Trivia Tuesday

Last week, The Idiot won at 80 and Neva, Minka and Joel tied at 70, good show!
This week, I am wimping out.

Feel free to hit a quiz from any Tuesday in the archive or
Here...
Take your chances at Sports Trivia
or
Take a timed 10 question trivia Quiz
or
See how you do with some American History Trivia
or
play with WORDS.
Hope you all find something trivial enough to suit you there.

Now, if you feel brave, stick around for lesson from the life of Logo™

I am from beautiful Whidbey Island in the Puget Sound.

Only those smiled upon by the gods can claim Washington as their place of origin

and to be from Whidbey Island?

That clearly denotes a special measure of favor.

Its either 36 or 62 miles long, depending on where you measure, that makes it either the longest,

second longest,

or third longest island in the lower 48.

We island folk are comfortable with the ambiguity though,

so it's OK.

Today I took my motorcycle on the ferry from Everett, WA across to

Clinton, from there I rode to my parent's home in Oak Harbor.

I miss the twisty little backroad the highway on the island used to be.

These days it is straighten and flattened, has wide shoulders and groomed greenbelts.

I remember when being able to drive that road at fifty miles per hour spoke of familiarity and a decent ability to negotiate a slithering roadway

(outside-inside-outside, people, and accelerate through curves).

Sigh, progress, you know how it is. Anyway...

Below is a local landmark of Oak Harbor, the windmill.

A monument to the early founders of the town, many of whom were Dutch. Inventive lot of folks those Dutch,

they named the harbor after the trees,

and the town after the harbor.

And now, Whidbey Island trivia, YAY!

1. Whidbey Island's State Routes 525/20 is the only nationally designated Scenic Byway on an island.

2.Historic Coupeville is the third oldest incorporated town in Washington State.

3. Gray whales migrate between Whidbey and Camano Islands during March and April of each year.

4. Whidbey is the home of Penn Cove Mussels, harvested off the coast of Coupeville.

5. Whidbey Island and Camano Island comprises Island County.

Coupeville, on Whidbey, is the County Seat of Government. However,

Whidbey Island and Camano Island have no direct route of transportation.

One must pass through two other counties, providing quite a conundrum for vital county-wide services.

Clever, eh?