San Diego Jewish History Quiz, Question #1


The prize: A voucher for a pair of tickets to Sammy, a play based on the life of Sammy Davis Jr., at Old Globe Theatre.

The rules: Send your answers to the quiz questions to editor@sandiegojewishworld.com

Your email will come into our office with a time automatically noted upon it. The first email with the correct answer to the test question and contest question and with all the following information properly filled out, will win the two tickets.

Note: No contestant may win more than one contest in the same secular calendar month. San Diego Jewish World staff members and Louis Rose Society steering committee members are ineligible for this contest.

Your full name _____________________________

Your San Diego County address _______________________________

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Your telephone number: _________________________

Your Jewish affiliations, if any (synagogue, club, etc) _____________________________

Qualifying question: Click on the Old Globe ad for the play, Sammy, on this page. It will take you to a page on the Old Globe Theatre website. Under the heading "Summary," what is the tenth word in the first sentence? _________________________

Contest question: On the way into Balboa Park, on the archway of the Laurel Street Bridge, there is a plaque honoring three members of the San Diego City Board of Trustees who voted in 1868 to set aside 1,400 acres for the city park that became Balboa Park. One of the men listed was a Jew, who was the founding president of Congregation Beth Israel. What is his name? ____________________.