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