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1970s and early 1980s | When did the Uptown district expand? |
Williams Tower | What is the tallest building in Uptown Houston? |
23 million | How many square feet of office space did Houston have in Uptown in 2002? |
Transco Tower | Until 1999 what was the Williams Tower known as? |
biomedical research and aeronautics | Besides oil and gas, what is Houston known for? |
Houston Ship Channel | What other industry is a large part of Houston's economy? |
global city | What designation does the Globalization and World Cities Study Group give Houston? |
market for exports | In what did Houston pass New York City in 2013? |
$110.3 billion | How much in dollars did the Houston area export in 2012? |
top ranking | How did Kiplinger's Personal Finance Best Cities rate Houston? |
2008 | When did Houston receive a ranking in the top of Kiplinger's Best cities list? |
fourth | Where did Forbes magazine place Houston for technological innovation? |
second | Where did Houston place for Fortune 500 companies? |
2010 | When was Houston ranked the best city for shopping? |
National Hockey League | For which sports team category does Houston not have a team ? |
1971 | Since what year have the Houston Rockets been a Houston team? |
1962 | When were the Houston Astros formed? |
Colt .45s | Until 1965 what were the Houston Astros called? |
2005 | When were the Houston Astros in the World Series? |
14 | How many members did the original Houston city council have? |
five | How many at-large positions were there originally? |
entire city | What areas do at-large council members represent? |
2.1 million | What population figure needs to be passed to add at large council members? |
two | How many at-large council members were added in the 2011 elections? |
40,000 | How many students does the University of Houston have? |
southeast | Where in Houston is the University of Houston campus located? |
Four | How many separate universities does Houston have? |
Texas Southern University | What university is located in Houston'd third ward? |
largest historically black | What kind of college is Texas Southern University? |
Houston Chronicle | What is Houston's major newspaper? |
Hearst Corporation | Who owns the Houston Chronicle? |
1995 | When did Chronicle rival newspaper, the Houston Post, cease operations? |
Bill Hobby | Whose family owned the Houston Post? |
Houston Press | What is the other newspaper that serves Houston? |
hub-and-spoke | What is the type of freeway system that serves Houston? |
Interstate 610 | What encircles the downtown area of Houston? |
8-mile | What is the diameter of the downtown area? |
middle loop | What part of the freeway system is Beltway 8? |
23 miles | What is the diameter of the center of Beltway 8? |
tenth-busiest | How does Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport rank for number of passengers? |
182 | How many destinations does George Bush Intercontinental Airport serve? |
2006 | When did the U.S. Department of Transportation name IAH as fastest growing of U.S. airports? |
George Bush Intercontinental Airport | Where is the Houston Air Route Traffic Control Center located? |
George Bush Intercontinental Airport | What is Houston's primary airport? |
Cyprus | Where was copper mostly mined at in the Roman era? |
сuprum | What term does the name copper originate from? |
copper(II) salts | What componds are common in copper? |
blue | What is one color common in copper salts? |
green verdigris | What is the name of the color pigment on building structures that are made using copper. |
9000 BC | When was copper first known to have been used? |
Middle East | In what area is the first recorded use of copper? |
2800 BC | When was copper thought to have been discovered in China? |
iron smelting | Copper smelting resulted in the development of what other metal smelting? |
5500 BC | When did Natural bronze start to be used by the general public? |
Corinthian bronze | What material were the gates of the Temple of Jerusalem made from? |
depletion gilding | How is Corinthian bronze made? |
Alexandria | Where do archeologists believe that alchemy was first practiced? |
copper | What metal was used to make surgical equipment in ancient India? |
Baghdad Battery | What is the name of the battery that was developed using copper in 248 BC? |
copper | What metal is used most often in electrical wiring? |
Electrical wiring | What is the most important market for copper today? |
Roughly half | How much of mined copper is used for cables and electrical wiring? |
aluminium | What metal are most overhead electrical wires made out of? |
high electrical conductivity | What is one property of copper that makes it so useful in electrical wiring? |
biostatic | What word means that bacteria won't grow on a substrate? |
Muntz metal | What has pure copper been replaced with in the building of ships? |
ships | Because of copper's biostatic properties where is a common use for copper? |
netting materials | In the aquaculture industry what is copper alloys commonly used to make? |
corrosion-resistant | Name a property that makes copper a good material to use in marine environments? |
group 11 | What group of the periodic table is copper in? |
one s-orbital electron | Name a property that copper, silver and gold have in common. |
filled d-electron shell | What makes copper bondings weaker than other metals? |
fine-grained polycrystalline form | How is copper normally supplied? |
monocrystalline forms | What is a weaker form of copper than fine-grained polycrystalline? |
50 parts per million | What is the concentration of copper in the earths crust. |
420 tonnes | How large was the biggest find of copper? |
1857 | What year was the largest find of copper discovered? |
4.4×3.2×3.2 cm | How big is the largest copper crystal that has been found? |
Michigan, US | Where was the largest mass of copper found? |
chalkos | What was copper called in Greece? |
Cyprus | In what area was copper first mined? |
Aphrodite | What is the Greek goddess that symbolizes copper? |
Venus | What is the Roman goddess that symbolizes copper? |
lustrous beauty | What property does copper have that links it to Aphrodite and Venus? |
organocopper compounds | What are compounds that have a carbon-copper bond called? |
copper(I) oxide | What does organocopper compounds reactions toward oxygen form? |
Gilman reagent | What is produced when copper compounds are treated with organolithium reagents? |
alkyl halides | Coupling products can be made by substituting Gilman reagent with what? |
Copper(I) acetylide | Which form of copper is shock sensitive? |
Renaissance sculptors | Who used copper to produce art? |
daguerreotype | What is the photographic technology that uses copper called? |
Statue of Liberty | What famous NY city landmark is made from copper? |
Christopher Columbus | What famous explorers ships was one of the first to have it's hulls made of copper? |
1830 | When did The Norddeutsche Affinerie electroplating plant first begin production? |
conductivity | What property of copper increases the efficiency of electrical motors? |
43%-46% | What percentage of electrical consumption does motor systems use globally? |
69% | What percentage of electrical consumption does motor systems use in industry? |
National Electrical Manufacturers Association | What does the acronym NEMA stand for? |
efficiency standards | By using copper motor rotor technology it is allowing industry to exceed what standards? |
Chromobacterium violaceum | Name a compond that can mobilize sold copper? |
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