diff --git a/bigquery/cloud-client/requirements.txt b/bigquery/cloud-client/requirements.txt
index d9f269ca7b6..7523b0dacfb 100644
--- a/bigquery/cloud-client/requirements.txt
+++ b/bigquery/cloud-client/requirements.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-google-cloud-bigquery==0.21.0
+google-cloud-bigquery==0.22.0
diff --git a/bigquery/cloud-client/simple_app.py b/bigquery/cloud-client/simple_app.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..7180c4fda62
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bigquery/cloud-client/simple_app.py
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+# Copyright 2016 Google Inc. All Rights Reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+"""Simple application that performs a query with BigQuery."""
+# [START all]
+# [START create_client]
+from google.cloud import bigquery
+
+
+def query_shakespeare():
+    client = bigquery.Client()
+    # [END create_client]
+    # [START run_query]
+    query_results = client.run_sync_query("""
+        SELECT
+            APPROX_TOP_COUNT(corpus, 10) as title,
+            COUNT(*) as unique_words
+        FROM `publicdata.samples.shakespeare`;""")
+
+    # Use standard SQL syntax for queries.
+    # See: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/sql-reference/
+    query_results.use_legacy_sql = False
+
+    query_results.run()
+    # [END run_query]
+
+    # [START print_results]
+    # Drain the query results by requesting a page at a time.
+    page_token = None
+
+    while True:
+        rows, total_rows, page_token = query_results.fetch_data(
+            max_results=10,
+            page_token=page_token)
+
+        for row in rows:
+            print(row)
+
+        if not page_token:
+            break
+    # [END print_results]
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    query_shakespeare()
+# [END all]
diff --git a/bigquery/cloud-client/simple_app_test.py b/bigquery/cloud-client/simple_app_test.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3733bf6ef3f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bigquery/cloud-client/simple_app_test.py
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+# Copyright 2016 Google Inc. All Rights Reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+import simple_app
+
+
+def test_query_shakespeare(capsys):
+    simple_app.query_shakespeare()
+    out, _ = capsys.readouterr()
+    assert 'hamlet' in out