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200

This city and county are known for the film industry.

What is Los Angeles?

200

This island is east of Los Angeles is a popular tourist attraction.

What is Catalina island?

200
What brought thousands of people to California in the late 1840s?
What is gold?
200

This animal is on the California Flag.

What is a grizzly bear?

200

This science fiction film made in 1982 took place in Los Angeles in the future.

What is Blade Runner?

400

This city has its own natural harbor in California.

What is San Francisco?

400

This lake is also part of Nevada and hosts a ski resort.

What is Lake Tahoe?

400

California actor, and governor and then US President originally not from California

Who is Ronald Reagan?

(He was raised in Illinois)

400

The native marsupial is often a pest in Southern California.

What is an opposum?

400

This comedy-horror film starred a high school cheerleader who hunts vampires in Los Angeles (There was also a TV series by the same name.).

What is "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"?

600

This city is known for its wealth and its high school was depicted in the movie, "It's a Wonderful Life."(1946)

What is Beverly Hills?

600

This mountain range goes through the entire state of California.

What are the Sierra Nevada Mountains?

600
Another name for gold-seekers
What are the Forty-niners?
600

This tree found in northern California is very resistant to fire.

What are redwood trees?

600

This film occurred in San Francisco starring a trucker named Jack Burton who rescued a woman kidnapped in Chinatown.

What is "Big Trouble in Little China"?

800

Largest city north of San Francisco in California, depicted in a famous TV series.

What is Eureka?

800

The tallest mountain in California and the continental US.

What is Mt. Whitney?

800

This governor was also a star in Hollywood, but was originally from Austria.

Who is Arnold Schwarzneggar?

800

This dangerous and venomous reptile is found in deserts in California.

What is a rattlesnake?

800

This Avengers film mainly took place in a fictional African kingdom, but its villain was raised in Oakland, CA.

What is "The Black Panther"?

(Killmonger was raised in Oakland)

1000

The state capital of California

What is Sacramento?

1000

This desert is known for not having much life

What is Death Valley?

1000

McDonald's started in this city in southern California in the 1950's.

What is San Beradino?

1000

This flower is the official flower of California and it seeds are used for cooking

What is the California poppy?

1000

This film depicts an escape from an island prison in San Francisco Bay.

What is "Escape from Alcatraz"?