| County | Question | Answer | % Correct |
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| Los Angeles | LA neighborhood known for it's movie studios | Hollywood | 98%
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| El Dorado | Discovered at Sutter's Mill in 1848 | Gold | 97%
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| Inyo | Hottest recorded temperature on Earth occurred in this National Park | Death Valley | 94%
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| Marin | Miscolored bridge connecting to San Francisco | Golden Gate | 94%
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| San Bernardino | Fast food chain that has taken over the world | McDonald's | 94%
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| Santa Clara | "Valley" home to the likes of Google and Apple | Silicon Valley | 92%
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| Napa | Most famous product of the Napa Valley | Wine | 92%
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| Mariposa | Most popular National Park in the state | Yosemite | 92%
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| Orange | Anaheim's "Happiest place on Earth" | Disneyland | 89%
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| Placer | Lake home to many popular ski resorts | Lake Tahoe | 89%
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| Humboldt | Tallest trees in the world | Redwood | 88%
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| Alameda | Flagship campus of the University of California | Berkeley | 83%
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| Stanislaus | Indiana Jones and Star Wars creator | George Lucas | 82%
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| Mendocino | Large industry enjoyed by many Californians legally since 2016 | Marijuana | 78%
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| Yolo | Davis is one of the most friendly cities for this mode of transportation | Bicycles | 76%
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| Modoc | The largest WWII camp forcibly held many Americans of this ethnicity | Japanese | 74%
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| Tuolumne | Mostly located in this mountain range | Sierra Nevada | 74%
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| Del Norte | Supposed creature captured on the Patterson-Gimlin film | Bigfoot | 72%
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| Fresno | Fresno shares almost the exact same population as this Arizona city | Tucson | 71%
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| Siskiyou | Revived statehood movement deriving it's name from the third president | Jefferson | 69%
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| San Diego | NFL team that moved to LA in 2016 to much local dismay | Chargers | 68%
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| Sacramento | Prison sung about and visited by Johnny Cash | Folsom | 67%
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| Riverside | Popular Indio musical festival drawing hundreds of thousands | Coachella | 65%
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| Tulare | Tallest mountain in the contiguous United States | Mount Whitney | 65%
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| Santa Barbara | Vandenberg was the first base adopted by this new military branch | Space Force | 63%
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| Trinity | It's abundant forests once served this primarily large industry | Logging | 62%
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| Colusa | One of the first cities to have one of these for its Chinese population | Chinatown | 61%
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| Tehama | Interstate that spans 40 miles across the county | Interstate 5 | 61%
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| San Mateo | San Francisco International Airport code | SFO | 61%
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| Butte | Chico native and former Green Bay Packers quarterback | Aaron Rodgers | 58%
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| Monterey | Scenic coastal road that travels through Big Sur | State Route 1 | 57%
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| San Francisco | Clint Eastwood movie of a gritty cop in the city | Dirty Harry | 55%
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| Kern | Merle Haggard and Buck Owens popularized this city's "sound" | Bakersfield | 53%
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| Merced | 92% of California's production of this starchy crop is grown here | Potato | 52%
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| Lassen | Future state that mistakenly elected its first governor from Susanville | Nevada | 50%
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| Glenn | One of the few places in the U.S. to grow a large amount of this grain | Rice | 50%
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| San Benito | Endangered bird species that can be seen in Pinnacles | California condor | 49%
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| Plumas | Southernmost end of this mountain range | Cascade | 48%
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| Shasta | Economic hub and "capital" city of rural Northern California | Redding | 48%
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| Sonoma | Fort Ross was established in 1812 by settlers from this modern country | Russia | 47%
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| Imperial | Large toxic saline lake created in 1905 | Salton Sea | 47%
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| Ventura | Contains the most visited island in this National Park | Channel Islands | 38%
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| Nevada | President that worked as a mining engineer here | Herbert Hoover | 38%
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| San Joaquin | Hit show Sons of Anarchy, is set in and around this city | Stockton | 38%
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| Santa Cruz | Santa Cruz can be most identified with this beach front attraction | Boardwalk | 37%
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| Amador | The Kennedy was once the deepest one of these in North America | Mine | 36%
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| Contra Costa | During WWII, Richmond produced three of these a day | Ships | 35%
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| Calaveras | Author of The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County | Mark Twain | 32%
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| Madera | What this county's name translates into from Spanish to English | Wood | 29%
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| Yuba | Beale Air Force Base housed these between 1959 and 1965 | Nuclear missiles | 26%
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| Sierra | The California Zephyr travels through a small portion of this old railroad | Transcontinental | 21%
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| Sutter | The Sutter Buttes are referred to as the world's smallest one of these | Mountain range | 17%
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| Kings | Extinct large freshwater lake that covered most of the county until 1899 | Tulare Lake | 16%
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| Mono | Ski resort town and highest incorporated city in California | Mammoth Lakes | 15%
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| Lake | Namesake lake and largest natural freshwater lake entirely in California | Clear Lake | 13%
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| Solano | Previous capital city before moving to Sacramento | Benicia | 10%
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| Alpine | This mountain man was one of the first to explore the region | Kit Carson | 10%
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| San Luis Obispo | Last operating nuclear power plant in California | Diablo Canyon | 8%
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