The Chronicle data team recently held its fourth annual data trivia night at Standard Deviant Brewing, in the Mission District. Nineteen teams vied for victory, with teams “Raining Champs,” “Pivot Table” and “Zodiac Killaz” coming out on top.
Couldn’t make it? Here’s a sample of the stumpers posed by data editor Dan Kopf, deputy data editor Aseem Shukla and computational journalist Emma Stiefel.
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Which of these cities has seen the largest percentage growth in its population since 2010?
San Jose, San Francisco and Oakland are the three largest cities in the Bay Area.
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Which company has the most office space in San Francisco?
With 1.2 million square feet, OpenAI ranks number two.
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What is the metric shown in this map?
The map shows a change in a certain metric between 2019 and 2025.
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Business registration filings
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What is the y-axis in this chart?
The columns show monthly data starting from January 2018.
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San Francisco Tesla car registrations
Vehicle break-ins and break-in attempts
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What does each circle in this map represent?
There is a particularly high concentration of circles in the South of Market neighborhood.
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Ten-plus housing project completed in the past 10 years
E-scooter complaint filed in 2025
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Which of these bands has the most Spotify monthly listeners as of early May 2026?
All four groups formed in the Bay Area.
Creedence Clearwater Revival
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Maria Branyas Morera was the longest-lived known person born in San Francisco. How old was she when she died in 2024?
Branyas Morera, who was born in the city but grew up and died in Spain, lived roughly four standard deviations longer than the California average.
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The largest playable version of what board game can be found at San Jose’s Discovery Meadow park?
This just one of the Bay Area’s esoteric Guinness World Records.
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Which California national park is this?
This park was originally established as a national monument in 1908 by President Theodore Roosevelt and redesignated as a national park in 2013 by Congress.
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Death Valley National Park
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Which California national park is this?
This park remains the least visited of the major Sierra national parks.
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Channel Islands National Park
Kings Canyon National Park
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CreditsReporting by Jack Lee. Editing by Dan Kopf. Design and development by Miko Deloso/Hearst DevHub.