Historical Facts
This bridge was completed in 1937 and at the time was the longest and tallest suspension bridge in the world.
The Golden Gate Bridge
What is the tallest building in the city?
Salesforce Tower
The name of the park where the San Francisco Giants play.
Oracle Park
This man, the first African-American mayor of San Francisco, was in office from 1996 to 2004.
Willie Brown
This famous prison's full original name translates to "island of the pelicans."
Alcatraz
The year of the great quake?
1906
This island was once a naval base, the location of a world’s fair, a residential area, and popular with the filming industry.
Treasure Island
There are more ______ than children in the city of San Francisco.
Dogs
Harvey Milk
It is popular to receive these cookies after a meal at a Chinese restaurant, but they were actually invented in SF by a Japanese resident.
Fortune cookies
The discovery of this precious metal caused thousands of people to come to San Francisco in 1849.
Gold
This is the steepest street in San Francisco (hint: it's not Lombard!)
Bradford Street above Thompkins in the Bernal Heights neighborhood.
The city's first major league sports team, since 1946.
The 49ers
This beautiful and iconic government building took only two years to build, from 1913 to 1915.
City Hall
San Francisco might be the only city who has named its fog. What is our fog's name?
Karl
The oldest structure in San Francisco?
The Mission Dolores Chapel, built in 1782
The body of water spanned by the Golden Gate Bridge?
The Golden Gate Strait
This 1978 film starring Donald Sutherland takes place in San Francisco, with many scenes set in the Department of Public Health.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Zero
This museum is home to pieces dating back as far as 221 BC, the oldest of which you will find in the China exhibit.
Approximately how many people visited San Francisco in 2019?
26 million
Where is the tallest natural point in the city?
Mount Davidson
This US president threw the first pitch at the first game played in Candlestick Park in 1960.
Richard Nixon
This treaty was signed in 1945 in San Francisco, and a large plaza off of Market Street was later named in its honor.
Charter of the United Nations
What was San Francisco's original name until it was changed in 1847? (hint: there is an island that shares this name whose literal translation means "good herb")
Yerba Buena