Question: How many passengers used Amtrak to embark at Houston?
Answer: 20,327

Question: What is the second airport that serves Houston?
Answer: William P. Hobby Airport

Question: What was the earlier name of Hobby Airport?
Answer: Houston International Airport

Question: When was Houston International Airport renamed to Hobby Airport?
Answer: 1967

Question: Which airline now offers international flights from Hobby Airport?
Answer: Southwest Airlines

Question: For what is Hobby Airport ranked in the top five performing airports?
Answer: customer service

Question: How many estimated active faults does Houston have?
Answer: 300

Question: What is the total length of the Houston faults?
Answer: 310 miles

Question: What geological feature has been removed underground to cause sinking in areas of southeast Houston?
Answer: water

Question: Which of the geologic faults run through the center of Houston?
Answer: Long Point–Eureka Heights

Question: What is a slow smooth rate of movement of faults called?
Answer: fault creep

Question: What system of incorporation was used in 1837 by Houston?
Answer: ward system

Question: What is the present day system being used by Houston for representation?
Answer: Houston City Council districts

Question: What highway is used to designate locations in Houston?
Answer: Interstate 610 Loop

Question: Beside older pre-World War II residences, what is found inside the Loop? 
Answer: central business district

Question: What highway circles the outer areas of Houston?
Answer: Beltway 8

Question: What area is located at Post Oak Boulevard and Westheimer Road?
Answer: Uptown District

Question: When did the Uptown district expand?
Answer: 1970s and early 1980s

Question: What is the tallest building in Uptown Houston?
Answer: Williams Tower

Question: How many square feet of office space did Houston have in Uptown in 2002?
Answer: 23 million

Question: Until 1999 what was the Williams Tower known as?
Answer: Transco Tower

Question: Besides oil and gas, what is Houston known for?
Answer: biomedical research and aeronautics

Question: What other industry is a large part of Houston's economy?
Answer: Houston Ship Channel

Question: What designation does the Globalization and World Cities Study Group give Houston?
Answer: global city

Question: In what did Houston pass New York City in 2013?
Answer: market for exports

Question: How much in dollars did the Houston area export in 2012?
Answer: $110.3 billion

Question: How did Kiplinger's Personal Finance Best Cities rate Houston?
Answer: top ranking

Question: When did Houston receive a ranking in the top of Kiplinger's Best cities list?
Answer: 2008

Question: Where did Forbes magazine place Houston for technological innovation?
Answer: fourth

Question: Where did Houston place for Fortune 500 companies?
Answer: second

Question: When was Houston ranked the best city for shopping?
Answer: 2010

Question: For which sports team category does Houston not have a team ?
Answer: National Hockey League

Question: Since what year have the Houston Rockets been a Houston team?
Answer: 1971

Question: When were the Houston Astros formed?
Answer: 1962

Question: Until 1965 what were the Houston Astros called?
Answer: Colt .45s

Question: When were the Houston Astros in the World Series?
Answer: 2005

Question: How many members did the original Houston city council have?
Answer: 14

Question: How many at-large positions were there originally?
Answer: five

Question: What areas do at-large council members represent?
Answer: entire city

Question: What population figure needs to be passed to add at large council members?
Answer: 2.1 million

Question: How many at-large council members were added in the 2011 elections?
Answer: two

Question: How many students does the University of Houston have?
Answer: 40,000

Question: Where in Houston is the University of Houston campus located?
Answer: southeast

Question: How many separate universities does Houston have?
Answer: Four

Question: What university is located in Houston'd third ward?
Answer: Texas Southern University

Question: What kind of college is Texas Southern University?
Answer: largest historically black

Question: What is Houston's major newspaper?
Answer: Houston Chronicle

Question: Who owns the Houston Chronicle?
Answer: Hearst Corporation

Question: When did Chronicle rival newspaper, the Houston Post, cease operations?
Answer: 1995

Question: Whose family owned the Houston Post?
Answer: Bill Hobby

Question: What is the other newspaper that serves Houston?
Answer: Houston Press

Question: What is the type of freeway system that serves Houston?
Answer: hub-and-spoke

Question: What encircles the downtown area of Houston?
Answer: Interstate 610

Question: What is the diameter of the downtown area?
Answer: 8-mile

Question: What part of the freeway system is Beltway 8?
Answer: middle loop

Question: What is the diameter of the center of Beltway 8?
Answer: 23 miles

Question: How does Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport rank for number of passengers?
Answer: tenth-busiest

Question: How many destinations does George Bush Intercontinental Airport serve?
Answer: 182

Question: When did the U.S. Department of Transportation name IAH as fastest growing of U.S. airports?
Answer: 2006

Question: Where is the Houston Air Route Traffic Control Center located?
Answer: George Bush Intercontinental Airport

Question: What is Houston's primary airport?
Answer: George Bush Intercontinental Airport

Question: Where was copper mostly mined at in the Roman era?
Answer: Cyprus

Question: What term does the name copper originate from?
Answer: сuprum

Question: What componds are common in copper?
Answer: copper(II) salts

Question: What is one color common in copper salts?
Answer: blue

Question: What is the name of the color pigment on building structures that are made using copper.
Answer: green verdigris

Question: When was copper first known to have been used?
Answer: 9000 BC

Question: In what area is the first recorded use of copper?
Answer: Middle East

Question: When was copper thought to have been discovered in China?
Answer: 2800 BC

Question: Copper smelting resulted in the development of what other metal smelting?
Answer: iron smelting

Question: When did Natural bronze start to be used by the general public?
Answer: 5500 BC

Question: What material were the gates of the Temple of Jerusalem made from?
Answer: Corinthian bronze

Question: How is Corinthian bronze made?
Answer: depletion gilding

Question: Where do archeologists believe that alchemy was first practiced? 
Answer: Alexandria

Question: What metal was used to make surgical equipment in ancient India?
Answer: copper

Question: What is the name of the battery that was developed using copper in 248 BC?
Answer: Baghdad Battery

Question: What metal is used most often in electrical wiring?
Answer: copper

Question: What is the most important market for copper today?
Answer: Electrical wiring

Question: How much of mined copper is used for cables and electrical wiring?
Answer: Roughly half

Question: What metal are most overhead electrical wires made out of?
Answer: aluminium

Question: What is one property of copper that makes it so useful in electrical wiring?
Answer: high electrical conductivity

Question: What word means that bacteria won't grow on a substrate?
Answer: biostatic

Question: What has pure copper been replaced with in the building of ships?
Answer: Muntz metal

Question: Because of copper's biostatic properties where is a common use for copper?
Answer: ships

Question: In the aquaculture industry what is copper alloys commonly used to make?
Answer: netting materials

Question: Name a property that makes copper a good material to use in marine environments?
Answer: corrosion-resistant

Question: What group of the periodic table is copper in?
Answer: group 11