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***** WHO'S WHO

QUESTION 1 Who is buried beneath the 36-inch refractor telescope at Lick Observatory on Mt Hamilton?

a Dr Benjamin Cory, 1st San Jose physician
b Peter Coutts, mysterious Frenchman of Palo Alto
c James Lick, Pennsylvania piano maker who became a wealthy landowner and donated $700,000 to build the observatory.
d Martin Murphy Jr, prominent Sunnyvale pioneer

QUESTION 2 Louis Pellier, great-great grandfather of the Mirassou wine family, introduced which fruit to the Santa Clara Valley in 1856?

a Bing cherry
b Asian pear
c French prune
d Red plum

QUESTION 3 Who camped near giant redwood El Palo Alto during a 1769 expedition to Santa Clara Valley?

a Father Junipero Serra, the Franciscan founder of 21 missions along the California coast
b Spanish explorer Captain Gaspar de Portola who discovered the valley while searching for Monterey Bay
c John C Fremont, the explorer noted for his mapping and surveying expeditions
d Juan Bautista de Anza, Spanish explorer commissioned to transport California's first non-military settlers

QUESTION 4 What local restaurant is a converted World War I building designed by Hearst Castle architect Julia Morgan?

a Tied House, Mountain View
b Echo, Los Altos
c MacArthur Park, Palo Alto
d Late for the Train, Menlo Park

QUESTION 5 Which vintner successfully produced the first champagne in Santa Clara Valley, May 1892?

a Vincenso Picchetti, Picchetti Winery
b Paul Masson, Masson Vineyards
c Leland Stanford, Stanford Winery
d Charles LeFranc, New Almaden Winery

QUESTION 6 Timothy Hopkins, adopted son of Central Pacific Railroad magnate Mark Hopkins, in 1894 laid the plans for which town site?

a Los Altos
b Santa Clara
c Palo Alto
d Los Gatos

QUESTION 7 Charles McKiernan, legendary Santa Cruz mountain man, lost part of his skull when attacked by a:

a Grizzly bear
b Mountain lion
c Timber wolf
d Coyote

QUESTION 8 Rear Admiral William A Moffett, namesake of Moffett Naval Air Station in Mountain View, died in 1933 in the crash of the dirigible:

a Macon
b Akron
c Orion
d Goodyear

QUESTION 9 Where are many 1847 Donner Party survivors buried?

a Oak Hill Memorial Park, San Jose
b Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Los Altos
c Madronia Cemetery, Saratoga
d Alta Mesa Cemetery, Palo Alto

QUESTION 10 Leland and Jane Stanford built Stanford University 1891 in honor of:

a Thomas Welton Stanford, brother of Leland Sr
b Leland Jr, their only son, who died at 16
c Josiah Stanford, father of Leland Sr
d Themselves

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***** WHAT'S IN A NAME? Match the Spanish word with the English translation.

A. Los Altos  1. Little corn fields

B. The Alameda  2. The cats

C. Milpitas  3. St. Clare

D. El Camino Real 4. Grove of poplar trees

E. Santa Cruz  5. Tall tree

F. San Jose  6. St. Andrew

G. Palo Alto  7. Holy cross

H. Santa Clara  8. The heights

I. Los Gatos  9. The royal road

J. San Andreas  10. St. Joseph

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***** UNUSUAL ENDINGS

QUESTION 1 When tobacco-chewing, foul-mouthed stagecoach driver "Cockeyed Charlie" Parkhurst died in 1879, what did the undertakers discover?

QUESTION 2 Ambrose Bierce, cantankerous writer and frequent visitor to Santa Clara Valley, died about 1913 under what circumstances?

QUESTION 3 What was the mystery surrounding the 1905 death of Jane Stanford, wife of California governor and railroad magnate Leland Stanford, while she was vacationing in Honolulu?

QUESTION 4 Whose estranged husband's body was shipped home to California from Chile in 1887 in a pickle barrel?

QUESTION 5 What Santa Clara Valley woman was told by spirits she would be immortal if she kept building on to her San Jose mansion?

QUESTION 6 What was unique about the 1875 hanging of outlaw Tiburcio Vasquez at the Santa Clara County jail courtyard in San Jose?

QUESTION 7 What early pioneer settled in Cupertino California but left in 1864 because "It's gittin' jist too crowded, too durn civilized"?

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***** San Jose

QUESTION 1. When California was taken for the U S Californians wanted their capital moved away from Monterey because

QUESTION 2 The capital was moved from San Jose two years later because

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DISNEYLAND

1. Back when Disney sold individual tickets to rides rather than charge one general-admission price, an E ticket got you onto the top-tier attractions. Which one of the following was NOT an E ticket ride?

a) Matterhorn

b) Pirates of the Caribbean

c) Mr. Toad's Wild Ride

d) Monorail

2. What was Adventureland's only working ride the day the park opened?

3. Name 4 of the 8 submarines in the original Submarine Voyage.

4. The current Winnie the Pooh attraction in Frontierland replaced another group of bears. What was the name of that attraction?

5. Which attraction was originally created for the 1964 World's Fair?

a Mission to Mars

b America Sings

c It's a Small World

d The Peoplemover

6. How many spooks live in the Haunted Mansion (according to the narrator)?

7. What actor served as singer and narrator of America Sings?

8. How many spinning cups are on the Mad Tea Party?

a 15
b 16
c 17
d 18

9. At Mickey's Toontown, what's in the refrigerator in Minnie's House?

10. Name the singing group that first performed on Disneyland's Main Street in 1957 and, in its current form, still performs there today.

11. Which of these attractions has been at the park the longest?

a Mark Twain's Riverboat
b Great Moments with Mr Lincoln
c Matterhorn

12. What's inside the Matterhorn's tip? 13. The Swiss Family Treehouse was evicted to make room for which tree-dweller?

14. Which of the following has not been sold at the concession stands?

a Pretzels
b Turkey drumsticks
c Carl's Jr. hamburgers
d McDonald's fries

15. When was Disneyland finished?

DISNEYLAND ANSWERS

1. Mr Toad's Wild Ride
2. Jungle Cruise
3. Nautilus, Triton, Sea Wolf, Skate, Skipjack, George Washington, Patrick Henry, Ethan Allen
4. Country Bear Jamboree
5. It's a Small World
6. 999 but there's always room for 1,000
7. Burl Ives
8. 18 teacups
9. Cheese, of course
10. The Dapper Dans
11. Mark Twain's Riverboat
12. A very small basketball court 
13. Tarzan
14. Carl's Jr hamburgers
15. Never. Walt Disney said it would always be changing.