Q 01/05

Seattle is named after a chief of which two Native American peoples?

A) The Chinook and Makah

B) The Nez Perce and Yakama

C) The Duwamish and Suquamish

D) The Spokane and Colville

Answer · why

C) The Duwamish and Suquamish

Doc Maynard, one of the settlement's founders, pushed for the name; the chief's own name was siʔaɫ in Lushootseed.

Q 02/05

Where did the Denny Party land on November 13, 1851?

A) Pioneer Square

B) Alki Point

C) Magnolia Bluff

D) Elliott Bay's east shore

Answer · why

B) Alki Point

They arrived from Portland on the schooner Exact in a rainstorm, and moved across the bay after a miserable winter.

Q 03/05

What was the name of the schooner that carried the Denny Party to their landing site?

A) Decatur

B) Portland

C) Beaver

D) Exact

Answer · why

D) Exact

They had come from Illinois via Portland, Oregon, stopping in Astoria on the way.

Q 04/05

What did the settlers first call the settlement at present-day Pioneer Square?

A) Yesler

B) Terry's Landing

C) New York Alki

D) Duwamps

Answer · why

D) Duwamps

The rival settlement across the bay called itself New York Alki, from a Chinook word meaning roughly by and by.

Q 05/05

The Chinook word "alki" in New York Alki means roughly what?

A) First home of the people

B) By and by, or someday

C) Good land for planting

D) Big water crossing

Answer · why

B) By and by, or someday

Charles Terry and John Low stayed at the original landing site and gave it the optimistic name in 1853.