Irvine Park Character Quiz 1

The Spanish missionary who helped build the first nine missions in California

• Father Juan Crespi

• Father Junipero Serra

Well know sailor, explorer, and map maker from England

• James Cook

• John Sutter

American who invented the water wheel

• John Bidwell

• Lester Pelton

The explorer who found a water route between Russia and present-day Alaska

• Vitus Bering

• Sir Francis Drake

The Spanish explorer who sailed north from Mexico to present-day San Diego, Cape San Martin, and San Miguel Island

• Gasper de Portola

• Juan Cabrillo

The Spanish soldier who came to California to control Spain's California colony

• Sebastian Vizcaino

• Gasper de Portola

An employee of John Sutter who was the first to find gold on the American River on January 1848.

• John Sutter

• James Marshall

The Spanish missionary who came to California to teach Catholicism

• Father Junipero Serra

• Father Juan Crespi

A pioneer who owned a fort near the American River

• John Sutter

• James Marshall

An English explorer who sailed north along the California coast

• Sir Francis Drake

• James Cook