The Berkeley Quiz

I thought it might be fun to put together a Berkeley (pre 1984) test for those who lived there or for those who had dropped in only for a quick smoke/drink/ or something else and need some info to impress the folks back home.

So here goes... have fun!

1. Former members of the Berkeley Barb went on to create what sharp looking, freebie magazine?

2. You'd often wish for more Geld for your unwanted books, but then what do you expect from some one who never took the cigar out of his mouth? He was universally known as?

3. Grove Street was the home to what restaurant where the owner, nearly every morning, peeled fresh apples for his home made pies?

4. The first Berkeley bagel baker - the Bagel Brothers - was not located on Telegraph Avenue, but on Gilman Street. Name the confectioner nearby that floored you with sweets.

5. And, while we are in the Westbrae area of Berkeley, what is the name of the store where we all shopped for the freshest vegetables on the planet?

6. When you went to Freight and Salvage, what were you expecting?

7. Give BOTH names for the Berkeley resident who reviewed Crime fiction for the NY Times and was the first to translate Jorge Luis Borges into English?

8. She sat on the Berkeley City Council; her son gigged at Woodstock.

9. Robin Williams, Huey Lewis or Joan Baez, Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, Harry James and Betty Grable, Charles Laughton, Errol Flynn, Spencer Tracy and Ernest Hemingway. They all ate there - though not at the same time... and so did eventually every one who lived in Berkeley... name this restaurant: a clue - for over 100 years, they served no deserts.

10. He carried the message of Jesus and Damnation to the students who gathered at Sather Gate and we knew him as?

11. True or False: either you were a musician or had lived in Berkeley for 5 years before you could find Juan's?

12 And, if you were a musician, what was so important about 10th and Parker?

13. Who could ride free on the HumphreyGoBart?

14. George ran the Telegraph Repertory Theatre, 2 small cinemas showing old Hollywood Classics. What was so unusual about his bigger theatre?

15. And at Walnut Square - at the corner, every hour, who changed the coffee selection and charged you only 25 cents, provided you brought in your own mug?

16. At what age could you get unlimited amounts of free cheese from Shattuck Ave's The Cheese Factory?

17. When Lenny's Butcher Shop (a few short blocks away from Chez Panisse) re-imaged itself, it became know to the world as?

18. Philip K Dick lived and had his only job in Berkeley. What did he do?