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Question: What California structure designed in 1917 has an official color of "international orange?"
Answer: Golden Gate Bridge
Okay, that one was pretty easy.
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1. What San Francisco neighborhood, home to Sutro Tower and named for a pair of mountains, shares its name with a surreal David Lynch TV show about murder in the Pacific Northwest?
Answer: Twin Peaks
2. The Transamerica skyscraper, located on Montgomery St in San Francisco, the 2nd tallest building in the city, is a futurist design in what shape, outer triangles converging to a single point on top?
Answer: Pyramid
3. What “G” Cathedral, located on Nob Hill in San Francisco, is the cathedral church of the Episcopal Diocese of California? Its name is also used in a popular Christian hymn that is supposed to be “Amazing.”
Answer: Grace Cathedral
4. Home to the adobe Mission San Francisco Solano and its Barracks used by the Mexican military, what “S” northern California city is also in the heart of a big winemaking region?
Answer: Sonoma
5. John Anglin, Bernard Coy, and Al Capone were among the former residents of what historic island in San Francisco Bay?
Answer: Alcatraz Island
6. The Olsen twins were a pair, and Saget, Coulier, and Stamos were three of a kind in what family sitcom that aired its final episode in 1995?
Answer: Full House
7. 301 Mission Street in the South of Market District in San Francisco is home to what mixed-use residential tower? It shares its name with the term for 1,000 years.
Answer: Millennium Tower
8. Which neighborhood in San Francisco is also called “Little Italy,” and is the place to be if you want to eat gelato and visit the City Lights bookstore?
Answer: North Beach
9. What’s the official three-letter IATA airport code for San Francisco International Airport?
Answer: SFO
10. What man was the first openly gay elected official in the history of California? He was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1978.
Answer: Harvey Milk
11. Though the opening credits feature Alamo Square Park's Painted Ladies, "Comet's Excellent Adventure" was the only episode of "Full House" shot on location in what West Coast city where the show was set?
Answer: San Francisco
12. One of the most famous quotes about SF: “The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.” What American author allegedly said this but almost certainly in actuality did not?
Answer: Mark Twain
13. Don't say Christopher Marlowe: poppy and mandrake make up one of the floral displays at a San Francisco garden dedicated to flowers name-dropped in the sonnets and plays of what English dude?
Answer: William Shakespeare
14. Which Major League Soccer team named after a frequent geological event on the West Coast plays at PayPal Park and is known for quoting “The Goonies?”
Answer: San Jose Earthquakes
15. According to an NPR interview with San Franciscan landmark’s paint superintendent Rocky Dellarocca, what branch of the U.S. Armed Forces, whose official march song is “Anchors Aweigh”, originally requested for the Golden Gate Bridge to be painted with black and yellow stripes for visibility purposes?
Answer: U.S. Navy
16. What “T” mountain, part of the Pacific Coast Range, is the tallest mountain in San Francisco’s Marin County, CA?
Answer: Mount Tamalpais
17. The Nike San Francisco Women's Half Marathon features a hilly course ending with tuxedoed firefighters awarding finishers their medals in the signature blue box of what jewelers?
Answer: Tiffany & Co.
18. What “S” baths, located in Lands End in Outer Richmond, San Francisco, have allowed public swimming in a saltwater bath since 1894?
Answer: Sutro Baths
19. The fog in the San Francisco Bay Area is often referred to by what affectionate nickname that is shared by famed folks like Marx and Popper?
Answer: Karl
20. Richmond's Flying Squirrels team are the AAA affiliate of what Major League team, who last won the World Series in 2014?
Answer: San Francisco Giants
21. What San Francisco sports team has a seal mascot appropriately named Lou Seal?
Answer: San Francisco Giants
22. What “A” island in San Francisco Bay is home to a Quarantine Station, and was a former home to ranching by Mexicans? Its name is the same as a spiritual being believed to be a messenger or agent of God.
Answer: Angel Island
23. Honoring LGBTQ victims of the Holocaust, Pink Triangle Park sits across from Harvey Milk Plaza, another memorial to an LGBTQ icon, in what American city?
Answer: San Francisco
24. Which San Francisco neighborhood is nicknamed SoMa because it’s south of which major street?
Answer: Market
25. The San Francisco Bay is home to a diverse group of wildlife. Among them is the carcharodon carcharias, a star of the show during Discovery Channel’s most popular annual week-long programming event. This apex predator is better known by what common name? We are looking for three words here.
Answer: Great white shark
26. What “S” Financial Technologies company was founded in 2014, with headquarters in San Francisco, CA? It shares its name with the site of transmission of electrical nerve impulses between two neurons.
Answer: Synapse
27. What Square in San Francisco is a 2.6 acre plaza bordered by Geary, Powell, Post, and Stockton streets, and is also the name of the surrounding shopping district? Its name means the action of being joined, particularly in a political context.
Answer: Union Square
28. What “R” Beach, part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, is two miles north of the Golden Gate Bridge? Its name is also the name of a competitive equestrian sport known for its dangerous bull riding.
Answer: Rodeo Beach
29. What California structure designed in 1917 has an official color of "international orange?"
Answer: Golden Gate Bridge
30. San Francisco is home to the last manually operated system of what local commuting method? It was first innovated and operated by Andrew Hallidie in 1873, as a public alternative to the horse drawn street”car”.
Answer: Cable Car
31. What TV show, set in San Francisco, stars Tony Shalhoub as a former police detective who develops obsessive compulsive personality disorder after the death of his wife, and now solves cases as a private detective?
Answer: Monk
32. Known as one of the California city’s original “Seven Hills”, what famous San Francisco neighborhood is home to landmarks including Huntington Park, the Cable Car Museum, and the historic Fairmont Hotel?
Answer: Nob Hill
33. Randy Shilts's groundbreaking biography of murdered San Francisco supervisor and LGBTQ icon Harvey Milk is titled "The Mayor of" what city street?
Answer: Castro Street
34. In 2014, which US company commissioned a new font called San Francisco, which is now used on their products and in their advertising?
Answer: Apple
35. Before it became San Francisco, 'The City' was a Mexican settlement known by what two-word Spanish name meaning "good herb"? We're looking for BOTH words here.
Answer: Yerba Buena
36. What athletic event that celebrates the LGBTQ community was held for the first time in 1982 in San Francisco, with 1,350 participants from 12 nations competing in 17 sports?
Answer: Gay Games
37. Just north of San Francisco, which protected old-growth redwood forest on Mount Tamalpais can you visit that’s part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area?
Answer: Muir Woods
38. The San Francisco Giants have an annual night dedicated to which heavy metal band? The last one of these was on May 24, 2022, where the band ‘shredded’ the national anthem on their guitars.
Answer: Metallica
39. Since it was first announced in 1988 at the San Francisco Exploratorium, March 14 is the annual celebration of what 'tasty' mathematical constant?
Answer: Pi
40. Bay Area high school students Neal Schon and Gregg Rolie, aside from being members of Santana, were also founding members of what popular rock band, which gained popularity when joined by Steve Perry in 1978?
Answer: Journey
41. In San Francisco, it is illegal to walk your elephant down Market Street unless they are wearing what? Other pets wear them sometimes.
Answer: A leash
42. In 2019, the San Francisco Giants' home stadium changed its name from AT&T Park to what current name?
Answer: Oracle Park
43. Accel, a venture capital firm specializing in startups at early levels of development, has offices in Palo Alto and what other California city, home of the NFL’s 49ers team?
Answer: San Francisco
44. What is the oldest surviving structure in San Francisco? It was the sixth religious settlement established as part of a group's ambitious building and was founded in 1776 by Francisco Palóu.
Answer: Mission San Francisco de Asís (Mission Dolores)
45. What is the titular city in "Tales of the City," a classic work of queer literature published in 1978 by American author Armistead Maupin?
Answer: San Francisco
46. Providing software that focuses on customer service and market automation, what San Francisco-based company has a blue cloud logo with its name in the middle?
Answer: Salesforce
47. A ship that sailed perfect due west after leaving San Francisco harbor would make landfall just south of the city of Sendai in which country?
Answer: Japan
48. San Francisco artist Gilbert Baker designed what symbol of the LGBT movement that was unveiled in 1978? It has eight parts, each symbolizing a specific aspect of their lives gay people should be proud of.
Answer: Rainbow flag
49. With a name deriving from a Spanish verb and a formal definition of "landing place especially on an inland waterway," what is the SF-specific term for the waterfront and roadway that was constructed on reclaimed land along a three-mile-long engineered seawall?
Answer: Embarcadero
50. In November 2022, San Francisco residents voted to permanently ban cars from John F. Kennedy Drive in what city park, which runs from Haight-Asbury to the sea?
Answer: Golden Gate Park
51. Back in 2016, San Francisco's Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to ban the sale and distribution of what packing material in the city of San Francisco? The material is notoriously difficult to recycle and is incredibly slow to decompose.
Answer: Styrofoam
52. What “T” company, founded in 2010 by Taso Du Val in San Francisco and 100 percent remote, connects freelancers with employers, pre-screening its freelancers and charging no recruitment fees?
Answer: Toptal
53. Featured on "Shark Tank" in 2015, a San Francisco dating service that touts itself as "creating meaningful connections that spark hearts" is called "Coffee Meets" what?
Answer: Bagel
54. San Francisco was named in honor of Saint Francis of Assisi, who is the patron saint of which European country?
Answer: Italy
55. Adventurer Phileas Fogg is shocked by the kerfuffle over a San Francisco election for a justice of the peace that he encounters on his global travels in what Jules Verne novel?
Answer: Around the World in Eighty Days
56. Not to be confused with Ryan Reynolds' 2016 superhero film of a similar name, what was the title of the final movie in the San Francisco-based "Dirty Harry" film series?
Answer: The Dead Pool
57. One of the biggest rideshare service brands in the world, Uber’s headquarters are found in which US city? This is also the city where the first rides were given by this brand as well.
Answer: San Francisco
58. Tell me: "Meet Virginia" was the breakthrough song for what "Drops of Jupiter" rock band from the San Francisco Bay Area?
Answer: Train
59. What is the "T" fog that is a thick ground fog common in the San Joaquin Valley and Sacramento Valley during late fall through early spring?
Answer: Tule fog
60. "Alarm Will HOWL," reads an emergency exit warning at a San Francisco museum dedicated to what mid-20th century literary movement?
Answer: Beat
61. In MLB, The “Battle of the Bay” World Series between the San Francisco Giants and the Oakland Athletics happened in which year? This series was remembered for the third game being postponed for an earth-shaking reason.
Answer: 1989
62. Sarah Bernhardt and Ben Harrison were the oddly human-sounding names of two creatures that were first brought to Golden Gate Park in 1890 and have become a fixture ever since. Or, their descendants have. What type of animal were Sarah and Ben?
Answer: Bison
63. In October 2020, a San Francisco-based company named Whisper raised $35 million in Series B funding. Coincidentally, Quiet Ventures led the fundraising round for Whisper and the company is known as a manufacturer of what piece of medical technology?
Answer: Hearing aids
64. On "Star Trek: TNG," Picard's Holodeck adventures as private eye Dixon Hill take place on the hilly streets of what city where Sam Spade gumshoed?
Answer: San Francisco
65. Set in 2001 while playing for the San Francisco Giants, what man holds the MLB record for most home runs in a single season?
Answer: Barry Bonds
66. For almost 60 years, what columnist had daily musings in the San Francisco Chronicle that attracted critical acclaim and represented the "voice of San Francisco?" One famous quote from this man: "One day if I do go to heaven...I'll look around and say, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.'"
Answer: Herb Caen
67. What famous gorilla, who reportedly knew over 1,000 sign language signs, was born at the San Francisco Zoo?
Answer: Koko
68. After being elected in 2018, who became the first Black woman to be mayor of San Francisco?
Answer: London Breed
69. The U.S.'s oldest athletic club is located in San Francisco. What is its name? One of its three golf courses has been named by both "Golf Week" and "Golf Digest" as being among the top 100 golf courses in the country.
Answer: Olympic Club
70. Although they are ubiquitous in Chinese restaurants, fortune cookies are not Chinese! What U.S. city gave rise to the now iconic end to a meal of Chinese food?
Answer: San Francisco
71. Featuring chocolate chips and macadamia nuts, what Pepperidge Farm cookie variety shares its name with a city in Marin County?
Answer: Sausalito
72. In the world of appropriate ticker symbols, $CRM refers to which $200B San Francisco company that hosts an annual conference called Dreamforce?
Answer: Salesforce
73. What independent bookstore/publisher in San Francisco shares its two word name with a 1931 Charlie Chaplin film about the Tramp trying to help a blind flower girl make rent money?
Answer: City Lights Booksellers and Publishers
74. Capella Space, a startup company founded in San Francisco in 2016, is working on space-based observation satellites that use what “R” technology, with special modifications that allow it to penetrate clouds and see at night?
Answer: Radar
75. Counting Peter Thiel among its partners, what alliteratively named San Francisco-based venture capital firm lists Facebook, Palantir, Airbnb, and SpaceX among its portfolio companies?
Answer: Founders Fund
76. What is the longest continuously operating chocolatier in the U.S.? This firm started as a confectionary shop in San Francisco in 1852.
Answer: Ghirardelli
77. What’s the name of the three-legged, red-and-white radio tower that’s a key part of SF’s skyline?
Answer: Sutro
78. Activist and educator Pedro Zamora was the first openly gay man living with HIV on a major American TV show during his 1993 stint as a roommate on the San Francisco cast of what still-running cable reality show?
Answer: The Real World
79. Originally named Loma Alta, a Bay Area outlook erected in 1849 provided the current name to what promontory that's home to flocks of wild parrots?
Answer: Telegraph Hill
80. According to a 1967 countercultural song by Scott McKenzie, "If you're going to San Francisco," what should you wear in your hair?
Answer: Flowers
81. San Francisco's shoreline used to be further inland. The Embarcadero and part of the Financial District were built on the remains of what, buried during the Gold Rush?
Answer: Shipwrecks
82. The San Francisco-based company Ethos was valued at more than $2 billion in May 2021 after spending its existence focusing on what common type of insurance product?
Answer: Life insurance
83. Eccentric San Francisco landlady Anna Madrigal was a character through many of the nine "Tales of the City" novels by what American author?
Answer: Armistead Maupin
84. Outside the UCSF Medical Center in the Inner Sunset neighborhood you'll see two different sculptures by Benny Bufano made of granite. Both sculptures depict what type of animal?
Answer: Bear
85. A wacky chase down San Francisco's Lombard Street is one of the twists in what 1972 Barbra Streisand comedy that shares its name with a Looney Tunes catchphrase?
Answer: What's Up
86. What IATA code for a San Francisco Bay Area airport is also the name of a type of deciduous tree?
Answer: OAK
87. What late ‘80s/early ‘90s sitcom focused on widowed newscaster Danny Tanner, who has his friends Joey and Jesse move into his San Francisco house to help take care of his three children?
Answer: Full House
88. What “V” mobile-only neobank, founded in San Francisco in 2015, was founded by Colin Walsh as a way to attract millennials to banking? It is the third most popular neobank, behind Chime and Simple.
Answer: Varo Bank
89. What windy, crooked street in the Russian Hill neighborhood of San Francisco shares its name with the last name of the female star of “My Man Godfrey”, known for her romance with Clark Gable?
Answer: Lombard Street
90. What “C” Tower in the Telegraph Hill neighborhood of San Francisco was built in 1932, and offers views of the city from 210 feet in the air?
Answer: Coit Tower
91. What type of low-lying cloud is commonly seen in San Francisco and is named “Karl” by its local residents, according to its own verified Instagram account?
Answer: Fog
92. What electronics and fitness company, best known for its wearable activity monitors, announced in 2021 that it would grade the sleep quality of its users with cartoon animals? The company, founded in 2007 in San Francisco, is perhaps best known for step counting.
Answer: Fitbit
93. What Food Network star and “Top Chef Masters” finalist is the chef-owner of Bottega restaurant in Yountville and Coqueta in San Francisco?
Answer: Michael Chiarello
94. What disaster occurred on April 18th, 1906, in San Francisco, leading to several fires that caused parts of the city to burn for three days?
Answer: Earthquake
95. Formed in 2017, what’s the name of the professional Esports league owned by Andy Miller that competes playing the video game “Overwatch”?
Answer: San Francisco Shock
96. Made famous by Tony Bennett, what song begins "The loveliness of Paris seems somehow sadly gray" and confirms that the singer is "going home to my city by the Bay?"
Answer: I Left My Heart in San Francisco
97. While the name might remind you of a Cuban dictator, which San Francisco district in Eureka Valley is best known for the Twin Peaks Tavern and GLBT Historic Museum?
Answer: The Castro
98. What San Francisco company, named for its German-American founder, was the first to make and sell blue jeans?
Answer: Levi Strauss & Co.
99. Which attraction on Front Street describes itself as a “Creative Innovation Center for Sustainability” and features art studios, a co-working lab, a cafe, as well as a zero-waste art market and gift shop of locally-made items?
Answer: Atrium 916
100. What uninhabited and treacherous islands 30 miles west of the Golden Gate are technically part of the city of San Francisco?
Answer: Farallon Islands
101. Resigning in 1931 to become the Governor of California for only a single term, who was the longest serving mayor in San Francisco’s history?
Answer: James Rolph
102. Started in San Francisco in 1904 by Amadeo Peter Giannini, what financial institution would later become Bank of America? A bank with the same name exists today, but not in the US.
Answer: Bank of Italy
103. Now called the Koret Playground, the Sharon Quarters for Children was the first public playground in the US. In what San Francisco park was the playground located?
Answer: Golden Gate Park
104. What Spanish explorer founded the Presidio of San Francisco on March 28, 1776? This predates the establishment of the Mission San Francisco de Asís (Mission Dolores) by a few months.
Answer: Juan Bautista de Anza
105. What famous building found at 130 Sutter Street was built in 1916 and restored in 2010?
Answer: Hallidie Building
106. In 1873, which steep street in San Francisco that’s now a historic landmark became the first to have cable cars?
Answer: Clay Street
107. Phil Lesh and Bob Weir have more than a touch of grey in their hair as appreciative surviving members of what 50-something-year-old Bay Area rock band?
Answer: The Grateful Dead
108. "Let me serenade the streets of L.A / From Oakland to Sac-town, the Bay Area and back down." That's some questionable geography from the lyrics of what classic 2Pac hit?
Answer: California Love
109. Which American tech giant originally styled its name all lowercase letters because it was intended to be a shortened version of where it started—San Francisco? (Hint: The company’s logo also features a notable over-water landmark)
Answer: Cisco
110. Trekkies know that young people who want a career on a starship must first “boldly go” to San Francisco and train at which institution?
Answer: Starfleet Academy
111. Much like the part of NYC that has the same name, which San Francisco neighborhood is a shopping hot spot that’s also home to the Golden Gate Tap Room, Dragon’s Gate, and the Curran Theater?
Answer: Union Square
112. Which San Francisco Giants pitcher was named World Series MVP in 2014 after having an ERA of 1.03 and 45 strikeouts in that year’s postseason?
Answer: Madison Bumgarner
113. Alfred Hitchcock used gulls captured at a San Francisco garbage dump to film what 1963 movie, set in the coastal town of Bodega Bay, California?
Answer: The Birds
114. Raymond Burr famously played the title defense attorney in "Perry Mason," and also the title San Francisco detective in what "rigid" series of the 1960s and 1970s?
Answer: Ironside
115. Jimmy Stewart finds himself hanging from the edge of a tall San Francisco building at the beginning of what 1958 Alfred Hitchcock film?
Answer: Vertigo
116. A popular public market in Napa, California has what “O” name? It shares that one word name with a 1943 William Wellman western “Incident” starring Henry Fonda, about a posse chasing cattle thieves.
Answer: Oxbow
117. What park at the intersection of Washington and Drumm Streets, also known as Ferry Park, is located in San Francisco’s financial district? It is named for a cofounder of the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood.
Answer: Sue Bierman Park
118. What was the name of the humpback whale who took a detour from his migration to Alaska to visit San Francisco Bay in 1985 and again in 1990?
Answer: Humphrey
119. What California city was the state's capital before the government seat was moved to Sacramento in 1869?
Answer: San Francisco
120. Edsel Fong, a lifetime resident of San Francisco's Chinatown, was famously called the world's "rudest, worst, most insulting" person of what profession?
Answer: Waiter
121. Which NBC crime drama aired from 1967 to 1975 and starred Raymond Burr as the titular character, a wheelchair-using veteran police detective consulting on cases in San Francisco?
Answer: Ironside
122. Known as the crookedest street in the world, Lombard Street is a steep road in San Francisco with how many hairpin turns?
Answer: Eight
123. Founded in 2011 in San Francisco, what mobile-first personal finance company offers student loans, mortgages, and credit card services through mobile and desktop apps? This “S” company was founded by Mike Cagney and Ian Brady, among others.
Answer: SoFi
124. "Fountain,” a urinal with the words "R. Mutt 1917" scrawled on it, is one of SFMoMA's most famous holdings, and is a work by what avant-garde French artist?
Answer: Marcel Duchamp
125. The Musee Mecanique, an interactive museum located in San Francisco’s Pier 45, is a collection of what kind of arcade games? Also the name of a web comic about video games, these arcade games are small novelty experiences, often linked to the late 19th and early 20th century, and a very low price.
Answer: Penny Arcade
126. Mission Street in San Francisco is home to a museum that celebrates Black culture and tries to start challenging conversations about what “D” word as it applies to Africans, the dispersal of a people from their original homeland?
Answer: The Museum Of The African Diaspora
127. Now owned by Marriott, what legendary San Francisco hotel was the largest hotel in the world when it opened in 1875?
Answer: The Palace
128. What is the name of the 2012-founded San Francisco-based company that uses a spreadsheet-database hybrid in which features of a database are applied to a spreadsheet? Founded by Howie Liu, Andrew Ofstad, and Emmett Nicholas, the company widely shares its API for connecting other online services and has raised more than $300 million in funding (as of early 2021).
Answer: Airtable
129. The SF neighborhood Haight-Ashbury is also generally known in the city as the Upper Haight. The "Lower Haight" also has a hyphenated two-word alternate name. What is that name?
Answer: Haight-Fillmore
130. A scenic route was created by the San Francisco Downtown Association in 1938 to highlight San Francisco's manmade and natural beauty. How many miles long was this scenic drive?
Answer: 49
131. The initial unveiling of the iPhone to the public was in 2007 at the Moscone Center in what American city?
Answer: San Francisco
132. In 2011, Mayor Gavin Newsom posthumously inducted Philo T. Farnsworth into the San Francisco Hall of Fame, partially for his prototypical invention of the what first all-electric household item in 1938?
Answer: Television
133. What park within San Francisco’s Golden Gate Recreation Area is situated between Lincoln Park and Fort Miley, and contains a memorial to the USS San Francisco? Its two-word name is a metaphor for its shoreline.
Answer: Lands' End
134. An unidentified serial killer in San Francisco, who committed a series of murders and assaults in 1974-1975, was given what nickname, due to his habit of sketching his victims beforehand?
Answer: Doodler
135. Hundreds of thousands of Asian immigrants passed through what island in San Francisco Bay in the early 20th century, sometimes called the "Ellis Island of the West?"
Answer: Angel Island
136. He's tall, wears a big hat and a football jersey with the number "49," but doesn't play.... what's the name of the San Francisco Forty-Niners' team mascot?
Answer: Sourdough Sam
137. The headquarters of which enormous digital library, known for the “Wayback Machine,” is housed in an old Christian Scientist church in Richmond? (Hint: The building’s facade looks like the Greek columns of the Library of Alexandria, which is the website’s logo).
Answer: The Internet Archive
138. Two large structures in Golden Gate Park were originally built to pump water to supply the park's needs. The more northerly of the two is right next to the Queen Wilhelmina Tulip Garden. What type of structures are these?
Answer: Windmills
139. Also the name of a Bruce Springsteen song, what 1989 Clint Eastwood movie features scenes shot in San Francisco's Capital Mall area?
Answer: Pink Cadillac
140. In 1899, the first ship-to-shore radio transmission was sent from a lightship to a coastal receiving station located at the Cliff House in what city on the West Coast of the U.S.? The message was "Sherman is sighted," about the return of a troopship from the Spanish-American War.
Answer: San Francisco
141. What is the alliteratively-named San Francisco-based technology company that offers pay-per-mile car insurance? The company was founded in 2011 and went public in February 2021.
Answer: Metromile
142. One of the biggest FinTech companies in the world, Stripe, has headquarters in two cities, one in San Francisco, and one in which European city?
Answer: Dublin
143. San Francisco's historical marker at the corner of Taylor and Turk commemorates the 1966 LGBT uprising at what chain eatery?
Answer: Compton's Cafeteria
144. What “E” American psychologist and professor emeritus at UC San Francisco is a pioneer in the relation between emotions and facial expressions? His books include “Telling Lies” and “Emotions Revealed.”
Answer: Paul Ekman
145. The Contemporary Jewish Museum, located in San Francisco’s South Of Market neighborhood, was designed by what “L” Polish-American architect, who also co-designed the One World Trade Center and Berlin’s Jewish Museum?
Answer: Daniel Libeskind
146. Which square in the Chinatown section of San Francisco was the first park in the city and used to be a plaza (Plaza de Yerba Buena) but got a new name after the Conquest of California, taking on a moniker inspired by a sloop ‘o war that fought in the battle?
Answer: Portsmouth
147. What “G” database company, formed out of San Francisco in 2017, uses machine intelligence in order to build a database of knowledge? Its name makes it sound like it's made out of yellow-like Chemical Element Number 79.
Answer: Golden
148. Howard P. Grant was the first Black graduate of Berkeley Engineering, the first Black engineer for the City and County of San Francisco, and the first known Black member of what professional organization, the oldest of its type in the U.S.?
Answer: American Society of Civil Engineers
149. A showcase of the city's recovery from the 1906 earthquake and fire, San Francisco's Panama-Pacific Exposition of 1915 was to celebrate the opening of what engineering marvel?
Answer: The Panama Canal
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