1. His public art is on display at George Washington High School and the Maritime Museum. This artist, born to a Swedish father and mother of African-American and Cherokee descent, came to SF in 1915, escaping belittlement by relatives unappreciative of his artistic endeavors.
a. Sargent Johnson
b. Ralph Ward Stackpole
c. Victor Arnautoff
2. The de Young is currently featuring masterpieces on loan from this former Paris train station turned museum. Name the museum.
a. Les Halles-Centrales
b. Musée d’Orsay
c. Le Cimetiére d’Auteuil
3. This ninety-six-year-old SF–born superhuman has celebrated his birthdays by swimming from Alcatraz to Fisherman’s Wharf, handcuffed and shackled, while harnessed to a string of boats he tows to shore.
a. Steve Reeves
b. Bob Cummings
c. Jack LaLanne
4. Name the Giants pitcher who was discovered by the son of the late dictator of the Dominican Republic, Rafael Trujillo.
a. Ed Hallicki
b. Juan Marichal
c. John “The Count” Montefusco
5. Pablo Sandoval, the Giants switch-hitter from Venezuela, broke a six-game losing streak, saying:
a. “Hey, I’m in America now and make big money, so here it goes.”
b. “I’m a big guy, 245 pounds, and man can I hit.”
c. “I just filled my car up with gas so I’m feelin’ pretty good right now.”
6. Old-timers remember the Steinhart Aquarium with its sunken pool of siesta-prone alligators
impervious to routine penny-tossing abuse; the newly designed Academy of Sciences building is
the brain-child of architect:
a. Santiago Calatrava
b. Renzo Piano
c. Antonio Gaudi
7. Born in Lucca, Italy, this Hall of Fame Football Gladiator played with the 49ers in the ’50s and wrestled professionally as Leo “The Lion.” His name?
8. Bay Area broadcast legend and native-daughter Terry Lowry headed the Spanish Bilingual
Program at:
a. Roosevelt Junior High School
b. A.P. Giannini Junior High School
c. James Lick Junior High School
9. This Puccini San Francisco Opera, sung in Italian with English supertitles blends whisky, fistfights, drawn revolvers, and pining for lost love:
a. The Girl of the Golden West
b. The Outlaw Josey Wales
c. The Ballad of Ned Kelly
10. “It was an emporium dedicated to the palates of the cosmos. It probably had food from Saturn. It was the FAO Schwartz of the stomach.” Name the place author Gus Lee describes in his growing-up-in-the-city book China Boy.
a. Sweeney’s Sweet Shop on Haight Street
b. The Crystal Palace at Eighth and Market
c. Mama’s on Washington Square
Answers
1. a (1886–1967)
2. b; 3. c; 4. b; 5. c; 6. b
7. No. 73 tackle Leo Nomellini (1924–2000)
8. c (Lowry’s mother was from Durango, Mexico)
9. a; 10. b (1923–1959)
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
