California Trivia Question and Answers
1.
What is the capital of California?
Answer:
Sacramento
2.
What animal is on the state flag of California?
Answer:
Bear
3.
At 155,973 square miles, where does California rank compared to other states in total land area?
Answer:
3rd
4.
What is the state bird of California?
Answer:
California Valley Quail
5.
The two letter abbreviation for the state of California is?
Answer:
CA
6.
In which region of the United States is the state of California located?
Answer:
West
7.
Which national forest in California is the home of the largest trees in the world?
Answer:
Sequoia
8.
What two river systems are located in California's Central Valley?
Answer:
San Joaquin And Sacramento
9.
Which Western state is known as the "Empire State of the West"?
Answer:
California
10.
What Californian city was the band Sublime from?
Answer:
Long Beach
11.
Who was the first English explorer to reach California?
Answer:
Sir Francis Drake
12.
What highway can one follow all the way up the coast of California?
Answer:
Highway 1
13.
Which California city is the center of a metropolis that spans five counties?
Answer:
Los Angeles
14.
What does California produce 17 million gallons of each per year?
Answer:
Wine
15.
What city in San Bernardino County is home of the annual Grubstakes Days and Starry Nights Festival?
Answer:
Yucca Valley
16.
Which California beach town hosts the Pageant of the Masters?
Answer:
Laguna Beach
17.
Which city is considered the county seat of Orange County?
Answer:
Santa Ana
18.
Which California funk band had a guitarist and fellow schoolmate overdose on heroin?
Answer:
Red Hot Chili Peppers
19.
Which is the state flower of California?
Answer:
Golden Poppy
20.
When did California achieve statehood in the USA?
Answer:
September 9, 1850
21.
What title did California's Kennedy Mine obtain in the 1850's?
Answer:
The Richest In The World
22.
Who is featured on California's commemorative quarter, released in 2005?
Answer:
John Muir
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