Contest results: The question was "At airports across the country, what's the most common question asked of people headed for Spokane?"

Dee Harvey, Sandy Van Campen, Matthew Kunz, Jim McGuirk, M. Schenach, Mike Kilgore and Amy McIntee all offered some version of "Doesn't it rain a lot there?"

Mike Burris, Shannon Woolf, Barbara Mayfield, Paul Sunderland and others suggested "Are you going to visit the Space Needle?"

Debbie Lewis nominated "Isn't that close to Seattle?"

Nanci Cram offered "Is Spokane a suburb of Seattle?"

Jeannie Maki said it's "Spokane?"

John Nord submitted "Why did they put GEG on your bags?"

Mike Kelly offered "Where is Spokane?"

Lee Funkhouser said it's "Are you going to a Mariners (Seahawks) (Supersonics) game?"

Other nominated questions included: "How long have you lived in California?"

"Is the polar bear still there?"

"Is it Bloomsday already?"

There were more. A lot were pretty good. But we're declaring Julie Wright the runner-up for "So where are you really headed -- Montana? Coeur d'Alene? Canada?"

And Peggy Hoppes is our winner. She said the most commonly asked question is "My aunt lives there. Do you know her?"

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