Review for Thursday's quiz: sample questions on Skywalker Ranch and a comparison essay topic: California & Louisiana

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Aug 16

1) Vino is the theme of the region known as a) Oakland
b) Marin County c) Napa Valley.
2) Anaheim is the part of greater Los Angeles known for a) Disneyland b) the birth of the Fender guitar c) UCLA.
3) When 3 personages attempt to share the power: a) triumph
b) triumvirate c) trinitrotoluene d) triticulture.
4) Once a military stockade and later a prison, today “the pelican” is a tourist site off the Pacific coast of San Francisco. T / F
5) With Stanford University, Google and UC Berkeley in the region, the main industry of Silicon Valley is higher education.
T / F
6) An advantage shared by the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach: a) no hurricanes b) Pacific Rim location
c) few port cities on the West coast.
7) Marin County, Napa Valley, Beverly Hills and Orange County may be described as a) affluent b) litigious c) entrepreneurial.
8) While Yahoo has 54% of the search engine market, Google is closing the gap quickly, some 23% of the market. MSN commands about 13% of the web search market, says Wikipedia.org. T / F
9) Having work done outside your nation so as to save money is called a) attribution b) outsourcing c) citation.
10) Beijing is found at about 40N latitude, 116E longitude.
11) T / F South Korea and Russia border China.
12) Cheap labor and highly-educated workers are abundant in the nations of China and __. a) India b) Japan c) Saudi Arabia.
13) Stanford University: a) Mountain View b) Cupertino c) Palo Alto d) San Jose.
14) Not a part of Silicon Valley: a) Apple b) Microsoft c) Google d) Yahoo.

15) Parts of the Hollywood entertainment industry that are located in and around San Francisco (name all the correct answers): a) Lucasfilm b) Pixar c) Industrial Light & Magic d) Skywalker Ranch.
16) Money loaned to promising companies in their early stages:
a) venture capital b) demographics c) data mining d) graphical user interfaces.

Brief comparison essay: California and Louisiana. Please see your handout on comparison essays.