PRELUDE QUIZ: SAN FRANCISCO
1. Which one of the “beat” poets arrived in San Francisco in 1953 and opened City Lights Bookstore?
a) Diane di Prima
b) Lawrence Ferlinghetti
c) Allen Ginsburg
2. What area attracted the West’s great railroad magnates and robber barons in the late 19th century?
a) Nob Hill
b) Mission District
c) North Beach
3. In which café did Francis Ford Coppola write his screenplay for The Godfather?
a) Vesuvio Café
b) The Zephyr
c) Caffe Trieste
4. Who were the first founders of the vineyards an hour north of San Francisco?
a) hippies
b) priests
c) Native Americans
5. Who was it that said, “The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco”?
a) Mark Twain
b) Jack Kerouac
c) Robert Lewis Stevenson
6. When did San Francisco’s famous cable cars begin operating?
a) 1848
b) 1873
c) 1919
7. What was the nickname for the prison on Alcatraz Island that once held Al Capone?
a) The Bird Cage
b) Riker’s Island
c) The Rock
8. When was the “Big One,” the 8.3 Richter scale earthquake that triggered fires that ruined half of the city?
a) April 18 1906
b) June 8 1906
c) August 18 1906
AND DID YOU KNOW…
The San Francisco music scene during the Haight-Ashbury era (1965-1967) gave rise to The Doors, The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Creedence Clearwater Revival and Santana.
San Francisco is home to the “World’s Crookedest Street,” located at Vermont Avenue between 22nd and 23rd Streets.
Native Americans occupied Alcatraz Island for 19 months, in 1969, to protest for more autonomy and cultural respect.
The Golden Gate Bridge, named after the Golden Gate Straight, links San Francisco to Marin County and uses enough steel wiring to circle the earth three times.
Answers: 1b, 2a, 3c, 4b, 5a, 6b, 7c, 8a
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