"La californie est une frontière entre mer et terre, le désert et..."

la vie
la nuit
le Nevada
l'ennui

Which is the Victorian style of this house?

Italianate
Victorian Stick
Queen Anne

The Donner party was famous because they...

were the first to find gold
yielded to canibalism
were the first settlers of California
gave their name to the highest peak of Sierra Nevada

The first entrepreneurs in San Francisco were

French
British
Flemish
Spanish

What do I do for a living?

I fake working for a big data company
I work for a listed tech firm
I work for a predictive marketing startup
I am a desperate housewife

Silicon Valley is ... of San Francisco

south-east
south-west
north-east
north-west

In football, the offense team has four downs to advance at least...

5 yards
10 yards
50 yards
100 yards

Why is Terman considered the founding father of Silicon Valley?

Because he created the first startup incubator in Berkeley
Because he invented the microprocessor for Hewlett-Packard in his garage
Because he made Stanford's facilities and patents available to staff and alumni
Because he first synthetized silicon

The three-day fire that destroyed 80% of San Francisco occured:

right after the 1906 earthquake
one month after the 1906 earthquake
right after the 1936 earthquake
one month after the 1936 earthquake

After Pearl Harbor, what happened to the Japanese community in the West of the US?

1 000 000 were sent to working camps and 10 000 never came back
Men were flown to the European front
American Japanese had to report to police weekly and their houses were confiscated
More than 100 000 were interned in camps

The city's motto is:

Fluctuat nec mergitur
Get rich or die trying
Oro en Paz, Fierro en guerra
Credimus in armis

Californian drivers...

are careful not to drive while texting
respect speed limits
drive 15 mph above limits
are allowed buzzed driving

1 lb is equal to

~2kg
~1,5kg
~1kg
~0,5kg

The shale oil domestic production resulted in:

A drop in gas prices and more and more wells being drilled
An increase in gas prices and more and more wells being drilled
A drop in gas prices and large oil companies halting the use of numerous wells
An increase in gas prices and large oil companies halting the use of numerous wells

The architecture in Silicon Valley is...

heterogenous
homogeneous

Which fun facts are attributed to Carmel?

A hundred of eucalyptus trees were cut down because of the dizziness induced by their scent and high heels are forbidden
High heels are forbidden and Clint Eastwood is a former mayor of the town
Clint Eastwood is a former mayor of the town and missionaries wore skirts
Missionaries wore skirts and a hundred of eucalyptus trees were cut down because of the dizziness induced by their scent

San Francisco is the most expensive large city for rental in the US

True
False

Which staple food is hard to find here?

Baking chocolate and butter
Butter and zucchinis
Zucchini and milk
Milk and baking chocolate

What did my flatmate buy without telling me?

a sofa
a gun
a racoon
a slow cooker

How many so-called Painted ladies are there in Alamo square?

6
7
8
9

The San Carlos Borromeo mission was the...

first mission in the US
second mission in California
third mission in California
fourth mission in the US

What is the Palace of Fine Arts?

a decorative palace built for the Golden Gate International Exposition in 1939
an exhibition hall built for the Panama-Pacific Exposition in 1915
a museum built in 1906 in memory of the earthquake victims
a Greek temple dismantled and reconstructed in 1921 for media tycoon Charles Foster Kane

What's that?

the Bay Bridge
the Eiffel Tower
the Golden Gate Bridge
the Treasure Island Bridge