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What is the hardness of 3 (calcite)?
Gold’s hardness on the mohs scale
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What is the American river?
The river that was discovered at the start of the gold rush
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What is 1848?
The year when the gold rush started
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What is “49ers”?
A nickname for gold miners who mined gold during the gold rush
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Who is James K. Polk?
The person who was president during the gold rush
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What is pyrite (aka fool’s gold)?
A gold lookalike that was thought to be gold, but isn’t
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What is Sutter’s mill?
The place where gold was found in California, which started the gold rush
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Who is James W. Marshall?
The person who famously found gold in California
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What is selling gold?
What most gold miners would do with their gold
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What is the number 90,000?
The approximate number of miners who died during and because of the gold rush
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What is silver?
Another mineral that was worth a lot of money and was mined during the gold rush
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What is Coloma?
The city where gold was famously found in in California
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Who is John Sutter?
The person who owned the place where gold was famously discovered
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What are railroad workers?
The job most Chinese miners got after the gold rush ended
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What is the number 100,000?
The approximate number of native Americans who died during and because of the gold rush
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What is the number 60,000?
The approximate number of tonnes of gold that is left
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What is ancient Egypt (aka Nubia)?
The country where gold was first found in, thousands of years ago
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What is panning?
A mining technique gold miners used to mine gold
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What is hydraulic mining?
A powerful gold mining technique that involved very powerful water hoses
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What is the number 750?
The approximate number of tonnes of gold that was found during the gold rush
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What is China?
The country where most gold was found in 2025
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What is Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park?
The name of the historic park where gold was found in, which started the gold rush
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What is $15 ($643 in today’s money)?
The approximate average amount of money each gold miner got from gold each day (in that time’s money)
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Who is Samuel Brannan?
The most successful gold miner during the gold rush
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What is the number 650?
The approximate number of people who got very rich during and because of the gold rush
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Who is Archimedes?
A person who famously said “Eureka!”, just like James W. Marshall
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