Question: Who in Valencia was influenced by the age of Enlightenment's ideas?
Answer: Gregory Maians and Perez Bayer

Question: When was the Economic Society of Friends created?
Answer: 1776

Question: What was manufactured that helped the Valencian economy improve?
Answer: woven silk and ceramic tiles

Question: Who reigned during the most affluent period of Bourbon rule?
Answer: Charles III

Question: Whose regime prohibited political parties?
Answer: Franco

Question: According to official figures, how many died in the flood of 1957?
Answer: eighty-one

Question: What river flooded in 1957?
Answer: Turia

Question: What park is located in the previous river bed?
Answer: Garden of the Turia

Question: What suggested use for the river bed was rejected?
Answer: motorway

Question: What percentage of Spanish exports does Valencia's port handle?
Answer: 20

Question: Valencia has the largest port on which coast?
Answer: Mediterranean western coast

Question: Where does Valencia's port rank among Spanish ports in terms of total traffic?
Answer: second

Question: What type of fruit is exported from Valencia?
Answer: oranges

Question: Who helped repress the supporters of the Constitution and was later executed for it?
Answer: Elío

Question: When was Elio killed?
Answer: 1822

Question: How was Elio executed?
Answer: by garroting

Question: What are the years from 1823-1833 called?
Answer: Ominous Decade

Question: Who was the last person killed by the Inquisition?
Answer: Gaietà Ripoli

Question: What is the name of the cup that some Catholics think is the Grail?
Answer: Santo Caliz

Question: Which pope used the Santo Caliz for mass in Valencia?
Answer: Benedict XVI

Question: What century is the Santo Caliz from?
Answer: 1st

Question: When was the Santo Caliz used for mass in Valencia?
Answer: 9 July 2006

Question: According to legend, who took the Santo Caliz to Rome?
Answer: St. Peter

Question: In what year did the cantonalist uprising occur?
Answer: 1873

Question: Who was sent to stop Valencia's uprising?
Answer: General Martinez-Campos

Question: Who became king in 1874?
Answer: Alfonso XII

Question: When did Alfonso XXII reach Valencia?
Answer: 11 January 1875

Question: Who was the Republican leader after the granting of male suffrage?
Answer: Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

Question: Who designed the City of Arts and Sciences?
Answer: Santiago Calatrava

Question: Where is the bridge named for Calatrava located?
Answer: centre of the city

Question: What type of architecture does the Music Palace have?
Answer: modern

Question: Which of Calatrava's creations contains an IMAX theater?
Answer: City of Arts and Sciences

Question: How many official languages does Valencia have?
Answer: two

Question: What is very similar to Valencian and is considered another variety of the same language?
Answer: Catalan

Question: What language is official in Valencia besides Valencian?
Answer: Spanish

Question: How many schools offer education completely in Valencian?
Answer: more than 70

Question: When did Valencian regain its offical status?
Answer: 1978

Question: During what period has Valencia had a cultural surge?
Answer: the last thirty years

Question: Which structural engineer's work has helped Valencia's reputation?
Answer: Santiago Calatrava

Question: Which architect other than Calatrava has helped Valencia's reputation?
Answer: Félix Candela

Question: What part of Valencia is undergoing improvements?
Answer: Old City

Question: What church holds some of Spain's greatest frescoes?
Answer: Saints John

Question: Who decorated the Saints John's dome?
Answer: Palonino

Question: Who destroyed the Jesuit college?
Answer: the revolutionary Committee of the Popular Front

Question: What was once headquartered in the former Dominican convent?
Answer: Capital General

Question: What was once a college for nobles and is now a place of secondary education?
Answer: Colegio de San Juan

Question: When did the Byzantines invade the Iberian peninsula?
Answer: 554

Question: When were the Byzantines expelled?
Answer: 625

Question: What archdiocese was Valencia under during the time of the Visigoths?
Answer: Toledo

Question: Who took power in Valencia after the Roman administration was gone?
Answer: the church

Question: After the Byzantines left, who was stationed in Valencia?
Answer: Visigothic military contingents

Question: When was the dome built?
Answer: 15th century

Question: Who started the construction of the main chapel?
Answer: Archbishop Luis Alfonso de los Cameros

Question: When was the main entrance constructed?
Answer: beginning of the 18th century

Question: In what style is the door of the Apostles?
Answer: Gothic

Question: Who painted the pictures that are in the San Francesco chapel?
Answer: Francisco Goya

Question: What ruler attacked Valencia in 1238?
Answer: King James I of Aragon

Question: When did Valencia surrender?
Answer: 28 September

Question: Who was expelled from Valencia after James I's victory?
Answer: the Muslim population

Question: What were Valencia's new charters called?
Answer: Furs of Valencia

Question: What group did the crusaders who attacked Valencia belong to?
Answer: Order of Calatrava

Question: Which America's Cup competitions did Valencia host?
Answer: the 32nd and the 33rd

Question: What equestrian event has Valencia hosted?
Answer: Global Champions Tour

Question: What tennis event has Valencia hosted?
Answer: Valencia Open 500 tennis tournament

Question: When was the Water Tribunal declared a cultural heritage of humanity?
Answer: 2009

Question: What Valencian festivals were declared Celebrations of International Touristic Interest?
Answer: Falles

Question: Who commanded that Valencia be destroyed?
Answer: Abd al-Rahman I

Question: What did Abdullah have built outside Valencia?
Answer: the Russafa

Question: What was Valencia named during the time of Abdullah?
Answer: Medina al-Turab

Question: When did Valencia surrender to the Moors?
Answer: by 714 AD

Question: What feature of Valencia used to be a minaret?
Answer: El Micalet

Question: When were the Serranos Towers constructed?
Answer: 1392

Question: What influential novel did Joanot Martorell write?
Answer: Tirant lo Blanch

Question: Who was an early poet to use Valencian?
Answer: Ausiàs March

Question: When was the University of Valencia founded?
Answer: between 1499 and 1502

Question: What was the University of Valencia's original name?
Answer: Estudio General

Question: What war took place from 1702-1709?
Answer: War of Spanish Succession

Question: With whom did Valencia side in the War of Spanish Succession?
Answer: Charles of Austria

Question: When did English cavalry enter Valencia?
Answer: 24 January 1706

Question: Who led the English cavalry into Valencia?
Answer: Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough, 1st Earl of Monmouth

Question: What did Mordaunt capture on his way from Barcelona?
Answer: fortress at Sagunt

Question: Who attacked Valencia with French soldiers but failed to capture it?
Answer: Moncey

Question: When did Valencia surrender to the French?
Answer: 8 January 1812

Question: Who led the successful attack against Valencia?
Answer: Suchet

Question: What forced Suchet to leave Valencia?
Answer: Battle of Vitoria

Question: What city did Jose I make Spain's capital?
Answer: Valencia

Question: What people group was descended from Muslim converts to Christianity?
Answer: Moriscos

Question: When were the Jews expelled?
Answer: 1609

Question: Where did the Moriscos go when they were forced out of Spain?
Answer: North Africa

Question: What proportion of the Valencia area's population were the Moriscos?
Answer: a third

Question: When was the Taula de Canvi bankrupted?
Answer: 1613

Question: Who got rich from the Valencian orange crop and vineyards?
Answer: land-owners

Question: Who had suppressed the Valencian language?
Answer: Philip V