California History
Name a state that borders California.
Oregon, Arizona, and Nevada
Which of these is a living organism?
Rock
Tree
Cloud
Water
Tree
spell
/ˈfren(d)ˌSHip/
Friendship
What is 11x12
132
What Disney owned and produced movie released in December, 2015 that began a widely hated film sequel-trilogy
Star Wars Episode VII or Star Wars: The Force Awakens
What European empire/country originally placed settlements in California?
Spain/Spanish Empire
Name one of the 10 major types of clouds.
Cumulonimbus, Cumulus, Stratocumulus, Stratus, Nimbostratus, Altostratus, Altocumulus, Cirrostratus, Cirrocumulus, Cirrus
What are the 4 things a noun could be?
(used to be 3, but was updated in 2013. We were in 2nd grade so we should be fine)
Person, place, thing, and idea
What is the value of the digit 6 in the number 47,392.6?
0.6 or 6/10
This play, created by Lin Manuel Maranda, had it's first Broadway appearance in the ladder half of 2015 and would go on to win 11 Tony Awards
Hamilton
Where was gold found that led to the California Gold Rush of 1849?
Sutter's Fort in Sacramento
What is the process where a plant converts sunlight into energy is known as what
Photosynthesis
Spell
/bəˈkəz,bəˈkôz,bəˈkäz/
Because
Which number is the greatest?
A. 6,482
B. 6,248
C. 6,824
D. 6,428
C. 6,824
What popular mobile Pokémon game was released in June, 2016
Pokémon GO!
What year did California become a US state?
1850
How many planets are in our solar system?
8 (Neil DeGrasse Tyson killed Pluto's planethood. That is a real story, look it up)
Which sentence uses quotation marks correctly?
A. She said I am tired.
B. She said, “I am tired.”
C. She said, I am “tired.”
D. “She said, I am tired.”
B. She said, “I am tired.”
A museum sold 2,345 tickets on Saturday and 1,678 tickets on Sunday.
Each ticket cost $6.
How much money did the museum earn in total from ticket sales over the weekend?
$24,138
This popular Netflix show released its first season in July, 2016 and ended very recently
Monterey, San Jose, Vallejo, Benicia, San Francisco, and San Diego (though this is more of a technicality)
List the 3 layers of the earth.
Crust
Mantle
Core
What are the 3 types of paragraphs in a paper?
Introduction, body, and conclusion
A baker made 144 cookies.
He packed them into boxes of 12 cookies each.
After giving away 3 full boxes, how many cookies does he have left?
108 cookies
What extremely well known Adele song released in October, 2015 and stayed at number 1 on the Billboard top 100 for 10 consecutive weeks?
Hello