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Which City in California?

Try to guess each California city based on a description and the first letter of its name.
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Last updated: April 1, 2020
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First submittedApril 1, 2020
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Description
Letter
City
In the early 1980s, it passed Chicago to become the nation's second-largest city
L
Los Angeles
Average rent is over $4000/month in this "City by the Bay"
S
San Francisco
The capital of California
S
Sacramento
The valley surrounding this city is perhaps America's most famous wine-growing region
N
Napa
Where the film "Anchorman" was set
S
San Diego
Has the second-busiest container port in the U.S.
L
Long Beach
This planned city in Orange County has the country's lowest rate of violent crime,
(among cities with > 100,000 people)
I
Irvine
N.W.A and Dr. Dre came "straight outta" of here
C
Compton
Home to the flagship campus of the University of California
B
Berkeley
Where Disneyland can be found
A
Anaheim
"The Capital of Silicon Valley"
S
San Jose
Called the "Media Capital of the World" due to its many TV and movie studios
B
Burbank
There's a 1960s pop song about a "little old lady" from here
P
Pasadena
Route 66 ended at the pier of this coastal city
S
Santa Monica
Ritzy suburb with the most famous zip code in the U.S.
B
Beverly Hills
This Humboldt County city shares its name with California's motto,
Greek for "I have found it"
E
Eureka
Revelers flock here for the annual Coachella music festival
I
Indio
Since the early 1900s, this city has been a popular resort for the elderly who
come to bask in its dry heat
P
Palm Springs
This city's aquarium was built on the site of a defunct sardine cannery
M
Monterey
Element 116 is named for the national laboratory in this city
L
Livermore
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Level 82
Apr 1, 2020
Got Monterrey from Cannery Row :)
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Level 75
Apr 24, 2020
Pedantic point - in California it's Monterey. Monterrey is in Mexico - and there are probably others.
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Level 62
Apr 1, 2020
Aren't we the only ones doing this quiz?
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Level 84
Apr 2, 2020
Would've gotten Oxnard, but it wasn't on this quiz.
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Level 89
Apr 23, 2020
Same reason I didn't get Khartoum.
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Level 59
Apr 23, 2020
So true, I was just ready to type Baghdad but it wasn't there for some reason.
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Level 52
Feb 16, 2023
I would have missed Tegucigalpa, good thing it wasn't on this quiz
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Level 56
Apr 23, 2020
No more Anchorman!! There are so many things in SD that don't involve a movie.
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Level 85
Apr 23, 2020
Well, that escalated quickly.
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Level 71
Apr 23, 2020
But nobody knows it for anything other than the movie.
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Level 75
Apr 24, 2020
I only know it because of the Naval port. We've known a few people stationed there, and we attended a wedding for one of them in a park in the city. Yes, the part we saw was a beautiful place.
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Level 82
Dec 13, 2021
jokes on you, I know it from Drake and Josh
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Level 61
Sep 23, 2022
You could probably say something about the comicon, but yeah. Or maybe that it's neighboring tijuana.
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Level 52
Feb 16, 2023
It's where they used to keep Shamu
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Level 74
Aug 12, 2020
This site is obsessed with that movie.
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Level ∞
May 2, 2022
I guess I could have put something about how Germans named the city.
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Level 67
Apr 23, 2020
Do you think you accept the name of the element as an answer to the final question?
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Level 51
Apr 24, 2020
The element is not the name of the city, so there is no reason it should be accepted.
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Level 63
Apr 23, 2020
50 years in California, and I still would never have guessed the namesake city of element 116.
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Level 51
Apr 24, 2020
Got them all! Looks like a lot of people taking this quiz don't know much about California.

One correction: "N.W.A and Dr. Dre came 'straight outta' of here" - there should be no "of" in that sentence.

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Level 74
Jun 17, 2022
A lot of people don't have to. This would be like me asking you about Carlisle, Preston and Milton Keynes - why would you know about them?
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Level 56
Jan 14, 2021
Funny how you chose some of the most obscure cities
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Level 65
May 6, 2021
Agreed. And Palm Springs is actually really nice (I'm not elderly). Could have chosen some more famous cities like Riverside, Oxnard, or Thousand Oaks.
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Level 66
Aug 5, 2022
I thought it was pretty easy.

I was under the impression PS was more well-known that Oxnard or Thousand Oaks.

Maybe throw in some ... Santa Barbara, SLO, Bakersfield, Victorville, Lancaster, Fresno, San Jose, Modesto, Stockton, Santa Rosa, Redding/Yuba area.

But I think most of those are more obscure than the cities in this quiz.

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Level 61
Sep 23, 2022
San Jose is on there. But what clue would you give for Lancaster (Burt maybe?), Modesto, pretty much all of those? Stockton is the birthplace of the band Pavement. That's all I know about it. Fresno is...a turd in the desert? And don't get me started on Redding. I'm from there (kinda), screw Redding. No one knows about it, and no one should. The clue would be "the city that has the highest population of dipshit Trump supporters and Q Anon enthusiasts." I am surprised about the inclusion of Eureka, though. I'm actually FROM Arcata, and I don't expect anyone to know anything about Humboldt (except the old weed reputation.)
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Level 54
Nov 7, 2021
Literally most of them are from the LA region
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Level 71
Jun 17, 2022
Not, not even figuratively (9/20).
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Level 60
May 6, 2023
No Stockton, No Bakersfield, No Oakland, just L.A. districts mostly. What a crap quiz about California
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Level 67
Mar 7, 2024
I got 15 and I'm not American, so not a 'crap' quiz. I got Irvine because that's where Ezra Klein is from, Anaheim is mentioned in a Dick Dale surf rock song.