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QUESTION: What does the word "California" mean? (in the Spanish sense, not the existential sense, which could take us years to discuss!) (This is the last Free Lunch Contest question. Thanks for playing, everyone!)

ANSWER: Historians think that California was a mythical island ruled by Queen Califia. When the Spaniards came across what is now California they thought it was an island due to the San Francisco bay and connecting rivers (the bay was quite larger than it is now). They named the land after the fabled island.