All Around California
Early California
Growing a State
Symbolically Speaking
A Capitol Idea
100

This county contains Watsonville, Capitola, and the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk.

What is Santa Cruz County?

100

This was the first European man to see the coast of California. There is a college named after him.

Who was Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo?

100

Settlers who rushed to California to find gold were called this.

What were "49ers", "prospectors", or "argonauts"?

100

This is the state marine animal of California.

What is the Pacific Gray Whale?

100

This city is the current state capital of California.

What is Sacramento?

200

This is the country bordering California to the south.

What is Mexico?

200

This Argentine sailor, after leaving the Sandwich Islands, attacked Monterey and other cities along the coast in an act against Spain.

Who was Hippolyte de Bouchard?

200

California was admitted as a state in this year.

What was 1850?

200

This is the meaning of the state motto, "Eureka"!

What is "I have found it"?

200

The painting of this president is the oldest thing in the Senate Chamber of the Capitol. (Which president?)

Who was George Washington?

300

This is the state bordering California to the north.

What is Oregon?

300

These came from the coastal region and were traded by Native California tribes, used in a way similar to money.

What are seashells?

300

This is the country that the "Bear Flaggers" rebelled against during the Bear Flag Revolt of 1846.

What is Mexico?

300

This is the title of the California state song.

What is "I Love You, California"?

300

This animal's head is over the doorway to the vault in the Treasurer's Office.

What is a bear?

400

This region contains Yosemite National Park.

What are the mountains?

400

Friars from the Roman Catholic Church established a chain of 21 of these.

What were the missions?

400

Most of the railroad workers from the Central Pacific Railroad Company came from this country.

What is China?

400

This is the state fossil of California.

What is the saber-toothed cat?

400

This is the goddess pictured on the state seal of California.

Who is Minerva, the goddess of wisdom?

500

The earth's movements along this fault cause many earthquakes in California.

What is the San Andreas Fault?

500

This English explorer landed near the San Francisco Bay during a trip around the world.

Who was Sir Frances Drake?

500
There are about 40,000,000 of these living in the state today.

What are people?

500

This is the state reptile of California.

What is the desert tortoise?

500
This is the current governor of California.

Who is Gavin Newsom?

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