He founded Mission San Luis Obispo de Toloso in 1772.
Who is Father Junipero Serra?
100
A marine mammal named for its pachyderm-like features.
What is an elephant seal?
100
This popular SLO town venue was designed by Julia Morgan, the architect of Hearst Castle.
What is The Monday Club?
100
Name the three districts involved in the last district unification in SLO county.
What are the Coast Union High School, Cambria Elementary, and Cayucos Elementary Districts?
100
This superintendent was coerced into entering a Tom Selleck look-alike contest which he nearly won.
Who is Julian Crocker?
200
Name two Native American tribes indigenous to San Luis Obispo County.
Who are Chumash and Salinan?
200
This aquatic member of the weasel family uses tools like rocks to dine on shellfish.
What is a sea otter?
200
This historic lighthouse serves as a research facility for the Monterey Bay Aquarium (National Marine Sanctuary).
What is Piedras Blancas Lighthouse?
200
This former county superintendent of schools is the son of San Luis Obispo pioneer and Chinese labor contractor Ah Louis.
Who is Billy Watson?
200
This Superintendent met his future wife in the fifth grade when they were in the same class (Mrs. Neuman's).
Who is Jim Hogeboom (Gwen).
300
Dorothea Lange's famous "Migrant Mother" photograph was taken in this San Luis Obispo County community.
What is Nipomo?
300
These small rounded lunar-like rocks are highly sought by tourists on the beaches of Cambria and San Simeon.
What are moonstones?
300
This newspaper was the first in the William Randolph Hearst publishing empire.
What is the SF Examiner?
300
In 1872, Edwin Markham, the beloved author of "The Man with a Hoe", was hired to teach in what is now this school district.
What is Lucia Mar Unified School District (Los Berros)?
300
This superintendent grew up living over a mortuary.
Who is Kathy McNamara?
400
This town is named for a son of one of California's "Big Four" railroad magnates.
What is Templeton?
400
These shimmering, shiny smelt-like fish come ashore, as the moon and tides direct, to deposit and fertilize their eggs.
What are grunion?
400
This Missouri-born philanthropist was the co-founder of the National Parent-Teacher Association and a pioneer proponent and patron of the free kindergarten program.
Who is Phoebe Apperson Hearst?
400
In accordance with a pragmatic policy of the 1850's, Charles Varian served both as ex officio County Superintendent of Schools and holder of this county office.
What is Tax Assessor?
400
This superintendent performed in a Pioneer Players' production of "Camelot".
Who Jim Brescia?
500
Thirty years after gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill, the La Panza Gold Mine yielded ore in what is now this school district.
What is the Atascadero Unified School District?
500
This current beard-clad SF GIANT shares the same name with a famous Beach Boy.
Who is Brian Wilson?
500
In 1941 brave citizens risked their lives to rescue the crew of the oil tanker, "The Monticello" which sank when it was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine just off the coast of this community.
What is Cambria?
500
At the onset of the Civil War, only these two single-school school districts provided public education in San Luis Obispo County.
What are San Luis Obispo (Mission District) and San Simeon School Districts?
500
This superintendent, who grew up in a swimming family, dove off the high diving board at age three.