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Multiple Choice City Quiz – Houston

Can you answer these questions about the city of Houston?
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Last updated: July 17, 2025
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1. Which of these governmental functions is located in Houston?
Centers for Disease Control
FBI Academy
IRS headquaters
NASA Mission Control
2. What Houston-based company was the subject of a major financial scandal in 2001?
Chevron
Enron
Hewlett Packard
Sysco
3. With over 2 million attendees each year, Houston is home to the world's largest...
Circus
Farmer's market
Rodeo
Thanksgiving parade
4. Which of these singers is from Houston?
Beyoncé
Ariana Grande
Madonna
Katy Perry
5. Houston is named for ....
A Native American tribe
Hugh Bonneville, the first European settler
Sam Houston, the first President of Texas
The Huguenots, a French Protestant group
6. Which of these universities is located in Houston?
Emory
Rice
Texas
Stanford
7. In 1994, who married 89 year old oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall in a ceremony in Houston?
Cindy Crawford
Demi Moore
Julia Roberts
Anna Nicole Smith
8. What nearby port was devastated in 1900 by the deadliest hurricane in U.S. history?
Beaumont
Corpus Christi
Galveston
Waco
9. Who leads Lakewood Church, one of the largest churches in the United States with a weekly attendance of 45,000?
Jim Bakker
Billy Graham
Joel Osteen
Rick Warren
10. The Houston Astros were the world's first sports team to ...
Be owned by the President of the U.S.
Have advertisements on their uniform
Play on artificial turf
Sign a 14 year old player
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17 Comments
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Level 62
Apr 26, 2025
Congrats!
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Level 89
Apr 26, 2025
Thanks! I just realized it's been almost 3 years since my last feature.
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Level 81
Apr 26, 2025
As a Houstonian, I got 90%. Never heard of Anna Nicole Smith.
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Level 91
Aug 22, 2025
I know who she is and got the answer right, but it seems like an odd question to include on a Houston city quiz.
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Level 88
Apr 26, 2025
Interesting, I thought that the AstroTurf one was a red herring.

I guess if a different team used it first it might have been called YankeeTurf, or TigerTurf, or PirateTurf....

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Level 66
Apr 27, 2025
Wow. 10/10 I am impressed.
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Level 94
Apr 27, 2025
Isn't the stampede in Calgary the world's largest rodeo?
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Level 89
Apr 27, 2025
Nope. Houston's attendance was around 2.7 million this year, while Calgary's largest was about 1.5 million.
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Level 95
Apr 29, 2025
“Houston, we have a problem” gave me one answer!
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Level 93
Apr 29, 2025
The Houston Astros were the world's first sports team to...relay stolen signs by banging on a garbage can! ;)
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Level 89
May 6, 2025
As an Astros fan, that may have been my original clue before QM changed it.
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Level 94
Jul 16, 2025
Before the hurricane 1900 it was only the 4th largest city in Texas. San Antonio had 53k, Houston 45k and Dallas 43 according to the 1900 Census. It was at 38k before the storm hit.

If you really want to be anal, there is a UT campus in Houston, about 5 blocks southeast of Rice. And both probably would not be there now if it wasn't for the Hughes family fortune, but that is another story all together.

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Level 89
Jul 28, 2025
It’s fixed now.
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Level 55
Aug 8, 2025
My father used to work in Hewlett-Packard, I think it should be enterprise because now they are two hewlett packard companies and just hewlett packard enterprise has headquarters in Houston
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Level 89
Aug 8, 2025
Maybe, but it’s the wrong answer either way, so I don’t think the specificity is necessary.
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Level 55
Aug 27, 2025
Yeah I got confused lol
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Level 86
Apr 22, 2026
Ooh, new badge.