Question: What names was given to coastal artillery batteries erected shortly after 1852?
Answer: Fort Rosecrans

Question: What was the name of Charles A. Lindbergh's plane that was built in San Diego by Ryan Airlines?
Answer: Spirit of St. Louis

Question: What was the original name of today's Marine Corps Air Station Miramar?
Answer: Camp Kearny

Question: What branch of the military began to have a strong presence in San Diego in 1901?
Answer: U.S. Navy

Question: What airplane developer was founded in San Diego in 1923?
Answer: Consolidated Aircraft

Question: When did San Diego's population grow so rapidly that it nearly doubled?
Answer: during and after World War II

Question: What was the name of the attack the Japanese had planned against San Diego?
Answer: Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night

Question: What were the Japanese originally going to drop on San Diego from their kamikaze planes?
Answer: fleas infected with plague (Yersinia pestis)

Question: Why didn't the Japanese launch their planned attack on September 22, 1945?
Answer: Japan surrendered five weeks earlier

Question: How many civilians were the Japanese hoping to kill during their planned attack on San Diego?
Answer: tens of thousands of civilians

Question: What nickname was San Diego given by the tuna canning industry in the 1970s?
Answer: the tuna capital of the world

Question: How many jobs were created by the mid-1930s thanks to San Diego's tuna cannery that was developed in 1911?
Answer: more than 1,000

Question: Why were the canneries ultimately closed by the early 1980s?
Answer: rising costs and foreign competition

Question: Immigrants from what country were primarily hired by the fishing fleets that supported the canneries??
Answer: Japan

Question: From what region in Portugal did immigrants come from to work in San Diego's fishing industry?
Answer: Portuguese Azores

Question: In what direction does the San Diego River run through the city?
Answer: east to west

Question: What bodies of water can be found separating different developed areas of the city?
Answer: reservoirs

Question: What is created by the many canyons and hills throughout San Diego?
Answer: small pockets of natural open space

Question: What divides the city's northern and southern segments?
Answer: San Diego River

Question: Where did the San Diego River once flow to?
Answer: San Diego Bay

Question: What community covers the area from Downtown San Diego to the peninsula?
Answer: Point Loma

Question: Where is Otay Mesa found within the city?
Answer: next to the Mexico–United States border

Question: Which valley is encompassed by the most northeast portion of San Diego?
Answer: San Pasqual Valley

Question: What is the only coastal community in San Diego without the word "beach" in its name?
Answer: La Jolla

Question: What was the first skyscraper built in San Diego that was over 300-feet tall?
Answer: El Cortez Hotel

Question: How tall is One America Plaza?
Answer: 500 feet

Question: What played a role in determining the maximum height skyscrapers can be in San Diego?
Answer: San Diego International Airport

Question: What organization regulates building heights in San Diego?
Answer: Federal Aviation Administration

Question: What bank spent time as being the tallest building in San Diego?
Answer: Union Bank of California Building

Question: When does San Diego receive most of its precipitation?
Answer: between December and March

Question: How many days of the year does San Diego typically experience temperatures above 70 degrees Fahrenheit ?
Answer: 201 days

Question: What ranked San Diego as having the country's best summer climate?
Answer: Weather Channel

Question: What type of weather can one expect to experience in San Diego in the winter?
Answer: mild

Question: What type of climate is San Diego classified as having?
Answer: semi-arid climate

Question: What areas experience the most significant temperature variations?
Answer: inland areas

Question: What is the average high temperature in El Cajon in August?
Answer: 88 °F

Question: What frequently blankets San Diego in May and June?
Answer: a thick "marine layer" cloud cover

Question: What is the average January low temperature in downtown San Diego?
Answer: 50 °F (10 °C)

Question: What effect does the springtime cloud cover have on the temperature?
Answer: keep the air cool and damp

Question: What is the average rainfall in February along the coast?
Answer: 2 inches (51 mm)

Question: What is significant about the weather that San Diego experienced in December 1921?
Answer: wettest month on record

Question: What months are nearly completely dry in San Diego?
Answer: May through September

Question: What is the average annual precipitation along San Diego's coast?
Answer: 10.65 inches (271 mm)

Question: What areas of San Diego typically experienced the greatest rainfall?
Answer: higher elevation areas

Question: What trees are protected along the coast of San Diego?
Answer: Torrey pine

Question: What drought-resistant shrub is San Diego known for?
Answer: chaparral

Question: Where can one find the most sage scrub in San Diego?
Answer: low elevations

Question: How is San Diego able to offer everything from tidal marsh to canyons?
Answer: The steep and varied topography and proximity to the ocean create a number of different habitats

Question: What disadvantage comes along with sage scrub habitats?
Answer: prone to wildfire

Question: How many bird species have been observed in San Diego?
Answer: 492

Question: What birding event does the Audubon Society host every year?
Answer: Christmas Bird Count

Question: What is special about the animal and plant species found in San Diego?
Answer: highest counts of animal and plant species that appear on the endangered species list

Question: What word describes San Diego County due to the many birds residing there?
Answer: birdiest

Question: What flyway contributes to the diverse bird population in San Diego County?
Answer: Pacific Flyway

Question: When did California's largest wildfire of the century take place?
Answer: October 2003

Question: How many acres were burned in the historic Cedar Fire of 2003?
Answer: 280,000 acres (1,100 km2)

Question: Why did San Diego schools close during the Cedar Fire?
Answer: poor air quality

Question: How many years after the Cedar Fire did additional fires destroy Rancho Santa Fe?
Answer: four years later

Question: How many homes were destroyed in the Cedar Fire?
Answer: more than 2,200

Question: In the top five largest urban areas in California, where does San Diego rank?
Answer: third-largest

Question: What area does Los Angeles and San Francisco merge with to form metropolitan areas larger than San Diego?
Answer: Riverside–San Bernardino

Question: What was the population of San Diego at the time of the 2010 census?
Answer: 1,307,402

Question: How many square miles does San Diego cover?
Answer: 372.1

Question: What is the population of San Diego's urgan area?
Answer: 2,956,746

Question: What was the population density of San Diego in 2009?
Answer: 3,771.9 people per square mile (1,456.4/km2)

Question: What ethnicity made up 15.9.% of San Diego's population in 2009?
Answer: Asian

Question: In 2009, what percentage of the population was Hispanic?
Answer: 28.8%

Question: What was San Diego's population at the time of the 2010 census?
Answer: 1,307,402

Question: What was the population increase in San Diego from 2009 to 2010?
Answer: just under 7%

Question: In what year was the household median income in San Diego at $45,733?
Answer: 2000

Question: What was the median age of non-Hispanic whites in 2008?
Answer: 41.6

Question: What did the average salary increase to at the time of the 2008 census?
Answer: $66,715

Question: Of the population of individuals 55 and older, what percentage were non-Hispanic whites in 2008?
Answer: 63.1%