Question: How many foreign countries have trade offices in Houston?
Answer: Forty

Question: How many nations do the twenty-five foreign banks represent?
Answer: 13

Question: What is the largest annual event held in Houston?
Answer: Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo

Question: How long does the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo last?
Answer: 20 days

Question: When is the annual Houston Pride Parade held?
Answer: the end of June

Question: What is some other annual events held in Houston?
Answer: Houston Greek Festival, Art Car Parade, the Houston Auto Show, the Houston International Festival, and the Bayou City Art Festival

Question: What art festival held in Houston is one of the top 5 in the US?
Answer: the Bayou City Art Festival

Question: What event is the longest running in Houston?
Answer: Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo

Question: When is the Houston Livestock show and Rodeo held?
Answer: March

Question: When is the Houston Pride Parade held?
Answer: end of June

Question: What form of car parade is held in Houston?
Answer: Art Car Parade

Question: Where does the Bayou City Art Festival rank in U.S. art festivals?
Answer: one of the top five

Question: What does Houston have the most of compared to other large US cities?
Answer: parks and green space

Question: How many acres of land does Houston's green spaces cover?
Answer: 19,600

Question: Who manages Houston's green spaces?
Answer: the city

Question: What is one of the largest skate parks in Texas?
Answer: The Lee and Joe Jamail Skatepark

Question: Who ranked Houston the 23rd most walkable of the 50 largest cities in the US?
Answer: Walk Score

Question: How many acres of parks does Houston have?
Answer: 56,405 acres

Question: After whom is the Houston skate park named?
Answer: Joe Jamail

Question: Who owns and runs the skate park in Houston?
Answer: city of Houston

Question: For whom was the Uptown District water park in Houston named?
Answer: Gerald D. Hines

Question: How does Houston rank as a walkable city?
Answer: 23rd

Question: Who is the current mayor of Houston?
Answer: Sylvester Turner

Question: What form of government does Houston have?
Answer: strong mayoral form of municipal government

Question: Who are Houston's elected officials?
Answer: the mayor, city controller and 16 members of the Houston City Council

Question: What does Houston's mayor also serve as?
Answer: the city's chief administrator, executive officer, and official representative

Question: Besides the general management of the city, Houston's mayor is also responsible for what?
Answer: seeing that all laws and ordinances are enforced

Question: What is the form of city  government in Houston?
Answer: strong mayoral

Question: What type of municipal elections are held in Texas?
Answer: nonpartisan

Question: Besides the mayor and controller, how many members are there on the city council?
Answer: 16

Question: Who is the mayor of Houston since the last election?
Answer: Sylvester Turner

Question: To what political party is Mayor Turner aligned? 
Answer: Democrat

Question: What was the first public television station in the US?
Answer: KUHT (HoustonPBS)

Question: How is Houston Public Radio funded?
Answer: listener-funded

Question: Houston Public Radio us comprised of how many stations?
Answer: two NPR member stations

Question: What stations comprise Houston Public Radio?
Answer: KUHF (KUHF News) and KUHA (Classical 91.7)

Question: Who owns the KUHT, KUHF, and KUHA stations?
Answer: The University of Houston

Question: Which of Houston's television stations was the first public television station in the U.S.?
Answer: KUHT

Question: What kind of radio station is KUHF?
Answer: news/talk radio

Question: What type of radio station is KUHA?
Answer: classical music

Question: Where is the Melcher Center located?
Answer: University of Houston

Question: From what building do the two public radio stations broadcast?
Answer: Melcher Center for Public Broadcasting

Question: Where is Houston located?
Answer: in Southeast Texas near the Gulf of Mexico

Question: Where is Houston ranked among the most populous cities in the US?
Answer: fourth

Question: What was the population of Houston in 2014?
Answer: 2.239 million people

Question: What is the fifth most populated metropolitan area in the US?
Answer: Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land

Question: What is Houston the principle city of?
Answer: Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land

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

Question: How does Houston rank as to population in the U.S.?
Answer: fourth

Question: According to the 2014 census, how many people live in Houston?
Answer: 2.239 million

Question: Houston is located in which Texas county?
Answer: Harris County

Question: What is the land are of the City of Houston?
Answer: 599.6 square miles

Question: What commodity was Houston known for in 1860? 
Answer: cotton

Question: What type of roads converged in Houston?
Answer: rail lines

Question: Which Civil War general used Houston as a headquarters?
Answer: General John Bankhead Magruder

Question: For what battle was Houston used as an organization point ?
Answer: Battle of Galveston

Question: What was Houston known for by 1890?
Answer: railroad center of Texas

Question: What event caused 2.5 million people to evacuate through Houston?
Answer: Hurricane Rita

Question: The evacuation of the Gulf coast before Hurricane Rita was what type of evacuation?
Answer: largest urban evacuation

Question: How many people evacuated to Houston after Hurricane Katrina?
Answer: 150,000

Question: Fearing traffic problems, how many people refused to leave Galveston before Hurricane Ike?
Answer: forty percent

Question: When did Hurricane Ike hit the Houston area?
Answer: September 2008

Question: What is the largest city in the U.S. without formal zoning?
Answer: Houston

Question: Besides parking requirements, what land use regulations does Houston have?
Answer: mandatory lot size

Question: What is Houston's land use policies credited with producing?
Answer: affordable housing

Question: What serious situation of 2008 was Houston spared?
Answer: real estate crisis

Question: How many building permits were issued in 2008 in Houston?
Answer: 42,697

Question: Of what is Houston a center?
Answer: oilfield equipment

Question: What has the Houston ship channel served to promote into success?
Answer: petrochemical complex

Question: Where does the Port of Houston rank in international commerce?
Answer: first

Question: Where does Houston rate in the size ranking of world ports?
Answer: tenth

Question: What lines begin or end in Houston?
Answer: pipelines

Question: What area of Houston hosts performing arts?
Answer: Houston Theater District

Question: Of what is Houston second in performing arts?
Answer: theater seats

Question: Besides Jones Hall, what other organization is housed in the Theater District?
Answer: Hobby Center for the Performing Arts

Question: To what type of arts is Houston home?
Answer: major performing arts

Question: To what group is Jones Hall home?
Answer: Houston Symphony Orchestra

Question: How much area of downtown Houston does the Theater District cover?
Answer: 17-block area

Question: What place produces live concerts, plays and comedy?
Answer: Bayou Music Center

Question: Where is Space Center Houston?
Answer: Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center

Question: What tourist offerings does the Space Center have?
Answer: interactive exhibits

Question: What is the Galleria the largest of in Texas?
Answer: shopping mall

Question: Which stadium is located in east downtown in Houston?
Answer: BBVA Compass Stadium

Question: Where in Houston is the Toyota Center located?
Answer: downtown

Question: What was the first indoor stadium in the world?
Answer: NRG Astrodome

Question: What is the home of the Texans named?
Answer: NRG Stadium