SF neighborhoods
This area is a 1,500-acre park on a former military post. Highlights include grassy Crissy Field with Golden Gate Bridge views, Civil War–era Fort Point and sandy Baker Beach.
What is Presidio of San Francisco
This is most famous of San Francisco’s most popular streets. Its winding, sharp curves have given it its name of the “most crooked street in America.”
What is Lombard Street
this 1-mile-long strip of beach sits west of the iconic Golden Gate Bridge
What is Baker Beach
Who was awarded the very first gold record? The song was "Catch a Falling a Star"
Elvis Presley
Nina Simone
Perry Como
The Beatles
The world's tallest tree
Giant Sequoia
Gingko Tree
Mountain Ash
California Redwood
One California redwood in a remote area of Redwood National and State Parks has been nicknamed "Hyperion" by scientists. "Hyperion" stands 115.55 m (379.1 ft) tall and is estimated to be 600 years old. According to researchers, woodpecker damage at the top may have prevented the tree from growing even taller.
This neighborhood is an artificial island in the San Francisco Bay. It was built in 1936–37 for the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition.
What is Treasure Island
This Street runs the length of downtown San Francisco, where it starts at the Ferry Building and changes into Portola Boulevard near Twin Peaks.
What is Market Street
San Francisco’s western seafront is home to this former public bathhouse that operated between 1896 and 1964.
Sutro Baths/Lands End
What is the oldest surviving musical instrument?
Violin
Flute
Drum
Trumpet
Flute
An ancient bone flute, estimated to be about 43,000-82,000 years old, was found by Dr Ivan Turk, a palaeontologist at the Slovenian Academy of Science at a Neanderthal campsite in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in 1998.
Plant that vanilla flavoring comes from
Crocus
Lilac
Orchid
Morning Glory
Orchid
Vanilla comes from orchids of the genus Vanilla. While the major species of vanilla orchids are now grown around the world, they originally came from Mesoamerica, including parts of modern day Mexico and Guatemala.
According to legend, a mini gold rush was triggered in this SF neighborhood in 1876 when con artists planted the hilltop with traces of gold. During the Vietnam War, the neighborhood was known as "Red Hill" for the anti-war activists in shared households and collectives who moved in among the working-class families.
What is Bernal Heights
This Street was made famous for its quaint shops and cafes. Also famous for its residential treatment facility with Progress Foundation.
What is Cortland Ave.
Stretching for 3.5 miles, this ocean strand is San Francisco’s largest beach. You can set up a bonfire on any of the 16 fire rings from March to October.
Ocean Beach
Which jazz musician was known for playing a bent trumpet?
Miles Davis
Chet Baker
Louis Armstrong
Carol Channing
Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie
a cluster of bananas is called
A cluster
A Bunch
A hand
A clutch
A cluster of bananas is called a hand and consists of 10 to 20 bananas known as fingers.
This neighborhood is in Eureka Valley.
(It is synonymous with gay culture.)
The Castro
SF State and Stonestown Mall can be found off this Street
What is 19 Ave.
20 miles away from SF, this is a 3.5-mile-long beach is located alongside Mt Tamalpais State Park.
What is Stinson Beach
What band did Jimi Hendrix tour with in 1967?
The Experienced
The Monkees
Jefferson Airplane
The Grateful dead
Monkees
Jimi managed to get through a total of only seven dates with the Monkees, culminating in his final show on July 17, 1967, which may or may not have ended with Hendrix saluting the crowd with his middle finger.
A painkiller and fever reducer can be made from the bark of this tree
Willow
Cedar
Manzanita
Oak
Willow Tree
This neighborhood is named after the 1776-Spanish built structure honoring Saint Francis of Assísi. It is an exuberant, evolving neighborhood with Latino roots.
Mission District
This is one of two roads that runs virtually the entire length of San Francisco's famous Golden Gate Park—the other is John F. Kennedy Drive.
What is Martin Luther King Drive
Halfmoon Bay is home to this beach which hosts a famous surf competition of the same name.
Mavericks Beach
What band was originally recruited with an ad that read: "Macho types wanted: must have moustache"?
ZZ Top
Men at Work
Boney M.
The Village People
The original Village People line-up was recruited via an advert that read "Macho types wanted: must have moustache". The group scored a number of disco and dance hits, including "Macho Man", "In the Navy", and their greatest hit, "Y.M.C.A.".
the chief natural pollinator of pineapples is this creature
Butterflies
Bats
Flies
Hummingbirds
Lemurs
In the wild, pineapples are pollinated primarily by hummingbirds, although certain wild pineapples are foraged and pollinated at night by bats. Under cultivation, because seed development diminishes fruit quality, pollination is performed by hand, and seeds are retained only for breeding. In Hawaii, where pineapples were cultivated and canned industrially throughout the 20th century, importation of hummingbirds was prohibited.