Sonoma County History
This is the largest commodity of Sonoma County, valued at over $547 million in 2022.
What are wine grapes?
This is the name of the hawk that serves as the mascot of Northwest Prep Charter School.
What is "Stu"?
Before the arrival of the Europeans, the Santa Rosa plain was home to this indigenous group.
Who are the Pomo?
In 2001, the Flamingo Hotel was prominently featured in the film, Bandits, starring Billy Bob Thornton, Cate Blanchett, and this actor of Die Hard fame.
Who is Bruce Willis?
In 2016, this Golden State Warriors point guard broke his own record for most 3-pointers in a season.
Who is Stephen Curry?
In what is now known as the "Bear Flag Revolt" of 1846, a group of American settlers captured this Sonoma County town and raised a white flag with a grizzly bear and a red star, and declared California an independent republic.
What is Sonoma?
As of the current school year, this how many years Northwest Prep Charter School has been in operation. (Also, the square root of 400)
What is twenty?
Santa Rosa was first founded in 1833 by colonists from this country.
What is Mexico?
In 1996, the Santa Rosa School Board denied access to Santa Rosa High School as a location for this hit horror film, directed by the master horror director Wes Craven, of Nightmare on Elm Street fame.
What is Scream?
A sloop, yawl, ketch and a schooner are all types of these.
What are boats?
In 1812, on the north Sonoma Coast, fur traders from this country established Fort Ross.
What is Russia?
Northwest Prep Charter School is one of this many schools in the Piner Olivet School District. (Also, the cube root of 125)
What is five?
In the mid-1850s, several prominent locals laid out the grid street pattern for Santa Rosa with a public square in the center that remains to this day now known as this.
What is Old Courthouse Square?
This famous restaurateur and TV star got his start creating restaurants: Johnny Garlic, and Tex Wasabi in Santa Rosa.
Who is Guy Fieri?
President Joe Biden, was once a U.S. Senator from this state.
What is Delaware?
This town is the location of the twenty first and final mission in California, the only one founded in the Mexican era, and the northernmost.
What is Sonoma?
NWP is a PBL school. The acronym "PBL" stands for this.
What is project-based learning?
The massive earthquake of this year, more famous for its destruction in San Francisco, essentially destroyed downtown Santa Rosa.
What is 1906?
This director of Godfather fame, shot Peggy Sue Got Married, at Santa Rosa High School, and still owns a prominant winery in Sonoma County.
Who is Francis Ford Coppola?
The name of this online shoe store is an alteration of the Spanish word for “shoes”.
What is Zappos.com?
This famous author of Call of the Wild and White Fang settled on a ranch in Glen Ellen, where now a state park is named for him.
Who was Jack London?
The acronym of the recurring project, HDSAWI, stands for this.
What is "How do Societies and Water Interact?"
In October of this year, the Tubbs fire destroyed 5% (1 in 20) of the homes in Santa Rosa.
What is 2017?
This director, perhaps more known for classic suspense films such as Psycho, and The Birds, shot in nearby Bodega Bay, filmed part of 1943's Shadow of a Doubt in Santa Rosa's Railroad Square.
Who was Alfred Hitchcock?
For the moon's phases, this is the opposite of waning (shrinking).
What is waxing?