San Francisco
You can enter this area through the Dragon's Gate on Grant Avenue at Bush Street
Chinatown
200 from "I ❤️ S.F."
#2741 (1996)
The name of this Bay Area pop punk band is slang for "sunlit hours given over to smoking pot"
Green Day
100 from "A Little Day in Music"
#9180 (2024)
The Santa Cruz Mountains are home to this yellow mollusk, the mascot for UC Santa Cruz
The Banana Slug
300 from "The Animal Kingdom"
#9121 (2024)
A Civil War fortress & the Bay Area Discovery Museum are on either side of this landmark [...]
The Golden Gate Bridge
[with a main span of 4,200 that carries the 101]
It promotes itself as "the San Francisco Treat"
Rice-A-Roni
100 from "San Francisco Treats"
As a federal prison from 1934 to 1963, Alcatraz housed criminals like this bank robber nicknamed "Machine Gun"
George Kelly
400 from "Of Alcatraz"
#7909 (2019)
"The newspaper of Silicon Valley", this San Jose paper got its name from another element mined in the area
The Mercury News
300 from "Newspapers"
#4929 (2006)
This Steinbeck novel with a biblical theme was first called "Salinas Valley"; that's where it takes place
East of Eden
300 from "How Novel"
#7391 (2016)
Just off the 101 is this [...] theme park, where tourists saw George the fisherman become shark food from 1976 to 2001
Universal Studios
[filmmaking]
Shaped like the nozzle of a firehose, this tower was built to honor the city's firefighters
Coit Tower
300 from "In San Francisco"
After losing a bet, this future mayor & senator attended the 1978 opening of San Francisco's Pier 39 in a bathing suit
Dianne Feinstein
300 from "Off a Not-So-Short Pier"
#9373 (2025)
This Bay Area city has a tree on its official flag (it's the type of tree featured in the city's name)
Oakland
300 from "Trees"
Celebrity Jeopardy! #25 (2024)
In 1986 the City of Carmel made his day by electing him mayor with 2,166 votes to the incumbent's 799
Clint Eastwood
100 from "Acting Politicians"
#5137 (2007)
An hour north of Eureka, a different drive-through awaits you in Klamath near [this] national park [...]
Redwood
[named for this large type of tree] [image omitted]
The '60s psychedelic scene was centered at the intersection of these 2 streets
Haight & Ashbury
400 from "In San Francisco"
An elaborate 1915 San Francisco expo celebrated the completion of this, which made it much easier to sail to the city
The Panama Canal
300 from "San Francisco, Now & Forever"
#8995 (2023)
Huey Newton & Bobby Seale founded this radical party in Oakland in 1966
The Black Panthers
400 from "The Oakland B's"
#6488 (2012)
A symbolic starting point for N. Calif. is on highway 99 north of Fresno--this 4-letter tree stands just north of a palm tree
Pine
200 from "Americana"
Celebrity Jeopardy! #3 (2022)
Knowing this state capital is at the south end of Puget Sound is geography 101
Olympia
In 1947, winning the first college World Series, Cal beat this school whose first baseman was George [H.W.] Bush
Yale
400 from "Golden Bear History"
In 2005 KYOURadio in San Francisco became the first major station to air only these, submitted by you, the listeners
Podcasts
200 from "Radio"
#9325 (2025)
It completes the protest slogan "I am a UC student: do not fold, bend or" this
Mutilate
400 from "Berkeley in the '60s"
#3211 (1998)
Chateau Kefraya is in this rich agricultural valley, the Napa of Lebanon
The Bekaa
400 from "Down in the Valley"
Jeopardy! Masters #32 (2024)
Hop off the 101 onto the Pacific Coast Highway to see this landmark [...]; it even had its own airport, built in the 1920s
Hearst Castle
[owned by a newspaper biz giant] [image omitted]
Commencement 1903, the first event held at the Hearst Greek Theatre, had an address from this U.S. president
Theodore Roosevelt
500 from "Golden Bear History"