Q 01/05

In which Inland Empire city did Richard and Maurice McDonald open the first McDonald's in 1940?

A) Desert Hot Springs

B) Victorville

C) San Bernardino

D) San Jacinto

Answer · why

C) San Bernardino

San Bernardino is where the brothers started with a barbecue stand before rebuilding the business around hamburgers in 1948. Ray Kroc first visited be...

Q 02/05

The Coachella music festival is held at the Empire Polo Club in which Inland Empire desert city?

A) Indio

B) La Quinta

C) Blythe

D) Banning

Answer · why

A) Indio

Indio calls itself the City of Festivals, and the same polo grounds host the Stagecoach country music festival the weekend after Coachella ends.

Q 03/05

Which fruit did Eliza Tibbets plant in the Inland Empire in the 1870s, starting a citrus boom?

A) Valencia orange

B) Navel orange

C) Eureka lemon

D) Meyer lemon

Answer · why

B) Navel orange

Navel orange trees from Brazil reached her through a friend at the US Department of Agriculture, and one of her original trees was later preserved as ...

Q 04/05

Which historic highway follows Foothill Boulevard through the Inland Empire, past a tepee motel?

A) Lincoln Highway

B) Highway 101

C) Route 99

D) Route 66

Answer · why

D) Route 66

Route 66 ran from Chicago to Santa Monica, and the Wigwam Motel beside it is one of seven tepee villages built across the country between 1933 and 194...

Q 05/05

Which British band launched its first American tour at the Inland Empire's Swing Auditorium in 1964?

A) The Rolling Stones

B) The Dave Clark Five

C) The Beatles

D) The Animals

Answer · why

A) The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones played their first US tour date there; a light plane crashed into the auditorium in 1981 and the building had to be demolished.