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Pop Quiz: All About the California Gold Rush

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1.

The California Gold Rush began in:

1700s
1800s
1900s

2.

What athletic team is named after the California Gold Rush?

The San Francisco 49ers
The Los Angeles Dodgers
The Oakland Miners

3.

The place where the first gold nugget of the California Gold Rush was found was:

Napa Valley, California
Sutter Mill in Coloma, California
The football field of Pomona College

4.

The California Gold Rush helped trigger the building of which canal?

Suez canal
Panama canal
Erie canal

5.

A popular method for extracting gold from riverbeds was:

Panning
Dogging
Vacuuming

6.

The California Gold Rush ended in:

1700s
1800s
Never