Texas Quiz
1. In the 50 states Texas is ranked where by its size?
2. Name the flags of countries that have flown over Texas?
3. How did Texas get its name, and what does it mean?
4. Texas has highest highway speed limit in USA. A stretch of toll road between Austin and San Antonio. How fast are drivers permitted to go?
True or False
5. Texas is the number one oil producer in the country?
6. Texas is the number one cattle producer in the country?
7. Texas is the number one cotton producer in the country?
8. Name the four presidents who were either born in Texas or claimed it as their home state?
9. Who was Charles Alderton, from Waco, TX and what is he famous for?
10.Who was Texan Oscar Pierce famous for?
Bonus
11.Galvaston, Southeast of Houston had a catefory 4 Hurricane on September 8, 1900. HOw many people died?
a. 100
b. 500
c. 2500
d. 8000
What are you sending me for, I’m from NYC and and haven’t been south or west of NC except for Vegas!! :)
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I think d in regards to the hurricane. Saw something a few years ago about it.
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Bonus question answer is 8d: 8,000 deaths in the 1900 Galveston hurricane.
8. Name the four presidents who were either born in Texas
or claimed it as their home state?
Eisenhower and Lyndon Johnson were born in TX. George H.W. Bush and his son, George W. Bush would say they hail from TX.
9. Who was Charles Alderton, from Waco, TX and what is he famous for?
Created what became to be known as the Dr. Pepper soda.
10.Who was Texan Oscar Pierce famous for?
Pierce’s niece,Margaret Herrick, was the librarian for Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, when she used the name “Oscar” for the award statue, because it reminded her of her uncle Oscar Pierce, in 1931.
The first recorded use of the name was by columnist Sidney Skolsky, who was supposedly present when Margaret used the term in reference to her uncle Oscar, but he made it famous in his report on the 1934 Awards when he used the term to describe the statue. In his memoirs written in 1975, Skolsky said the name “Oscar” came from the old vaudeville joke line “Will you have a cigar, Oscar?” because he could not spell the word “statuette” when he wired his report from Hollywood on award night.
By size, Texas is ranked No. 2, behind only Alaska.
2. Name the flags of countries that have flown over Texas?
Spain (1519–1821), France (1685–1690), Mexico (1821–1836), the Republic of Texas (1836–1845), the Confederate States of America (1861–1865), and the United States of America (1845–1861; 1865–present). That is why the amusement park is called Six Flags.
3. How did Texas get its name, and what does it mean?
Texas gets its name from the Hasenai Confederacy, an Indian confederation of Caddo-speaking Indian tribes, and the name is a Caddo word meaning "friends" or "allies".
#4 was answered already.
5. Texas is the number one oil producer in the country?
Yes
6. Texas is the number one cattle producer in the country?
Yes
7. Texas is the number one cotton producer in the country?
Yes
4 flags?
Mexico, Texas, Confederacy, and US.
“11.Galvaston, Southeast of Houston had a catefory 4 Hurricane on September 8, 1900. HOw many people died?
a. 100
b. 500
c. 2500
d. 8000”
I know it was in the thousands. But since the population wasn’t as large then, I’d guess c.
thank you