birthplace of what rock musician?
A: Jimi Hendrix, as well as the origin of the bands Nirvana, Pearl Jam,
Soundgarden, Heart, Alice in Chains, Foo Fighters, and the alternative rock
movement grunge.
Who was the first European to visit the Seattle area?
A: George Vancouver, in May 1792 during his 1791–95 expedition for the Royal
Navy to chart the Pacific Northwest.
The name "Seattle" appears on official Washington
Territory papers dated when?
A: May 23, 1853, when the first plats for the village were filed.
What were established in 1855?
A: Nominal land settlements.
On January 14, 1865, the Legislature of Territorial
Washington did what?
A: Incorporated the Town of Seattle with a board of trustees managing the
city.
Seattle has a history of what?
A: Boom-and-bust cycles, like many other cities near areas of extensive
natural and mineral resources.
The first such boom, covering the early years of the
city, rode on what?
A: The lumber industry.
Seattle saw numerous conflicts between labor and
management, as well as ethnic tensions that culminated in what?
A: The anti-Chinese riots of 1885–1886.
This violence originated with unemployed whites who
were determined to do what?
A: To drive the Chinese from Seattle (anti-Chinese riots also occurred in
Tacoma).
In 1900, Asians were what percentage of the population.
A: 4.2%.
The second and most dramatic boom resulted from what?
A: The Klondike Gold Rush, which ended the depression that had begun with
the Panic of 1893.
In a short time, Seattle became a major what?
A: Transportation center.