How California Are You?

Not to be confused with the (909)09er’s of Neptune. :cool:

Wait, 10. would be the same in north and south. Unless, of course, you’re talking the other direction. 3. Never ate at In-N-Out. 5. When I lived there Facebook didn’t exist, so running to the window was the next best choice. 7. Didn’t know that. 8. I shoulda gotten that one!

I lived in San Diego for 9 years, and worked in LA for 2. I got 57%. I missed #'s 3, 5, 7, 8 and 10.

57% and I’ve lived in New Orleans all my life. However, I’ve been to California at least a dozen or more times.

:wink:

No… you take “the five” to get back to real California. Which can be either San Diego or anything north of Stockton.

Ok, this came out more pessimistic than I intended but it’s truth.

I’ve lived in SoCal most of my life and this quiz is bullshit.

Spoilered because my super accurate answers might give the quizzes answers away.

[spoiler]1. Who the hell cares. Only second graders need to know this for a test and then the next day they will forget.

  1. Being in SoCal and so immursed in hearing spanish it doesn’t make me feel at home because it’s spanish. After 20+ years it’s just English that just happened to have once been spanish.

  2. I know this but only hippie vegetarians order it that way. And In-N-Out is waaaaay overrated.

  3. Nobody in the world says Cali except for that stupid song, “Going back to Cali” and because he used that word LLCoolJ had to go into acting to make money.

  4. Not everyone is obsessed with Facebook. I wouldn’t do any of the options. I’d go, “huh, an earthquake.” and go back to flipping channels.

  5. Who cares? Sorry I’m not obsessed with fast food history.

  6. This one is accurate and topical.

  7. Assumes every one in “Cali” is a dirty hippie and lives in a metro area and that even if they were visiting a friend out in the boonies they would drive 15-20 miles round trip and spend $10 on gas to recycle a couple of bottles for $1.04 just to feel smug.

  8. This only applies to the currently hip specialty trucks. I would not eat from some random roach coach and I haven’t seen one of those specialty trucks outside of LA and I don’t live in LA.

  9. Also assumes everyone is dirty hippie that goes to Burning Man and trips balls on acid or molly and blacks out. And only idiots asks where they are by trivia. A normal person would ask what town they are in.[/spoiler]

I scored 77%. The Governator approves.

Batshit. I’m 30 minutes to 1 hour from beaches, mountains, deserts, lakes…anything I want. I have access to all Greater LA has to offer without having to put up with, you know, LA. 2 hours to San Diego. 3.5 hours to Las Vegas. No smog, no traffic. I’m 10 minutes from the best apples in the country. Why would I ever want to move from the Inland Empire?

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I got 100%, but a couple were guesses. Who cares where fast food franchises got started decades ago?
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Well, they all started in San Bernardino/Inland Empire or thereabouts and I was around when they started. In fact, I’ve eaten at the restaurants before they were franchised. So I care, for one.

1. Because learning is fun! And kids like to make opium jokes.
3. No it keeps the meat and adds non-IBS inflaming grilled onions, pickles, and sauce, fried mustard with the burger. It’s not less carnivorous the only way to order a burger there. The hippiest item is “Protein style” which is Atkins-friendly. But I don’t think that diet is cool anymore, and everyone is doing the equally dumb “Paleo” diet.
Good food, but yes overrated. Their fries are awful though.
9. Food trucks with unusual non-Mexican offerings are the cool hipster thing now. If I know where some are, then they have to exist in North Oakland or something. Mexican ones are all over [del]E. 14th St.[/del] International Blvd in Oakland.
10. Well if you drove less than 4 hours, Tahoe is the closest major beach area. Otherwise you’re looking for a long haul to LA. I bet this person leeched off of others at BM.

There isn’t anything north of Stockton.

Nope. Pyramid Lake and Lake Lahontan.

You’re welcome.

I’m looking California, but feeling Minnesota.

So now you know.

Born in San Diego, lived there for 54 years, spent a LOT of time at the beach (but not a surfer), moved away nine years ago.

My score was 65%. On some of the questions I answered honestly/accurately, even though my response wasn’t the obvious “you’re a Californian” answer.
The factual questions were good enough; the others weren’t.

Less beachy, and you can’t fish Lahontan unless you release/succumb to mercury poisoning. Nitpick: “Lake” is fine colloquial, but it’s really Lahontan Reservoir, e.g. parks website doesn’t use the capitalized form. The OG Lake Lahontan was ginormous.

Actually “Mudhole”. :smiley: Or, “Rocky Shithole” depending on where you try to beach-launch.

50% Californian, which feels about right since precisely half my parents were from California. Dad was born and raised in Hollywood. I don’t think he would recognize some of those newfangled questions though, if he were still alive.

And for the record, “What city has the best burritos: SF or LA?” is a trick question.

The correct answer is San Diego.

I thought it was “there’s no life east of I-5.”

In Washington maybe. :stuck_out_tongue:

I got 84% and I haven’t been to California in about 8 years.