Question: The Sand Bernardino - Riverside area maintains what kind of district?

Answer: business

Answer: business districts

Answer: business


Question: Other than San Bernardino, what is the name of the other city that maintains the districts including University Town?

Answer: Riverside

Answer: Riverside

Answer: Downtown Riverside


Question: Other than Downtown San Bernardino, and University Town, what is the name of another business district in the San Bernardino-Riverside area?

Answer: Hospitality Business/Financial Centre

Answer: Downtown Riverside

Answer: Hospitality Business/Financial Centre


Question: Which county is developing its business center?

Answer: Orange

Answer: Orange County

Answer: Orange County


Question: Where are international corporations headquartered?

Answer: University of California, Irvine

Answer: the University of California, Irvine

Answer: University of California


Question: Jamboree Business Parks belongs to which business center?

Answer: West Irvine

Answer: West Irvine

Answer: West Irvine


Question: What other business district does Orange County envelop outside of Downtown Santa Ana and Newport Center?

Answer: South Coast Metro

Answer: the South Coast Metro

Answer: South Coast Metro


Question: At what rate is Orange County developing its business centers?

Answer: rapidly

Answer: rapidly

Answer: rapidly


Question: What is the central business district of San Diego?

Answer: Downtown San Diego

Answer: Downtown San Diego

Answer: Downtown


Question: Other than its main central  business district, where are the majority of San Diego's business districts located?

Answer: Northern San Diego

Answer: Northern San Diego

Answer: Northern San Diego


Question: Outside of Northern San Diego, which other region contains business districts?

Answer: North County

Answer: North County

Answer: North County regions


Question: University City is an example of a business district located in which city?

Answer: San Diego

Answer: San Diego

Answer: San Diego


Question: What is the second busiest airport in the United States?

Answer: Los Angeles International Airport

Answer: Los Angeles International Airport

Answer: Los Angeles International Airport


Question: What is the metric they use to determine how busy airports are?

Answer: passenger volume

Answer: passenger volume

Answer: passenger volume


Question: What ranking in terms of busiest airports from international passenger volume is the Los Angeles International Airport?

Answer: third

Answer: third

Answer: third


Question: Which airport is home to the busiest single runway in the world?

Answer: San Diego International Airport

Answer: San Diego International Airport

Answer: San Diego International Airport


Question: What is the world's busiest general aviation airport?

Answer: Van Nuys Airport

Answer: Van Nuys Airport

Answer: Van Nuys Airport


Question: What is the name of the commuter rail system?

Answer: Metrolink

Answer: Metrolink

Answer: Metrolink


Question: How many lines does the commuter rail system have?

Answer: seven

Answer: seven

Answer: seven


Question: How many lines run out of Downtown Los Angeles?

Answer: Six

Answer: Six

Answer: Six


Question: A single line connects San Bernardino, Riverside and what other county?

Answer: Orange

Answer: Orange

Answer: Orange


Question: What is the United States busiest commercial port?

Answer: Port of Los Angeles

Answer: the Port of Los Angeles

Answer: Port of Los Angeles


Question: What is the second busiest container port in the United States?

Answer: Port of San Diego

Answer: Port of Long Beach

Answer: Port of Long Beach


Question: The Port of Long Beach belongs to which region of California?

Answer: Southern

Answer: Southern California

Answer: Southern


Question: What is the moniker that is being used to describe the region's diversified technology?

Answer: The Tech Coast

Answer: The Tech Coast

Answer: Tech Coast


Question: What kind of universities is the region famous for?

Answer: research

Answer: research

Answer: research


Question: What kind of university is the California Institute of Technology?

Answer: private

Answer: private

Answer: private


Question: How many campuses does the University of California have?

Answer: 5

Answer: 5

Answer: 5


Question: How many campuses does the California State University have?

Answer: 12

Answer: 12

Answer: 12


Question: The Los Angeles Rams are an example of what kind of sports team?

Answer: NFL

Answer: Professional

Answer: NFL


Question: The Los Angeles Clippers are a team belonging to which sport?

Answer: NBA

Answer: NBA

Answer: NBA


Question: The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim are from which sport?

Answer: MLB

Answer: MLB

Answer: MLB


Question: What is the other NHL team aside from the Anaheim Ducks to reside in Southern California?

Answer: Los Angeles Kings

Answer: Los Angeles Kings

Answer: Los Angeles Kings


Question: What is the lone MLS team that belongs to southern California?

Answer: LA Galaxy

Answer: LA Galaxy

Answer: LA Galaxy


Question: Which team was suspended from the MLS?

Answer: Chivas USA

Answer: Chivas

Answer: Chivas


Question: How many teams did Los Angeles used to have?

Answer: two

Answer: two

Answer: two


Question: Which year resulted in the suspension of one of the two soccer teams?

Answer: 2014

Answer: 2014

Answer: 2014


Question: What was the name of the stadium that the teams played in?

Answer: StubHub Center

Answer: the StubHub Center

Answer: StubHub Center


Question: When is the suspended team scheduled to return?

Answer: 2018

Answer: in 2018

Answer: 2018


Question: What other kind of sport is popular in southern California?

Answer: College

Answer: College

Answer: College


Question: The Bruins belong to which college?

Answer: UCLA

Answer: UCLA

Answer: UCLA


Question: What is the name of the team from USC?

Answer: Trojans

Answer: Trojans

Answer: Trojans


Question: Which conference do the teams in southern California play in?

Answer: Pac-12

Answer: the Pac-12

Answer: Pac-12


Question: The two listed teams play for which NCAA group?

Answer: Division I

Answer: Division I

Answer: Division I


Question: What is a growing sport in southern California?

Answer: Rugby

Answer: Rugby

Answer: Rugby


Question: At which level of education is this sport becoming more popular?

Answer: high school

Answer: high school

Answer: high school


Question: What is rugby rapidly becoming with high schools?

Answer: an official school sport

Answer: an official school

Answer: official school sport


Question: What company was formed by the merger of Sky Television and British Satellite Broadcasting?

Answer: BSkyB

Answer: BSkyB

Answer: BSkyB


Question: Who is the UK's largest digital subscription television company?

Answer: BSkyB

Answer: BSkyB

Answer: BSkyB


Question: What year did BSkyB acquire Sky Italia?

Answer: 2014

Answer: 2014

Answer: 2014


Question: What is the name of the holding company for BSkyB?

Answer: Sky plc

Answer: British Sky Broadcasting Group plc

Answer: British Sky Broadcasting Group plc


Question: What is the name of the United Kingdom operation for BSkyB?

Answer: Sky UK Limited

Answer: Sky UK Limited

Answer: Sky UK Limited


Question: What year was Setanta Sports awarded Primeier Leage rights to broadcast?

Answer: 2006

Answer: 2006

Answer: 2006


Question: How many of the six total packages available to broadcasters was Setanta awarded?

Answer: two

Answer: two

Answer: two


Question: Who purhcased the remaining 4 pacakages available to broadcasters?

Answer: Sky

Answer: Sky

Answer: Sky


Question: How much did Sky bid to win the 4 broadcast pacakges they bought?

Answer: £1.3bn

Answer: £1.3bn

Answer: £4.2bn


Question: What consortium was BSkyB excluded from?

Answer: ONdigital

Answer: ONdigital

Answer: ONdigital


Question: Who did BSkyB team up with because it was not part of the consortium?

Answer: Freeview

Answer: ITV Digital

Answer: ITV Digital


Question: How many BSkyB channels were available to customers prior to October 2005?

Answer: three

Answer: three

Answer: three


Question: What channel replaced Sky Travel?

Answer: Sky Three

Answer: Sky Three

Answer: Sky Three


Question: What was Sky Travel later rebranded as?

Answer: Pick TV

Answer: Pick TV

Answer: Pick TV


Question: What service did BSkyB chare additional subscription fees for?

Answer: Sky+ PVR

Answer: Sky+ PVR

Answer: Sky+ PVR


Question: When did Sky launch a TV advertising campaign target towards women?

Answer: September 2007

Answer: September 2007

Answer: March 2008


Question: WHat allows customers to get Sky+ functions if they do not subscribe to BSkyB's channels?

Answer: monthly fee

Answer: a monthly fee

Answer: SkyHD box


Question: When did BSkyB discontinue the Sky+ Box?

Answer: January 2010

Answer: In January 2010

Answer: February 2011


Question: What replaced the Sky+Box?

Answer: Sky+HD Box

Answer: Sky+HD Box

Answer: Sky+HD Box


Question: What is the name of the TV scrambling system BSkyB uses?

Answer: VideoGuard

Answer: VideoGuard pay-TV

Answer: VideoGuard


Question: Who is VideoGuard owned by?

Answer: NDS

Answer: NDS

Answer: NDS


Question: Who is the parent company of NDS?

Answer: Cisco Systems

Answer: Cisco Systems

Answer: Cisco Systems company


Question: Who has design authority over all of the digital satellite receivers that are capable of using their service?

Answer: BSkyB

Answer: BSkyB

Answer: BSkyB


Question: What is the name brand of the personal video recorder that BSkyB offers?

Answer: Sky+

Answer: Sky+

Answer: PVR


Question: What channels were removed from the network in March of 2007?

Answer: basic channels

Answer: the basic channels

Answer: the basic channels


Question: What year did BSkyB and Virgin Media have a dispute over the carriage of Sky Channels on cable TV?

Answer: 2007

Answer: 2007

Answer: 2007


Question: What did Virgin Media claim BSkyB did that resulted Virgin not carrying the channels anymore?

Answer: substantially increased the asking price

Answer: that BSkyB had substantially increased the asking price for the channels

Answer: increased the asking price


Question: What additional srevice did BSkyB offer besides HD channels that they claimed offered "substantially more value"?

Answer: Video On Demand

Answer: Video On Demand content

Answer: HD channels and Video On Demand


Question: What additional srevice did BSkyB offer besides Video on Demand that they claimed offered "substantially more value"?

Answer: HD channels

Answer: HD channels

Answer: HD channels


Question: when did the English High court find Microsoft's use of the term "SkyDrive" infringed on Sky's right?

Answer: July 2013

Answer: In July 2013

Answer: July 2013


Question: What year did BSkyB and Microsoft announce their settlement?

Answer: 2013

Answer: 2013

Answer: 31 July 2013


Question: What did Microsoft announce that it would rename Sky Drive to?

Answer: OneDrive

Answer: OneDrive

Answer: OneDrive


Question: What did Microsoft announce that it would rename Sky Drive Pro to?

Answer: OneDrive for Business

Answer: OneDrive for Business

Answer: OneDrive for Business


Question: What kind of service is the SkyDrive Service?

Answer: cloud storage

Answer: cloud storage

Answer: cloud storage service


Question: Who was the chief executive officer when the service began?

Answer: Sam Chisholm

Answer: Sam Chisholm

Answer: Sam Chisholm and Rupert Murdoch


Question: Who's satellites would the new free-to-air channels be broadcast from?

Answer: Astra

Answer: Astra's

Answer: Astra's satellites


Question: When did BSkyB end their analogue service?

Answer: 27 September 2001

Answer: 27 September 2001

Answer: September 2001


Question: What platform caused BSkyB to end their analogue service?

Answer: Sky Digital

Answer: Sky Digital

Answer: Sky Digital platform


Question: How many households had BSkyB service in 1994?

Answer: 3.5 million

Answer: 3.5 million

Answer: 3.5 million


Question: Sky UK Limited is formerly known by what name?

Answer: BSkyB

Answer: British Sky Broadcasting

Answer: British Sky Broadcasting


Question: What kind of company is Sky UK Limited?

Answer: telecommunications

Answer: telecommunications

Answer: British telecommunications company


Question: How many customers does Sky UK Limited have as a pay-TV broadcaster as of 2015?

Answer: 11 million

Answer: 11 million

Answer: 11 million customers


Question: what other digital TV service took Sky UK Limited's most popular spot?

Answer: Freeview

Answer: Freeview

Answer: Freeview


Question: What is the name of Sky Q's broadband router?

Answer: Sky Q Hub

Answer: Sky Q Hub

Answer: Sky Q Hub


Question: What are the Sky Q mini set top boxes able to connect to?

Answer: Sky Q Silver set top boxes

Answer: the Sky Q Silver set top boxes

Answer: Sky Q Silver


Question: What does connecting different Sky Q boxes enable them to do?

Answer: share recordings

Answer: to share recordings and other media

Answer: share recordings


Question: When is Sky going to introduce UHD broadcasts?

Answer: 2016

Answer: later in 2016

Answer: 2016


Question: When are the new Sky Q products going to be available?

Answer: 2016

Answer: in 2016

Answer: 2016


Question: What are BSkyB's standard definition broadcasts compliant with?

Answer: DVB-compliant MPEG-2

Answer: DVB-compliant MPEG-2

Answer: MPEG-2


Question: Sky Movies and Sky Box office also include what optional soundtracks?

Answer: Dolby Digital

Answer: Dolby Digital

Answer: Dolby Digital


Question: What is Sky+ HD material broadcast using?

Answer: MPEG-4

Answer: MPEG-4

Answer: MPEG-4


Question: What is the proprietary system that Sky+HD uses?

Answer: OpenTV

Answer: OpenTV

Answer: OpenTV


Question: What does most of the HD material use as a standard?

Answer: DVB-S2

Answer: DVB-S2

Answer: DVB-compliant MPEG-2


Question: When was Sky Digital launched?

Answer: 1998

Answer: 1998

Answer: 1998


Question: What satellite was used when Sky digital was launched?

Answer: Astra 2A

Answer: the Astra 2A

Answer: Astra 2A


Question: What satellite enabled Sky Digital to launch an all new digital service?

Answer: Eutelsat's Eurobird 1

Answer: Eutelsat's Eurobird 1

Answer: Eutelsat's Eurobird 1


Question: How many television and radio channels could the new digital service carry?

Answer: hundreds

Answer: hundreds

Answer: hundreds


Question: What is the position of the satellite that allowed sky to broadcast channels almost elclusively for the United Kingdom?

Answer: 28.5°E

Answer: 28.5°E

Answer: 28.5°E


Question: When did BSkyB launch it's HDTV service?

Answer: 22 May 2006

Answer: on 22 May 2006

Answer: 22 May 2006


Question: How many people were registered to receive the HD service prior to launch?

Answer: 40,000

Answer: 40,000

Answer: 40,000


Question: What was the name of the set top box manufacturer that BSkyB was having issues with?

Answer: Thomson

Answer: Thomson

Answer: STB


Question: What was the number of customers that the BBC  reported had yet to receive the service due to failed deliveries?

Answer: 17,000

Answer: 17,000

Answer: 17,000


Question: What was the total number of homes Sky announced that had Sky+HD in March of 2012?

Answer: 4,222,000

Answer: 4,222,000

Answer: 4,222,000


Question: When did BSkyB announce it's intention to replace it's free-to-air digital channels?

Answer: 8 February 2007

Answer: On 8 February 2007

Answer: 8 February 2007


Question: When did Setanta Sports say it would launch as a subscription service?

Answer: March

Answer: in March

Answer: March


Question: What platform was Sentanta Sports planning on launching on?

Answer: digital terrestrial

Answer: digital terrestrial

Answer: digital terrestrial


Question: What were NTL's services rebranded as?

Answer: Virgin Media

Answer: Virgin Media

Answer: Virgin Media


Question: What does BSkyB's sport portfolio include?

Answer: English Premier League Football

Answer: English Premier League Football

Answer: sport (including English Premier League Football), films, entertainment and news


Question: What are free-to-air encrypted broadcasts known as?

Answer: free-to-view

Answer: free-to-view

Answer: free-to-air


Question: What do some encrypted broadcasts require to view?

Answer: monthly subscription

Answer: a monthly subscription

Answer: monthly subscription


Question: What does a receiver have to be equipped with to view encrypted content?

Answer: VideoGuard UK

Answer: VideoGuard UK

Answer: VideoGuard UK


Question: What is the universal band that digital recievers will receive free to air channels on?

Answer: Ku band

Answer: 9.75/10.600 GHz

Answer: universal Ku band


Question: What service is a VideoGuard UK equipped receiver dedicated to decrypt?

Answer: Sky

Answer: Sky

Answer: Sky service


Question: When were the talks held for braodcast right to the Primier league for a five year period from the 1992 season?

Answer: 1991

Answer: autumn of 1991

Answer: 1991


Question: Who were the current rights holders for the Primer League?

Answer: ITV

Answer: ITV

Answer: ITV


Question: What did ITV increase their yearly offer for control of the rights to broadcast the Primer League to?

Answer: £34m

Answer: £34m

Answer: £34m per year


Question: Who was given the highlights of most of the matches?

Answer: BBC

Answer: The BBC

Answer: BBC


Question: How much was BSkyB going to pay for the Primier League rights?

Answer: £304m

Answer: £304m

Answer: £304m


Question: Who does BSkyB have an operating license from?

Answer: Ofcom

Answer: Ofcom

Answer: Ofcom


Question: what is the fee range for accessing BSkyB's EPG?

Answer: £15–100,000

Answer: £15–100,000

Answer: £15–100,000


Question: Can BSkyB veto the presence of channels on their EPG?

Answer: no

Answer: no

Answer: Third-party channels


Question: Does BSkyB carry any control over a channels content?

Answer: not

Answer: not

Answer: BSkyB does not carry any control


Question: Does BSkyB carry any control over the picture quality of a channel?

Answer: not

Answer: not

Answer: BSkyB does not carry any control


Question: When was BSkyB's digital service launched?

Answer: 1 October 1998

Answer: 1 October 1998

Answer: 1 October 1998


Question: What was the name of BSkyB's digital service launched under?

Answer: Sky Digital

Answer: Sky Digital

Answer: Sky Digital


Question: What did BSkyB name their interactive service?

Answer: Sky Active

Answer: Open

Answer: Sky Active


Question: Who did BSkyB compete with initially?

Answer: ONdigital

Answer: ONdigital

Answer: ONdigital


Question: Within the 30 days how many digiboxes had been sold?

Answer: 100,000

Answer: over 100,000

Answer: 100,000


Question: When was virgin media rebranded from NTL Telewest?

Answer: 2007

Answer: 2007

Answer: 2007


Question: what was NTL Telewest re-branded to in 2007?

Answer: Virgin Media

Answer: Virgin Media

Answer: Virgin Media


Question: What did Virgin Media concentrate on instead of offering linear channels?

Answer: Video On Demand

Answer: Video On Demand service

Answer: (HDTV)


Question: What was the one linear HD channel Virgin Media carried from November 2006 to July 2009?

Answer: BBC HD

Answer: BBC HD

Answer: BBC HD


Question: what was the name of the other HD channel Virgin media could carry in the future?

Answer: Channel 4 HD

Answer: Channel 4 HD

Answer: Channel 4 HD


Question: How many homes had BSkyB's direct-to-home satellite service available to them in 2010?

Answer: 10 million

Answer: 10 million

Answer: 10 million


Question: How large was the audience BSkyB said they could reach?

Answer: 25m

Answer: 25m people

Answer: 36% of households


Question: When did BSkyB first announce their target goal?

Answer: August 2004

Answer: August 2004

Answer: August 2004


Question: What was the target percentage of households BSkyB wanted to reach?

Answer: 36%

Answer: 36% of households

Answer: 2.4m customers


Question: What was happening to subscriber numbers in other areas of europe?

Answer: flattened

Answer: flattened

Answer: flattened


Question: What did Alec Shelbrooke propose payments of benefits to be made on?

Answer: Welfare Cash Card

Answer: Welfare Cash Card

Answer: Welfare Cash Card


Question: What could the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program purchase?

Answer: essentials

Answer: only "essentials"

Answer: essentials


Question: what did the UK parliment hear that a subscription to BSkyB was?

Answer: often damaging

Answer: often damaging

Answer: often damaging


Question: What was the UK governments benefits agenchy checking in 2012?

Answer: Sky TV bills

Answer: claimants' "Sky TV bills

Answer: claimants


Question: What did the benefits agency think sports channels on a TV bill meant?

Answer: a man's presence

Answer: mother is wrongly claiming to be living alone

Answer: betray a man's presence in the household


Question: What were the annual carriage fees for the channels?

Answer: £30m

Answer: £30m

Answer: £30m


Question: Does the new deal include Video on demand and High Definition?

Answer: no

Answer: no indication

Answer: no indication


Question: What company agreed to terminate high court proceedings with BSkyB?

Answer: Virgin Media

Answer: Virgin Media

Answer: Virgin Media


Question: What company agreed to terminate high court proceedings with Virgin Media?

Answer: BSkyB

Answer: BSkyB

Answer: BSkyB


Question: What were high court proceedings being held about?

Answer: basic channels

Answer: the carriage of their respective basic channels

Answer: carriage of their respective basic channels


Question: What kind of economy does Victoria have?

Answer: diversified

Answer: highly diversified

Answer: highly diversified


Question: Where according to gross state product does Victoria rank in Australia?

Answer: second

Answer: second

Answer: second


Question: At what rank does GPS per capita set Victoria?

Answer: fourth

Answer: fourth

Answer: fourth


Question: What city in Victoria is called the sporting capital of Australia?

Answer: Melbourne

Answer: Melbourne

Answer: Melbourne


Question: What is the largest stadium in Australia?

Answer: Melbourne Cricket Ground

Answer: The Melbourne Cricket Ground

Answer: Melbourne Cricket Ground


Question: Where is the Asian influence strongest in Victoria?

Answer: Bendigo

Answer: Bendigo

Answer: Bendigo


Question: Where were the Lambing Flat riots?

Answer: New South Wales

Answer: New South Wales

Answer: New South Wales


Question: Where was the 1857 riot?

Answer: Buckland Valley

Answer: Buckland Valley near Bright

Answer: Buckland Valley


Question: How many miners died in the typhoid outbreak of 1854?

Answer: over 1,000

Answer: 1,000

Answer: 1,000


Question: What were the conditions for miners in the gold fields in Victoria?

Answer: cramped and unsanitary

Answer: cramped and unsanitary

Answer: cramped and unsanitary


Question: What kind of representational system does the Victorian Legislative Council have?

Answer: multi-member proportional

Answer: multi-member proportional

Answer: multi-member proportional representation system


Question: How many electorates does the State of Victoria have?

Answer: eight

Answer: eight

Answer: eight


Question: How many representatives does each electorate have?

Answer: five

Answer: five

Answer: five


Question: What is the term of office for each house member?

Answer: four years

Answer: four years

Answer: four years


Question: How often are elections held for the Victorian Parliament?

Answer: every four years

Answer: every four years

Answer: four years


Question: What political party is strongest in Melbourne's working class suburbs?

Answer: Australian Labor Party

Answer: Australian Labor Party

Answer: Labor


Question: What party is strongest in Melbourne's affluent areas?

Answer: Liberal Party

Answer: Liberal Party of Australia

Answer: Liberals


Question: Which party is strongest in Victoria's northwestern and eastern regions?

Answer: National Party

Answer: National Party of Australia

Answer: Nationals


Question: What party rules in Melbourne's inner regions?

Answer: The Greens

Answer: Australian Greens

Answer: Greens


Question: What party is favored in Bedigo and Geelong?

Answer: Labor

Answer: Australian Labor Party

Answer: Labor


Question: What percentage of Victorians are Christian?

Answer: 61.1%

Answer: 61.1%

Answer: 61.1%


Question: How many Victorians are Catholic?

Answer: 26.7%

Answer: 26.7%

Answer: 26.7%


Question: What is Victoria's largest non-Christian religion?

Answer: Buddhism

Answer: Buddhism

Answer: Buddhism


Question: How many Victorians are Buddhist?

Answer: 168,637

Answer: 168,637

Answer: 168,637


Question: How many Victorians are non-religious?

Answer: 20%

Answer: 20%

Answer: 20%


Question: Where in Australia is Victoria located?

Answer: south-east

Answer: south-east

Answer: the south-east of Australia


Question: How does Victoria rank as to population density?

Answer: most densely populated

Answer: most

Answer: most densely populated state


Question: How populous is Victoria compared to other Australian states?

Answer: second

Answer: second-most

Answer: second-most populous


Question: What city is the capital of Victoria?

Answer: Melbourne

Answer: Melbourne

Answer: Melbourne


Question: Compared to other Australian cities, what is the size of Melbourne?

Answer: second-largest

Answer: second-largest

Answer: second-largest city


Question: What is the term for the original Aboriginal people of Victoria?

Answer: Koori

Answer: Koori

Answer: Koori


Question: When did Great Britain claim Australia?

Answer: 1788

Answer: 1788

Answer: 1788


Question: Where was Victoria first set to be located in Australia?

Answer: New South Wales

Answer: New South Wales

Answer: New South Wales


Question: Where was the first settlement in Victoria?

Answer: Sullivan Bay

Answer: Sullivan Bay

Answer: Sullivan Bay


Question: When was Victoria first settled?

Answer: 1803

Answer: 1803

Answer: 1803


Question: How much Victorian farmland is farmed in grains?

Answer: 26,000 square kilometres

Answer: 26,000 square kilometres

Answer: 26,000 square kilometres


Question: What percentage of farmland grows wheat?

Answer: 50%

Answer: 50%

Answer: 50%


Question: How much of Victoria's farmland grows hay?

Answer: 6,000 square kilometres

Answer: 6,000 square kilometres

Answer: 6,000 square kilometres


Question: How much does Victoria produce in Australian pears?

Answer: 90%

Answer: 90%

Answer: 90%


Question: How many tonnes of tomatoes does Victoria produce?

Answer: 270,000

Answer: 270,000

Answer: 121,200


Question: When did Victoria enact its constitution?

Answer: 1975

Answer: 1975

Answer: 1975


Question: On what is Victoria's constitution based ?

Answer: 1855 colonial constitution

Answer: the 1855 colonial constitution

Answer: 1855 colonial constitution


Question: What group can amend the Victorian constitution?

Answer: Parliament of Victoria

Answer: the Parliament of Victoria

Answer: Parliament of Victoria


Question: What are the exceptions in the constitution  that require special considerations to amend?

Answer: "entrenched" provisions

Answer: certain "entrenched" provisions

Answer: "entrenched" provisions


Question: What document formed the Parliament of Victoria?

Answer: Victoria Constitution Act 1855

Answer: the Victoria Constitution Act 1855

Answer: Victoria Constitution Act 185


Question: What is the weather type of Mallee and upper Wimmera?

Answer: warmest regions

Answer: semi-deserts

Answer: semi-deserts


Question: What does the average temperatures exceed in the summer?

Answer: 32 °C

Answer: 32 °C

Answer: 32 °C (90 °F)


Question: How cold does this region of Victoria get in the winner?

Answer: 15 °C

Answer: 15 °C

Answer: 15 °C (59 °F)


Question: What is Victoria's highest monthly temperature?

Answer: 48.8 °C

Answer: 48.8 °C

Answer: 48.8 °C (119.8 °F)


Question: When was the heatwave in which Hopetoun recorded its highest temperature?

Answer: 2009

Answer: the 2009 southeastern Australia heat wave

Answer: 7 February 2009


Question: What are public schools in Victoria?

Answer: state or government

Answer: state or government schools

Answer: state or government schools


Question: What organization runs the public schools in Victoria?

Answer: Victoria Department of Education

Answer: the Victoria Department of Education

Answer: Victoria Department of Education


Question: Since students do not pay tuition, what do they have to pay for schooling in Victoria?

Answer: some extra costs

Answer: some extra costs are levied

Answer: extra costs


Question: What church runs some private schools in Victoria?

Answer: Roman Catholic Church

Answer: the Roman Catholic Church

Answer: Roman Catholic


Question: What government set standards do all schools have to meet?

Answer: curriculum

Answer: curriculum standards

Answer: curriculum


Question: What type of manufacturing plant is Victoria soon losing?

Answer: major car brands

Answer: major car brands

Answer: car


Question: When has Toyota said it will close its Victoria plant?

Answer: 2017

Answer: 2017

Answer: 2017


Question: When did Holden announce that it will close its Victoria plant?

Answer: May 2013

Answer: in May 2013

Answer: 2013


Question: When will Ford's manufacturing plants close?

Answer: October 2016

Answer: in October 2016

Answer: 2013


Question: What brand of car is manufactured in Broadmeadows?

Answer: Ford

Answer: Ford


Question: How high are Victoria's alpine regions?

Answer: 2,000 m

Answer: almost 2,000 m

Answer: 2,000 m


Question: What is the highest peak in Victoria?

Answer: Mount Bogong

Answer: Mount Bogong

Answer: Mount Bogong


Question: How high is Victoria's Mount Bogong?

Answer: 1,986 m

Answer: 1,986 m

Answer: 1,986 m


Question: What type of topological systems are found in numbers in Victoria?

Answer: river systems

Answer: river systems

Answer: river systems


Question: What is the Victoria state bird?

Answer: helmeted honeyeater

Answer: the helmeted honeyeater

Answer: helmeted honeyeater


Question: Where is the coldest section of Victoria?

Answer: Victorian Alps

Answer: The Victorian Alps

Answer: Victorian Alps


Question: Of what mountain system are the Victorian Alps a part?

Answer: Great Dividing Range

Answer: the Great Dividing Range

Answer: Great Dividing Range


Question: In what direction does the mountain system extend?

Answer: east-west

Answer: east-west

Answer: east-west


Question: What is the temperature in the highest portion of the mountain range in winter?

Answer: below 0 °C

Answer: below 0 °C

Answer: below 0 °C (32 °F)


Question: What is the lowest recorded temperature in Victoria?

Answer: −11.7 °C

Answer: −11.7 °C

Answer: −11.7 °C (10.9 °F)


Question: Who owns the rail lines in Victoria?

Answer: government-owned

Answer: government

Answer: several private and public railway operators


Question: Which rail line operates in Melbourne?

Answer: Metro Trains Melbourne

Answer: Metro Trains Melbourne

Answer: Metro Trains Melbourne


Question: What entity owns V/Line?

Answer: Victorian Government

Answer: the Victorian Government

Answer: Victorian Government


Question: What type of rail line is Pacific National?

Answer: freight services

Answer: freight

Answer: freight


Question: What kind of rail system is Metro Trains Melbourne?

Answer: passenger

Answer: extensive, electrified, passenger system

Answer: passenger


Question: How many seats does Victoria have in the Australian House of Representatives?

Answer: 37

Answer: 37

Answer: 37


Question: How many seats does Victoria have in the Senate?

Answer: 12

Answer: 12

Answer: 12


Question: What is the lower house of the Victorian parliament called?

Answer: Legislative Assembly

Answer: the Legislative Assembly

Answer: Legislative Assembly


Question: What is the upper house of the Parliament of Victoria called?

Answer: Legislative Council

Answer: the Legislative Council

Answer: Legislative Council


Question: Who is the current Governor of Victoria?

Answer: Linda Dessau

Answer: Linda Dessau

Answer: Linda Dessau


Question: On what date was Victoria declared independent from New South Wales?

Answer: 1 July 1851

Answer: 1 July 1851

Answer: 1 July 1851


Question: When was gold found near Ballarat?

Answer: 1851

Answer: in 1851

Answer: 1851


Question: What did the finding of gold in Victoria cause?

Answer: gold rush

Answer: gold rush

Answer: gold rushes


Question: How much did the population of Victoria increase in ten years after the discovery of gold?

Answer: sevenfold

Answer: sevenfold

Answer: 76,000 to 540,000


Question: How much gold did Victoria produce in the years of 1851-1860?

Answer: 20 million ounces

Answer: 20 million ounces

Answer: 20 million ounces


Question: By August 2010 how many public schools did Victoria have?

Answer: 1,548

Answer: 1,548

Answer: 1,548


Question: How many Catholic schools were in Victoria?

Answer: 489

Answer: 489

Answer: 489


Question: How many students were enrolled in public schools in Victoria?

Answer: 540,800

Answer: 540,800

Answer: 540,800


Question: How many full time teachers does Victoria have?

Answer: 63,519

Answer: 63,519

Answer: 63,519


Question: What percentage of private school students go to Catholic schools?

Answer: 61

Answer: 61

Answer: 61


Question: What state in Australia is the center of dairy farming?

Answer: Victoria

Answer: Victoria

Answer: Victoria


Question: How many dairy cows are there in Australia?

Answer: 3 million

Answer: 3 million

Answer: 3 million


Question: What percentage of Australia's dairy cattle are found in Victoria?

Answer: 60%

Answer: 60%

Answer: 60%


Question: How much of Australia's milk is produced in Victoria?

Answer: two-thirds

Answer: nearly two-thirds

Answer: two-thirds


Question: To where is most of the abalone and lobster caught in Victorian waters shipped?

Answer: Asia

Answer: Asia

Answer: Asia


Question: What is the gauge of the Victorian rail lines?

Answer: 1,600 mm

Answer: 1,600 mm (5 ft 3 in) broad gauge

Answer: 1,600 mm (5 ft 3 in) broad gauge


Question: To what gauge have some lines been changed in the west of Victoria?

Answer: 1,435 mm

Answer: 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) standard gauge

Answer: 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) standard gauge


Question: What gauge of rail lines do two tourist lines use?

Answer: 760 mm

Answer: 760 mm (2 ft 6 in) narrow gauge lines

Answer: 760 mm (2 ft 6 in) narrow gauge lines


Question: Where were the narrow gauge rail lines built in Victoria?

Answer: mountainous areas

Answer: mountainous areas

Answer: mountainous areas


Question: How many narrow gauge rail lines were previously government owned?

Answer: five

Answer: five

Answer: five


Question: When was the colony of New South Wales founded?

Answer: 1788

Answer: 1788

Answer: 1788


Question: What was the name of the eastern half of the colony of 1788?

Answer: New South Wales

Answer: New South Wales

Answer: New South Wales


Question: What name was given to the western half of the colony?

Answer: New Holland

Answer: New Holland

Answer: New Holland


Question: Where was the location of the colonial government that administered the new colony?

Answer: Sydney

Answer: Sydney

Answer: Sydney


Question: When was there a armed protest at Ballarat about mining taxes?

Answer: 1854

Answer: 1854

Answer: 1854


Question: What armed group stopped the uprising at Ballarat?

Answer: British troops

Answer: British troops

Answer: British troops


Question: What was the incident over taxes at Ballarat called?

Answer: Eureka Stockade

Answer: Eureka Stockade

Answer: Eureka Stockade


Question: What did colonial authorities  reduce because of the Ballarat revolt?

Answer: mining licence fees

Answer: mining licence fees

Answer: mining licence fees


Question: The passage of what act gave Victoria its own government?

Answer: Colony of Victoria Act

Answer: the Colony of Victoria Act

Answer: Colony of Victoria Act 1855


Question: What does the Premier of Victoria need to lead in the Legislative Assembly?

Answer: most seats

Answer: the most seats in the Legislative Assembly

Answer: most seats in the Legislative Assembly


Question: Who sets the legislative agenda in Victoria?

Answer: Premier

Answer: The Premier is the public face of government and, with cabinet

Answer: Premier of Victoria


Question: Who can be in the Victorian cabinet?

Answer: representatives

Answer: representatives elected to either house of parliament

Answer: representatives elected to either house of parliament


Question: Who is the current Premier of Victoria?

Answer: Daniel Andrews

Answer: Daniel Andrews

Answer: Daniel Andrews


Question: How are Victorian cabinet members chosen?

Answer: elected

Answer: elected

Answer: elected


Question: How much did the gross agricultural product increase from 2003-04?

Answer: $8.7 billion

Answer: 24%

Answer: $8.7 billion


Question: What percentage was the increase of agricultural products in 2003-04?

Answer: 17%

Answer: 17%

Answer: 17%


Question: How many farms are there in Victoria?

Answer: 32,463

Answer: 32,463

Answer: 32,463


Question: How much land do farms use in Victoria?

Answer: 136,000 square kilometres

Answer: 136,000 square kilometres

Answer: 136,000 square kilometres


Question: How much percentage of Victoria's land is taken up by farms?

Answer: 60%

Answer: 60%

Answer: 60%


Question: What part do events in Victoria's economy  play?

Answer: tourism

Answer: tourism

Answer: big


Question: Besides cultural events, what other tourist attraction does Victoria have?

Answer: sports

Answer: sports tourism

Answer: sports


Question: On where are most tourist attractions focused in Victoria?

Answer: Melbourne

Answer: Melbourne

Answer: Melbourne


Question: Where do other tourist events happen in Victoria outside of Melbourne?

Answer: regional cities

Answer: in regional cities

Answer: Phillip Island


Question: What event is held at Bells Beach in Victoria?

Answer: SurfClassic

Answer: SurfClassic

Answer: SurfClassic


Question: Where was France's Huguenot population largely centered?

Answer: the southern and central parts of France

Answer: southern and central parts of France,

Answer: about one-eighth


Question: What was the proportion of Huguenots to Catholics at their peak?

Answer: about one-eighth the number

Answer: about one-eighth

Answer: about one-eighth


Question: When were the Wars of Religion fought?

Answer: from 1562 to 1598

Answer: 1562 to 1598

Answer: 562 to 1598


Question: What treaty ended the Wars of Religion?

Answer: the Edict of Nantes

Answer: Edict of Nantes

Answer: the Edict of Nantes


Question: What did this agreement do?

Answer: granted the Huguenots substantial religious, political and military autonomy

Answer: granted the Huguenots substantial religious, political and military autonomy

Answer: granted the Huguenots substantial religious, political and military autonomy


Question: The term Huguenot was originally meant to confer?

Answer: derision

Answer: derision

Answer: derision


Question: What Swiss city was the center of the Calvinist movement?

Answer: Geneva

Answer: Geneva

Answer: Geneva


Question: The term may be related to what politician from Switzerland?

Answer: Besançon Hugues

Answer: Besançon Hugues

Answer: Besançon Hugues


Question: What name was given to the plot to usurp power from the French House of Guise?

Answer: Amboise plot

Answer: Amboise

Answer: the Amboise plot


Question: When did this attempt take place?

Answer: 1560

Answer: 1560

Answer: 1560


Question: What helped spread Protestantism in France?

Answer: availability of the Bible in vernacular languages

Answer: the Bible in vernacular languages

Answer: The availability of the Bible in vernacular languages


Question: When did the first French language bible appear?

Answer: Around 1294

Answer: 1294

Answer: Around 1294


Question: Who translated this version of the scriptures?

Answer: Guyard de Moulin

Answer: Guyard de Moulin

Answer: Guyard de Moulin


Question: An illustrated, paraphrased version of this appeared when?

Answer: 1487

Answer: 1487

Answer: 1487


Question: Jean De Rely's illustrated French-language scriptures were first published in what city?

Answer: Paris

Answer: Paris

Answer: Paris


Question: What were the towns granted to the Huguenots in 1598 collectively called?

Answer: villes de sûreté

Answer: "villes de sûreté"

Answer: villes de sûreté


Question: What was the most important of these cities or towns?

Answer: Montpellier

Answer: Montpellier

Answer: Montpellier


Question: What proclamation officially ended limited Huguenot autonomy?

Answer: Edict of Alès

Answer: Edict of Alès

Answer: Edict of Alès


Question: France laid siege to Montpellier in what year?

Answer: 1622

Answer: 1622

Answer: 1622


Question: When was this proclamation issued?

Answer: 1629

Answer: 1629

Answer: 1629


Question: Where did the first Huguenot colonists settle?

Answer: at the Cape of Good Hope

Answer: Cape of Good Hope

Answer: the Cape of Good Hope


Question: What modern city is located on the original Huguenot colony?

Answer: Cape Town

Answer: Cape Town

Answer: Cape Town


Question: Who was the first Huguenot to arrive at the Cape of Good Hope?

Answer: Maria de la Queillerie

Answer: Maria de la Queillerie

Answer: Maria de la Queillerie


Question: What trading company helped settle Huguenots near the Cape?

Answer: Dutch East India Company

Answer: Dutch East India Company

Answer: Dutch East India Company


Question: The number of new Huguenot colonists declined after what year?

Answer: 1700

Answer: 1700

Answer: 1700


Question: When did Huguenots colonize in North America?

Answer: 1624

Answer: 1624

Answer: 1624


Question: Who led the North American Huguenot colonial expedition?

Answer: Jessé de Forest

Answer: Jessé de Forest

Answer: Jessé de Forest


Question: What was the name of the first Huguenot church in the New World?

Answer: L'Église française à la Nouvelle-Amsterdam

Answer: L'Église française à la Nouvelle-Amsterdam

Answer: L'Église française à la Nouvelle-Amsterdam (the French church in New Amsterdam)


Question: By what name is that first Huguenot church known today?

Answer: L'Eglise du Saint-Esprit

Answer: L'Eglise du Saint-Esprit

Answer: L'Eglise du Saint-Esprit


Question: The Huguenots were the first Europeans to live in what modern New York borough?

Answer: Brooklyn

Answer: Brooklyn

Answer: Brooklyn


Question: Where in South Carolina did Huguenot nobility settle?

Answer: the Charleston Orange district

Answer: Charleston Orange district

Answer: Charleston Orange district


Question: From whom did the Huguenots in South Carolina purchase land from?

Answer: the British Landgrave Edmund Bellinger

Answer: Edmund Bellinger

Answer: Edmund Bellinger


Question: Charleston settler Elie Prioleau was from what French town?

Answer: Pons

Answer: Pons in France

Answer: Pons


Question: When did the Huguenots secure the right to own land in the Baronies?

Answer: 1697

Answer: 1697

Answer: 1697


Question: What southern city did the Huguenots settle near?

Answer: Charleston, South Carolina

Answer: Charleston

Answer: Charleston, South Carolina


Question: Who was Louis XIV's main rival?

Answer: William III of Orange

Answer: Stadtholder William III of Orange

Answer: Stadtholder William III of Orange


Question: William would eventually gain what throne?

Answer: King of England

Answer: King of England

Answer: King of England


Question: What coalition rose up to oppose Louis XIV's France?

Answer: League of Augsburg

Answer: League of Augsburg

Answer: League of Augsburg


Question: With what European country did the Huguenots feel kinship for emigration to?

Answer: Dutch Republic

Answer: Dutch Republic

Answer: Dutch Republic


Question: When did France and the Dutch fight in the 17th century?

Answer: 1672

Answer: 1672

Answer: 1672


Question: What proclamation abolished protestantism in France?

Answer: Edict of Fontainebleau

Answer: Edict of Fontainebleau

Answer: the Edict of Fontainebleau


Question: When was this edict declared?

Answer: 1685

Answer: 1685

Answer: 1685


Question: Which French kind issued this declaration?

Answer: Louis XIV

Answer: Louis XIV

Answer: Louis XIV


Question: How many Huguenots fled France by the 1700s?

Answer: 500,000

Answer: 500,000

Answer: roughly 500,000


Question: What group specifically opposed the Huguenots?

Answer: Catholic Church in France

Answer: Catholic Church in France

Answer: The Catholic Church in France


Question: What event was the worst example of Huguenot persecution?

Answer: St. Bartholomew's Day massacre

Answer: St. Bartholomew's Day massacre

Answer: St. Bartholomew's Day massacre


Question: How many Huguenots were killed during this purge?

Answer: 5,000 to 30,000

Answer: 5,000 to 30,000

Answer: 5,000 to 30,000


Question: How did the Huguenots defend themselves?

Answer: their own militia

Answer: the Huguenots had their own militia


Question: What was a non-religious reason for the massacre?

Answer: some of the Huguenots were nobles trying to establish separate centers of power in southern France

Answer: political reasons

Answer: some of the Huguenots were nobles trying to establish separate centers of power in southern France


Question: When did these rebellions take place?

Answer: between 1621 and 1629

Answer: between 1621 and 1629

Answer: between 1621 and 1629


Question: Where did these uprisings take place?

Answer: southwestern France

Answer: southwestern France

Answer: mainly in southwestern France


Question: What King and former Huguenot looked out for the welfare of the group?

Answer: Henry IV

Answer: Henry IV

Answer: Henry IV


Question: Which successor to Henry resumed persecution of the Huguenots?

Answer: Louis XIII

Answer: Louis XIII

Answer: Louis XIII


Question: What were the civil wars caused by the Huguenots called?

Answer: Huguenot rebellions

Answer: Huguenot rebellions

Answer: the Huguenot rebellions


Question: How many protestants live in France today?

Answer: one million

Answer: Approximately one million

Answer: Approximately one million


Question: What percentage of France's population is protestant today?

Answer: 2%

Answer: 2%

Answer: 2%


Question: What northern province in France has a large protestant population?

Answer: Alsace

Answer: Alsace

Answer: Alsace


Question: What is the southern region where protestants are concentrated?

Answer: Cévennes

Answer: Cévennes

Answer: Cévennes mountain region


Question: What country currently has a group who call themselves Huguenots?

Answer: Australia

Answer: Australia

Answer: Australia


Question: What city north of New York was settled by Huguenots?

Answer: New Rochelle

Answer: New Rochelle

Answer: New Rochelle


Question: What town in upstate New York was settled by Huguenots?

Answer: New Paltz

Answer: New Paltz

Answer: New Paltz


Question: What Huguenot area is designated as a historical landmark?

Answer: "Huguenot Street Historic District" in New Paltz

Answer: Huguenot Street Historic District

Answer: The "Huguenot Street Historic District" in New Paltz


Question: What is located within this district?

Answer: the oldest street in the United States of America

Answer: the oldest street in the United States of America

Answer: the oldest street in the United States of America


Question: In what borough is there a neighborhood called Huguenot?

Answer: Staten Island

Answer: Staten Island

Answer: Staten Island


Question: What country initially received the largest number of Huguenot refugees?

Answer: the Dutch Republic

Answer: Dutch Republic

Answer: Dutch Republic


Question: How many refugees emigrated to the Dutch Republic?

Answer: an estimated total of 75,000 to 100,000 people

Answer: 75,000 to 100,000

Answer: 75,000 to 100,000


Question: What was the population of the Dutch Republic before this emigration?

Answer: ca. 2 million

Answer: 2 million

Answer: 2 million


Question: What two areas in the Republic were first to grant rights to the Huguenots?

Answer: Amsterdam and the area of West Frisia

Answer: Amsterdam and the area of West Frisia

Answer: Amsterdam and the area of West Frisia


Question: What declaration predicated the emigration of Huguenot refugees?

Answer: the revocation of the Edict of Nantes

Answer: Edict of Nantes

Answer: the revocation of the Edict of Nantes


Question: Where was the Gate of King Hugo?

Answer: Tours

Answer: Tours

Answer: Tours


Question: By what other name was the Gate known?

Answer: Huguon

Answer: Huguon

Answer: Huguon


Question: Who allegedly haunted the gate?

Answer: the ghost of le roi Huguet

Answer: ghost of le roi Huguet

Answer: the ghost of le roi Huguet


Question: By what name were the "supposedly reformed" known?

Answer: prétendus réformés

Answer: prétendus réformés

Answer: prétendus réformés


Question: What time of day did these reformed supposedly gather to engage in Huguenot rituals?

Answer: night

Answer: night

Answer: at night


Question: Where did Huguenots and Walloons settle in England?

Answer: Canterbury

Answer: Canterbury

Answer: Canterbury


Question: What house was the site of a weaving school in Canterbury?

Answer: The Weavers

Answer: The Weavers

Answer: The Weavers


Question: What social construct did Huguenot refugees in Canterbury practice?

Answer: economic separation

Answer: economic separation

Answer: worked as weavers


Question: What other English towns were sites of Huguenot settlement?

Answer: Kent, particularly Sandwich, Faversham and Maidstone

Answer: Sandwich, Faversham and Maidstone

Answer: Sandwich, Faversham and Maidstone


Question: What is located on the site of The Weaving House currently?

Answer: a restaurant

Answer: restaurant

Answer: a restaurant


Question: French Church Street is in what Irish town?

Answer: Cork City

Answer: Cork City

Answer: Cork City


Question: What Irish cities had Huguenot mayors in the 1600s and 1700s?

Answer: Dublin, Cork, Youghal and Waterford

Answer: Dublin, Cork, Youghal and Waterford

Answer: Dublin, Cork, Youghal and Waterford


Question: Where is D'Olier Street?

Answer: Dublin

Answer: Dublin

Answer: Dublin


Question: D'Olier Street is named after whom?

Answer: a High Sheriff and one of the founders of the Bank of Ireland

Answer: High Sheriff

Answer: a High Sheriff and one of the founders of the Bank of Ireland


Question: The French church in Portarlington was built when?

Answer: 1696

Answer: 1696

Answer: 1696


Question: What is the common term for the loss of key members of French society to Huguenot emigration?

Answer: brain drain

Answer: brain drain

Answer: brain drain


Question: What was the name of France's primary colony in the New World?

Answer: New France

Answer: New France

Answer: New France


Question: What persons were not allowed to settle in New France?

Answer: non-Catholics

Answer: non-Catholics

Answer: non-Catholics


Question: The French and Indian War was the New World aspect of what European conflict?

Answer: Seven Years' War

Answer: Seven Years' War

Answer: Seven Years' War


Question: When did the British defeat New France?

Answer: 1759-60

Answer: 1759-60

Answer: 1759-60


Question: What was Henry IV known as before taking the throne?

Answer: Henry of Navarre

Answer: Henry of Navarre

Answer: Henry of Navarre


Question: When did Henry issue the Edict of Nantes?

Answer: 1598

Answer: 1598

Answer: 1598


Question: What did the Edict do for Huguenots in France?

Answer: granted the Protestants equality with Catholics

Answer: granted the Protestants equality

Answer: granted the Protestants equality with Catholics under the throne and a degree of religious and political freedom within their domains


Question: The edict protected Catholics by discouraging what?

Answer: the founding of new Protestant churches

Answer: founding of new Protestant churches in Catholic-controlled regions

Answer: the founding of new Protestant churches in Catholic-controlled regions


Question: What religion did Henry renounce upon ascending the throne?

Answer: Protestantism

Answer: Protestantism

Answer: Protestantism


Question: What was required of Huguenot children after the Edict was revoked?

Answer: education of children as Catholics

Answer: education of children as Catholics

Answer: required education of children as Catholics


Question: How did the revocation restrict Huguenot travel?

Answer: prohibited emigration

Answer: prohibited emigration

Answer: prohibited emigration


Question: How many Huguenots emigrated to North America as colonists?

Answer: Four thousand

Answer: Four thousand

Answer: Four thousand


Question: What were Huguenots who stayed in France eventually known as?

Answer: "new converts"

Answer: "new converts"

Answer: new converts


Question: Besides Britain and North America, where else did Huguenot refugees settle?

Answer: Holland, Prussia, and South Africa

Answer: Holland, Prussia, and South Africa

Answer: Britain as well as Holland, Prussia, and South Africa


Question: What were the first two destinations of Huguenot emigres?

Answer: Switzerland and the Netherlands

Answer: Switzerland and the Netherlands.

Answer: Switzerland and the Netherlands


Question: When was the French colony in modern day Brazil founded?

Answer: 1555

Answer: 1555

Answer: 1555


Question: What was the Brazilian French colony called?

Answer: France Antarctique

Answer: France Antarctique

Answer: France Antarctique


Question: In what year was Fort Coligny destroyed?

Answer: 1560

Answer: 1560

Answer: 1560


Question: By what document did the Huguenots confess their faith to the Portuguese in Brazil?

Answer: the Guanabara Confession of Faith

Answer: Guanabara Confession of Faith

Answer: the Guanabara Confession of Faith


Question: Families with French names in South Africa speak what language today?

Answer: Afrikaans

Answer: Afrikaans

Answer: Afrikaans


Question: What South African industry descended from Huguenot settlers?

Answer: wine industry

Answer: wine

Answer: The wine industry


Question: Where can one find the formerly Huguenot farms in South Africa?

Answer: Western Cape province

Answer: Western Cape province


Question: What characteristic identifies the French ancestry of some South Africans?

Answer: surnames

Answer: names

Answer: surnames


Question: What Revolutionary War midnight rider was a Huguenot descendant?

Answer: Paul Revere

Answer: Paul Revere

Answer: Paul Revere


Question: What signer of the Articles of Confederation was descended from Huguenots?

Answer: Henry Laurens

Answer: Henry Laurens

Answer: Henry Laurens


Question: In what city is the last Huguenot congregation in the US?

Answer: Charleston, South Carolina

Answer: Charleston

Answer: Charleston, South Carolina


Question: What church in Virginia is maintained by Huguenots as a historic shrine?

Answer: Manakin Episcopal Church

Answer: Manakin Episcopal Church

Answer: Manakin Episcopal Church


Question: In what state is the largest Huguenot Society located?

Answer: Texas

Answer: Texas

Answer: Texas


Question: What industry was centered in Bedfordshire?

Answer: lace

Answer: lace

Answer: British lace


Question: What style of lace is erroneously believed by some to have Huguenot influence?

Answer: 'Bucks Point'

Answer: Bucks Point

Answer: Bucks Point


Question: What reference is there to Huguenot lacemakers in the 19th century?

Answer: twenty-five widows who settled in Dover

Answer: twenty-five widows who settled in Dover

Answer: twenty-five widows who settled in Dover


Question: When did Mechlin lace develop?

Answer: first half of the eighteenth century

Answer: first half of the eighteenth century

Answer: first half of the eighteenth century


Question: What were the two Huguenot neighborhoods created in Berlin?

Answer: Dorotheenstadt and Friedrichstadt

Answer: Dorotheenstadt and Friedrichstadt

Answer: Dorotheenstadt and Friedrichstadt


Question: What portion of Berlin's population spoke French by 1700?

Answer: one-fifth

Answer: one-fifth

Answer: one-fifth


Question: Why did Berlin Huguenots switch to German from French in their services?

Answer: in protest against the occupation of Prussia by Napoleon

Answer: in protest

Answer: in protest against the occupation of Prussia by Napoleon


Question: What years did this occupation take place?

Answer: 1806-07

Answer: 1806-07.

Answer: 1806-07


Question: What other Northern European cities had Huguenot congregations?

Answer: Fredericia (Denmark), Berlin, Stockholm, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Helsinki, and Emden

Answer: Fredericia (Denmark), Berlin, Stockholm, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Helsinki, and Emden

Answer: Fredericia (Denmark), Berlin, Stockholm, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Helsinki, and Emden


Question: Which central European country had a Calvinist ruler?

Answer: Prussia

Answer: Great Elector Frederick William

Answer: Prussia


Question: After Huguenots fled France, their last remaining bastion was where?

Answer: Cévennes

Answer: Cévennes

Answer: Cévennes region in the south


Question: What did the 18th century Huguenot group call themselves?

Answer: Camisards

Answer: Camisards

Answer: the Camisards


Question: Against whom did the Camisards rise up to fight?

Answer: the Catholic Church in the region

Answer: Catholic Church

Answer: the Catholic Church in the region


Question: French troops put down the Camisard uprisings between what years?

Answer: 1702 and 1709

Answer: 1702 and 1709

Answer: 1702 and 1709


Question: There was a 16th century Huguenot settlement near what modern day Florida city?

Answer: Jacksonville

Answer: Jacksonville

Answer: Jacksonville


Question: Who was the leader who established the colony at Florida?

Answer: Jean Ribault

Answer: Jean Ribault

Answer: Jean Ribault


Question: What was the name of the Florida Huguenot colony?

Answer: Fort Caroline

Answer: Fort Caroline

Answer: Fort Caroline


Question: Which army attacked and destroyed this colony?

Answer: Spanish

Answer: Spanish

Answer: Spanish


Question: When was the colony destroyed?

Answer: 1565

Answer: 1565

Answer: 1565


Question: What was the name of the first Huguenot outpost in South Carolina?

Answer: Charlesfort

Answer: Charlesfort

Answer: Charlesfort


Question: What present-day area was this settlement near?

Answer: Parris Island

Answer: Southeastern U.S.

Answer: Parris Island


Question: Which Spanish officer established the settlement at St. Augustine?

Answer: Pedro Menéndez de Avilés

Answer: Pedro Menéndez de Avilés

Answer: Pedro Menéndez de Avilés


Question: When did Ribault first establish a settlement in South Carolina?

Answer: 1562

Answer: 1562

Answer: 1564


Question: What European event caused the Huguenots to abandon Charlesfort?

Answer: The Wars of Religion

Answer: The Wars of Religion

Answer: The Wars of Religion


Question: In what English colony were Huguenot settlers promised land?

Answer: Virginia

Answer: Virginia

Answer: Virginia


Question: In what area of this British colony were Huguenot land grants?

Answer: Lower Norfolk County

Answer: Lower Norfolk County

Answer: Lower Norfolk County


Question: What town was actually granted to the Huguenots on arrival?

Answer: Manakin Town

Answer: Manakin Town

Answer: Manakin Town


Question: How many settlers original settled in Manakintown?

Answer: 390

Answer: 390

Answer: 390


Question: When were these settlers naturalized as English colonists?

Answer: 12 May 1705

Answer: 1705

Answer: 12 May 1705


Question: When was the Dutch Revolt?

Answer: 1568–1609

Answer: 1568–1609

Answer: 1568–1609


Question: Who did the Dutch fight in the Dutch Revolt?

Answer: Spain

Answer: Spain

Answer: Spain


Question: What Dutch document condemned the Spanish Inquisition?

Answer: "Apologie"

Answer: Apologie" of William the Silent

Answer: Apologie


Question: What leader led the Dutch Revolt and wrote Apologie?

Answer: William the Silent

Answer: Pierre L'Oyseleur

Answer: William the Silent


Question: What was the Dutch leader's religious affiliation?

Answer: Calvinist

Answer: Calvinist

Answer: Walloon


Question: What English law made that country more welcoming to Huguenots?

Answer: Foreign Protestants Naturalization Act

Answer: Foreign Protestants Naturalization Act,

Answer: Foreign Protestants Naturalization Act


Question: When was this naturalization act passed?

Answer: 1708

Answer: 1708

Answer: 1708


Question: About how many Walloons and Huguenots emigrated to England and Ireland in this era?

Answer: 50,000

Answer: 50,000

Answer: 50,000


Question: Who was the famous Huguenot theologian and writer in London?

Answer: Andrew Lortie

Answer: Andrew Lortie

Answer: Andrew Lortie


Question: What Catholic Church liturgical belief did Lortie criticize openly?

Answer: the doctrine of transubstantiation

Answer: doctrine of transubstantiation during Mass

Answer: the Pope and the doctrine of transubstantiation


Question: What war in Ireland featured Huguenot regiments?

Answer: Williamite war

Answer: Williamite

Answer: the Williamite war


Question: Under which leader did the Huguenots fight in this conflict?

Answer: William of Orange

Answer: William of Orange

Answer: William of Orange


Question: Which Irish cities had large Huguenot enclaves?

Answer: Dublin, Cork, Portarlington, Lisburn, Waterford and Youghal

Answer: Dublin, Cork, Portarlington, Lisburn, Waterford and Youghal

Answer: Dublin, Cork, Portarlington, Lisburn, Waterford and Youghal


Question: Huguenots in Killeshandra and County Cavan expanded what agricultural industry?

Answer: flax cultivation

Answer: flax

Answer: flax cultivation


Question: What textile industry did the Huguenots contribute to in Ireland?

Answer: Irish linen industry

Answer: linen

Answer: Irish linen


Question: Which noble helped establish the Huguenot settlement in Saarland?

Answer: Prince Louis de Condé

Answer: Louis de Condé

Answer: Prince Louis de Condé


Question: Which Count did the Prince strike an arrangement with?

Answer: Count Ludwig von Nassau-Saarbrücken

Answer: Ludwig von Nassau-Saarbrücken

Answer: Count Ludwig von Nassau-Saarbrücken


Question: What industry did the nobleman establish with this settlement?

Answer: glass-making

Answer: glass-making

Answer: glass-making


Question: In what era did some members of this community emigrate to the US?

Answer: 1890s

Answer: 1890s

Answer: 1890s


Question: In what year was the agreement to allow the Saarland settlement reached?

Answer: 1604

Answer: 1604

Answer: 1604


Question: What two member nations of the Holy Roman Empire received Huguenot refugees?

Answer: Electorate of Brandenburg and Electorate of the Palatinate

Answer: the Electorate of Brandenburg and Electorate of the Palatinate

Answer: the Electorate of Brandenburg and Electorate of the Palatinate


Question: What general religious belief did the nations that received Huguenot refugees have in common?

Answer: Protestant

Answer: Protestant

Answer: Protestant


Question: What area in modern-day Canada received Huguenot immigrants?

Answer: Quebec

Answer: Quebec

Answer: Quebec


Question: What area in South Africa accepted Huguenot colonists?

Answer: Dutch Cape Colony

Answer: Dutch Cape Colony

Answer: Dutch Cape Colony


Question: What made emigration to these colonies attractive?

Answer: they were accepted and allowed to worship freely

Answer: allowed to worship freely

Answer: they were accepted and allowed to worship freely


Question: From what French King did the Huguenot name possibly descend?

Answer: Hugues Capet

Answer: Hugues Capet

Answer: Hugues Capet


Question: What is the theory that this King's name is the origin of "Huguenot" called?

Answer: The "Hugues hypothesis"

Answer: "Hugues hypothesis"

Answer: Hugues hypothesis


Question: Who is one prominent advocate of this theory?

Answer: Janet Gray

Answer: Janet Gray

Answer: Janet Gray


Question: According to the theory, what does the name "Huguenot" mean?

Answer: little Hugos, or those who want Hugo

Answer: little Hugos

Answer: little Hugos, or those who want Hugo.


Question: Other theories of the word's origin can be generally classed as what?

Answer: double or triple non-French linguistic origins

Answer: non-French linguistic origins


Question: Who was one French pro-reform Roman Catholic of the 15th century?

Answer: Jacques Lefevre

Answer: Jacques Lefevre

Answer: Jacques Lefevre


Question: Where did this pro-reform leader teach?

Answer: University of Paris

Answer: University of Paris

Answer: University of Paris


Question: When did this leader publish a French language Bible?

Answer: 1530

Answer: 1523

Answer: 1530


Question: What leader of the Swiss reformation was a student of Lefevre?

Answer: William Farel

Answer: William Farel

Answer: William Farel


Question: What other European Protestant leader was educated at the University of Paris?

Answer: Jean Cauvin (John Calvin)

Answer: Jean Cauvin

Answer: Jean Cauvin


Question: When was the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre?

Answer: 24 August – 3 October 1572

Answer: 24 August – 3 October 1572

Answer: 24 August – 3 October 1572


Question: What group killed thousands of Huguenots?

Answer: Catholics

Answer: Catholics

Answer: Catholics


Question: How many Huguenots were killed in Toulouse?

Answer: Nearly 3,000

Answer: Nearly 3,000

Answer: Nearly 3,000


Question: When was amnesty granted to those responsible for the massacre?

Answer: 1573

Answer: 1573

Answer: 1573


Question: Reports document that how many Parisien Protestants were killed by September 17?

Answer: almost 25,000

Answer: almost 25,000

Answer: almost 25,000


Question: Who became king in 1643?

Answer: Louis XIV

Answer: Louis XIV

Answer: Louis XIV


Question: How did the new king react to the Huguenots?

Answer: acted increasingly aggressively to force the Huguenots to convert

Answer: aggressively

Answer: increasingly aggressively


Question: What was the king's first approach to the Huguenots?

Answer: he sent missionaries, backed by a fund to financially reward converts

Answer: missionaries

Answer: At first he sent missionaries, backed by a fund to financially reward converts to Catholicism


Question: What did the king do to regarding Huguenot education?

Answer: closed Huguenot schools

Answer: closed Huguenot schools

Answer: closed Huguenot schools and excluded them from favored professions


Question: The practice of occupying and looting Huguenot homes was called?

Answer: dragonnades

Answer: dragonnades

Answer: dragonnades


Question: What present day county is New Rochelle in?

Answer: Westchester

Answer: Westchester

Answer: Westchester


Question: Where did the Huguenots land in New York originally?

Answer: "Bauffet's Point"

Answer: Bauffet's Point

Answer: Bauffet's Point


Question: From whom did the Huguenots purchase the land where they settled?

Answer: John Pell, Lord of Pelham Manor

Answer: John Pell

Answer: John Pell


Question: What French City was New Rochelle named after?

Answer: La Rochelle

Answer: La Rochelle

Answer: La Rochelle


Question: What is the name of the third, permanent Huguenot church in New Rochelle?

Answer: Trinity-St. Paul's Episcopal Church

Answer: Trinity-St. Paul's Episcopal Church

Answer: Trinity-St. Paul's Episcopal Church


Question: How did Huguenots evolve their religious beliefs in the New World?

Answer: affiliated with other Protestant denominations

Answer: affiliated with other Protestant denominations

Answer: affiliated with other Protestant denominations with more numerous members


Question: How were Huguenot settlers assimilated into North American society at large?

Answer: married outside their immediate French communities

Answer: married outside their immediate French communities

Answer: adapted quickly and often married outside their immediate French communities


Question: Who was one prominent Huguenot-descended arms manufacturer?

Answer: E.I. du Pont

Answer: E.I. du Pont

Answer: E.I. du Pont


Question: For how long did Huguenots continue to use French names?

Answer: into the nineteenth century

Answer: well into the nineteenth century

Answer: well into the nineteenth century


Question: What was the name of du Pont's gunpowder operation?

Answer: Eleutherian gunpowder mills

Answer: Eleutherian gunpowder mills.

Answer: Eleutherian


Question: Who was a prominent Huguenot in Holland?

Answer: Pierre Bayle

Answer: Pierre Bayle

Answer: Pierre Bayle


Question: Where did he begin teaching?

Answer: Rotterdam

Answer: Rotterdam

Answer: Rotterdam


Question: What books did Bayle publish?

Answer: Historical and Critical Dictionary

Answer: Historical and Critical Dictionary

Answer: Historical and Critical Dictionary


Question: These books became a foundational text for what library?

Answer: US Library of Congress

Answer: US Library of Congress

Answer: US Library of Congress


Question: Who is the patron saint of the Huguenots?

Answer: Saint Nicolas

Answer: Saint Nicolas

Answer: Saint Nicolas


Question: What early Huguenot Church was established in England?

Answer: The French Protestant Church of London

Answer: The French Protestant Church of London

Answer: The French Protestant Church of London


Question: When was the charter for this church signed?

Answer: 1550

Answer: 1550

Answer: 1550


Question: What is the present-day location of this church?

Answer: Soho Square

Answer: Soho Square

Answer: Soho Square


Question: What London neighborhood attracted Huguenot refugees?

Answer: Shoreditch

Answer: Shoreditch

Answer: Shoreditch


Question: When was the Old Truman Brewery founded?

Answer: 1724

Answer: 1724

Answer: 1724


Question: What protestant religions made Northern European counties safe for Huguenot immigration?

Answer: Lutheran and Reformed

Answer: Lutheran and Reformed

Answer: Lutheran and Reformed


Question: Which areas of Northern Europe practiced those religions?

Answer: Germany and Scandinavia

Answer: Germany and Scandinavia

Answer: Germany and Scandinavia


Question: What proclamation gave Huguenots special privileges in Brandenburg?

Answer: Edict of Potsdam

Answer: Edict of Potsdam

Answer: Edict of Potsdam


Question: What dual titles did Frederick William hold?

Answer: Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia

Answer: Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia

Answer: Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia


Question: What military impact did Huguenot immigration have on Frederick's army?

Answer: Huguenots furnished two new regiments

Answer: two new regiments

Answer: furnished two new regiments of his army


Question: What German ruler invited Huguenot immigration?

Answer: Frederick William

Answer: Frederick William

Answer: Frederick William


Question: What German poet was descended from Huguenots?

Answer: Theodor Fontane

Answer: Theodor Fontane

Answer: Theodor Fontane


Question: What German general and fighter pilot was of Huguenot ancestry?

Answer: Adolf Galland

Answer: Adolf Galland

Answer: Adolf Galland


Question: Who was the final Prime Minister of East Germany?

Answer: Lothar de Maizière

Answer: Lothar de Maizière

Answer: Lothar de Maizière


Question: Thomas de Maiziere serves what role in the German cabinet?

Answer: Federal Minister of the Interior

Answer: Minister of the Interior

Answer: Federal Minister of the Interior


Question: Along with geothermal and nuclear, what is a notable non-combustion heat source?

Answer: solar

Answer: solar power

Answer: solar power, nuclear power or geothermal energy

Answer: solar


Question: What ideal thermodynamic cycle analyzes the process by which steam engines work?

Answer: Rankine

Answer: Rankine cycle

Answer: Rankine cycle

Answer: Rankine cycle


Question: In the Rankine cycle, what does water turn into when heated?

Answer: steam

Answer: steam

Answer: steam

Answer: steam


Question: At what pressure is water heated in the Rankine cycle?

Answer: high

Answer: high

Answer: high pressure

Answer: high


Question: What types of engines are steam engines?

Answer: external combustion

Answer: external combustion

Answer: external combustion engines

Answer: external combustion


Question: What was the first true engine that was commercially successful?

Answer: atmospheric engine

Answer: atmospheric engine

Answer: atmospheric engine

Answer: the atmospheric engine


Question: Who was the inventor of the atmospheric engine?

Answer: Thomas Newcomen

Answer: Thomas Newcomen

Answer: Thomas Newcomen

Answer: Thomas Newcomen


Question: About what year was the atmospheric engine invented?

Answer: 1712

Answer: around 1712

Answer: 1712

Answer: 1712


Question: What was invented by Savery?

Answer: steam pump

Answer: steam pump

Answer: steam pump

Answer: steam pump


Question: Who conceptualized the piston?

Answer: Papin

Answer: Papin

Answer: Papin

Answer: Papin


Question: In what country was a full-scale working railway steam locomotive first invented?

Answer: United Kingdom

Answer: United Kingdom

Answer: United Kingdom


Question: On what date did the first railway trip in the world occur?

Answer: 21 February 1804

Answer: 21 February 1804

Answer: 21 February 1804


Question: Where did the world's first railway journey terminate?

Answer: Abercynon

Answer: Abercynon in south Wales

Answer: Abercynon


Question: In what constituent country of the United Kingdom is Merthyr Tydfil located?

Answer: Wales

Answer: south Wales

Answer: Wales


Question: In what geographical portion of Wales is Abercynon located?

Answer: south

Answer: south

Answer: south


Question: What device is used to recycle the boiler water in most steam engines?

Answer: water pump

Answer: water pump

Answer: water pump


Question: What types of pumps are typically used in industrial boilers?

Answer: multi-stage centrifugal

Answer: multi-stage centrifugal

Answer: multi-stage centrifugal pumps


Question: In what decade were injectors widely used in steam engines?

Answer: 1850s

Answer: 1850s

Answer: 1850s


Question: What is a notable application of injectors today?

Answer: steam locomotives

Answer: steam locomotives

Answer: steam locomotives


Question: What are injectors used to supply?

Answer: lower-pressure boiler feed water

Answer: water

Answer: lower-pressure boiler feed water


Question: How many expansion stages are used by the triple expansion engine?

Answer: three

Answer: three or four

Answer: three


Question: What are engines using four expansion stages known as?

Answer: quadruple expansion engines

Answer: quadruple

Answer: quadruple expansion engines


Question: In what century was the Yarrow-Schlick-Tweedy balancing system used?

Answer: 19th

Answer: 19th

Answer: 19th


Question: What sort of engines utilized the Yarrow-Schlick-Tweedy balancing system?

Answer: marine triple expansion

Answer: marine triple expansion

Answer: marine triple expansion engines


Question: What class of ships is an example of large passenger liners?

Answer: Olympic

Answer: Olympic

Answer: Olympic class


Question: Along with poppet valve gears, what type of gears utilized separate admission and exhaust valves to give ideal events?

Answer: Corliss

Answer: patent valve

Answer: Corliss


Question: Along with Stephenson and Walschaerts, what is an example of a simple motion?

Answer: Joy

Answer: Joy

Answer: Joy


Question: How is lap provided by overlapping the admission side port?

Answer: lengthening rubbing surfaces of the valve

Answer: lengthening rubbing surfaces

Answer: lengthening rubbing surfaces of the valve


Question: What are sometimes present in the boiler's firebox crown?

Answer: Lead fusible plugs

Answer: Lead fusible plugs

Answer: Lead fusible plugs


Question: What happens to the lead fusible plugs if the water level of the boiler drops?

Answer: melts

Answer: melts

Answer: the lead melts


Question: What happens after the lead melts?

Answer: steam escapes

Answer: steam escapes,

Answer: the steam escapes


Question: After the operators are warned by the escape of the steam, what may they then do?

Answer: manually suppress the fire

Answer: manually suppress the fire

Answer: manually suppress the fire


Question: What is the escape of the steam unlikely to accomplish in all but the smallest boilers?

Answer: dampening the fire

Answer: dampening the fire

Answer: dampening the fire


Question: Who patented a steam engine in 1781?

Answer: James Watt

Answer: James Watt

Answer: James Watt

Answer: James Watt


Question: What sort of motion did Watt's steam engine continuously produce?

Answer: rotary

Answer: rotary

Answer: rotary motion

Answer: continuous rotary motion


Question: How many horsepower was Watt's engine?

Answer: ten

Answer: ten-horsepower

Answer: ten-horsepower

Answer: ten


Question: As of what year were 10000 horsepower engines available?

Answer: 1883

Answer: 1883

Answer: 1883

Answer: 1883


Question: What was the steam engine an important component of?

Answer: Industrial Revolution

Answer: Industrial Revolution

Answer: Industrial Revolution

Answer: the Industrial Revolution


Question: In what century did the history of the steam engine begin?

Answer: first

Answer: first century AD

Answer: first century AD

Answer: first century AD


Question: Who conceptualized the aeolipile?

Answer: Hero of Alexandria

Answer: Hero of Alexandria

Answer: Hero of Alexandria

Answer: Hero of Alexandria


Question: What was Hero of Alexandria's nationality?

Answer: Greek

Answer: Greek

Answer: Greek

Answer: Greek


Question: Who described a steam turbine in 1629?

Answer: Giovanni Branca

Answer: Giovanni Branca

Answer: Giovanni Branca

Answer: Giovanni Branca


Question: In what year did Jerónimo de Ayanz y Beaumont patent a water pump for draining mines?

Answer: 1606

Answer: 1606

Answer: 1606

Answer: 1606


Question: What type of engines became widespread around the end of the 19th century?

Answer: compound

Answer: compound

Answer: compound engines


Question: What are the stages in a compound engine called?

Answer: expansions

Answer: expansions

Answer: expansions


Question: In what field were double and triple expansion engines common?

Answer: shipping

Answer: shipping

Answer: shipping


Question: Along with electric motors, what power sources overtook steam engines in the 20th century?

Answer: internal combustion engines

Answer: internal combustion engines

Answer: internal combustion engines


Question: What product was notably shipped in vessels equipped with double and triple expansion engines?

Answer: coal

Answer: coal


Question: The use of what device represented the last major evolution of the steam engine?

Answer: steam turbines

Answer: steam turbines

Answer: steam turbines


Question: In what part of the 19th century were steam turbines introduced?

Answer: late

Answer: late part

Answer: late


Question: Above what horsepower are steam turbines usually more efficient than steam engines that use reciprocating pistons?

Answer: several hundred

Answer: several hundred horsepower

Answer: several hundred


Question: What percentage of electrical power in the United States is made by steam turbines?

Answer: 90

Answer: 90%

Answer: 90%


Question: Most power of what sort is generated by steam turbines today?

Answer: electric

Answer: electric

Answer: electric


Question: What is the usual source of heat for boiling water in the steam engine?

Answer: burning combustible materials

Answer: burning combustible materials

Answer: burning combustible materials


Question: Aside from firebox, what is another name for the space in which combustible material is burned in the engine?

Answer: combustion chamber

Answer: combustion chamber

Answer: combustion chamber


Question: Along with nuclear, geothermal and internal combustion engine waste heat, what sort of energy might supply the heat for a steam engine?

Answer: solar

Answer: solar

Answer: solar


Question: What type of heating element is often used in toy steam engines?

Answer: electric

Answer: electric heating element

Answer: electric


Question: What instrument is used to examine steam engine performance?

Answer: steam engine indicator

Answer: steam engine indicator

Answer: steam engine indicator


Question: What year saw the earliest recorded use of the steam engine indicator?

Answer: 1851

Answer: 1851

Answer: 1851


Question: What company developed the most successful steam engine indicator?

Answer: Charles Porter

Answer: Charles Porter

Answer: Charles Porter


Question: Who developed a successful steam engine indicator for Charles Porter?

Answer: Charles Richard

Answer: Charles Richard

Answer: Charles Richard


Question: Where was the Charles Porter steam engine indicator shown?

Answer: London Exhibition

Answer: London Exhibition

Answer: London Exhibition


Question: At what degree are the pistons of a two-cylinder compound connected to the cranks?

Answer: 90

Answer: 90°

Answer: 90°


Question: In a 4-cylinder compound engine, what degree were the individual pistons balanced at?

Answer: 180

Answer: 180°

Answer: 180°


Question: At what angle were the groups of pistons set in relation to one another in a 4-cylinder compound?

Answer: 90

Answer: 90° to each other

Answer: 90°


Question: What is a term for the reversing of steam flow in a piston engine after each stroke?

Answer: counterflow

Answer: counterflow

Answer: counterflow


Question: How many piston strokes occur in an engine cycle?

Answer: two

Answer: two

Answer: two


Question: How many crank rotations are there in an engine cycle?

Answer: one

Answer: one

Answer: one


Question: How many events occur in an engine cycle?

Answer: four

Answer: four

Answer: four


Question: Along with admission, exhaust and compression, what is an event in the engine cycle?

Answer: expansion

Answer: expansion

Answer: expansion


Question: What is the name of a uniflow engine that takes in steam in hot areas and exhausts it in cold?

Answer: Quasiturbine

Answer: Quasiturbine

Answer: Quasiturbine


Question: The uniflow engine is an attempt to fix an issue that arises in what cycle?

Answer: counterflow

Answer: counterflow

Answer: counterflow


Question: What part is added to the uniflow engine to resolve the issue in the counterflow cycle?

Answer: port

Answer: additional port

Answer: an additional port


Question: What type of steam engine doesn't need valves to direct steam?

Answer: oscillating cylinder

Answer: oscillating cylinder

Answer: oscillating


Question: What is another term for the pivot mounting?

Answer: trunnion

Answer: trunnion

Answer: trunnion


Question: Along with toys, where are oscillating cylinder steam engines typically used?

Answer: models

Answer: models

Answer: models


Question: Full size working engines on what vehicles sometimes use oscillating cylinder steam engines?

Answer: ships

Answer: ships

Answer: ships


Question: What happens to the working fluid in a closed loop system?

Answer: recycled continuously

Answer: recycled continuously

Answer: recycled continuously


Question: What sort of system releases the exhaust steam into the atmosphere?

Answer: open loop

Answer: open loop

Answer: open loop


Question: What working fluid is used in a mercury vapor turbine?

Answer: Mercury

Answer: Mercury

Answer: Mercury


Question: What is the typical working fluid in a steam engine?

Answer: water

Answer: water

Answer: water


Question: What limits the Rankine cycle's efficiency?

Answer: working fluid

Answer: working fluid

Answer: the working fluid


Question: What is the turbine entry temperature of a steam turbine, in degrees Celsius?

Answer: 565

Answer: 565 °C

Answer: 565 °C


Question: What is  565 °C the creep limit of?

Answer: stainless steel

Answer: stainless steel

Answer: stainless steel


Question: What is a turbine's theoretical Carnot efficiency?

Answer: 63%

Answer: 63%

Answer: 63%


Question: What is the approximate condenser temperature in a turbine?

Answer: 30 °C

Answer: 30 °C

Answer: 30 °C


Question: What devices have been credited as the moving force of the Industrial Revolution?

Answer: Steam engines

Answer: Steam engines

Answer: Steam engines

Answer: Steam engines


Question: Along with road vehicles, locomotives and ships, on what vehicles were steam engines used during the Industrial Revolution?

Answer: steamboats

Answer: steamboats

Answer: steamboats and road vehicles

Answer: steamboats


Question: What is an example of a steam-powered automobile?

Answer: Stanley Steamer

Answer: Stanley Steamer

Answer: Stanley Steamer

Answer: Stanley Steamer


Question: Along with mills and mines, in what industrial locations did steam drive machines?

Answer: factories

Answer: factories

Answer: factories

Answer: factories


Question: What did the use of steam engines in farming lead to?

Answer: increase in the land available for cultivation

Answer: increase in the land available for cultivation

Answer: farm tractors

Answer: an increase in the land available for cultivation


Question: What was the name of the locomotive that debuted in 1808?

Answer: Catch Me Who Can

Answer: Catch Me Who Can

Answer: Catch Me Who Can


Question: Who designed Salamanca?

Answer: Matthew Murray

Answer: Matthew Murray

Answer: Matthew Murray


Question: What type of locomotive was Salamanca?

Answer: twin-cylinder

Answer: twin-cylinder

Answer: twin-cylinder


Question: On what railroad was Salamanca used?

Answer: Middleton Railway

Answer: Middleton Railway

Answer: Middleton Railway


Question: For what railroad did Stephenson build a locomotive in 1825?

Answer: Stockton and Darlington

Answer: Stockton and Darlington Railway

Answer: Stockton and Darlington Railway


Question: Who patented a high-pressure compound engine in 1805?

Answer: Arthur Woolf

Answer: Arthur Woolf

Answer: Arthur Woolf


Question: What nationality was Arthur Woolf?

Answer: British

Answer: British

Answer: British


Question: What is decreased by staging expansion across multiple cylinders?

Answer: torque variability

Answer: torque variability

Answer: torque variability


Question: What needs to be larger to get the same work out of lower pressure steam?

Answer: cylinder volume

Answer: cylinder

Answer: cylinder volume


Question: What percentage of electricity was made by steam turbine in the 1990s?

Answer: 90

Answer: 90%

Answer: 90%


Question: What marine engines were less efficient than steam turbines?

Answer: reciprocating steam engines

Answer: reciprocating

Answer: reciprocating steam engines


Question: Along with diesel engines, what engines have overtaken steam engines for marine propulsion?

Answer: gas turbines

Answer: gas turbines

Answer: gas turbines


Question: What engines were used throughout most of the 20th century to propel ships?

Answer: steam turbines

Answer: steam turbines with reduction gearing

Answer: steam turbines


Question: What gearing was used on steam turbine marine engines in the 20th century?

Answer: reduction

Answer: reduction

Answer: reduction


Question: What is the steam engine's thermodynamic basis?

Answer: Rankine cycle

Answer: The Rankine cycle

Answer: The Rankine cycle


Question: What happens to waste heat in the Rankine cycle?

Answer: removed in a condenser

Answer: removed in a condenser

Answer: removed in a condenser


Question: In what decade did the Rankine cycle create 90% of electric power?

Answer: 1990s

Answer: 1990s

Answer: 1990s


Question: Along with solar, coal and nuclear, what sort of plants notable use the Rankine process?

Answer: biomass

Answer: biomass

Answer: biomass


Question: What is William Rankine's nationality?

Answer: Scottish

Answer: Scottish

Answer: Scottish


Question: How was the efficiency of a steam engine typically evaluated?

Answer: duty

Answer: duty


Question: What was the average duty of a low-pressure Watt engine?

Answer: 17

Answer: 17.

Answer: 17


Question: What was the ideal duty of a Newcomen engine?

Answer: 7 million

Answer: 7 million

Answer: 7 million


Question: What is the weight of a bushel of coal in pounds?

Answer: 94

Answer: 94 pounds

Answer: 94 pounds


Question: Who invented the notion of a steam engine's duty?

Answer: Watt

Answer: Watt

Answer: Watt


Question: What type of engines became popular for power generation after piston steam engines?

Answer: steam turbines

Answer: internal combustion engines

Answer: Reciprocating piston

Answer: steam turbines


Question: What type of steam engines produced most power up to the early 20th century?

Answer: Reciprocating piston

Answer: steam turbines

Answer: electric motors and internal combustion

Answer: Reciprocating piston type


Question: What type of steam engine produces most electricity in the world today?

Answer: turbine

Answer: turbine type

Answer: electric motors

Answer: turbine type


Question: Along with electric motors, what type of engines superseded piston steam engines?

Answer: internal combustion

Answer: internal combustion

Answer: internal combustion


Question: Who developed the first commercial steam powered device?

Answer: Thomas Savery

Answer: Thomas Savery.

Answer: Thomas Savery

Answer: Thomas Savery


Question: What was the first steam powered device used commercially?

Answer: water pump

Answer: water pump

Answer: vacuum

Answer: water pump


Question: In what year was the first commercial steam powered device invented?

Answer: 1698

Answer: 1698

Answer: 1698

Answer: 1698


Question: Who notably improved the Savery water pump?

Answer: Bento de Moura Portugal

Answer: Bento de Moura Portugal

Answer: Bento de Moura Portugal

Answer: Bento de Moura Portugal


Question: Who wrote of the Savery water pump in 1751's Philosophical Transactions?

Answer: John Smeaton

Answer: John Smeaton

Answer: John Smeaton

Answer: John Smeaton


Question: Who invented a high-pressure steam engine around 1800?

Answer: Richard Trevithick

Answer: Richard Trevithick

Answer: Richard Trevithick

Answer: Richard Trevithick


Question: Who created an engine using high pressure steam in 1801?

Answer: Oliver Evans

Answer: Oliver Evans

Answer: Oliver Evans

Answer: Oliver Evans


Question: In what year did Richard Trevithick patent his device?

Answer: 1802

Answer: 1802

Answer: 1802

Answer: 1802


Question: High pressure steam engines were small enough that they could be used in what application?

Answer: transport

Answer: transport

Answer: transport applications

Answer: transport


Question: What were steam engines used as a source of?

Answer: power

Answer: power

Answer: power source


Question: What modern company has been notably working on a steam engine using modern materials?

Answer: Energiprojekt AB

Answer: Energiprojekt AB

Answer: Energiprojekt AB


Question: Where is Energiprojekt AB based?

Answer: Sweden

Answer: Sweden

Answer: Sweden


Question: How many cylinders does the Energiprojekt AB engine have?

Answer: 5

Answer: 5-cylinder

Answer: 5


Question: How many pounds of steam per kilowatt hour does the Energiprojekt AB engine use?

Answer: 8.8

Answer: 8.8

Answer: 8.8


Question: What percentage of a high pressure engine's efficiency has the Energiprojekt AB engine achieved?

Answer: 27-30

Answer: 27-30%

Answer: 27-30%


Question: What do power station steam turbines use as a cold sink in the absence of CHP?

Answer: surface condensers

Answer: surface condensers

Answer: surface condensers


Question: What device is a dry cooling tower similar to?

Answer: automobile radiator

Answer: automobile radiator

Answer: an automobile radiator


Question: In what sort of places are dry cooling towers used?

Answer: where water is costly

Answer: where water is costly

Answer: locations where water is costly


Question: An evaporative cooling tower is also referred to as what kind of cooling tower?

Answer: wet

Answer: wet

Answer: wet


Question: About how many cubic meters of make-up water is used by a 700-megawatt coal-fired power plant for evaporative cooling hourly?

Answer: 3600

Answer: 3600

Answer: 3600


Question: What did Watt add to the steam engine in 1788?

Answer: centrifugal governor

Answer: centrifugal governor

Answer: centrifugal governor


Question: What was the name of Watt's partner?

Answer: Boulton

Answer: Boulton

Answer: Boulton


Question: Where was the centrifugal governor first observed by Boulton?

Answer: flour mill

Answer: flour mill

Answer: a flour mill


Question: What is an examine of work that a centrifugal governor-equipped steam engine wasn't suitable for?

Answer: cotton spinning

Answer: operations requiring constant speed

Answer: cotton spinning


Question: What was the centrifugal governor incapable of doing?

Answer: hold a set speed

Answer: hold a set speed

Answer: hold a set speed


Question: After what year was compounding frequently used in marine engines?

Answer: 1880

Answer: 1880

Answer: 1880


Question: Compounding was not popular in the construction of what machines?

Answer: railway locomotives

Answer: railway locomotives

Answer: railway locomotives


Question: What was compounding seen as being in the locomotive construction industry?

Answer: complicated

Answer: complicated

Answer: complicated


Question: After what year did compounding cease to be used in Britain?

Answer: 1930

Answer: 1930

Answer: 1930


Question: Along with marine engines and industrial units, in what machines was compounding popular?

Answer: road engines

Answer: road engines

Answer: road engines


Question: What is another term for shortening the admission event?

Answer: shortening the cutoff

Answer: "shortening the cutoff"

Answer: shortening the cutoff


Question: What is another term for excessive compression?

Answer: kick back

Answer: kick back

Answer: kick back


Question: What can the exhaust steam not fully do when the exhaust event is insufficiently long?

Answer: evacuate the cylinder

Answer: evacuate the cylinder

Answer: evacuate the cylinder


Question: Of what length are engine cycle events when the simplest valve gears are used?

Answer: fixed

Answer: fixed

Answer: fixed


Question: Who received the first steam engine patent?

Answer: Jerónimo de Ayanz y Beaumont

Answer: Jerónimo de Ayanz y Beaumont

Answer: Jerónimo de Ayanz y Beaumont

Answer: Jerónimo de Ayanz y Beaumont


Question: What was the nationality of Jerónimo de Ayanz y Beaumont?

Answer: Spanish

Answer: Spanish

Answer: Spanish

Answer: Spanish


Question: In what year did Jerónimo de Ayanz y Beaumont receive a steam engine patent?

Answer: 1606

Answer: 1606

Answer: 1606

Answer: 1606


Question: In what year did Savery patent his steam pump?

Answer: 1698

Answer: 1698

Answer: 1698

Answer: 1698


Question: In what year did Newcomen's engine pump in a mine?

Answer: 1712

Answer: 1712

Answer: 1712

Answer: 1712


Question: What is another term for rotors?

Answer: rotating discs

Answer: rotating discs

Answer: rotating discs


Question: In a steam turbine, what are rotors mounted on?

Answer: drive shaft

Answer: a drive shaft

Answer: drive shaft


Question: What is another way of referring to stators?

Answer: static discs

Answer: static discs)

Answer: static discs


Question: What are stators attached to?

Answer: turbine casing

Answer: turbine casing

Answer: the turbine casing


Question: In the United States, what is a usual turbine speed with 60 Hertz of power?

Answer: 3600 revolutions per minute

Answer: 3600 revolutions per minute

Answer: 3600 revolutions per minute


Question: What is the power-to-weight ratio of a steam plant compared to that of an internal combustion engine?

Answer: lower

Answer: lower

Answer: lower

Answer: lower


Question: Along with internal combustion engines, what machines have superseded steam in some areas?

Answer: electric motors

Answer: electric motors

Answer: internal combustion engines or electric motors

Answer: electric motors


Question: What plants create most electric power?

Answer: steam turbine

Answer: steam turbine

Answer: steam turbine plant

Answer: steam turbine plant


Question: What is the name of the movement that seeks renewed use of steam power in the modern era?

Answer: Advanced Steam

Answer: Advanced Steam movement

Answer: cogeneration processes

Answer: Advanced Steam movement


Question: Along with fuel sources, what concern has contributed to the development of the Advanced Steam movement?

Answer: pollution

Answer: pollution

Answer: Advanced Steam movement

Answer: pollution


Question: What is an example of a rotary engine without pistons?

Answer: Wankel

Answer: Wankel

Answer: the Wankel engine


Question: What parts of a conventional reciprocating steam engine could be replaced by a pistonless rotary engine?

Answer: cylinders and valve gear

Answer: cylinders and valve gear

Answer: cylinders and valve gear


Question: Along with wear, what development makes it difficult to seal the rotors in an engine that lacks pistons?

Answer: thermal expansion

Answer: thermal expansion

Answer: thermal expansion


Question: When did Watt finish the development of his improvements to Newcomen's engine?

Answer: 1775

Answer: 1763–1775

Answer: 1775

Answer: 1775


Question: What did Watt add to Newcomen's engine between 1763 and 1775?

Answer: condenser

Answer: a separate condenser

Answer: condenser

Answer: a separate condenser


Question: Compared to Smeaton's improvement on Newcomen's engine, how much coal did Watt's engine use?

Answer: half

Answer: half as much

Answer: half as much coal

Answer: half


Question: In addition to Watt, Boulton and Smeaton, whose engine was an atmosphere design?

Answer: Newcomen's

Answer: Newcomen's

Answer: Newcomen's and Watt's

Answer: Newcomen


Question: In an atmospheric engine, what does air pressure push against?

Answer: piston

Answer: a piston

Answer: piston

Answer: a piston


Question: How many mechanisms does a typical steam engine have to keep boiler pressure from getting too high?

Answer: two

Answer: two

Answer: two


Question: What is restrained with a lever in the top of a boiler?

Answer: plug valve

Answer: plug valve

Answer: a plug valve


Question: What type of valve is used by recent safety valves?

Answer: adjustable spring-loaded

Answer: adjustable spring-loaded

Answer: adjustable spring-loaded valve


Question: In an adjustable spring-loaded valve, what needs to be broken to allow an operator to tamper with it?

Answer: seal

Answer: seal

Answer: a seal


Question: Along with a desire for more steam pressure, what were early drivers looking to generate when they fastened safety valves down?

Answer: more power

Answer: more power

Answer: greater steam pressure and more power


Question: What was the ultimate development of the horizontal engine?

Answer: Corliss steam engine

Answer: Corliss

Answer: the Corliss steam engine


Question: In what year was the Corliss engine patented?

Answer: 1849

Answer: 1849

Answer: 1849