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Here are the questions, and answers, to the first Crosby Heafey "Pop" Quiz. Perhaps the quiz master was a bit too tough on the contestants. No one submitted a response with all the correct answers. We hope that you had fun trying, however, and we will do another Crosby Heafey Pop Quiz next year. Thanks for your interest.

FIRST THE EASY LAW STUFF.

A.    YES OR NO? WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING FAMOUS PERSONS IS/WAS ALSO A LAWYER?

ANSWER:

Every individual below is/was a lawyer except Edwin Hubble. See www.MSC.NET.PH/IBP/FAMLAW.HT ML for information on the first 12 lawyers.

  1. Ozzie Nelson
    Actor in TV‘s famous early sitcom, "The Nelson Family"

  2. Otto Preminger
    Famous movie director of, for example, "Exodus," "Carmen Jones," "Advise and Consent"

  3. Howard Cosell
    Need we say more?

  4. John Cleese
    English comedian and one of Monte Python‘s henchmen

  5. Julio Inglesias
    Arguably the world‘s most popular vocalist

  6. Tony LaRussa
    Major league baseball manager

  7. Hoagy Carmichael
    Well­known songwriter

  8. Geraldo Rivera
    Once again, need we say more?

  9. Earl Stanley Gardner
    Creator of Perry Mason

  10. William Tecumseh Sherman
    One of the Union‘s most effective generals in the Civil War

  11. William Gilbert
    Of Gilbert & Sullivan fame, creators of "H.M.S. Pinafore" and other classics

  12. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
    Leader of the Indian independence movement and eloquent advocate of passive resistance

  13. Edwin Hubble
    Who discovered the universe is huge and expanding

B. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING FAMOUS LAWYERS AND JURISTS NEVER ACTUALLY GOT A LAW DEGREE?

Answer:

The only degreed lawyer in the whole list is Earl Warren. Darrow went to law school for a year, but never got a law degree. See www.MSC.NET.PH/IBP/FAMLAW.HT ML. By the way, Earl Warren was a sort of partner at Crosby Heafey. Just before World War I he agreed to join Peter Crosby, Sr. and two other young lawyers in a partnership, but when the US joined the war he volunteered. After the war he went into public service and Peter Crosby, Sr. lost his prospective partner. On the other hand the US got a great Chief Justice.

  1. Patrick Henry
    Member of the Continental Congress and Governor of Virginia, said "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death"

  2. John Jay
    First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

  3. John Marshall
    Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

  4. William Wirt
    Attorney General of the United States

  5. Roger B. Taney
    Secretary of the Treasury and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

  6. Daniel Webster
    Secretary of State

  7. Salmon P. Chase
    Senator and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

  8. Abraham Lincoln
    President of the United States

  9. Stephen Douglas
    Senator from Illinois and almost President

  10. Clarence Darrow
    Defense attorney in the Scopes Trial of 1925

  11. Earl Warren
    Governor of California and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

THESE ARE A LITTLE HARDER. MAYBE SOME CALIFORNIA LEGAL HISTORY WOULD BE INTERESTING.

C. TRUE OR FALSE:

Answer:

1, 2 and 3 below are all true. David Terry, a justice of the California Supreme Court knifed a member of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilence (a sort of early police officer) in a political scuffle on June 21, 1856 and almost killed him. See, www.SFMUSEUM.ORG/HIST 10/SHOPKINS.HTML. On September 13, 1859 Terry fought a duel with David Broderick, the popular US Senator from California and killed him. www.SFMUSEUM.ORG/HIST 6/BRODERICK.HTML. Terry himself was killed on August 14, 1889 by a US Marshall on a train near Stockton, California. The Marshall was David O. Neagle who was protecting US Supreme Court Justice Stephen Field. Neagle shot Terry when Terry pulled a knife on Field. Why Terry would pull a knife on Field who was at one time a fellow Justice with Terry on the California Supreme Court before Field was elevated to the US Supreme Court is a story better told by the US Supreme Court itself in the case that all of this spawned. See, In re Neagle, 135 U.S. 1 (1890). Question 4 is false. Even though Terry got himself shot to death while trying to commit murder, it was not technically an execution.

  1. A Justice of the California Supreme Court knifed and almost killed a police officer.

  2. A Justice of the California Supreme Court killed a United States Senator.

  3. A Justice of the California Supreme Court was killed by a United States Marshal.

  4. A Justice of the California Supreme Court was executed for murder.

THIS WILL BEGIN TO SEPARATE THE JEOPARDY PLAYERS FROM THE REST OF US. CALIFORNIA GEOGRAPHY ANYONE?

D. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING PLACES IS FURTHER NORTH GEOGRAPHICALLY:

  1. Mt. Whitney (36.6275N). Monterey is at 36.6003N. Hard to believe because most people think of Whitney as being in the southern part of California and Monterey a little south of San Francisco, but look a map and make sure that the north orientation is straight up and down. For all latitudes check the USGS web site: www.NATIONALAT LAS.GOV/NATLAS/NATLASSTART.ASP which has a latitude/longitude search engine.

  2. Death Valley. Death Valley extends far to the north of Whitney, although places like Stove Pipe Wells, Furnace Creek and Bad Water, which are well known landmarks are south of the mountain.

  3. The City of Los Angeles. It extends north to include the community of Sylmar, north of the San Fernando Valley. While Ventura is "north" along US 101, the coastal highway, in this area the highway runs almost due east/west. The northern border of the City of Ventura is south of the northern border of the City of Los Angeles.

  4. Yosemite. Yup, that's right. Yosemite Valley itself is at 37.71639N and Palo Alto is at 37.44194N. Even though you drive south from the San Francisco Bay Area to get to Yosemite that is because the river canyons which the highways follow to get up into the mountains tend to run from southwest to northeast. Fact is though that Yosemite is almost due east of the San Francisco Bay Area.

  5. San Francisco is further North than Berkeley. Sorry, this is a little tricky, but with a good map you can figure it out. In their wisdom the early California legislature determined to give San Francisco control of a much larger portion of San Francisco Bay than San Francisco's relative land area might seem to merit. Thus for example, the eastern border of San Francisco includes an acre or two of the tip of the former Alameda Naval Air Station, which is mostly in Alameda County. That placed the Island of Yerba Buena in the middle of the bay and Treasure Island, when it was filled in just to the north of Yerba Buena, well inside the San Francisco borders. Relative to this question is the fact that the San Francisco border was also extended far to the north into the area just off the Contra Costa County shoreline and what was to become the City of Richmond to the little island called Goat Island, which is only a couple of hundred yards south of the Richmond/San Rafael Bay Bridge. While Berkeley is north of the land area of most, if not all, of San Francisco, its northern border is far south of Goat Island.

  6. Mono Lake is at 38.01667N. Oakland is at 37.8044N. Even though Mono is in the great southwestern desert east of the Sierra Nevada it is still north of Oakland.

  7. Reno is at 39.52972 and Mendocino "on the northern California coast" is at 39.37078N.

EVEN HARDER:

E. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING PLACES IS FURTHER WEST GEOGRAPHICALLY:

  1. Fresno is at 119.77139W longitude. Santa Barbara, even though it is on the coast is at 119.69722W.

  2. Tahoe, not Santa Barbara. It is at 120.03333W.

  3. San Simeon. I had to have one coastal town west of the mountain places. San Simeon is at 121.18972W and Coloma is at 120.88917W.

  4. But once again it's Yosemite. Yosemite Valley is at 119.66417W and Long Beach is at 118.18833W.

  5. San Berdo wins. The City of San Bernardino is at 117.28889W. San Diego is at 117.15636W.

  6. This is easy, but some smart folks may outsmart themselves. On a map it looks like Nevada is completely east of California, but sharp eyed gamesters may notice that in one place along the Colorado River border between California and Arizona south of Lake Havasu City, California extends eastward many miles as the river bends in that direction. If it were bent just a few more miles further east that part of the California eastern border would be further east than the long straight eastern border that Nevada shares with Utah and represents Nevada's easternmost extent. So Nevada is further east, But the question is which is further west. Cape Mendocino, California's most westerly reach is hundreds of miles west of any part of Nevada.

F. WHICH IS LARGER IN GEOGRAPHIC AREA:

  1. The County of San Bernardino is huge. It has about 20,000 square miles. Maryland is only about 10,000.

  2. The County of Los Angeles is about 4,083 square miles and Rhode Island is 1,214. The City of Los Angeles all by itself comes close to Rhode Island. It has almost 1,000 square miles of territory.

  3. The great California Central Valley was formed when the granite plutons of the Sierra Nevada mountains lifted up. The Valley is about 60 miles wide and 450 miles long or about 27,000 square miles. West Virginia is about 24,000.

  4. Nope. You guessed wrong. Big as Riverside County is, Vermont is bigger. Riverside County was formed in 1893 by taking a large piece of the truly huge San Bernardino County and some territory from San Diego County.

  5. This one is a ringer also. New Hampshire is larger than Imperial County.

G. TRUE OR FALSE FOR EACH GEOGRAPHIC FEATURE: THESE CALIFORNIA LANDMARKS ARE ACTIVE VOLCANOS.

  1. Long Valley Caldera – True

  2. Medicine Lake Caldera – True

  3. The Sutter Buttes – False

  4. Mt. Lassen – True

  5. Mt. Shasta – True

  6. Mt. Ritter – False

  7. Mono Lake – False

  8. Lava Peak – True

  9. Lake Tahoe – False

While areas like the Sutter Buttes and Mono Lake were active in the geologically recent past, the experts no longer consider them active volcanos. See www.NATIONALATLAS.GOV/ VOLCANOCA.HTML. Lava Peak and Lake Tahoe are ringers for the unwary.

H. CALIFORNIA IS A LAND OF EXTREMES. HERE ARE THREE LISTS. MATCH THE NAMES OF THE CALIFORNIA GEOGRAPHICAL FEATURES ON LIST A WITH THE DISTANCES BETWEEN THE TWO LISTED FEATURES ON LIST B AND THE DIFFERENCES IN THE HEIGHTS OF THE TWO FEATURES ON LIST C. THE ANSWER FOLLOWING THE LISTS IS GIVEN AS AN EXAMPLE (ONLY THE REALLY, REALLY BRAVE WILL DO THIS WITHOUT A MAP).

List A
 		 List B
 		       List C
 
A1. The Town of Lone Pine to
Mount Whitney		 B1. 13 miles       C1. 10,655 ft.
A2. The ocean to King
Peak		 B2. 9 miles       C2. 10,815 ft.
A3. Chalfant Valley to White
Mountain Peak		 B3. 3 miles       C3. 4,087 ft.
A4. The Town of Mt. Shasta to
Mt. Shasta		 B4. 17 miles       C4. 11,331 ft.
A5. Bad Water (Death Valley) to
Telescope Peak		 B5. 6 miles       C5. 9,962 ft.

Answers:

   A1. B1 C2
   A2. B3 C3
   A3. B5 C5
   A4. B2 C1
   A5. B4 C4


There are a lot of surprises here for the avid mapster (no, not napster).)). Most of these extremes are so close to one another and so steep that if a cable were strong enough it could be connected directly to the low and high points without touching anything in between. The steepest average climb is Chalfant Valley to White Peak Mountain, a rise of 1,660 feet / mile or a 31% grade. Surprisingly, the second steepest grade is the ocean to King Peak at 1,362 feet / mile, or 26%.