Get ready to prove your local knowledge

Hello and welcome back to the annual Solano County knowledge test. You live here (or have some connection to the county) and should know a lot about Solano, one of 18 original California counties (from 1850, of course. You already knew that.).

That's where I come in. Consider me the DMV of Solano knowledge, giving you a test to allow you to keep your knowledge license. Remember, next year you can make an appointment!

What follows are 20 questions. Write down your answers on a separate piece of paper (or on the margin to the left of the community calendar) and see how you do. And as always, only Dixon Ticonderoga No. 2 pencils are counted.

Let's.

Get.

Started!

1. Within 50,000, how many people live in Solano County?

2. Name the four interstate freeways in Solano County.

3. Name the five state highways in Solano County.

4. The man who dominated the world land-speed record book 50 years ago lives in Solano County. Who is this legendary driver (the Beach Boys wrote a song about him!) and in which Solano County city does he live?

5. Name the seven Solano County cities.

6. Name the seven dwarfs.

7. What is the largest park in Solano County?

8. What was the most valuable agricultural product in Solano County in 2014?

9. Who is Sem Yeto and why is he in this quiz?

10. If you started at the West Texas Street exit in Fairfield and drove 1,000 miles east on Interstate 80, in what state would you be?

11. Within 1,000, how many people (military and civilian) work at Travis Air Force Base?

12. What company is the largest private employer (in terms of number of employees) in Solano County?

13. What is the largest family owned newspaper in Solano County?

14. Name at least four of the five Solano County supervisors.

15. In what month is the Dixon May Fair?

16. What two Solano County cities were once the capital of California?

17. What is the only city in the county with more men than women?

18. Within two, how many fingers am I holding up right now?

19. What was Travis Air Force Base called when it was founded in 1942?

20. How did you do on this test?

ANSWERS

1. The 2014 estimate (most recent available) was 425,169.

2. Interstates 80, 680, 780, 505.

3. Highways 12, 29, 37, 84 and 113.

4. Craig Breedlove, Rio Vista.

5. Benicia, Dixon, Fairfield, Rio Vista, Suisun City, Vacaville, Vallejo.

6. Sleepy, Doc, Grumpy, Bashful, Happy, Sneezy, Dopey.

7. Rockville Hills Park (633 acres) in Fairfield, which edges out Pena Adobe/Lagoon Valley Park in Vacaville (470 acres).

8. Tomatoes, with a crop value of just more than $46 million.

9. Sem Yeto is the real name of Chief Solano, the county's namesake.

10. Wyoming (Specifically, 4 miles east of Fort Steele, Wyoming).

11. Travis' workforce is listed as 13,414. That includes 7,200 active duty personnel.

12. Kaiser Permanente in Vallejo, with nearly 4,000 employees. Another 1,000 Kaiser employees work in Vacaville.

13. Daily Republic, brother!

14. Erin Hannigan, John Vasquez, Linda Seifert, Jim Spering, Skip Thomson.

15. May. Of course.

16. Benicia (1853) and Vallejo (1852, 1853).

17. Vacaville, which is 53 percent male – due to the approximately 6,300 inmates at the two major prisons there.

18. Four.

19. Fairfield Army Air Base

20. OK.

SCORING

16-20: An expert. Tell the folks at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo that I said to let you in free.

12-15: Pretty solid. Treat yourself to a free tour of the Jelly Belly Factory on me.

8-11: Well, it was tough, but you tried. Ride around Fairfield-Suisun City on the bus for an hour and contemplate how you could get better.

0-7: Go watch a film at the drive-in theater on North Texas Street. You remember it, right? You don't? Well, it's not there anymore!

Brad Stanhope is a former Daily Republic editor. Reach him at bradstanhope@hotmail.com.