{"id":3986,"date":"2012-01-22T11:06:30","date_gmt":"2012-01-22T19:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=3986"},"modified":"2012-01-22T11:45:26","modified_gmt":"2012-01-22T19:45:26","slug":"californa-trivia-what-is-the-state-flower-how-many-counties-are-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/californa-trivia-what-is-the-state-flower-how-many-counties-are-there\/","title":{"rendered":"California Trivia &#8211; What is the State Flower, How Many Counties are There&#8230;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/greetings3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t have to be FROM California to know a little about the place. California became the 31st state in the Union, though things could have played out differently if Mexico had been a stronger force in the battle to keep the valuable lands once in control of that country. Today, California and Mexico share a border and the U.S. portion of California is known as &#8220;alta&#8221; or upper California while Mexico&#8217;s portion is &#8220;baja&#8221; or lower California. The Tijuana border crossing at San Diego County line is the busiest border crossing in the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here are 7 questions to test your knowledge about\u00a0 California<\/strong> (scroll down for answers):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A. How many counties are in California?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li>120<\/li>\n<li>36<\/li>\n<li>58<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>B. When was California declared a state?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li>1949<\/li>\n<li>1901<\/li>\n<li>1850<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>C. What is the state flower?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li>Lilac<\/li>\n<li>Poppy<\/li>\n<li>Goldenrod<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>D. What animal is on the state flag?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li>Bear<\/li>\n<li>Dog<\/li>\n<li>Mule<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>E.\u00a0 The population of California is approximately how many people:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li>5 Million<\/li>\n<li>40 Million<\/li>\n<li>Half a Billion<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>F. \u00a0 Who is the Governor of California?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li>Arnold Schwarzenegger<\/li>\n<li>Gray Davis<\/li>\n<li>Jerry Brown<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>G.\u00a0 Where is the State Capitol?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li>San Francisco<\/li>\n<li>Sacramento<\/li>\n<li>Oakland<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ANSWERS:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A.\u00a0 58<\/li>\n<li>B. 1850<\/li>\n<li>C.\u00a0 Poppy<\/li>\n<li>D.\u00a0 Bear<\/li>\n<li>E.\u00a0 40 million<\/li>\n<li>F.\u00a0 Jerry Brown<\/li>\n<li>G.\u00a0 Sacramento<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you scored 5 out of 7 or higher, that&#8217;s great! If you got 4, that&#8217;s OK. If you got 3 answers or less then you know the &#8220;bear&#8221; minimum facts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You don&#8217;t have to be FROM California to know a little about the place. California became the 31st state in the Union, though things could have played out differently if Mexico had been a stronger force in the battle to keep the valuable lands once in control of that country. Today, California and Mexico share [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3986"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}