2. What State Representative started the Juneteenth Blues Festival made it a personal mission to declare Juneteenth a state holiday?
Kiki DelaGarza
Al Edwards
Garnet Coleman
Gene Green

3. What was the insulting nickname that "Clutch City" replaced when the Houston Rockets won the NBA championship?
Chump City
Clutch Cargo
Choke City
Croak City

4. Texas is the only state that permits residents to cast absentee ballots from space. The first to exercise this right to vote while in orbit was an astronaut David Wolf, who cast his vote for Houston mayor via e-mail from the Russian space station Mir. Who was that Mayor?
Kathryn Whitmire
Lee Brown
Bob Lanier
Jim Conn

5. The "shotgun houses" seen in Fourth Ward were actually an architectural innovation from West Africa via Haiti and New Orleans, that changed the way Americans built their homes. What was so good about them?
Indoor plumbing
Improved ventilation
Front Porch
Easy to Paint

6. Actress Phyllicia Rashad and Choreographer Debbie Allen are Houston homegirls - what else do they have in common?
They were cheerleaders at Lamar.
They both dated Bob Nicholas.
They are sisters.
They both won the Miss Houston Beauty Pageant.

7. How old was Marshall, Texas native George Foreman, when he reclaimed the Heavyweight Championship?
33
38
45
53

8. Who was the "Big E"?
Elvis Presley
Eddie Bauer
Eleanor Tinsley
Elvin Hayes

9. Sports Illustrated named one Houston related event in its Top Ten Sports Moments of the 20th Century - what was it?
Billie Jean King defeats Bobby Riggs
Mary Lou Retton's 1984 Olympics
NC State beats UH Cougars in Final Four upset
Houston Comets 3rd WNBA Title

10. Sports Illustrated named Houstonian Carl Lewis Olympian of the Century. How many Olympic Medals does he own?
7
8
10
12

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