Elected Officials
The Mayor is one of seven City officials elected citywide. These are other six. (100 each)
What are the Public Defender, District Attorney, Sheriff, Treasurer, Assessor-Recorder, and City Attorney?
The "constitution" of San Francisco's government, this document is over 500 pages long (by some counts).
What is the City Charter?
The Department of Public Health has the largest budget in the City, at roughly $3.2 billion per year (FY 24-25). These are the other four departments with an annual budget over $1 billion per year. (100 each)
What are the Airport Commission, Public Utilities Commission, Municipal Transportation Agency, and Human Services Agency?
Stretching from the Financial District to the VA, this is the busiest bus corridor in San Francisco.
What is the 38 Geary?
Known as "Da Mayor", he was the first Black Mayor of San Francisco and dean of the city's political community.
Who is Willie Brown?
In California, public health is traditionally considered a county responsibility. However, besides San Francisco, these four cities maintain their own health departments. (200 each)
What are Berkeley, Long Beach, Pasadena, and Vernon?
Proposition C is a: (choose one)
Sales tax
Property tax
Transfer tax
Gross receipts tax
What is a gross receipts tax?
After being damaged during the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake, this highway was demolished to open up San Francisco's waterfront.
What is the Embarcadero Freeway?
She became the first female mayor of San Francisco in the wake of the assassination of George Moscone and Harvey Milk, later serving as United States Senator from California for over 30 years.
Who is Dianne Feinstein?
In 1923, the City dammed this valley in Yosemite National Park, forming the centerpiece of San Francisco's water system.
What is Hetch Hetchy?
What is Proposition 13?
Despite being the busiest BART station today, it wasn't included in original plans for the system.
What is Embarcadero station?
Daughter of Baltimore Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro Jr., she moved to San Francisco in 1969 and was first elected to the US House of Representatives in 1987.
Who is Nancy Pelosi?
This departments was carved out of the Department of Public Works by a city ballot measure in 2020, then disestablished four years later without ever having actually come into existence.
What was the Department of Sanitation and Streets?
San Francisco has a unique financial status as the only governmental entity of this type in California.
What is a City and County?
After World War II, Muni converted many of its streetcar lines to this vehicle type, powered by overhead wires.
What are trolleybuses?
Before 1977, and between 1980 and 2000, members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors were elected by this method, often contrasted with district elections.
What is "at-large"?
This 1978 Philip Kaufman film, about a San Francisco man who suspects that people are being replaced by alien duplicates, was partially filmed at the former DPH headquarters at 101 Grove Street.
What is Invasion of the Body Snatchers?
Cities in California are barred from imposing this type of tax, which funds the majority of the state budget.
What are income taxes?
Opened in 1918 within the Twin Peaks Tunnel, this is the deepest (and oldest) station in the Muni system.
What is Forest Hill station?