Richmond District Trivia

If you lived in San Francisco in 1896 and were a fan of all things natatorial, what grand opening would you be sure not to miss?

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May/June 2022 Answer:

Thanks to all of you for entering our trivia contest. (Remember, your odds of winning are very high.) May/June 2022 Question:

Mary, Mary, quite contrary

How does your garden grow?

It grows to the sound of pre-K kids playing and it’s in the Central Richmond. What’s its name?

The Answer: Argonne Community Garden

Everyone who answered was entered in the drawing for this month’s prize of a $50 Loop & Tie gift certificate.

Oh-so-trendy Flora Grubb Gardens on 3rd Street gets all the press, but what long-established business on 3rd Avenue – dubbed “the Sequoia of local nurseries” by SF Station – serves Richmond district gardeners?

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January/February 2022 Answer:

Thanks to all of you for entering our trivia contest. (Remember, your odds of winning are very high.) January/February 2022 Question: What Richmond district mainstay is located in a Victorian building on Clement Street that was originally home to the Hippolyte Cuneo family, then later the site of various businesses like Vincent Belmonte’s Coliseum Furs?

The Answer: Green Apple Books

Everyone who answered was entered in the drawing for this month’s prize of a $50 Loop & Tie gift certificate.

What is the official flower of San Francisco and where can you find its dedicated garden?

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June/July 2021 answer:

Thanks to all of you for entering our trivia contest. (Remember, your odds of winning are very high.) June/July’s question: Where can be found the final resting place of Sammi, Mr. Iguana and Princess Tuptim?

Answer: The Presidio Pet Cemetery

Everyone who answered was entered in the drawing for this month’s prize of a $50 Loop & Tie gift certificate.

The highest point in Golden Gate Park is named after what edible plant that once grew there? 

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April 2021 answer:

Thanks to all of you for entering our trivia contest. (Remember, your odds of winning are very high.) April’s question wasn’t easy: Who is the polar explorer commemorated in a monument standing in the Beach Chalet parking lot and what was the name of his boat that for many years sat disintegrating nearby? 

Answer: Raold Amundsen was the intrepid explorer who, after navigating the infamous Northwest Passage, cruised down to San Francisco in his boat Gjoa and in autumn of 1906 parked it at Ocean Beach before donating it to the city. 

Everyone who answered was entered in the drawing for this month’s prize of a $50 Loop & Tie gift certificate.

When homeowners on the 700 block of 10th Avenue dig under their front sidewalks or driveways, they may find remnants of what famous turn-of-the-century 10-cent attraction that extended north from Golden Gate Park?

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February 2021 answer:

Thanks to all of you for entering our first-ever trivia contest! (We had more than a dozen responses for our initial launch.) Most of you guessed Mark Twain as the answer to this question: Tales of foggy weather are greatly exaggerated when it comes to the Richmond. Yet which famous author said,“The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco?”

But the answer is “nobody that we know of.” Turns out it was a bit of a trick question and only a couple of contestants got it right. (Nonetheless, everyone who answered was entered in the drawing for this month’s prize of a San Francisco Historical Society membership.) 

Mark Twain wrote plenty of very clever things and spent time in San Francisco. And while this “coldest winter” quote certainly seems like something he might have said, there is no record of it. He wrote about the weather in New England, the weather in France and about San Francisco residents complaining about the weather in San Francisco. But he didn’t write this particular quote, nor has anyone been able to trace who did. It’s a mystery!