Famous Bay Area People
Which chef and TV personality owns restaurants in the Bay Area and stars on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?
Guy Fieri
What company created the iPhone?
Apple
Which Bay Area NFL team plays its home games in Santa Clara?
San Francisco 49ers?
What event in 1848 transformed San Francisco from a small town into a booming city?
The California Gold Rush
Which city is considered the unofficial capital of Silicon Valley?
San Jose
Which MLB player hit 762 career home runs while playing most of his career with the San Francisco Giants?
(Extra 300 points if you can guess what state he was born in)
Barry Bonds
(California)
In what Bay Area city is Apple's headquarters located?
Cupertino
What city did the Golden State Warriors call home before moving to San Francisco in 2019?
Oakland
Which former military prison sits on an island in San Francisco Bay?
Alcatraz
What is the population of the Bay Area? (Can be within a 500,000 population margin each way)
7.7 million
Which famous author of The Call of the Wild lived and wrote in Oakland?
Jack London
What university helped launch Silicon Valley by educating founders of companies like Google and Yahoo?
Stanford University
Which Bay Area athlete broke Major League Baseball's single-season home run record with 73 home runs?
Barry Bonds
What year did the San Francisco earthquake occur?
1906
Which Bay Area county contains both Berkeley and Livermore?
Alameda County
Which Bay Area musician co-founded the rock band Journey and later became a member of Santana?
Neal Schon
What garage in Palo Alto is considered the birthplace of Silicon Valley because Hewlett-Packard started there?
The HP Garage
Which Bay Area stadium is nicknamed "China Basin"?
Oracle Park
What international exposition celebrated the opening of the Bay Bridge and Golden Gate Bridge in 1939?
The Golden Gate International Exposition
What mountain overlooking San Jose has a large illuminated "Lick Observatory" at its summit? (Hint: It also houses one of the world's first permanently occupied mountaintop observatories.)
Mount Hamilton
Which San Francisco-born Emperor of the United States declared himself ruler in 1859 and became one of the city's most famous historical figures?
Which San Francisco-born Emperor of the United States declared himself ruler in 1859 and became one of the city's most famous historical figures?
What semiconductor company, founded in 1968 by Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore, gave Silicon Valley its name through its pioneering work with silicon chips?
Intel
Which Bay Area university has won the most NCAA Division I team championships?
Stanford University
Which U.S. president signed the legislation creating the Golden Gate National Recreation Area in 1972?
Richard Nixon
What is the deepest part of San Francisco Bay called?
The Golden Gate Strait