Question: What is the name of the stadium that hosts the Houston Astros?
Answer: Minute Maid Park

Question: What is Houston's one Catholic university?
Answer: The University of St. Thomas

Question: What famous research university is located in Houston?
Answer: Rice University

Question: What is the student enrollment of Rice University?
Answer: 6,000

Question: When was Houston Baptist University founded?
Answer: 1960

Question: What area in Houston is the home of the Houston Baptist University?
Answer: Sharpstown

Question: Where in Houston is the world's largest grouping of healthcare institutions?
Answer: Texas Medical Center

Question: How many non profit organizations are members of the Medical Center?
Answer: 49

Question: How many people are employed in the Texas Medical Center?
Answer: 73,600

Question: How many hospitals belong to the Medical Center group of organizations?
Answer: 13

Question: What is the name of the first air emergency service?
Answer: Life Flight

Question: Until 2010, which airline made Houston its headquarters?
Answer: Continental Airlines

Question: Where is United Airlines' largest air hub?
Answer: Bush Intercontinental

Question: With which airline did Continental Airlines merge?
Answer: United Airlines

Question: How many daily flights did United Airlines offer from Houston?
Answer: 700

Question: In what year was Bush Intercontinental named a model by U.S. Customs?
Answer: 2007

Question: What city has more Fortune 500 headquarters than Houston?
Answer: New York City

Question: What part of Houston ranks first in the U.S. in international tonnage?
Answer: Port of Houston

Question: What is Houston's nickname? 
Answer: Space City

Question: What is varied about Houston's population?
Answer: ethnic and religious backgrounds

Question: What city is the most diverse in Texas?
Answer: Houston

Question: What kind of winter weather does Houston have?
Answer: mild winters

Question: What is the usual mean temperature in Houston?
Answer: 53.1 °F

Question: What type of weather is a rarity in Houston?
Answer: Snowfall

Question: When was the coldest reported temperature in Houston?
Answer: January 18, 1940

Question: How much rain does Houston usually get per year?
Answer: 49.8 in

Question: How much money does the University of Houston attract to Houston a year?
Answer: $1.1 billion

Question: How many local jobs are produced by the University of Houston?
Answer: 24,000

Question: How many student graduate from the University of Houston per year?
Answer: 12,500

Question: Where do most university graduates stay after acquiring a degree?
Answer: in Houston

Question: Even after five years, how many graduates remain in Houston?
Answer: 80.5%

Question: When was Houston founded?
Answer: 1836

Question: Where is Allen's Landing?
Answer: Buffalo Bayou

Question: When was the City of Houston incorporated?
Answer: June 5, 1837

Question: For whom was Houston named?
Answer: Sam Houston

Question: For what battle was Sam Houston known as commander?
Answer: Battle of San Jacinto

Question: In what part of the United States is Houston located?
Answer: South

Question: What part of the Houston population is growing?
Answer: international community

Question: How many of the people who live in Houston were foreign born?
Answer: 1.1 million

Question: What percentage of Houston's foreign born population is from south of the U.S.-Mexican border?
Answer: two-thirds

Question: How many foreign born Houstonites are from Asia?
Answer: one in five

Question: What event caused an increase in effort to promote the Houston port?
Answer: hurricane

Question: Where was oil found that promoted the development of the oil industry in Houston?
Answer: Spindletop

Question: Near what Texas city is the Spindletop oil field located?
Answer: Beaumont

Question: In what year did Houston's population reach 78,000?
Answer: 1910

Question: Who approved the improvement project for the Houston ship channel?
Answer: President Theodore Roosevelt

Question: What is the square mile area of Houston?
Answer: 656.3 square miles

Question: How much of Houston's total area is water?
Answer: 22.3 square miles

Question: In what topography is Houston located?
Answer: gulf coastal plain

Question: How is the vegetation of the area classified?
Answer: temperate grassland and forest

Question: What kind of weather event is a recurring problem for Houston?
Answer: flooding

Question: How many days per year are Houston temperatures over 90 degrees?
Answer: 106.5

Question: How many days a year do Houston temperatures average above 100 degrees?
Answer: 4.6

Question: What weather factor produces a higher heat index?
Answer: humidity

Question: What weather factor provides little in heat relief in Houston?
Answer: Winds

Question: What was the highest temperature recorded in Houston?
Answer: 109 °F

Question: What is the political climate of Houston?
Answer: divided

Question: Who in Houston tends to vote Republican?
Answer: wealthier areas

Question: How do the working and minority areas vote in Houston?
Answer: Democratic

Question: What percent of Hispanics vote Democrat?
Answer: 62 percent

Question: What percent of non-Hispanic whites vote Republican?
Answer: 68 percent

Question: How much of Houston's population is white?
Answer: 51%

Question: What percentage of Houston's population is African-American?
Answer: 25%

Question: What group makes up 6 % of Houston's population?
Answer: Asians

Question: According to the 2000 census, what is the population of Houston?
Answer: 1,953,631

Question: What was the percentage of whites in 1970?
Answer: 62.4%

Question: What was Houston's gross domestic product in 2012?
Answer: $489 billion

Question: Where in the rankings does Houston's gross domestic product place it compared to other U.S. domestic areas?
Answer: fourth-largest

Question: How many other countries have a gross domestic product exceeding Houston's?
Answer: 26

Question: How much did oil and gas exploration and production make up Houston's gross product?
Answer: 26.3%

Question: Under what category does oil and gas exploration fall?
Answer: mining

Question: What Houston medical school ranks in the top ten U.S. medical schools?
Answer: Baylor College of Medicine

Question: How does MD Anderson Cancer Center rank in US hospitals dealing with cancer care?
Answer: one of the top two

Question: What type of treatments does the Menninger Clinic offer?
Answer: psychiatric

Question: What is the third largest acute care center in the U.S.?
Answer: Triumph Healthcare

Question: Where is the Triumph Healthcare hospital headquartered?
Answer: Houston

Question: Where did Houston rank for job creation in 2013?
Answer: #1

Question: How many jobs did Houston add for every one lost?
Answer: two

Question: How many foreign companies relocated to Houston?
Answer: more than 100

Question: On what Forbes list did Houston appear in 2013?
Answer: Best Places for Business and Careers

Question: What was Houston the first city to do regain after the recession caused job loss?
Answer: jobs lost

Question: How many community colleges serve Houston?
Answer: Three

Question: How are the Houston Community College and Lone Star College systems ranked among educational facilities?
Answer: within the 10 largest

Question: What college system serves most of Houston?
Answer: Houston Community College System

Question: Which community college system serves the northwestern and northeastern areas?
Answer: Lone Star College System

Question: What part of Houston does San Jacinto College serve?
Answer: southeastern

Question: When did Houston start using light rail lines?
Answer: January 1, 2004

Question: How long was the first light rail line in Houston?
Answer: about 8 miles

Question: Where did the Red Line rail track terminate?
Answer: NRG Park

Question: How many new rail lines are planned for the future in Houston light rail?
Answer: five