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Exploring Los Angeles: A Quiz on the City of Angels

Test your knowledge about Los Angeles with this engaging quiz covering geography, leadership, and demographics of the city.

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1 What is the land area of Los Angeles in square km?

2 [42] In addition, the ________ is increasingly threatened by MTBE from gas stations and perchlorate from rocket fuel.

3 How many square miles is Los Angeles in area?

4 Which of the following subdivisions is Los Angeles in?

5 Who of the following is/was the leader of Los Angeles?

6 What is the total population of Los Angeles?

7 [19] In 1960, non-Hispanic whites made up 82% of the population of ________.

8 Owing to geography, heavy reliance on automobiles, and the Los Angeles/Long Beach port complex, Los Angeles suffers from ________ in the form of smog.

9 What timezone is Los Angeles in during daylight savings?

10 What is the leader of Los Angeles called?

đź’ˇ Interesting Facts

  • the Holiday Bowl in Los Angeles was a popular gathering place for the Nikkei community and African Americans, with the coffee shop serving grits, udon, chow mein, and hamburgers.
  • the reality television series Dr. 90210 got its name from the zip code for part of the Los Angeles suburb of Beverly Hills.
  • the Los Angeles chapter of the Gay Liberation Front organized a project to take over the government of Alpine County, CA, to establish a gay separatist community called Stonewall Nation.
  • homes in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Beverly Park average 20,000-30,000 ft², and that the homeowners association requires all dwellings to be larger than 5,000 ft².
  • the LAPD Air Support Division in Los Angeles is the nation's largest municipal airborne law enforcement organization.
  • the Palm Court, called "the most beautiful room in Los Angeles," has been the site of speeches by Presidents Taft and Wilson and balls where Rudolph Valentino danced with starlets.
  • the filming of Dexter was forced to move from Miami to Los Angeles, beginning with the episode "It's Alive!", because of the overlap between the show's production window and Miami's hurricane season.
  • the film Let the Devil Wear Black is a modern-day version of William Shakespeare's Hamlet that is set in Los Angeles.
  • the Versailles Cuban restaurant is part of actress Helen Mirren's ideal weekend in Los Angeles.
  • during the Mexican-American War, a revolt by the Californio and Mexican residents of Los Angeles forced American Marines to surrender Fort Moore.
  • during the Civil War years, the San Fernando Valley north of Los Angeles experienced floods, droughts, a smallpox epidemic, and even a plague of locusts.
  • Hall of Famers Don Drysdale and Don Sutton each made seven Opening Day starts for the Los Angeles Dodgers since the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles in 1958.
  • Los Angeles-based hip hop group Black Eyed Peas have released two number one albums in both Australia and Switzerland, but have yet to achieve the same on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.
  • Los Angeles considered changing the name of the geographic region known as San Fernando Valley in 2002 to San Angeles, the same name used for the fictional city in the 1993 movie Demolition Man.
  • LA's St. Cecilia Church, built in 1927, adapted to its multiethnic community by installing shrines to a beatified Nigerian priest, a Oaxacan Virgin, and a Guatemalan "Black Christ".
  • Monica C. Lozano is the publisher and Chief Executive Officer of the Los Angeles-based La OpiniĂłn, the largest Spanish language newspaper in the United States.
  • Pink Dot is a Los Angeles–based chain of grocery stores that offers delivery service of groceries, deli food, cigarettes, and alcohol.
  • You Chung Hong, the first Chinese American admitted to practice law in California, helped develop the new Chinatown in Los Angeles in the 1930s, including designing its neon-lit gateway.
  • Sylvia Levin registered more than 47,000 new voters in the Los Angeles area, an individual record both in California and the United States.
  • Rancho Los Encinos near Los Angeles was founded in 1797, and raised cattle, sheep and wheat, and was a stagecoach stop, before becoming a real estate subdivision with Los Encinos State Historic Park at its heart.
  • Manson Family member Paul Watkins gave testimony to the Los Angeles District Attorney which helped explain Helter Skelter.
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