Statistics for History of California

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Question	Answer	% Correct
Type of natural disaster which struck San Francisco in 1906	Earthquake	97%
Country which controlled California from 1821–1848	Mexico	97%
"Inescapable" island prison which housed notorious inmates such as Al Capone and Machine Gun Kelly	Alcatraz	96%
Foreign-born celebrity who became governor in 2003	Arnold Schwarzenegger	94%
Theme park opened in Anaheim in 1955	Disneyland	93%
What was discovered at Sutter's Mill in 1848	Gold	90%
Company started by two guys named Steve in a Los Altos garage in 1976	Apple Computer	89%
Baseball team which moved from Brooklyn to Los Angeles in 1958	Dodgers	77%
Victim of a notorious police beating in Los Angeles in 1991	Rodney King	65%
Congressperson who was the first woman to serve as U.S. Speaker of the House	Nancy Pelosi	62%
John Steinbeck book about poor Oklahoma migrant workers who came to California	The Grapes of Wrath	62%
The first openly-gay man to win political office in California (Hint: the subject of a Sean Penn movie)	Harvey Milk	60%
Term for the Spanish outposts built to convert Native Americans to Christianity	Missions	57%
Railroad, completed in 1869, which connected San Francisco with the eastern U.S.	{Transcontinental} Railroad	54%
Party of California-bound pioneers who resorted to cannibalism while stuck in the Sierra Nevada mountains	{Donner} Party	53%
Psychedelic jam band co-founded by Jerry Garcia in 1965	The Grateful Dead	50%
Industry which moved to Los Angeles in order to escape the enforcement of Thomas Edison's patents	Film Industry	48%
Literary movement epitomized by Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac	{Beat} Generation	45%
Environmental organization was founded by John Muir in 1892	The {Sierra} Club	39%
"Yellow Journalism" tycoon who built a castle near San Simeon	William Randolph Hearst	38%