Question: In what four years was England eliminated from the UEFA European Championship in the first round?
Answer: 1980, 1988, 1992 and 2000

Question: In which five years did England fail to qualify for the UEFA European Championship?
Answer: 1964, 1972, 1976, 1984, and 2008

Question: A defeat by which team eliminated England from the 1970 FIFA World Cup?
Answer: West Germany

Question: What was the final score of England's last match of the 1970 FIFA World Cup?
Answer: 3–2

Question: In which year did England fail to qualify for the FIFA World Cup resulting in Ramsey's dismissal?
Answer: 1974

Question: Where did the 1970 FIFA World Cup take place?
Answer: Mexico

Question: Where did the 1982 FIFA World Cup take place?
Answer: Spain

Question: Who was the first non-English person to manage England's football team?
Answer: Sven-Göran Eriksson

Question: How many competitive matches were lost under the tenure of manager Sven-Göran Eriksson?
Answer: five

Question: What was the highest world ranking achieved by England under management by Sven-Göran Eriksson?
Answer: No.4

Question: In what year was the contract of Sven-Göran Eriksson terminated?
Answer: 2006

Question: In what year did Sven-Göran Eriksson become the manager of England's football team?
Answer: 2001

Question: Commentated broadcasts of all England matches air on what network?
Answer: BBC Radio 5 Live

Question: What was the first season in which England's qualifiers and friendlies were broadcast on ITV?
Answer: 2008–09

Question: What network is ITV's affiliate in northern and central Scotland?
Answer: STV

Question: In what year was an England football match aired only via the internet for the first time?
Answer: 2009

Question: Approximately how many total viewers watched the England World Cup qualifier on the internet on 10 October 2009?
Answer: 500,000

Question: In how many FIFA world cups has England appeared?
Answer: 14

Question: Besides France, which other team is tied with England for number of appearances in the FIFA World Cup?
Answer: Spain

Question: In which year did England win the FIFA World Cup for the first and only time?
Answer: 1966

Question: In what place did England finish in the 1990 FIFA World Cup?
Answer: fourth

Question: Which country hosted the 1990 FIFA World Cup?
Answer: Italy

Question: Where were Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen from?
Answer: New York

Question: How many acres of land did Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen purchase in 1836?
Answer: 6,642

Question: What was the reason the Allen brothers purchased land in 1836?
Answer: founding a city

Question: Who did the Allen brothers name the city they founded after?
Answer: Sam Houston

Question: In what year was Sam Houston elected President of Texas?
Answer: 1836

Question: Who bought land along Buffalo Bayou to build a city?
Answer: Allen brothers

Question: How much land did the Allen brothers buy?
Answer: 6,642 acres

Question: After which famous general was the city named?
Answer: Sam Houston

Question: In 1860 what percentage of the city's population was slaves?
Answer: forty-nine percent

Question: How much did the slave population of Houston increase from 1850 to 1860?
Answer: tripled

Question: What event cause shipping activities to be suspended?
Answer: World War II

Question: Petrochemical refineries and manufacturing plants were built due to the demand for what items during the war?
Answer: petroleum and synthetic rubber products

Question: When was Ellington Field built?
Answer: during World War I

Question: When was the Brown Shipbuilding Company founded?
Answer: 1942

Question: What was the policy created by President Roosevelt due to the boom in defense jobs?
Answer: non-discrimination for defense contractors

Question: What kind of refineries were built along the Houston ship channel?
Answer: Petrochemical

Question: To fill what type of demand were refineries built?
Answer: petroleum and synthetic rubber

Question: What world event caused this increased need for petrochemicals?
Answer: World War II

Question: Why did thousands of new workers flock to Houston?
Answer: defense jobs

Question: Which president created a policy of non-discrimination for defense contractors?
Answer: President Roosevelt

Question: In what year did the space shuttle Challenger explode after launch?
Answer: 1986

Question: Why did Houston's economy have problems in the late 1980's?
Answer: the nationwide recession

Question: In the 1990's, what is something Houston did to try to diversify it's economy?
Answer: reduced its dependence on the petroleum industry

Question: The petroleum industry has become a larger part of Houston's economy again for what reason?
Answer: the increase of oil prices in the 2000s

Question: What caused population growth to decline  in the 1980s?
Answer: oil prices fell

Question: When did Houston begin to regain its dependence on the oil industry?
Answer: 2000s

Question: What did Houston focus on after the 1990s recession to improve its economy?
Answer: aerospace and health care

Question: When did Houston suffer an economic decline?
Answer: late 1980s

Question: Which shuttle disintegrated in 1986 to cause a decline in the space industry?
Answer: Space Shuttle Challenger

Question: What materials are underpinning the land surface of Houston?
Answer: unconsolidated clays, clay shales, and poorly cemented sands

Question: Houston's geology was formed from river deposits from the erosion of what mountains?
Answer: Rocky Mountains

Question: The sand and clay deposited onto decaying marine matter transformed into what?
Answer: oil and natural gas

Question: What is halite?
Answer: a rock salt

Question: What type of farming is Houston's surface soil good for?
Answer: rice farming

Question: Besides sands, what are the foundations of Houston's land?
Answer: clays

Question: How deep are the clay and sands foundations of Houston?
Answer: several miles

Question: What geological event caused the foundations of the land beneath Houston?
Answer: erosion of the Rocky Mountains

Question: What agricultural crop was farmed in the rich soils on the outlying areas of Houston?
Answer: rice

Question: What did the decaying organics under the clay and sand deposits later form?
Answer: oil and natural gas

Question: Downtown Houston consisted of what type of building in the 1960's?
Answer: mid-rise office structures

Question: When were skyscrapers first built in Houston?
Answer: throughout the 1970s

Question: What is the tallest building in Texas?
Answer: JPMorgan Chase Tower

Question: How tall is the JP Morgan Chase Tower?
Answer: 1,002-foot

Question: What is the second tallest building in Houston?
Answer: Wells Fargo Plaza

Question: In the 1970 s what developer built high rises in downtown Houston?
Answer: Gerald D. Hines

Question: What was the highest building in Houston completed in 1982?
Answer: JPMorgan Chase Tower

Question: What was the original name of the JP Morgan Chase Tower?
Answer: Texas Commerce Tower

Question: What is the Chase Tower rated as in height in Texas?
Answer: tallest structure in Texas

Question: By 2007 how many square feet of office space did Houston have?
Answer: 43 million square feet

Question: Houston ranked 3rd in which category by Forbes magazine in 2006?
Answer: Best Places for Business and Careers

Question: How many offices have been established in Houston by foreign governments?
Answer: 92

Question: How many foreign governments maintain trade and commercial offices in Houston?
Answer: Forty

Question: How many foreign banks operate in Houston?
Answer: Twenty-five

Question: How many nations do the 25 foreign banks operating in Houston represent?
Answer: 13

Question: When did the Houston area rank first in Texas for business?
Answer: 2006

Question: How did Houston rank in the U.S. for business?
Answer: third in the U.S

Question: How many consular offices does Houston have?
Answer: 92