San Francisco (initials SF) (, Spanish for Saint Francis; Spanish: ), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California. The consolidated city-county covers an area of about at the north end of the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is the fourth-most populous city in California, and the 13th-most populous in the United States, with a 2016 census-estimated population of 870,887. The population is projected to reach 1 million by 2033. 

San Francisco was founded on June 29, 1776, when colonists from Spain established Presidio of San Francisco at the Golden Gate and Mission San Francisco de Asís a few miles away, all named for St. Francis of Assisi. The California Gold Rush of 1849 brought rapid growth, making it the largest city on the West Coast at the time. San Francisco became a consolidated city-county in 1856. After three-quarters of the city was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fire, San Francisco was quickly rebuilt, hosting the Panama-Pacific International Exposition nine years later. In World War II, San Francisco was a major port of embarkation for service members shipping out to the Pacific Theater. It then became the birthplace of the United Nations in 1945. After the war, the confluence of returning servicemen, massive immigration, liberalizing attitudes, along with the rise of the "hippie" counterculture, the Sexual Revolution, the Peace Movement growing from opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War, and other factors led to the Summer of Love and the gay rights movement, cementing San Francisco as a center of liberal activism in the United States. Politically, the city votes strongly along liberal Democratic Party lines. QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. Which city has the fourth largest population in California?
2. What is California's fourth most populous city?
3. What city in California only has three that are more populous than it?
Q2:
1. Where does San Francisco's population rank within the United States?
2. What is the rank of San Francisco's population within the United States?
3. Where does San Francisco rank with respect to the population of other US cities?
Q3:
1. What was the date of San Francisco's founding?
2. On what date was San Francisco founded?
3. When was San Francisco founded?
Q4:
1. Where did San Francisco get its name?
2. What was San Francisco named for?
3. Where did San Francisco's name come from?
Q5:
1. What is the population of San Francisco?
2. How many people live in San Francisco?
3. What's the number of residents in San Francisco?
Q6:
1. Was San Francisco small during the gold rush?
2. At the time of the gold rush, was San Francisco tiny?
3. Was the population of San Francisco small when the gold rush was happening?
Q7:
1. How big was San Francisco during the gold rush?
2. What was San Francisco's size at the time of the gold rush?
3. During the gold rush, what was San Francisco's population size?
Q8:
1. Is San Francisco a part of Southern California?
2. Can San Francisco be found in Southern California?
3. Is the location of San Francisco somewhere in Southern California?
Q9:
1. Is San Francisco conservative?
2. Do people in San Francisco lean Republican?
3. Does San Francisco have a conservative bent?
Q10:
1. What happened in San Francisco in 1906?
2. What took place in San Francisco in 1906?
3. What did San Francisco undergo in 1906?
Q11:
1. What destroyed San Francisco in 1906?
2. What hit San Francisco in 1906?
3. What wreaked havoc on San Francisco in 1906?
Q12:
1. What happened in San Francisco in 1945?
2. What arrived in San Francisco in 1945?
3. What took place in 1945 in San Francisco?
