Chihuahuas
This animal is likely the only thing Tootie has every killed.
What is a lizard?
This is Kate Wilkins' age.
What is 34?
This state park in Coloma is where gold was first found, with the event generally considered as starting the Gold Rush.
What is Marshall Gold Discovery State Park?
What popular burger chain was founded in 1948 in Baldwin Park (aka LA area) with a focus on quality ingredients and a simple menu?
What is In N Out?
What is the War Department/Department of War?
Tootie was adopted at the Sacramento SPCA, with SPCA being an abbreviation for this.
What is the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals?
The financial term for money accumulated from a principal sum and previously accumulated interest. It is the result of reinvesting or retaining interest that would otherwise be paid out, or of the accumulation of debts from a borrower.
What is compounding interest?
This Gold Rush town has the nickname of Hangtown, which the city council decided to keep as a historical name in 2021, though they voted to remove a noose from the city logo.
What is Placerville, CA?
Isolated in 1945 during the Manhattan Project, this element changed the course of history and defined the Atomic Age.
What is plutonium?
This object was famously thrown at George W. Bush during a December 2008 press conference in Baghdad, in which the thrower said "This is a farewell kiss from the Iraqi people, dog".
What is a shoe?
A chihuahua played the title role of Bruiser Woods in this smash hit 2001 film starring Reese Witherspoon.
What is Legally Blonde?
A 19th-century art movement characterized by visible brush strokes, open composition, and emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities, which included Mary Cassatt and Claude Monet in its ranks.
What is impressionism?
These two brothers came to the Sierra Nevada in 1848 and mined almost $1.5 million worth of gold within a year. Their last name is memorialized as the name of a popular Gold Rush town where they established their trading post, which is now one of Cassie and Bill's favorite destinations.
What is Murphys, CA?
Coined in a 1942 film, this line has become a timeless expression of parting and sentimentality, shared by Humphrey Bogart.
What is "Here's looking at you, kid"?
This 2022 law that addressed both climate change and inflation, primarily, through investments in clean energy and changes to tax and healthcare policies shares an acronym with paramilitary nationalists in Ireland.
What is the Inflation Reduction Act?
This civilization, known for their magnificent capital city, Tenochtitlan, believed that when a noble would die, it was necessary to slay a Chihuahua and bury or cremate it with the body of the human. They believed that the spirit of the dead Chihuahua would act as a guide through the afterlife for the soul of the dead noble.
What is the Aztecs?
The values in Einstein's famous formula, E=mc^2.
What is energy, mass, and the speed of light?
During the gold rush, this man became well known for selling pants to the miners. The ruggedness of the material and its durability made the pants an instant hit because they could withstand the harshest working conditions. And within a few years, he patented the pants and sold them all across the country.
Who is Levi Strauss?
Two famous novels published by George Orwell in 1945 and 1949, one of which is a critique of Stalinism and set on a pastoral farm and the other is a warning on totalitarianism and mass surveillance.
What is Animal Farm and 1984?
This event between Al Gore and Tipper Gore at the conclusion of Al Gore's speech at the 2000 Democratic National Convention threatened to sink his presidential campaign.
What is a very long kiss?
What city is home to the minor league baseball team, the Chihuahuas?
What is El Paso, Texas?
This American radio and television writer was part of the CBS News program 60 Minutes from 1978 to 2011 and had a special segment every week.
This term is used to describe the rich vein of golf running under the Sierra Nevada foothills in central California, and is colloquially used to describe the region itself.
What is the Mother Lode?
What extremely famous entertainer was in elementary school in Tennessee in the 1940s and was often teased as a "trashy" kid who played hillbilly music.
Who is Elvis Presley?
The death of what American politician (and perhaps most well-known war criminal), who died in 2023 at the age of 100, was widely celebrated, with many people hoping that he enjoyed his first day in hell.
Who is Henry Kissinger?