Can you name the counties of California?

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Counties of California Quiz

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Created by: Kicking222 -
Published: August 27th, 2009
Category: Geography
Plays: 20,965

Tags: county, california

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	JohnJF:	Aug 27th, 2009 at 16:20 GMT	10 points
	Thank you, Raiders and Athletics, for having a stadium name that enabled me to boost up to ten.

	RyanUR:	Aug 27th, 2009 at 16:29 GMT	10 points
	Thank you, Mark Twain.

	RedLIon:	Aug 27th, 2009 at 16:52 GMT	6 points
	More difficult than I anticipated..and I just woke up. I will return later when I'm more fully awake to conquer you, quiz!!

	johnlk:	Aug 27th, 2009 at 17:26 GMT	12 points
	I like these quizzes, but it would be better if there was a map.

	uconngary7:	Aug 27th, 2009 at 17:27 GMT	12 points
	The OC? Don't call it that.

	shoredude2:	Aug 27th, 2009 at 17:42 GMT	0 points
	Somehow I got 10, and I live on the other coast.

	Morbo:	Aug 27th, 2009 at 17:43 GMT	3 points
	I got most of the ones that are named after cities. Yay. Surprised, though, that there's not an "Ocean" or "Oceanside" or something like that.

	giantsfreak830:	Aug 27th, 2009 at 18:09 GMT	2 points
	uconngary7: do you by any chance have OC Disorder? lived in CA my whole life and could only get 16, damn

	tannem:	Aug 27th, 2009 at 18:56 GMT	4 points
	if only I knew a few more saints, that would've helped

	chikka2:	Aug 27th, 2009 at 19:10 GMT	2 points
	Even vacationing in California--twice---didn't help get more than 13. County names aren't something you think about much as a tourist. Fun quiz anyhow.

	newenglander:	Aug 27th, 2009 at 19:17 GMT	1 point
	i just started naming physical features and national parks in california, and half of them worked

	Guinevere:	Aug 27th, 2009 at 19:39 GMT	4 points
	By dint of being a native Californian, taking the quiz twice (which I consider kind of cheating) and the fact that the answers were in alpha order, I managed 37/58. I'm not sure how a non-native could do decently - I think fully 90% of CA counties are hick places no one has ever heard of. Thinking of saints and places where they grow pot might help a bit, though.

	darthplaydoh:	Aug 27th, 2009 at 20:10 GMT	1 point
	@uconngary7: arrested development joke understood, and appreciated. other than that, living in Tennessee, i did horrible

	ad808:	Aug 27th, 2009 at 20:34 GMT	2 points
	I knew that getting pulled over for speeding in Yreka would pay off someday. I even spelled the name of the county correctly the first time around. 19/58 - not bad for a New Englander.

	xeju:	Aug 27th, 2009 at 20:59 GMT	1 point
	16/58... plus 2 I couldn't figure out how to spell (not unusual for me), then an additional 11 I slapped my forehead when I saw. Not bad for a Midwesterner.

	Kicking222:	Aug 27th, 2009 at 21:03 GMT	2 points
	Hey, cool, this got posted. I don't know why I made this- I'm from Jersey, after all- but it seemed like a good idea. I hope everybody has fun. Personally... I got ten. And I actually tried "San Andreas", hoping it was real.

	Hamburger:	Aug 27th, 2009 at 22:30 GMT	5 points
	I was really disappointed that there was no map...

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	HumuloneRanger:	Aug 28th, 2009 at 00:29 GMT	3 points
	16/58, never lived in nor visited California. I probably got half of my total from knowledge of beer, wine, and other stuff.

	Nolij:	Aug 28th, 2009 at 00:30 GMT	5 points
	Surprised that the jumping frog didn't help more people get that one.

	senormucholoco:	Aug 28th, 2009 at 05:03 GMT	1 point
	55/58. Live in Irvine, CA and am a big road tripper/have a huge Vietnamese family across the Golden State. Missed Colusa, Glenn and for some reason spaced on Contra Costa even though it's got a million people. Props to Cali for keeping its city and county names the same. I probably couldn't name more than 5 counties outside California.

	Tex17:	Aug 28th, 2009 at 21:05 GMT	3 points
	Texan, got 22. Man, California sure doesn't like naming counties after people much, do they?

	IHateRegistering:	Aug 29th, 2009 at 01:45 GMT	1 point
	I live in San Diego so I immediately got all the counties within a few hours away, but then I realized how very few counties of Northern California I know about.

	Arbutus:	Aug 30th, 2009 at 01:01 GMT	1 point
	58, woo. Though it took me a full three minutes to remember Tuolumne.

	lazeeeyes:	Aug 30th, 2009 at 14:22 GMT	1 point
	Got em all too. The ones that take more time to remember are the ones located in the mountains. The southern counties are larger and easier to locate which makes them the first to be answered.

	SOAR21:	Sep 1st, 2009 at 05:23 GMT	1 point
	wow, i dont find counties very memorable. After i ran out of time and they all popped up, I found that i recognized most of them, even though i got less than half.

	Emperor_Ziggy:	Sep 2nd, 2009 at 00:37 GMT	1 point
	Maybe we might see Georgia counties soon, seeing as Georgia has more counties than any other state beside Texas.

	confused:	Sep 3rd, 2009 at 13:12 GMT	1 point
	Biggest help for me, outside of living in the bay area, was watching wildfire news over the years. They always give locations by county (or National Forest, which have the same names). Apparently little burns along northern I-5.

	waterjoe:	Sep 30th, 2009 at 20:22 GMT	-4 points
	Legally, San Francisco is not a county or a city, it is a "City and County," which is legally different from a "city" or a "county."

	ArtVark:	Nov 18th, 2009 at 08:52 GMT	2 points
	I missed 13 counties (I kept misspelling Tuolumne). When I took the counties of Ireland quiz, I missed 5. This is embarrassing because 1.) I have lived in California my whole life, 2.) I have never been to Ireland and 3.) I am 0% Irish.

	Felipe:	Jan 9th, 2010 at 06:40 GMT	3 points
	I think this quiz is a lot harder if you're a Southern Californian (like me) than a Northern Californian.

	commercialfreak1:	Jul 11th, 2010 at 17:29 GMT	0 points
	MAP!

	StupidBunny:	Sep 23rd, 2010 at 17:30 GMT	2 points
	I feel really stupid...I was able to get 52 of these and Orange County was not one of them.

	Roman:	Jun 19th, 2011 at 14:43 GMT	1 point
	it took me five times but I got all 58. 1;46

	sorrydog:	Jul 23rd, 2011 at 06:56 GMT	1 point
	love this quiz

	british:	Nov 26th, 2011 at 19:55 GMT	1 point
	I pretty much just got the Bay Area then went brain dead..

	Cecispanda:	Jan 1st, 2012 at 16:18 GMT	1 point
	@Tex, sure they do, if you're a saint :) (or a German oceanologist, or a discoverer of gold lol)

	djcoop:	Jan 13th, 2012 at 23:38 GMT	0 points
	Doodledoopdoopwoopsoup!