The Myths
Q: Who called Los Angeles "nineteen suburbs in search of a metropolis?"
A: H.L. Mencken
Q: What town suffered the popular put-down Double Dubuque in the years after World War II?
A: Los Angeles
Q: A few miles south of Soledad, the _________ River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green.
A: Salinas
Q: In the first novel featuring Philip Marlowe, how many characters sleep the big sleep?
A: 6
Q: How many fewer homicides occured in Los Angeles in 2007 than 1992?
A: 698
Q: Who’s discovery sparked the California Gold Rush?
A: James Marshall
Q: This Californian followed a winding path from the Oakland Blank Panthers to endorsing Ronald Regan.
A: Eldridge Cleaver
Q: Who chanted "Gold! Gold! Gold from the American River!"
A: Samuel Brannan
Q: "Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tidewater dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego."
A: Call of the Wild
Q: Name the sloop Jack London used as an Oyster Pirate
A: Razzle-Dazzle
Q: What address brought the series Tales of the City together?
A: 28 Barbary Lane
Q: As a former mailman himself, this author was intimately familiar with the (non)workings of the California postal system. In fact he began a novel with the post office code of ethics. What was his last name?
A: Bukowski
Q: What song were the Rolling Stones playing when Meredith Hunter was killed?
A: Under my thumb
Q: Who wrote, "She looked down a slope, needing to squint for the sunlight, onto a vast sprawl of houses which had grown up all together, like a well-tended crop, from the dull brown earth; and she thought of the time she'd opened a transistor radio to replace a battery and seen her first printed circuit. The ordered swirl of houses and streets, from this high angle, sprang at her now with the same unexpected, astonishing clarity as the circuit card had."
A: Thomas Pynchon
Q: What song were the Rolling Stones playing when Meredith Hunter was killed?
A: Under my thumb
Q: What California landmark is said to have inspired Charles Foster Kane’s lovely and lonely estate?
A: Hearst Castle
Q: What’s the original name of the house band for Kesey's Acid Tests.
A: The Warlocks
Q: What was the name of the CIA-sponsored project that had Ken Kesey take LSD?
A: MK-ULTRA
Q: How many of the Beach Boys actually surfed?
A: 1
Q: Name the movie with the highest cost-to-profit in film history.
A: American Graffiti
Q: Name the company with the slogan "More human than human."
A: Tyrell Corporation
Q: What movie gave every gangster & deranged winner the phrase, "Made it ma! Top of the world!"
A: White Heat
Q: This melancholy song about missing the land of sunshine was actually written in New York after one of the band members visited St. Patrick's Cathedral.
A: California Dreamin'
Q: What U.S. state has the second biggest GDP?
A: Texas
Q: What is the richest county in the U.S.?
A: Marin County
Q: How many California counties rank in the 100 poorest counties in the U.S. by per capita income?
A: 0
Q: What was the first movie shot in Hollywood?
A: In Old California
Q: The Dodgers played their first game in L.A. against the Giants. Who won?
A: Dodgers
Q: What did Eadweard Muybridge call his invention for projecting moving images?
A: zoopraxiscope
Q: What’s was the address of Phil Farnsworth's San Francisco lab?
A: 202 Green Street
Q: With Love & Rockets, the Hernandez brothers have given life to entire towns, exploring everything from Mexican border towns to the early California punk scene. Many of Jaime story’s take place in the fictionalized town Hoppers. On what town is Hoppers based in ?
A: Oxnard
Q: What name was Emma Woodhouse given in Beverly Hills?
A: Cher Horowitz
Q: What was the name of Jim Clark's sailboat?
A: Hyperion
Q: Dr. Dre used Califoria penal code 187 as the tile of one of his songs. What does it refer to?
A: Homicide
Q: What bar originally hosted Pong?
A: Andy Capp's Tavern