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History of California - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 18,700 times
- The average score is 14 of 20
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Type of natural disaster which struck San Francisco in 1906 | Earthquake | 97%
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| Country which controlled California from 1821–1848 | Mexico | 97%
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| "Inescapable" island prison which housed notorious inmates such as Al Capone and Machine Gun Kelly | Alcatraz | 96%
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| Foreign-born celebrity who became governor in 2003 | Arnold Schwarzenegger | 94%
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| Theme park opened in Anaheim in 1955 | Disneyland | 93%
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| What was discovered at Sutter's Mill in 1848 | Gold | 90%
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| Company started by two guys named Steve in a Los Altos garage in 1976 | Apple Computer | 89%
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| Baseball team which moved from Brooklyn to Los Angeles in 1958 | Dodgers | 77%
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| Victim of a notorious police beating in Los Angeles in 1991 | Rodney King | 63%
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| Congressperson who was the first woman to serve as U.S. Speaker of the House | Nancy Pelosi | 62%
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| John Steinbeck book about poor Oklahoma migrant workers who came to California | The Grapes of Wrath | 61%
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| The first openly-gay man to win political office in California (Hint: the subject of a Sean Penn movie) | Harvey Milk | 58%
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| Term for the Spanish outposts built to convert Native Americans to Christianity | Missions | 56%
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| Railroad, completed in 1869, which connected San Francisco with the eastern U.S. | {Transcontinental} Railroad | 54%
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| Party of California-bound pioneers who resorted to cannibalism while stuck in the Sierra Nevada mountains | {Donner} Party | 52%
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| Psychedelic jam band co-founded by Jerry Garcia in 1965 | The Grateful Dead | 49%
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| Industry which moved to Los Angeles in order to escape the enforcement of Thomas Edison's patents | Film Industry | 47%
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| Literary movement epitomized by Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac | {Beat} Generation | 44%
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| Environmental organization was founded by John Muir in 1892 | The {Sierra} Club | 38%
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| "Yellow Journalism" tycoon who built a castle near San Simeon | William Randolph Hearst | 36%
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