1. This street in St. Francis Wood is also the name of the fault running across California, the massive subterranean shifting of which caused the 1906 and 1989 Loma Prieta earthquakes:
a. San Anselmo Avenue
b. Santa Clara Avenue
c. San Andreas Way
2. A Mexican general who led the attack on the Alamo was born with the surname Santa Ana, but Santa Ana Way off Portola Drive honors Anne, patron saint of:
a. old-clothes dealers and lost articles
b. wild horses and roving coyotes
c. wind-up toys and French dolls
3. This city figures in the hit song by Dionne Warwick, “Do You Know the Way to___________.”
4. Long-time Armenian restaurateur and Russian-speaking godmother to visiting ballet stars who dined at Bali’s on Sansome Street, Madame Armen Baliantz once lived in North Beach on:
a. San Antonio Place
b. Saint Elmo Way
c. Saint Germain Avenue
5. San Benito Way off Monterey Boulevard is Spanish for Benedict, the Saint who:
a. first concocted Eggs Benedict
b. saw the folly of doing things at breakneck speed
c. had a hand in building Noah’s ark
6. Saint Croix Drive near Mt. Davidson is also the name of a Caribbean island formerly colonized by Spain, Great Britain, the Netherlands, France, the Knights of Malta, and Denmark. Today it forms a part of:
a. The District of Columbia
b. The Gulag Archipelago
c. The U.S. Virgin Islands
7. “If your faith were greater, how much more peaceful you would be even when great trials
surround and oppress you.” The saint speaking inspired the naming of:
a. Santa Monica Avenue
b. Santa Paula Avenue
c. Santa Rosa Avenue
8. Name the hotel President Obama stayed in when he came to town in October to attend a political party fund-raiser.
9. This street, wending its way through St. Francis Wood, invokes the Polish priest canonized in 1594, who is the patron saint of those in danger of drowning. In Spanish, he is called Saint Hyacinth, after the flower.
a. San Felipe
b. San Aleso
c. San Jacinto
10. When the Spanish explored and conquered California in the 1700s, they spread religion and language throughout the land. The legacy of these conquistadors lives on in the many city streets named after saints—San Rafael rings a bell, being the name of a city street as well as a city in Marin County. Now name the university Mayor Gavin Newsom attended on a partial baseball scholarship.
Answers
1. c (The San Andreas Fault)
2. a
3. San Jose
4. a
5. b
6. c
7. b (Saint Paula, 347–404)
8. The Westin-Saint Francis on Powell Street
9. c
10. Santa Clara University
Victor Turks grew up in San Francisco and lives in the Richmond with his wife, Michiko, their three boys, a pug, a cat, and a tankful of goldfish. He teaches English at City College.
