San Francisco
This hugely popular SF transplant was recently accused of displacing locals in the Fisherman's Wharf neighborhood
Who is CHONKERS
Who is Frederick Law Olmstead?
The 1939 world's fair was held in San Francisco, in part to celebrate the completion of this city landmark.
The Golden Gate Bridge! (or bay bridge!)
Dani calls alcohol this.
What is booze
This mountain is traditionally associated with Moses receiving the Ten Commandments.
What is Mount Sinai?
This 1978 SF ballot measure, associated with Harvey Milk, would have allowed the firing of gay and lesbian teachers in CA public schools.
What is the Briggs Initiative
This city park, designed by Frederick Olmstead and Calvert Vaux, is considered a landmark of American landscape architecture.
What is Central Park?
This U.S. president authorized the secret bombing campaign known as Operation Menu in a southeast asian country
Who was Richard Nixon? (the country is cambodia)
Junior year of college, Dani interned at this.
What is the Government Accountability Office (shoutout)
This book of the New Testament contains apocalyptic visions attributed to John.
What is Revelation?
SF gay bars largely stopped serving screwdrivers (vodka and orange juice) in the 1970s to protest this historical figure.
Who is Anita Bryant
This term describes the distance between transit vehicles on the same route, often measured in minutes.
What is headway?
This 1521 conquest was led by Hernán Cortés.
What is the fall of Tenochtitlan
In high school, Dani received this award in Mock Trial their senior year.
What is the Dani Sosa Jr. MVP Award?
This king asked God for wisdom rather than wealth or long life.
Who is Solomon?
This SF neighborhood was historically known as a red-light and entertainment district during the Gold Rush
What is North Beach
This New York parks commissioner reshaped the city with highways, bridges, pools, and parks, becoming a symbol of top-down 20th-century urban planning.
Who is Robert Moses?
The infamous Dred Scott v. Sandford case was decided under this chief justice.
Who is Chief Justice Roger B. Taney?
Despite Dani's terrible experience in Boston, they plan to go back for this reason.
What is a work conference
This Babylonian king destroyed the First Temple in Jerusalem.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar II?
This tiny alley in North Beach was renamed for a Beat Generation writer and runs beside City Lights Bookstore
What is Jack Kerouac Alley
This 1939 New York World’s Fair exhibit by General Motors imagined a car-centered future of expressways and suburbs. It also shares its name with a TV show.
What is Futurama?
After Harvey Milk was assassinated, his killer used a novel legal defense and was ultimately found not guilty. Journalists nicknamed that defense this.
What is the twinkie defense?
Dani is allergic to these two things.
What are Aspirin and Ibuprofen
This woman led Israel as a judge and prophetess before Barak’s victory over Sisera.
Who is Deborah?