Q 01/05

Which Orange County band formed in Anaheim in 1986 and later named an album after nearby Disneyland?

A) The Offspring

B) Social Distortion

C) No Doubt

D) Reel Big Fish

Answer · why

C) No Doubt

No Doubt. Gwen Stefani grew up in Anaheim, and the breakthrough album Tragic Kingdom took its title from what the guitarist's seventh-grade teacher us...

Q 02/05

Settlers from which country founded Anaheim in 1857?

A) Ireland

B) Germany

C) Italy

D) Sweden

Answer · why

B) Germany

Germany. Fifty German settlers living in San Francisco, most of them mechanics and craftsmen with no experience of wine-making, pooled their money in ...

Q 03/05

Which river watered Anaheim's first vineyards?

A) The Los Angeles

B) The Santa Ana

C) The San Gabriel

D) The Santa Clara

Answer · why

B) The Santa Ana

The Santa Ana. A ditch dug from it brought water to the dry plain the founders had bought, so they joined the river's name to heim, their word for hom...

Q 04/05

Which future golf champion graduated from Anaheim's Western High School in 1994?

A) Tiger Woods

B) Phil Mickelson

C) Fred Couples

D) Rickie Fowler

Answer · why

A) Tiger Woods

Tiger Woods grew up next door in Cypress and won the national Junior Amateur title while a 15-year-old Western student. His classmates duly voted him ...

Q 05/05

Anaheim's founders bought their land from what kind of estate?

A) A Spanish mission

B) A railroad land grant

C) A Mexican-era rancho

D) A gold-mining claim

Answer · why

C) A Mexican-era rancho

A Mexican-era rancho. Juan Pacífico Ontiveros had moved north to a new ranch the year before, and in 1857 he sold the settlers 1,165 acres of the old ...