Question: Jacobson says producing all new energy with wind power, solar power and hydropower is feasible by what year?
Answer: 2030

Question: Why is renewable energy an attractive option?
Answer: can supply significantly greater amounts of electricity than the total current or projected domestic demand

Question: In what country is the National Research Council located?
Answer: United States

Question: Sufficient domestic reneewable resources exist for what reason?
Answer: to allow renewable electricity to play a significant role in future electricity generation

Question: For what is Palermo known?
Answer: history, culture, architecture and gastronomy

Question: How old is the city of Palermo?
Answer: 2,700 years old

Question: On what island is Palermo located?
Answer: Sicily

Question: In what year was Palermo founded?
Answer: 734 BC

Question: What name was Palermo originally founded as?
Answer: Ziz

Question: What group of people founded Palermo?
Answer: the Phoenicians

Question: What did the Greeks name Palermo?
Answer: Panormus

Question: During which years was Palermo ruled by the Arabs?
Answer: 831 to 1072

Question: What types of churches attract tourists to Palermo?
Answer: Romanesque, Gothic and Baroque

Question: Which town is Sicily's primary industrial and commercial center?
Answer: Palermo

Question: What are Palermo's four main industrial sectors?
Answer: tourism, services, commerce and agriculture

Question: What geographic form is Palermo surrounded by?
Answer: mountains

Question: Which author desribed Monte Pelegrino as "The most beautiful promontory in the world?"
Answer: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,

Question: Which is the tallest mountain in Sicily?
Answer: La Pizzuta

Question: Where is Monte Pellegrino in relation to other peaks?
Answer: geographically separated from the rest of the range by a plain

Question: How can former rivers be recognised presently?
Answer: the streets that were built on them follow their shapes

Question: What is the only remaining waterway in Palermo?
Answer: Oreto river

Question: Which two former rivers in Palermo are currently building sites?
Answer: Papireto river and the Kemonia

Question: What did Phoenicans name their settlement in 734BC?
Answer: "Ziz."

Question: Besides Ziz, what other two major settlements belonged to the Phoenicians
Answer: Motya and Soluntum

Question: Why cant artifacts from the Phoenicians be easily excavated?
Answer: remains of the Phoenician presence in the city are few and mostly preserved in the very populated center of the downtown area

Question: What is the current name of the road the Phoenicians used for trading?
Answer: Corso Calatifimi

Question: Why was the first settlement named Paleapolis?
Answer: in order to distinguish it from a second settlement built during the 5th century BC, called Neapolis

Question: What were the walls of Neapolis meant to do?
Answer: prevent attacks from foreign threats

Question: Which district was named for the walls surrounding it?
Answer: Cassaro

Question: In which War did Greeks and Phoenicians fight over control of Sicily?
Answer: Sicilian Wars

Question: Why did the Sicilian Wars end?
Answer: Carthage and Syracuse stopped warring and united in order to stop the Romans from gaining full control of the island during the First Punic War

Question: Who conquered Panormos and briefly turned it into a Greek colony?
Answer: Pyrrhus of Epirus

Question: Why did the Greeks name Palermo Panormos?
Answer: meaning "all port" due to the shape of its coast.

Question: How had the Vandals earned their strong reputation?
Answer: occupied all the Roman provinces in North Africa by 455

Question: Whom took control of the Vandal's territory after 488?
Answer: Ostrogoths

Question: How was Theodoric different than the Germanic Goths?
Answer: Theodoric supported Roman culture and government

Question: What name was the Eastern Roman Empire also known by?
Answer: Byzantine Empire

Question: How long did Muslim control of Palermo last?
Answer: 120 years

Question: What did the Arabs introduce that continues to be relevant to Palermo's culture today?
Answer: agricultural crops

Question: How were the indigenous Palermo population treated under Muslim rule?
Answer: reduced into near slavery

Question: Who is considered a hero by natives for ending Muslim control of Palermo?
Answer: Robert Guiscard

Question: What was the family name who returned Palermo to Christianity after reconquest in 1072?
Answer: Hautevilles

Question: Where was the Kings Court held in the Kingdom of Sicily?
Answer: Palazzo dei Normanni

Question: How did the Kingdom of Sicily compare monetarily with the other European staes?
Answer: one of the wealthiest states in Europe

Question: What year did Sicily become ruled by the Holy Roman Empire?
Answer: 1194

Question: What happened to Muslims during Holy Roman rule?
Answer: emigrated or were expelled

Question: What was Palermos population in 1330?
Answer: 51,000

Question: During what years did Austria rule Palermo?
Answer: 1720 and 1734

Question: After what treaty did Savoia gain control of Italy?
Answer: Treaty of Utrecht (1713)

Question: For what event did Charles III choose Sicily as the location?
Answer: his coronation

Question: Where did the Royal Court reside?
Answer: Naples

Question: Where did the capital city move in 1817?
Answer: Naples

Question: Whose son died on the way to Palermo and is buried there?
Answer: Charles III

Question: Who led the first insurrection in Europe in 1848?
Answer: Giuseppe La Masa

Question: Who was the first president of Palermo?
Answer: Ruggero Settimo

Question: Who regained control of Palermo in 1849?
Answer: The Bourbons

Question: Sicily and Palermo became part of what Kingdom in 1861?
Answer: Kingdom of Italy

Question: Who was blamed for the week long rebellion of 1866?
Answer: anarchists and the Church, specifically the Archbishop of Palermo

Question: Which families help to start cultural, industrial, and economic growth in Palermo?
Answer: Florio, the Ducrot, the Rutelli, the Sandron, the Whitaker, the Utveggio

Question: In what style were the villas in the new expanded Palermo?
Answer: Art Nouveau

Question: Which theatre was designed by Giovan Battista Filippo Basile ans opened in 1897?
Answer: Teatro Massimo

Question: To what does the term "Sack of Palermo" refer?
Answer: speculative building practices that have filled the city with poor buildings

Question: Why did Palermo substancially grow in size?
Answer: reduced importance of agriculture in the Sicilian economy has led to a massive migration to the cities

Question: What did Palermo expansion lack?
Answer: t parks, schools, public buildings, proper roads and the other amenities that characterise a modern city

Question: What is Palermo's climate classification?
Answer: hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen climate classification: Csa).

Question: How do Palermo's temperatures compare to the rest of Europe?
Answer: one of the warmest cities in Europe

Question: How many did snow fall in Palermo between 1940and the 2000s?
Answer: eleven

Question: How much sun does Palermo see each year?
Answer: 2,530 hours

Question: Where does the first of Palermo's circuits suround?
Answer: ancient core of the punic City - the so-called Palaeopolis (in the area east of Porta Nuova) and the Neopolis

Question: What was the name of the primary east-west road within the walls of Palaeopolis?
Answer: Via Vittorio Emanuele

Question: On what road was the eastern edge of the walled city?
Answer: Via Roma

Question: What was the purpose of Castello a Mare?
Answer: to protect the port at La Cala

Question: What was used to block passage through the La Cala port?
Answer: A huge chain

Question: During which historical period was the wall circuit expanded?
Answer: medieval

Question: What is a heliometer?
Answer: solar "observatory"

Question: What name is given to the bronze line on the floor of a heliometer?
Answer: la Meridiana