The main idea of this paragraph is that they spent weeks trying to determine where the smell was coming from.
They look at all of them usually it all depends
A. Incorrect- States location of California. No clue on discovery of gold.
California borders the Pacific Ocean.
B. Correct. The term 'Golden' gives a starter on the gold discovery later.
California became known as the Golden State.
C. Incorrect. Comparing size of states.
California is our third-largest state.
D. Incorrect. Out of topic, hinting natural disasters.
California also is home to earthquakes and landslides.