Farewell Party Quiz
On Saturday, I had a farewell party at Zeek's Pizza. I took far too many pictures to post (I got my camera back from repair)! I was pleased to see so many friends turn out for the party, including people from church and friends here in Seattle. As part of the party I passed out a trivia quiz to get people thinking about Los Angeles and hopefully interested in visiting the area. Writing the questions actually helped me learn more about the city. The quiz and answers are below.
1. Los Angeles averages 325 days of sunshine a year. Although most days are sunny with lows in the 50s and highs in the 70s, the city does experience temperature extremes. The lowest temperature recorded in the city of Los Angeles was 18 degrees during the winter 1989 and the highest temperature was 112 during the summer of 1990. With 33 days of precipitation occurring mainly during the winter, when was the last time it snowed in downtown Los Angeles:
a. 1993
b. 1962
c. 1889
d. never
2. Los Angeles has five major airports (LAX, Bob Hope, Long Beach, John Wayne, and Ontario) within 40 miles of downtown and so getting to the city by air isn’t difficult. A non-stop flight from the Seattle to LA is 2 hours and 12 minutes. What’s the least expensive roundtrip airline ticket from Sea-Tac to LAX in the month of July (as quoted on April 15th)?
a. More than $300
b. $200 to $300
c. $100 to $200
d. less than $100
3. Los Angeles is known for its car culture and the locals claim that nobody walks in LA. The first automobile appeared in Los Angeles in 1897. Today, SoCal is the car capital of the America with 15% of all the country’s new car/truck purchases made in the megalopolis. Though Los Angeles has a reputation for gridlock, it is also infamous for its car chases. The most famous police pursuit was of O. J. Simpson in:
a. 1995
b. 1994
c. 1993
d. 1992
4. SoCal is the name given to the group of metropolitan cities that occupy the southern quarter of the state of California. The area is bound on the north and east by deserts, the west by the Pacific Ocean, and the south by the international border between the United States and Mexico. Containing the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego the area is host to:
a. 1 percent of the world’s population
b. More 7-Elevens than all of Taiwan, Japan, and China
c. Six NFL, MLB, and NBA teams
d. three time zones
5. Johnny is moving to the San Fernando Valley, a place that everyone has heard but don’t know by name. The valley is located north of the Santa Monica mountains which separates the Los Angeles basin and the valley. Colloquially women from the area have been coined Valley Girls and the valley was the location of the 1994 Northridge earthquake. The valley is home to the:
a. Second largest urban park in North America
b. Hollywood sign
c. Oprah’s California dream house
d. Lockheed Martin headquarters
6. Unlike other large cities that rely on rain to clear smog, Los Angeles recieves 15 inches of rain each year, so the smog is able to accumulate over multiple consecutive days. Smog is the result of the acullumation of ozone in the air. In the 1970s the City exceeded federal air quality standards for ozone more than 150 days a year; in the 1980s the City exceeded these same standards on average 80 days a year. Since then, the state of California has required the automotive industry to sell low emissions vehicles in the region resulting in a remarkable drop in air pollution levels in recent years. In 2005, air quality in downtown LA exceeded the federal air quality standard for ozone:
a. 21days
b. 12 days
c. 6 days
d. 0 days
7. Retail and commercial services in Los Angeles are very similar to Seattle. All but one of the following local Seattle favorites has a franchise store in Los Angeles, which is it:
a. Buffalo Exchange
b. Seattle’s Best Coffee
c. Trader Joe’s
d. Uwajimaya
8. Los Angeles is all about the neighborhoods (although many of the neighborhoods are technically cities). Some of the well known cities commonly referred to as Los Angeles proper include Beverly Hills, Hollywood, Santa Monica, and Pasadena. City streets rather than highways connect many of these neighborhoods to other parts of the city; in turn these streets themselves have become famous. Which of the following is not a street connecting Los Angeles to one of its neighborhoods?
a. Ocean Drive
b. Rodeo Drive
c. Sunset Boulevard
d. Wilshire Boulevard
9. The Rodney King riots started on the streets of Los Angeles after the reading of the historic verdict in which a jury acquitted three LAPD officers. The jury for the trial was drawn from citizens living in the San Fernando Valley. The afternoon that the verdict was read Reginald Denny was dragged from his vehicle by an angry mob in South Central LA at the intersection of Florence and ( ).
Answers: 1. b 2. a 3. b 4. c 5. a 6.d 7. d 8. a 9. Normandie
1. Los Angeles averages 325 days of sunshine a year. Although most days are sunny with lows in the 50s and highs in the 70s, the city does experience temperature extremes. The lowest temperature recorded in the city of Los Angeles was 18 degrees during the winter 1989 and the highest temperature was 112 during the summer of 1990. With 33 days of precipitation occurring mainly during the winter, when was the last time it snowed in downtown Los Angeles:
a. 1993
b. 1962
c. 1889
d. never
2. Los Angeles has five major airports (LAX, Bob Hope, Long Beach, John Wayne, and Ontario) within 40 miles of downtown and so getting to the city by air isn’t difficult. A non-stop flight from the Seattle to LA is 2 hours and 12 minutes. What’s the least expensive roundtrip airline ticket from Sea-Tac to LAX in the month of July (as quoted on April 15th)?
a. More than $300
b. $200 to $300
c. $100 to $200
d. less than $100
3. Los Angeles is known for its car culture and the locals claim that nobody walks in LA. The first automobile appeared in Los Angeles in 1897. Today, SoCal is the car capital of the America with 15% of all the country’s new car/truck purchases made in the megalopolis. Though Los Angeles has a reputation for gridlock, it is also infamous for its car chases. The most famous police pursuit was of O. J. Simpson in:
a. 1995
b. 1994
c. 1993
d. 1992
4. SoCal is the name given to the group of metropolitan cities that occupy the southern quarter of the state of California. The area is bound on the north and east by deserts, the west by the Pacific Ocean, and the south by the international border between the United States and Mexico. Containing the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego the area is host to:
a. 1 percent of the world’s population
b. More 7-Elevens than all of Taiwan, Japan, and China
c. Six NFL, MLB, and NBA teams
d. three time zones
5. Johnny is moving to the San Fernando Valley, a place that everyone has heard but don’t know by name. The valley is located north of the Santa Monica mountains which separates the Los Angeles basin and the valley. Colloquially women from the area have been coined Valley Girls and the valley was the location of the 1994 Northridge earthquake. The valley is home to the:
a. Second largest urban park in North America
b. Hollywood sign
c. Oprah’s California dream house
d. Lockheed Martin headquarters
6. Unlike other large cities that rely on rain to clear smog, Los Angeles recieves 15 inches of rain each year, so the smog is able to accumulate over multiple consecutive days. Smog is the result of the acullumation of ozone in the air. In the 1970s the City exceeded federal air quality standards for ozone more than 150 days a year; in the 1980s the City exceeded these same standards on average 80 days a year. Since then, the state of California has required the automotive industry to sell low emissions vehicles in the region resulting in a remarkable drop in air pollution levels in recent years. In 2005, air quality in downtown LA exceeded the federal air quality standard for ozone:
a. 21days
b. 12 days
c. 6 days
d. 0 days
7. Retail and commercial services in Los Angeles are very similar to Seattle. All but one of the following local Seattle favorites has a franchise store in Los Angeles, which is it:
a. Buffalo Exchange
b. Seattle’s Best Coffee
c. Trader Joe’s
d. Uwajimaya
8. Los Angeles is all about the neighborhoods (although many of the neighborhoods are technically cities). Some of the well known cities commonly referred to as Los Angeles proper include Beverly Hills, Hollywood, Santa Monica, and Pasadena. City streets rather than highways connect many of these neighborhoods to other parts of the city; in turn these streets themselves have become famous. Which of the following is not a street connecting Los Angeles to one of its neighborhoods?
a. Ocean Drive
b. Rodeo Drive
c. Sunset Boulevard
d. Wilshire Boulevard
9. The Rodney King riots started on the streets of Los Angeles after the reading of the historic verdict in which a jury acquitted three LAPD officers. The jury for the trial was drawn from citizens living in the San Fernando Valley. The afternoon that the verdict was read Reginald Denny was dragged from his vehicle by an angry mob in South Central LA at the intersection of Florence and ( ).
Answers: 1. b 2. a 3. b 4. c 5. a 6.d 7. d 8. a 9. Normandie
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