Ask yourself: how much of a Tel Avivian are you?

Consider yourselves Tel Avivians? Know all the neighborhood pubs, the best restaurants and the clubs with the trendiest parties? Here is something that might bring you down a peg: let us see how well you really know Tel Aviv. Here is a short quiz about the city.

• What was the city's original name, and who proposed its current one?

When the city was founded in 1909, it was named Ahuzat Bayit after the association that established it. A committee later met to decide on a new name. Menachem Sheinkin proposed Tel Aviv. The name came from the translation of Herzl's book Altneuland. The German name meant Old New Land, and its translator, Sokolow, rendered it as Tel Aviv. It combines tel, suggesting antiquity, with aviv, meaning spring and symbolizing renewal.

• What was the shortest mayoral term?

We are used to Ron Huldai having held office for more than twenty years, as though he had always been there. Before him, Shlomo Lahat served for 19 years. But not every Tel Aviv mayor enjoyed such success. Moshe Chelouche was appointed mayor after Meir Dizengoff's death. He held office for just 10 days before being replaced by Israel Rokach.

• What was the heaviest bombing?

Sadly, Tel Aviv has been hit by quite a few missiles during the various rounds of fighting with Hamas. Earlier, in the 1990s, it was Saddam Hussein's preferred target, a distinction it shared with Ramat Gan. But the heaviest and deadliest bombing of Tel Aviv took place on 9 September 1940, carried out by Mussolini's air force. More than 100 people died in Tel Aviv that day.

• Which notorious political party had a branch in Tel Aviv?

Today, the Sarona colony is known as a shopping and boutique destination. But if you had come here during the British Mandate, it would have been a German colony. Initially, relations between Jews and the Templers were normal, and Jews even worked there in milk production.

After the Nazis came to power in Germany, however, many colony members joined the Nazi Party, and a branch operated there. Following the enactment of Nazi laws in Germany, members of the Jewish community boycotted Templer products. When the war began, the British turned the site into an internment camp.