Test your knowledge of San Diego news
Which local campus was roiled in May when police broke up a tent city erected by pro-Palestinian protesters and arrested more than 60 people, most of them students?
San Diego State University
University of San Diego
UC San Diego
The end of the Oceanside Pier was destroyed in April and is being rebuilt. What caused the damage?
Rotten wood pilings
A fire
A tropical storm
Legend says this iconic menu item was created in Tijuana 100 years ago. The city celebrated its centennial over the summer.
The Caesar salad
The fish taco
The margarita
The wife of Vice President-elect JD Vance, Usha Vance, has deep San Diego roots. Where did she grow up?
Poway
Oceanside
Rancho Peñasquitos
Since flooding devastated parts of southeastern San Diego in January, what have residents’ criticism, and litigation, largely focused on?
Emergency response times
Stormwater infrastructure maintenance
The perils of climate change
World-renowned San Diego visual artist James Hubbell, who died in May, was best known for his:
Habitable sculptures
Landscape oil paintings
Street murals
San Diego State University is currently building a STEM teaching center in:
Barstow
Chula Vista
Brawley
Pandas returned to the San Diego Zoo over the summer. How much is the zoo paying China each year to borrow the panda pair?
$1 million
$250,000
$1
The San Diego Unified School District renamed Henry Clay Elementary in Rolando following a bungled name-selection process. Which name did the school board end up choosing?
Dr. Bertha Pendleton, after the first Black and first female superintendent of San Diego Unified
bell hooks, after the feminist Black author and social justice activist
Rolling Hills, in reference to the geography surrounding the school
Patti McGee, who grew up in Point Loma and died this year, made a name for herself as the first woman:
San Diego fire chief
Professional skateboarder
Blue Angels pilot
San Diego County is run by a five-member elected Board of Supervisors. Who is the supervisor who kept her seat in a highly contested general election in November?
Terra Lawson-Remer
Marni von Wilpert
Monica Montgomery Steppe
This year, UC San Diego began the fall quarter with record enrollment. How many students were there?
41,312
45,273
39,056
Under a revised law in El Cajon, people will now be able to legally do what downtown for the first time in 27 years?
Play live music
Walk their dogs
Park beyond an hour
Which signature local performing arts center reopened following a $125 million renovation?
San Diego Symphony’s Jacobs Music Center
Starlight Bowl
The Rady Shell
An eighth-grader from Poway won the San Diego County Scripps Regional Spelling Bee in March. What was the winning word?
abecedarian
sialoquent
epihippus
Earlier this year, who sued San Diego, accusing the city of violating their rights by enforcing the city’s vendor law in public parks?
Taqueros
Yoga teachers
Church missionaries
What was the 2024 theme of the San Diego County Fair in Del Mar?
Let’s Go Retro
At The Movies
Underwater Fantasy
What type of event scheduled for Petco Park in January has drawn objections from San Diego Councilmember Kent Lee and the San Diego Humane Society?
A mass pet-adoption event
A circus
A rodeo
Which San Diego effort on homelessness was postponed indefinitely earlier this year in the face of criticism and concerns from city experts?
A proposal to lease a warehouse and turn it into a large shelter
A crackdown on encampments downtown
A philanthropic campaign in partnership with the San Diego Foundation
In July, which Padre threw the club’s second-ever no-hitter?
Joe Musgrove
Dylan Cease
Michael King
San Diego International Airport, the region’s official weather station, finished the rainy season on Sept. 30 with 12.43 inches — higher than the annual average. The average is:
11.10″
9.79”
10.59’’
In September, researchers studying the impacts of the cross-border sewage crisis temporarily pulled their teams from the Tijuana River Valley after detecting high levels of what gas?
Hydrogen sulfide
Sulfur dioxide
arsine
The median price of a resale single-family home in San Diego County reached what landmark this year?
$950,000
$1 million
$1.5 million
What La Jolla Playhouse show won the 2024 Tony Award for best musical on Broadway?
“The Wiz” revival
“The Ballad of Johnny and June”
“The Outsiders”
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