Question: What day of the week did the major earthquake strike Mexico City?
Answer: Thursday

Question: How strong was the powerful earthquake that hit Mexico City in 1985?
Answer: 8.1 on the Richter scale

Question: What month did the 8.1 earthquake hit Mexico City in 1985?
Answer: September

Question: Why did the one-party government struggle after the major earthquake in 1985?
Answer: paralyzed by its own bureaucracy and corruption

Question: Who led the rescue effort after the earthquake of 1985?
Answer: ordinary citizens

Question: What is the minimum height in meters of the region Mexico City is located in?
Answer: 2,200

Question: Where is Mexico City located?
Answer: Valley of Mexico

Question: How high do the mountains get in Mexico City's region?
Answer: 5,000 metres (16,000 feet)

Question: Why is Mexico City vulnerable to flooding?
Answer: no natural drainage outlet for the waters that flow from the mountainsides

Question: How does the city prevent flooding?
Answer: canals and tunnels

Question: When did draining of Lake Texcoco begin?
Answer: 17th century

Question: How much water is there, approximately, in the lake Mexico City is on?
Answer: none

Question: How much has the city fallen?
Answer: as much as nine metres (30 feet)

Question: What does Mexico City rest on?
Answer: Lake Texcoco

Question: Where are most of the trees located in Mexico City?
Answer: southern boroughs

Question: How much rain falls on Mexico City?
Answer: 820 millimetres (32.3 in)

Question: When is it warm, yet does not rain?
Answer: March to May

Question: When does the majority of the rain fall in Mexico City?
Answer: June to October

Question: When is it coldest in Mexico City?
Answer: November to February

Question: What mostly controls the rain in Mexico City?
Answer: tropical winds

Question: What happened to the dikes the Aztecs built?
Answer: destroyed during the siege of Tenochtitlan

Question: Where does the lake still remain?
Answer: municipality of Atenco, State of Mexico

Question: Who first built the dikes in Lake Texcoco?
Answer: The Aztecs

Question: What made up Lake Texcoco?
Answer: a system of interconnected salt and freshwater lakes

Question: Where is the lake located in Atenco?
Answer: Federal District

Question: How bad is the ozone in Mexico City?
Answer: 2.5 times beyond WHO-defined safe limits

Question: Carbon Monoxide levels are about 3 times lower now than in what year?
Answer: 1992

Question: What city is similar to Mexico City in terms of pollution?
Answer: Los Angeles

Question: When Mexico one of the worst cities in terms of pollution? 
Answer: 1990s

Question: Who decides safe levels of o-zone in cities?
Answer: WHO

Question: What is the bus system called in Mexico City?
Answer: Metrobús

Question: What is the bike-sharing program called in Mexico City?
Answer: Ecobici

Question: How many days a week does the city encourage people to go without a car?
Answer: two days

Question: What pollutants does the city closely monitor?
Answer: ozone and nitrogen oxides

Question: How often do citizens need to get their cars examined?
Answer: biannual

Question: What was the other city in the running to become capital of Mexico?
Answer: Querétaro

Question: What part of the constitution established the right to create a capital city?
Answer: Section XXVIII of Article 50

Question: When was the federal constitution signed? 
Answer: October 4, 1824

Question: What type of land is Mexico City?
Answer: federal

Question: Who is in charge of the land of Mexico City according to the original constitution?
Answer: federal government

Question: When was Mexico City declared the capital?
Answer: November 18, 1824

Question: How large was the area the federal government would proclaim to be the capital?
Answer: two leagues square (8,800 acres)

Question: Where was the state government located when Mexico City was declared the capital?
Answer: Palace of the Inquisition

Question: What is the Palace of the Inquisition known as now?
Answer: Museum of Mexican Medicine

Question: Where was the government of Mexico City moved to at the time it was declared capital of Mexico?
Answer: Texcoco

Question: How many smaller cities did Mexico City make up at its height?
Answer: twenty-two

Question: What is the current area of Mexico City?
Answer: 1,479 km2 (571 sq mi)

Question: How large was Mexico City at its largest?
Answer: 1,700 km2

Question: When was the boundaries of the city last adjusted? 
Answer: 1902

Question: Who increased the size of Mexico City to it's largest?
Answer: Antonio López de Santa Anna

Question: When were the powers of the municipalities of Mexico City first reduced?
Answer: 1903

Question: When was the autonomy of the municipalities eliminated?
Answer: 1928

Question: How many boroughs did the city consist of when they were first established? 
Answer: 13

Question: Who first reduced the power of the municipalities of Mexico City?
Answer: Porfirio Díaz

Question: Who led Mexico City?
Answer: an appointed governor

Question: When was the General Anaya borough officially merged into Mexico City?
Answer: 1941

Question: How man boroughs was the borough of Mexico City split into in 1970?
Answer: four

Question: How many districts does the federal government control in 1970?
Answer: sixteen

Question: Which boroughs was the Mexico City borough split into?
Answer: Cuauhtémoc, Miguel Hidalgo, Venustiano Carranza and Benito Juárez

Question: If Mexico City was declared a state, how many states would be in the federation?
Answer: 32

Question: What event caused the citizens to reconsider how the government of Mexico City was set up?
Answer: the 1985 earthquake

Question: What do people call the leader of Mexico City?
Answer: Mayor

Question: Who declared the "Mayor" of Mexico City?
Answer: the president

Question: What state does Mexico City belong to?
Answer: all

Question: When did the Federal District receive more power? 
Answer: 1987

Question: When did citizens receive the right to elect the head of the Federal District?
Answer: 1997

Question: How is the leader of Mexico City now established?
Answer: popular vote

Question: What gave the Federal District more autonomy? 
Answer: first Statute of Government

Question: Who was elected to be the head of government in 2006?
Answer: Marcelo Ebrard

Question: Why did the first elected head of government of Mexico City resign?
Answer: to run in the 2000 presidential elections

Question: Who was the second head of government elected?
Answer: Andrés Manuel López Obrador

Question: Who was head of government after the first elected head of government?
Answer: Rosario Robles

Question: Who was the first woman to run Mexico City?
Answer: Rosario Robles

Question: What is the local government of Mexico City called?
Answer: The Legislative Assembly of the Federal District

Question: How is the local government of Mexico City formed?
Answer: parallel voting

Question: What is the proportionality voting referred to in Mexico City?
Answer: plurinominal deputies

Question: How many representatives make up the Federal District?
Answer: 26

Question: What is the maximum percentage of seats a single party can control?
Answer: 63

Question: How many seats of the uninominal elections did the PRD get in the 2006 elections?
Answer: 34

Question: Why does the government prevent more than 63% of a party to control the legislature? 
Answer: over-representation

Question: When was gay marriage legalized in Mexico City?
Answer: December 2009

Question: When were the economic laws passed in Mexico City?
Answer: 1980s

Question: What political leaning does Mexico City take?
Answer: more liberal than those of the rest of the country

Question: Compared to other cities in Latin America, how early did Mexico City legalize same sex marriage?
Answer: first

Question: How many boroughs make up Mexico City?
Answer: 16

Question: How are the heads of the boroughs elected?
Answer: plurality