Armstrong
Amidst the space race with the USSR, in 1969, this Armstrong was the first human to step foot on the moon.
Neil
These three numbers are the area code to SLO and are synonymous with a popular brand of local beer.
805
This common garden weed comes in the form of a small yellow flower or with white fluffy seed heads that blow in the wind so that the weed can reproduce.
Dandelion
This is the most popular brand of beer in America, which accounted for 17.8% of sales of beer in 2020.
This country is home to many regional Kit Kat flavors, some of which include matcha, peach, wasabi, and purple sweet potato.
Japan
Nicknamed “Sacho” and “Pops”, this famed trumpetist was buried in New York in 1971 after changing the jazz genre forever.
Louis Armstrong
This star of the High School Musical Franchises is one of SLO County’s claim to fame, hailing from Arroyo Grande.
Zac Efron
Marijuana is a plant that is harvested for people to smoke and enjoy their high. Weed comes in two varieties, Indica, and this other type.
Sativa
Samuel Adams beer is brewed in this North East City of the US.
Boston
Cajun food including gumbo, jambalaya, and smothered chicken and can be found most prevalently in this southern city that is located at the mouth of the Mississippi River.
New Orleans
This famed Armstrong from Plano, Texas has battled embryonal carcinoma and won the Tour de France in 1999.
Lance Armstrong
Growing grapes is one of the perks of living in this type of climate that San Luis Obispo is located in.
Mediterranean
This weed is a type of grass that shares its common name with a crustacean due to its sprawling stems resembling one.
Crab Grass
This beer brand has famously created some of the most popular Super Bowl commercials of all time. In 2022, the plot of the commercial circled around a Clydesdale horse.
Budweiser
This spice is interestingly Hungarian. It is made of dried and ground red peppers, and it can be easily recognized by its bright red color.
Paprika
This famous Armstrong sang “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” and “American Idiot” as the lead singer and guitarist of Green Day.
Billie Joe Armstrong
The mission that is located downtown is a result of Christains spreading their religion across the western US. The missionaries in SLO were this type of Christianity.
Catholicism
Marijuana was first harvested in this Central Asian country whose capital is Lhasa and it is where the Dalai Lama resides.
Tibet
When beer is brewed, this type of microorganism is added to ferment the alcohol. It is also a bread additive.
Yeast
This pepper is known as the hottest pepper, and it has rating of over 2,200,000 scovilles.
Carolina Reaper
Edwin Howard Armstrong, an early electrical engineer, invented this type of two lettered radio. It is the one that people listen to music on.
FM
The 9 sisters are a volcanic chain that run through SLO County, they are called Morro Rock, Black Hill, Cerro Cabrillo, Cerro Romauldo, Chumash Peak, Bishop's Peak, Cerro San Luis Obispo (aka Madonna), Islay Hill, and this peak that is also the name of a popular clothing store.
Hollister
This American essayist and philosopher born in 1803, who led the Transcendentalist movement and wrote The American Scholar, described weeds as a “plant whose virtue has not yet been discovered”.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The earliest chemical evidence of beer was found in the Zagros mountains in this country, whose capital is Tehran, and it borders Iraq and Turkey.
Iran
The human tongue can recognize 7 flavors. They are sweet, salty, hot, cool, sour, bitter, and this other flavor which denotes a meaty flavor.
Umami