The last quiz, the one on three letter body parts,
was embarrassingly too easy.
This one isn't that hard but will take a little time...
probably not much, though!
Put your answer in the blog comments section.
Winner will receive...yadda, yadda, yadda!
1. What is the largest city in Texas?
2. What package of five bills, passed in September 1850, set Texas’s boundaries at their present form?
3. Name the respective sports of the following Texas teams:
a) Houston Texans
b) Texas Rangers
c) Houston Astros
d) Dallas Mavericks
e) San Antonio Spurs
4. What Texas city claims to be the site of the world’s first rodeo, on July 4, 1883?
5. What year did a Christmas Eve snowstorm cause the first white Christmas in the recorded history of Houston, Texas?
6. What Texas city boasts beautiful Spanish missions, the Alamo, the River Walk, the Tower of the Americas?
7. How did the Deep Ellum district in Dallas get its name?
8. What figure (pictured below)
has presided over every Texas State Fair since 1952?
9. What is the largest and busiest airport in Texas?
10. What is the state’s most valuable agricultural product?
(The below photo may or may not be a clue.)
11. What is the origin of the phrase “six flags over Texas”?
12. Name the two U.S. Senators from Texas.
4 comments:
answers to Texas trivia
1)Houston 2,257,925 People
2)Compromise of 1850
3)Houston Texans-Football
Texas Rangers-Baseball
Houston Astros-Baseball
Dallas Mavricks-Basketball
San Antonio Spurs-Basketball
4)Pecos,Texas
5)Houston, 6in
6)San Antonio
7)A corruption of "Deep Elm Street"
Arts & Entertainment dist
8)Big Tex
9)Dallas-Fort Worth Airport
10)Cattle
11)6 Flags came from the
nations that had ruled over
the Territory
12)John Cornyn and
Kay Bailey Hutchison
Bill Hazlett lot 403
Close Bill, mighty close. Extra points for "naming" the six flag countries. Also check #5...can you read?
Your right, it was 2004 Christmas Eve snow storm
Texas trivia
1. Houston
2. Compromise of 1850 (brokered by Henry Clay & Stephen Douglas)
3. Football, baseball, baseball, basketball, basketball
4. Pecos
5. 2004
6. San Antonio
7. Corruption of "Deep Elm Street" art and entertainment district
8. Big Tex
9. Bush Intercontinental - Houston; Dallas Fort Worth
10. Beef Cattle and calves
11. Six national flags: Spain, France, Mexico, Texas Republic, Confederacy, US
12. John Cornyn & Kay Bailey Hutchinson
Karon #42
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