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* Glorious Past *

QUESTION 1. Although the 1960s gave the historical name a different twist. The good herb Spanish settlers referred to was a wild mint growing profusely around the cove where San Francisco sprang up.

QUESTION 2. $1.3 billion

QUESTION 3. Levi Strauss, capitalizing on miners' need for durable trousers

QUESTION 4. Before San Francisco's regenerative spirit became famous after the 1906 earthquake and fire, San Francisco rose from ashes from 6 major fires 1849 - 1851.

QUESTION 5. Kit Carson, accompanying Fremont on many of his adventures

QUESTION 6. No talking

QUESTION 7. Then called Morton St, San Francisco's red-light district

QUESTION 8. Dentist Cogswell accommodated gold miners' desire for gold-capped front teeth, success symbols

QUESTION 9. The whaling industry
Whaling ships were a quick means of transportation for East Coast gold-hunters. When ships reached California, crews went to sea to capture whales.

QUESTION 10. Until cable cars made hilltops accessible, San Francisco's wealthy built many of their finest mansions at South Park and Rincon Hill south of Market.

QUESTION 11. Most of San Francisco's milk came from this area until the Board of Health ordered all cattle removed from city limits in the 1880s.

QUESTION 12. Hallidie manufactured wire rope for suspension bridges and tramways

QUESTION 13. Grant Ave

* Stupendous Structures *

QUESTION 14. Transamerica Pyramid

QUESTION 15. Mission Dolores chapel, built 1782 - 1791
While the remnant of the Presidio's original adobe contained in the wall of the Presidio Officers Club is often named San Francisco's oldest building, most scholars today believe it was completed later than Mission Dolores.

QUESTION 16. On the San Francisco side of Treasure Island
The concrete island rooting it to the bay floor is larger than the Great Pyramid and has more concrete than the Empire State Building.

QUESTION 17. The special rust-preventive paint is International Orange. It takes 10,000 gallons to coat the bridge.

QUESTION 18. Social doctrine of the times
Guests were received in the front parlor. The rear parlor was for intimate friends.

QUESTION 19. The Palace of Fine Arts which like all the other buildings covering today's Marina District for the Panama Pacific Exposition, was designed as a temporary structure.

* Famous Faces *

QUESTION 20. King David Kalakaua of Hawaii in 1891 and Pres Warren G Harding in 1923

QUESTION 21. In Martinez

QUESTION 22. Bill Graham

QUESTION 23. In The Graduate he drove on the top deck of the Bay Bridge, which in reality is one-way heading west instead of east.

QUESTION 24. Trader Vic's, during her 1983 San Francisco visit

QUESTION 25. Dashiell Hammett

* Culinary Curiosities *

QUESTION 26. A recipe for Middle Eastern pilaf
Made with long-grain rice, thin vermicelli and chicken broth, Rice-A-Roni technically is a San Leandro treat. A 1961 advertising slogan associated the product with San Francisco's fine restaurants.

QUESTION 27. In the Japanese Tea Garden
The Hagiwara family, operating the Tea Garden 1895 - 1942, invented the cookie. Local Chinese restaurants adopted it around 1900.

QUESTION 28. At a lavish banquet the viceroy asked for a simple vegetable and meat dish. The waiter and cook concocted chop suey, which means potpourri.

QUESTION 29. The microorganism that is the secret of San Francisco's sourdough bread starter

QUESTION 30. The It's-It, a scoop of ice cream sandwiched between 2 oatmeal cookies, dipped in chocolate and frozen

QUESTION 31. The Buena Vista Cafe at Beach and Hyde Sts
Columnist Stanton Delaplane brought the recipe with him from a trip abroad.

QUESTION 32. Dan White (the Hot Potato) and Terry Francois (Francois' Creole Foods)

* Cultural Milestones *

QUESTION 33. Sept 23, 1966. Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Jefferson Airplane, Muddy Waters

QUESTION 34. Robin Williams

QUESTION 35. San Francisco's first World's Fair
Midwinter International Exposition of 1894, conceived by Michael H de Young when he attended Chicago's Columbian Exposition of 1893.

QUESTION 36. Philo T Farnsworth transmitted the first tele-electronic image, a bold black line painted on a glass slide, in his lab at 202 Green St.

QUESTION 37. Tom Sawyer, who became friends with Twain after they met in the Turkish baths at Montgomery Block

QUESTION 38. The San Francisco Examiner

QUESTION 39. In the Stockton Tunnel

QUESTION 40. The Black and White Ball, begun in 1956. Slick's beatific appearance was in 1982

QUESTION 41. Robert Frost

* Ups and Downs *

QUESTION 42. Short for colloquial "nabob" meaning person of wealth or importance

QUESTION 43. Although Coit Tower's distinctive shape is alternatively attributed to Coit's alleged unhealthy preoccupation with sex or to her desire to recreate the nozzle of a fire hose in her memorial to the Fire Dept she had nothing to do with the design. Although ardently admiring firefighters after being rescued from a disastrous blaze as a child her bequest simply specified "adding to the city's beauty." San Francisco's Art Commission selected the design from competition entries after Coit's death.

QUESTION 44. No. It isn't even San Francisco's crookedest street. The crookedest street is Vermont St between 22 and 23 Sts on Potrero Hill. It's as steep and has even more turns.

QUESTION 45. Another 36 named hills within city limits, the highest 938-foot Mount Davidson

QUESTION 46. Filbert, between Hyde and Leavenworth on Russian Hill, is steepest with a grade of 31.5 degrees

QUESTION 47. 1808. Others were recorded in 1849 and 1879

* Hijinks of the Rich and Famous *

QUESTION 48. John Barrymore

QUESTION 49. Charles Lindbergh. The Lone Eagle, his 32 passengers and the pilot were rescued by a tractor.

QUESTION 50. The Sackamenna Kid was conceived while his parents were visiting the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco.

QUESTION 51. Yes. Linda Bird Johnson, 1964

QUESTION 52. Luciano Pavarotti came to the Academy's restaurant for dinner but spent the evening in the kitchen cooking pasta with student chefs.

QUESTION 53. Dame Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev, who went to a party at the house after performing Paradise Lost with the Royal Ballet at the Opera House. They spent 4 hours in jail. Charges were dropped the next day.

QUESTION 54. At Aquatic Park. It took him 57 seconds.

* Miscellaneous Ponderables *

QUESTION 55. Under landfill. The Bay originally extended in to Francisco and Taylor Sts.

QUESTION 56. Frustrated gardeners tried to grow lupine. Drifting sand always covered the young plants before they took hold. One day a surveyor's horse spilled soaked barley from its feed bag onto the sand. The barley quickly sprouted. Ecstatic gardeners broadcast barley throughout the dunes to protect the lupine until it could grow enough to control sand movement.

QUESTION 57. The slot formerly held cable car cables along Market St

QUESTION 58. Fog Belt (Sunset, Lake Merced, Richmond, Seacliff and the Presidio); Pacific Heights, Marina Cow Hollow and North Beach; the Banana Belt (Mission and Potrero Hill); Bay View and Hunters Point; downtown.

* Not Only in San Francisco *

QUESTION 59. In 1896 infant Stanford came up with its yell
"Give 'em the Axe!" to stave off an inferiority complex toward its more established rival. A yell leader came up with a real lumberman's axe to whip up spirit for a Cal game in 1899. Victorious Cal fans promptly stole the offending symbol and kept it over 30 years before it was stolen back. Several years later the 2 student body presidents signed a pact making the axe an annual trophy to be awarded to the victor of the Big Game.

QUESTION 60. Mountain View is the home of SETI
(Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) Project Phoenix, a scientific project funded by Silicon Valley kingpins to detect radio signals from any extraterrestrial civilizations (not UFOs - they don't believe in UFOs)

QUESTION 61. Yolo County

QUESTION 62. The warehouse-sized laser, used in the movie Tron, is ensconced at Lawrence Livermore Lab.

QUESTION 63. Ulysses S Grant, held overnight as drunk and disorderly

QUESTION 64. Lake Merritt, Oakland

QUESTION 65. Kentfield, in Marin County, gets 2 - 4 times San Francisco's annual rainfall

QUESTION 66. Aviator Eugene Ely made the first airplane landing on the deck of a ship. On his 4th attempt he landed on the USS Pennsylvania, stopping 5 yards from the end of the deck.

QUESTION 67. Olema

QUESTION 68. Hayward fault, 1989's earthquake and fire

QUESTION 69. Bill Walsh

QUESTION 70. World's longest bridge, nearly 8 miles

QUESTION 71. Placerville

QUESTION 72. Academy Hill because of the many private schools in the vicinity, including California Military Academy, Golden Gate Academy and the Sackett School.

QUESTION 73. 853 feet (48 stories topped by a 212-foot spire) Transamerica Pyramid, built in 1972, SF's tallest building. Sutro TV Tower is its tallest structure.

ANSWERS

1 Frank Sinatra. Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com) says Sinatra injured his hand and had to back out, then the role was rejected by John Wayne, Steve McQueen and Paul Newman before Eastwood accepted it.

2 Just one: Taxi driver Paul Stine, at the corner of Cherry and Washington streets in 1969. The Zodiac also is suspected of killing 3 people in Vallejo and 1 near Lake Berryessa. In letters he claimed far more victims but these are the only 5 police link him with.

3 San Jose, Vallejo and Benicia.

4 The lightbulb is at the Livermore Fire Station, 4550 East Ave, burning since 1901. It's recognized by The Guinness Book of World Records and has its own Web cam at www.centennialbulb.org/photos.htm.

5 Julia McWilliams, later married and better known as Julia Child.

6 The streets around Cupid Row, shaped like a heart.

7 Woody Allen.

8 O'Neill wrote his most famous plays there, including "The Iceman Cometh."

9 Members of the Rock Bottom Remainders, a rock music group.

10 The far west end of the former Alameda Naval Air Station sticks so far into the bay it's technically in San Francisco. From there it's easy to walk to Alameda County.

11 Hills of Eternity Memorial Park, a Jewish cemetery in Colma. Earp's wife Josephine Marcus was Jewish and her family had a plot there. For more enough trivia about where various people are buried, see findagrave.com.

12 Tuffy might well have been the only dog in Army history to be court- martialed. On patrol during World War II Tuffy went after a girl who was running across the street and tore her trousers. After behaving himself for months he was reinstated and eventually was buried with full military honors.

13 The 2AM Club, one of Lewis' favorite hangouts, is on the cover of the group's popular "Sports" album.

14 A Charles Schulz comic, precursor to Peanuts. When United Feature Syndicate picked up his work it wanted to change the name because there were already strips called Little Folks and Li'l Abner. A collection of the Li'l Folks strips is available through the Charles M Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa.

According to the museum, Schulz never liked the Peanuts title.

15 Cyril Magnin, nicknamed "Mr. San Francisco," notable bon vivant and the city's chief of protocol.

16 Woodside resident Shirley Temple Black. Guinness World Records says she was 6 years and 310 days old when she earned a special Oscar in 1935. If you can't resist playing "Six Degrees of Separation" you wouldn't need much to connect Magnin, who appeared in only 2 films, with Temple, whose last major movie was in 1949. Billy Barty was in "Foul Play" with Magnin and in 1933's "Out All Night" with Temple. Black has been an ambassador and White House chief of protocol and has attended all sorts of Bay Area functions. She would have crossed paths many times with Magnin, who died in 1988.

17 John Geary, San Francisco's first mayor.

18 Niles, Fremont's historic district.

19 Because of its brothels and saloons near Kearny and Montgomery streets in the bawdy old days Pacific St was nicknamed "Terrific St." Residents of less colorful blocks wanted to separate from the scum. The Board of Supervisors passed a resolution in 1871 naming the section west of Larkin St as Pacific Ave. As years went on and things cleaned up the whole street eventually became Pacific Ave in 1929.

20 Redwood City. Its Web site says U S and German evaluated meteorological data identified that Redwood City as the center of one of the world's 3 best climates, the Canary Islands and North Africa's Mediterranean C0ast the others.

21 St Mary's College used to be there but eventually left first for Oakland, then Moraga. A couple of streets were developed in the shape of a bell. Ever hear of the bells of St Mary's?

22 Robin Williams.

23 Rev Jim Jones, who led a mass suicide in Guyana 18 months later.

24 Potter Schoolhouse, now a private residence in Bodega, miles inland.

25 According to Janet Bailey's "The Great San Francisco Trivia & Fact Book" (Cumberland House) that was the first band Jerry Garcia formed with Bob Weir and Ron McKernan before the Grateful Dead.

26 Tom and John Fogerty, later famous as part of Creedence Clearwater Revival.

27 The Filoli estate in Woodside, the Spring Mountain Vineyard in St. Helena and the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco.

28 San Francisco Museum and Historical Society office administrator Deanna Kastler says the most common theory involves a toast between 2 men during the Gold Rush era in the bawdy area around Broadway and Pacific.

"Here's to the Barbary Coast," one said. "If the whiskey don't get you the harlots and hoodlums will." The toast was to San Francisco's similarity to the notorious Barbary Coast of northern Africa, a longtime haven for pirates.

29 The Oakland Seņors. By the time they played their first game the name was already changed.

30 Debbie Sivyer married Portola Valley investment adviser Randall Fields. In 1977 she opened Mrs Fields Chocolate Chippery in Palo Alto.

31 A Gray Line bus tour through the Haight Ashbuy's 1967 Summer of Love

32 Johnny Mathis

33 8 1/2 miles. The bridge itself is 4 1/2 miles.

34 intellectual