Geography/Natural Disasters
Precolonial-Spanish Colonial
Mexican Period-Statehood
Random Facts
Final Jeopardy: Progressive Era
100
Where do you see the most major rivers in California? Southern or northern portion of the state?
Northern portion
100
Name two countries that colonized California before it became part of the United States?
Mexico, Spain, and Russia
100
A large-scale extraction technique that uses high-pressure water jets to blast apart hillsides and wash gold-bearing gravel through long wooden sluice boxes
Hydraulic mining
100
What is the current capital of California?
Sacramento
100
A 1901 novel by Frank Norris portraying the intense economic and bloody struggle between local wheat ranchers and the monopolistic Pacific and Southwestern Railroad (loosely based on the Southern Pacific Railroad and the 1880 Mussel Slough Tragedy)
The Octopus
200
What California location holds the record for the hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth? Death Valley, Sonoran Desert, or the city of Tucson?
Death Valley
200
This food source sustained many CA indigenous life (esp Yukis) who harvested them from oak trees and prepared them to be edible. It possessed a high content of fat and vitamin B6 to enable people to survive the lean winter months.
Acorns
200
Federal aid for the construction of the transcontinetal railroad would not be granted till 1862 during this American war.
The Civil War
200
What famous burger chain originated in Baldwin Park, California?
In-N-Out Burger (1948)
300
It has been the source of some of California's most destructive earthquakes, including the 1906 San Francisco earthquake (M 7.8)
The San Andreas Fault
300
The Bering Strait was a massive, exposed land bridge that connected two continents during the last Ice Age, enabling human migration. What were these two continents?
North America and Asia
300
A peace agreement signed on February 2, 1848, that officially ended the Mexican-American War; resulting in Mexico's ceding approximately 55 percent of its territory
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
300
At 155,973 square miles, where does California rank compared to other states in total land area?
Ranked 3rd in total land area (and total area) compared to all U.S. states.
• 1st: Alaska (571,951 sq mi land / 665,384 sq mi total)
• 2nd: Texas (261,797 sq mi land / 268,596 sq mi total)
400
California's unique landscape is fundamentally molded by the movement of the North American and Pacific plates...
...and the effects of this geological time period that lasted from approximately 2.58 million to 11,700 years ago
the Ice Age
400
The Spanish province that the region of CA was a part of.
Alta California
400
A Russian imperial outpost (1812-1841) located on the coast of Northern California in modern-day Sonoma County
Fort Ross
400
How many Olympics has CA hosted so far (including the one coming up in 2028)
4 Olympic Games
- 1932 X Summer Olympics
- 1960 Winter Olympics
- 1984 XXIII Summer Olympics
- 2028 XXXIV Summer Olympics
Most in LA