2. What package of five bills, passed in September 1850, set Texas’s boundaries at their present form?
ANSWER: Compromise of 1850
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?
ANSWER: San Antonio
7. How did the Deep Ellum district in Dallas get its name?
ANSWER: Its original name, “Deep Elm”, was mispronounced.
8. What figure (pictured below) has presided over every Texas State Fair since 1952?
ANSWER: Big Tex
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”?
ANSWER: It to the flags of the six different nations that governed the territory, including: France, Spain, Mexico, The Republic of Texas, The Confederate States of America, and the United States of America.
12. Name the two U.S. Senators from Texas.
ANSWER: Kay Bailey Hutchinson and John Cornyn
The first person to correctly answer all questions was…#1 Laura H. (aka Elle). Congrats, Laura!
The second person to correctly answer all questions was…#5 Jen L. Great job, Jen!
The following three players correctly answered all questions:
#104 Michelle SG
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