Question: How did Seattle celebrate its economic rise in 1962?
Answer: 1962 World's Fair

Question: What company's downturn drastically effected Seattle's economy?
Answer: Boeing

Question: What type of theater did Alexander Pantages start in Seattle?
Answer: vaudeville

Question: When did Pantages open his movie houses?
Answer: 1902

Question: Who was Pantages competitor in the theater business?
Answer: John Considine

Question: Who was the architect who built a number of theaters in the Seattle area?
Answer: B. Marcus Priteca

Question: Which of Seattle's famous, and still extant,  theaters did Priteca disign?
Answer: Paramount Theatre

Question: When did Boeing move its headquarters to Chicago?
Answer: 2001

Question: Before 2001, where was Boeing headquartered?
Answer: Seattle

Question: What did Boeing separate from its headquarters facilities?
Answer: production facilities

Question: Besides the Renton plant, where else are airplanes made for Boeing?
Answer: Everett

Question: To whom is the Boeing credit union open?
Answer: all residents

Question: When was ship building the economic master in Seattle?
Answer: World War I

Question: What city profited by Seattle's Maritime Strike?
Answer: Port of Los Angeles.

Question: What was the first general labor strike in the 20th century?
Answer: Seattle General Strike

Question: When did the General Strike happen in Seattle?
Answer: 1919

Question: What major strike in 1934 damaged Seattle's maritime economy?
Answer: Maritime Strike

Question: What violent act happened in Seattle's Chinatown in 1983?
Answer: Wah Mee massacre

Question: What type of establishment was Wan Mee?
Answer: gambling club

Question: Which huge tech corporation moved its headquarters the Seattle area?
Answer: Microsoft

Question: What item for sale in 2000 Seattle was some of the most costly in the US?
Answer: real estate

Question: About what time did the big tech boom in Seattle fizzle?
Answer: early 2001

Question: What sporting event did Seattle sponsor in 1990?
Answer: Goodwill Games

Question: What was the geologic event that followed the Mardi Gras Riots in2001?
Answer: Nisqually earthquake

Question: What is Seattle's musical genre developed in the 1990s? 
Answer: grunge

Question: When did Seattle offer the World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference?
Answer: 1999

Question: What caused bad press during the conference protests in Seattle?
Answer: police reactions

Question: What water mass is located west of Seattle?
Answer: Puget Sound

Question: What land area is west of Puget Sound?
Answer: Olympic Peninsula

Question: What lake is to the east of Seattle?
Answer: Lake Washington

Question: Where is Seattle's prime harbor?
Answer: Elliott Bay

Question: Because Elliott Bay is salt water, what kind of port is Seattle?
Answer: oceanic port

Question: What large company moved its headquarters to South Lake Union in Seattle?
Answer: Amazon.com

Question: When did Amazon begin its latest expansion?
Answer: 2010

Question: How much of their income do half of Seattle's population have to spend on housing?
Answer: more than half

Question: How many new people move to Seattle each year?
Answer: 14,511

Question: Where does Seattle rank in rush hour traffic?
Answer: sixth-worst

Question: What hazardous geologic area does Seattle inhabit?
Answer: Pacific Ring of Fire

Question: What type of land area is at most risk of earthquake damage?
Answer: reclaimed land

Question: What was the magnitude of the Nisqually quake?
Answer: 6.8

Question: On what date did the Nisqually earthquake occur that damaged the Pioneer Square area?
Answer: February 28, 2001

Question: What is the amount of magnitude possible on the Cascadia subduction zone?
Answer: 9.0 or greater

Question: What other famous city, besides Seattle, lies on seven hills?
Answer: Rome

Question: What type of land area does Capital hill, First Hill, and Beacon Hill constitute?
Answer: ridge

Question: What artificial geological feature was added to Seattle in 1909?
Answer: Harbor Island

Question: Where is the highest place in Seattle?
Answer: High Point

Question: Where was Harbor Island built?
Answer: Duwamish Waterway

Question: What is the average rainfall in Seattle? 
Answer: 37.49 inches

Question: Where on the Olympic Peninsula does the rainfall average 142 inches a year?
Answer: Hoh Rain Forest

Question: What mountain range is the cause of the variance in rainfall?
Answer: Olympic Mountains

Question: What weather factor produces a great variance in local climates in the Seattle area?
Answer: variations in microclimate

Question: What is the capital of the state of Washington?
Answer: Olympia

Question: During which month does Seattle get more precipitation than other US cities?
Answer: November

Question: When does Seattle get it lowest levels of precipitation?
Answer: June to September

Question: In the lower 48 states, which city receives some of the least sunny days that any other?
Answer: Seattle

Question: What weather feature is highly unusual in Seattle?
Answer: Thunderstorms

Question: About how many days a year is thunder a reported weather event in Seattle?
Answer: seven

Question: What does the local water ways regulate in the Seattle area?
Answer: Temperature extremes

Question: At what location is most weather data collected for the Seattle area?
Answer: Seattle–Tacoma International Airport

Question: What land mass protects Seattle from Pacific caused weather?
Answer: Olympic Mountains

Question: What geologic feature protects Seattle from the Arctic cold winds?
Answer: Cascade Range

Question: What type of rain fall does Seattle most often experience?
Answer: light precipitation

Question: What is a very significant part of Seattle's weather system?
Answer: Puget Sound Convergence Zone

Question: Of what is the Convergence Zone comprised?
Answer: streams of air

Question: From where do the two streams of air come?
Answer: Pacific Ocean

Question: What mountain Range splits the wind stream in the west of Seattle?
Answer: Olympic Mountains

Question: What bad wind and rain event was not caused by the Convergence Zone?
Answer: Hanukkah Eve Wind Storm

Question: What type of snowfall is not often seen in Seattle?
Answer: heavy snow

Question: What is the usual average snowfall in Seattle?
Answer: 6.8 inches

Question: How many times has snowfall been reported at more than 6 inches since 1990?
Answer: once

Question: When was there a moderate snowfall  of over one foot that lasted on the ground two weeks?
Answer: December 12–25, 2008

Question: On what dates did Seattle experience a snow event of 6 feet?
Answer: January 5–9, 1880

Question: What is Seattle's average December temperature? 
Answer: 40.6 °F

Question: How many winter days reach freezing in Seattle?
Answer: 28 annual days

Question: What month is the warmest in Seattle?
Answer: August

Question: What is August's usual temperature?
Answer: 66.1 °F

Question: How long is the growing season in the Seattle area?
Answer: 250 days

Question: What quantity of yearly rainfall does Seattle have during the winter?
Answer: half

Question: What type of weather does Seattle have in the winter months?
Answer: heaviest rainfall

Question: What are atmospheric rivers called  in the Seattle area?
Answer: Pineapple Express

Question: When did Seattle have hurricane type winds and heavy rains?
Answer: December 2–4, 2007

Question: How many deaths occurred during the 2007  heavy rains?
Answer: five deaths

Question: How many more people does Seattle expect to have by 2040?
Answer: 200,000

Question: What change in building heights did Seattle make to increase population density in its downtown ?
Answer: height limits

Question: Who wanted to grow Seattle by 60% by 2040?
Answer: Greg Nickels

Question: How much increase in population has the inner Seattle city had since 1990?
Answer: 77%

Question: What was the downtown Seattle population in 2009?
Answer: 60,000