Q 01/05

Bellingham lies between which two big cities, about 50 miles from one and 90 from the other?

A) Vancouver and Seattle

B) Vancouver and Victoria

C) Seattle and Spokane

D) Portland and Seattle

Answer · why

A) Vancouver and Seattle

Vancouver and Seattle: the bay towns once bet on becoming the Great Northern Railway's western terminus, but the railroad chose Seattle instead.

Q 02/05

Sir William Bellingham, whose name the city carries, did what for the British voyage that named its bay?

A) Oversaw its supplies

B) Captained its flagship

C) Served as its botanist

D) Surveyed the bay

Answer · why

A) Oversaw its supplies

Oversaw its supplies: a Royal Navy stores official, he checked the voyage's provisions and accounts in England; the captain never wrote whom the name ...

Q 03/05

Bellingham was incorporated in 1903 by consolidating how many settlements?

A) Two

B) Five

C) Four

D) Three

Answer · why

C) Four

Whatcom, Sehome, Fairhaven and the tiny original Bellingham; the merger vote passed 2,163 to 596.

Q 04/05

On what date was Bellingham officially incorporated?

A) January 1, 1903

B) December 28, 1903

C) July 4, 1903

D) March 15, 1903

Answer · why

B) December 28, 1903

Bellingham was incorporated on December 28, 1903, when the cities of Whatcom and Fairhaven consolidated; Whatcom and Sehome had already merged in 1891...

Q 05/05

Bellingham's first sawmill, on Whatcom Creek, was built to sell lumber for rebuilding which fire-ravaged city?

A) Chicago

B) Portland

C) San Francisco

D) Los Angeles

Answer · why

C) San Francisco

San Francisco: fire had gutted parts of the city, but by the time the mill was running, California lumber prices had fallen and its owners' hopes of a...