The only bird that can hover and fly straight up, down, or backward!
What is the Hummingbird?
100
The San Francisco landmark that represents a fire hose nozzle.
What is Coit Tower?
Built in 1933 in the Telegraph Hill area of SF. The concrete tower was constructed by Arthur Brown Jr., best known for his magnificent City Hall. It was a memorial for SF firemen and Lillie Hitchcock Coit (who funded the tower).
200
The sport that used the term "home run" long before baseball.
What is Cricket?
200
The simplest form of the fraction 8/12
What is 2/3?
200
Percy Jackson's best friend at High School.
Who is Grover?
200
The world's biggest animal, even larger than any known dinosaur. An average-sized adult is 80 feet long and weighs about 120 tons. This giant is also the loudest animal on Earth. Its call, which is louder than a jet, can be heard for hundreds of miles.
What is the Blue Whale?
200
The city population of San Francisco is under or over 1,000,000.
What is under?
776,733
300
What NBA team plays home games in the Alamo dome?
Who are the San Antonio Spurs?
300
A group of tourists needs rental cars to get around the city. There are 480 tourists in the group. If each rental car holds 8 people, how many cars will the group need?
What is 60 cars?
480 / 8 =60
300
This popular actress played Fern in a remake of Charlotte's Web and recently voiced the main character in Coraline.
Who is Dakota Fanning?
300
The animal that can jump 30 ft in one leap.
What is a Kangaroo?
300
The world's most crooked street
What is Lombard Street?
400
The only three European countries to have won soccer's World Cup?
What is England, Italy, West Germany?
400
In the morning, Randy drove to the store and used 1 1/3 gallons of gas. In the afternoon, he drove to the movie theater and used 1 1/3 gallons of gas. How much gas did Randy use in all?
What is 2 2/3 gallons
400
Awarded Song of the Year at the Grammy's for their song "Need You Now"
Who is Lady Antebellum?
Won 5 Grammy's at this year's awards.
400
The animal that can live up to about 175 years.
What is the Giant Tortoise?
In fact, Harriet, a Galapagos tortoise and probably the world’s oldest creature, died in Australia in June 2006. She was 176 years old!
400
The island in SF bay nicknamed "The Rock".
What is Alcatraz Island?
500
The two football teams that played in the first all-California Super Bowl.
Who are The San Francisco 49ers and the San Diego Chargers?
500
Mr. Frazier measured two pieces of elastic for a science experiment. The purple piece of elastic was 2 7/12 inches long and the orange piece of elastic was 1 1/12 inches long. How much longer was the purple piece?
What is 1 1/2 longer?
500
The little-known female singer/musician who beat out Justin Bieber for Best New Artist of the Year at the recent Grammy awards.
Who is Esperanza Spalding?
500
The number of species of insects in the world?
1) about 600,000
2) about 100,000
3) about 1 million
What is about 1 million
500
The exotic shape of this skyscraper made this builiding one of SF's iconic landmark. The 850+ ft tower was built in 1972 by William Pereira.