1849
1850
1851
1852

2. What is the California state nickname?

Paradise State
Orange State
Sunshine State
Golden State

3. Which of the following is California's most popular island destination?

Faralon Island
San Clemente Island
Catalina Island
Channel Island

4. What California mountain is the highest peak in the contiguous U.S.?

Mt. Shasta
Mt. McKinley
Mt. San Jacinto
Mt. Whitney

5. Which California county is the largest in the U.S.?

San Bernardino
Orange
Imperial
Kings

6. What popular drink does California produce 17 million gallons of each year?

Prune Juice
Tequila
Orange Juice
Wine

7. What ice cream shake has made Hadley's Fruit Stand famous?

Strawberry
Vanilla
Date
Cactus

8. What is California's state flower?

Poppy
Honeysuckle
Sunflower
Orange Blossom

9. What active volcano is a popular ski resort for Southern Californians?

Mammoth Mountain
Mt. Baldy
Big Bear
Mt. Shasta

10. Which of the following is the lowest point in the western hemisphere?

Stovepipe Wells
Ocotillo Wells
Baker
Badwater

11. This lake was the location of Lago, the town in Clint Eastwood's movie, "High Plains Drifter"?

Mono Lake
Lake Tahoe
Lake Berryessa
Lake Cachuma

12. Being the deepest lake in California, what is Lake Tahoe's greatest depth?

538 feet / 180 meters
989 feet / 330 meters
1645 feet / 549 meters
2237 feet / 756 meters

13. Which of the following was the last volcano to erupt in California?

Mt. Shasta
Mt. Lassen
Mammoth Mountain
Mt. Saint Helens

14. In 1849, gold was discovered in this California river setting off "The Gold Rush"?

Sacramento
American
Sutter
Kern

15. Knott's Berry Farm theme park began as a replica of this historic ghost town?

Bodie
Cerro Gordo
Calico
Julian

16. This city holds the largest Grand Prix auto racing event in California each year?

San Diego
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Long Beach

17. Seabiscuit raced and won his final race at this California race track?

Santa Anita
Del Mar
Hollywood Park
Bay Meadows

18. This popular tourist attraction was once a prison that kept the United States' most dangerous criminals behind bars, including Al Capone?

San Quentin
Folsom
Chino
Alcatraz

19. This California lake was formed after an engineering blunder that allowed irrigation canals to flow out of control in 1905?

Clear Lake
Lake Isabella
Whiskeytown Lake
Salton Sea

20. This California reservoir filled a valley identical to Yosemite Valley dispite heavy protest in the early 1920's?

Black Butte
Hetch Hetchy
Perris
Bridgeport