Q 01/05

The San Diego Zoo keeps the largest colony outside Australia of which animal?

A) Kangaroos

B) Koalas

C) Wombats

D) Tasmanian devils

Answer · why

B) Koalas

Koalas arrived in 1925, when the children of Sydney sent two as a gift to the children of San Diego; the zoo now grows its own eucalyptus to feed the ...

Q 02/05

Which county borders San Diego County to the northwest, along the Pacific coast?

A) Riverside County

B) Imperial County

C) Orange County

D) Los Angeles County

Answer · why

C) Orange County

Orange County sits between San Diego County and Los Angeles, so the coastal drive north to L.A. runs straight through it; Riverside County lies inland...

Q 03/05

Which Cameron Crowe film follows a San Diego teenager sent on tour with a rock band by Rolling Stone?

A) Jerry Maguire

B) Say Anything

C) Almost Famous

D) Singles

Answer · why

C) Almost Famous

Almost Famous is Crowe's own story: raised in San Diego, he was reviewing records for an underground paper there at 13 and writing for Rolling Stone w...

Q 04/05

After the 1972 Republican convention was pulled from San Diego, Mayor Pete Wilson coined which defiant slogan?

A) America's Sunshine City

B) The Golden City

C) Pride of the Pacific

D) America's Finest City

Answer · why

D) America's Finest City

America's Finest City began as a proclamation: Wilson declared the convention week 'America's Finest City Week' after the event moved to Miami Beach, ...

Q 05/05

Which president returned Mission San Diego de Alcalá to the Catholic Church?

A) Polk

B) Buchanan

C) Lincoln

D) Grant

Answer · why

C) Lincoln

Lincoln signed the proclamation in May 1862, in the thick of the Civil War, ending 16 years in which the US Army had occupied the old mission; by then...